An interview activity is something all students should do in the opening day of class to get to know each other. I know that I do an interview activity during the first day of class and it allows students to get to know each other. I like the activity we did in class called Interview Exchange, and would love to do it in class, but I think it has two major draw backs.
1. I think the first drawback is computer use. This activity teaches great email skills, but most of us don’t have a class set of computers and it is very hard to get access to them. I have proposed moving to the paperless classroom with my assignments, and if I do I will have access to computers all the time. That would make this activity viable. If I don’t get my proposal through, obtaining computers to use is difficult, and I don’t really feel like dragging a laptop cart across the school.
2. I think the second drawback is how do we make kids participate in the listening part of the activity. You would almost have to take a grade on the kids sending the questions through email in order to do so. If I go to the paper less classroom this could be part of a daily progress grade. If I don’t have that. I am not very comfortable giving students a grade in a high school class room for listening.
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