Fourth week

One more week passed. And finally we have finished a month. However it was not as good as I dreamed so. Mr O'Regan gave us 20 pages of reading for this week.It was about cyberspace and it was written by Aaron Ben Ze'ev. I read this article, take notes and spend lot of time more than I've ever expected. Then the fourth week started as I'm going to introduce. This week started quite different because for the first time Mr. O'Regan gave us a quiz. Actually two quizes at the same time. I know it sounds quite odd but we do the same quiz two times.

First of them was closed book attempt and the second one is open book attempt. He gave us 20 minutes and he wanted us to finish 10 questions two times. It was a different experience for me to have the sime quiz twice but still there are lot of things to learn freom this experience. First of all we learned to control the time. It is obvious to spend much more time on open book attempt is a wiser idea. Still the idea of getting marks on both scares you a bit. Whatever at last quizes have finished. I was hoping I will get good grades. Mr O'Regan explained all the questions answers. Everyone corrected one of the class mate's quiz. It was ironic but everyone get a F. At that time my class mate told me that I get an C-. Firstly I was shocked that the first score I get was C-. It was not what I expected, but still I was a bit confident that everyone else getting F means that I did fine. Then Mr. O'Regan explained that we are different. It is not normal even if everyone gets F. We should not feel confident about getting a F if everyone is getting one. And that lesson finished like that. He gave us a homework which I should spend time on, but it is student's mission.

Second lesson of this week was more interesting because Mr. O'regan checked the quizes again and I get a F this time. My score was 71 but now it is 48. I was really shocked and dissappointed. I was a really good student in the high school. Actually finished the last year in the first place, but the first score I get in the university was a F. Noone can imagine how dissappointed I was. Because I really studied for that text but I couldn't show it. I think I'm back to my high school days. My exam fobia is back. I struggled lot to beat this fobia but I'm feeling that it is coming back. Whatever it was a great shock for me but I think I can handle it. Then the lesson go on with group works. There were three groups and all of these groups were searching for the clues according to their topic in the text. (CMC vs Other communications, CMC vs Face to Face, Characteristics of CMC.) I think It was a good exercise except the part that not everyone joins efficiently. Still it was nice to work with a group.

P.S: CMC is computer mediated communication.