My thoughts In AEP class

 The first day of AEP we read the learning contract, It wasn't really hard to read the learning contract then we did a quiz about the learning contract. I got a perfect score in the quiz so I felt happy about my score. The next day we did the to do list, It was the most stressful thing of all in AEP. We have to log in into quite a lot of account, so It was stressful for me. Because we learned a new website which is typeshift and wordshake ever first minute of the class we will always played it but I don't like typeshift that much and so I like wordshake more 

The first work that we have to do in AEP is we read about this article and we record it, after finishing we put it in padlet. While we did a record we also learn how to pronounce word that are hard. Personally, I know that my recording isn't the best but I still try my best to pronounce the word. We also put nice comments on our classmate work which I thing that their work is better than me.

 yesterday we learned about how to go into the blogger website and we learned how to publish by writing, "Hi ms Disa". I was able to do it correctly, I was happy to be able to do it because I don't want to get left behind my friend. 

And today we log into miro and tried to do a timeline on things that we did for the past things in AEP. But apparently since the internet is not cooperating with me, I have to get help from ms Disa. After we're done we did the real blog in the blog website which I think It's going to be challenging for me to do so but no worries I will still try my best on writing my blog. 

Over all what I think about AEP is ver fun, It's interactive using a lot of diffrent websites such as miro, padlet, typeshift, and wordshake. What I'm planning to do is that is that I'm going to develop my writing skill since I'm not really good at writing but I hope after taking this class I will find it fun as well as easy to write my blog 

AEP from the beginning. for me.

  I missed some topics, the first ones, Why you may ask well, no one told me that school started. I started school on the last day of the first week. The topics I missed or lesson are learning contracts, learning contract quiz, to-do list and more. I feel ashamed because I had to ask my friends mainly Seif and I missed some lessons.

The first thing I did in AEP was a recording an article about rhinos that are call paraceratherium in china. Personally, I  disliked the part where I had you pronounce Chinese words and the recording part because it wasn't easy and I had you recorded fifteen voice recordings but the part we post in paldet and make nice comments. I mostly liked this project.

When we signed up for miro or as we call it a peanut butter board for me it took two tries to sign up first one it went to another page then I refreshed the page on the second try and it worked.

Wordshaking was the first game I played in AEP as I didn't play type shift it was fun but the best was miss told me that 14 words are even worse than she thought while on the other hand, I was feeling very proud that was the best on the day it was so funny.

The day we logged in to blogger by we i mean my classmates did i missed the first 3 classes in Tuesday including the first period of AEP which means i didn't brainstorm ideas for a blog and i logged in to blogger late so as you can image I didn't fell proud this me being late but that is that i will try to be on time from now on, but no promises everyone could oversleep :).

Blog#2

 Hello, I'm back with another blog, this week we accomplished a lot and was very productive, in aep we did a lot of collaborative work and it really helped me understand the lesson better in a way. This week on Tuesday, we continued learning about the line graph it was really fun drawing the lines and learning new vocabularies like "wane" what we did was we created a Venn diagram and we put synonyms of that word and I got a silly mistake and I put the antonyms "my bad 😞"I didn't read what it says in the website, we created a lot of  Venn diagrams until it looks like a supper sonic flowery bubble named by me and MS Disa named it the supper sonic, it was supper fun learning words and working together as a group.

 The subject started with typeshift as usual, it took me 3 mins to finish typeshift and it was pretty long, I don't why It took so long I mean the words we're short maybe I was not paying attention or was I tired? I'm not sure I just hope next I would do better. After typeshift MS Disa told us to look for synonyms or verbs that described the line graph such as wane, vanish, decrease and drop. My word was narrow and for some reason I put antonyms so I changed all the words that had antonyms and gave different definitions and synonyms, so for the synonyms I put was cramped, definite, limited, slim etc.. after we finished our tasks and talked, we used some of the verbs and synonyms we did awhile ago. then Ms Disa placed a line graph on Miro and we had to summarize the information of the lines and we have to give a short description.

On Tuesday we did typeshift but it was so longgggg it made me annoyed so I did wordshake, good thing I did good I got 67 or something and then we did our blog and that's basically it.

this week had ups and down but I totally understand where I got wrong and that's good and I definetly learned a lot thank you MS Disa 💖💖💖 

Blog#2 Gr-10 Sarah Ghayedi

 Hello, for this week me and my classmates have discussed a lot same as the previous week. I can't believe  the first month of school is finished. Tuesday- we continued in learning line graphs. I really enjoyed this topic even though it's kind of hard since words are so complicated, but the perks are learning new words and how I can apply them. I also liked that we created a Venn diagram it is so helpful and a creative way to learn. They were so adorable and clean to look at and the bubbles are so cute. Each of us was asked to pick a word and searched for it's synonyms and had to identify every word. 

The class always starts with type shift. After that miss instructed us to search for synonyms and it's meaning to paste on our Venn diagram in miro. I was able to complete rather the class although I had quite a difficult time to search for them as they were likely the same with other words in the diagram. I just realised that words rally are complicated and hard. Most of them are the same and confusing but I was lucky to find good amount of words and got the meaning. 

I could say I've digested tons of words and that makes me really happy that im learning and enjoying the class as well. AEP 10 is very productive and finished majority of our activities on time, but the most important part is we're learning. 

See you on the next meeting miss!:)

A Lively Week- Meral- AEP 8- Blog 2

Hello😊! I am back with another blog. This week in AEP classes we did a lot of things! Surprisingly, all these assessments and activities were done in only the two periods of AEP classes. If you are willing to take a trip to a thrilling adventure, then you may as well read the rest of this Blog😀!

A few minutes before joining the google meet, I was feeling active. I was pretty surprised since on Monday mornings I would mostly be sleepy. Therefore, I opened my camera. Before starting the class, Miss Disa saw the rainbow decoration on the wall that I decided to use as a design to create a more positive atmosphere🌈. She asked several questions like whether it was handmade or not. I had made it in summer as one of my crafts.

The first activity of the day was Typeshift. Therefore, I went to the website and started solving the puzzle🧩. At about half of the game, there was a letter that I couldn't match to form a word. Luckily, after about a minute I solved it😊. I finished it in 2 minutes and 11 seconds. It was not the best score but I was still quite proud of myself. Next, we did an entrance ticket🎟. You might be wondering "What entrance ticket?" Apparently, we will be reviewing for the previous sessions by having a sort of activity to enhance our memory. As a forgetful person, I find this very helpful and useful. The class clicked a link that drove us to miro. 

First, we had to draw non-identical twins. Miss Disa started the timer⏳. As the background music played on, everybody started drawing. I decided to draw the eyes and ears of the twins differently. Afterward, we drew a widower. When the timer ran out, we were all done🎨. It was a very fun activity!

Moving on, we had to choose whether we wanted an upbeat or quiet class for that day. Chloe went right on to the upbeat choice. I was unsure since I wanted it to be calm and lively at the same time. Soon, I chose upbeat since I was feeling energetic like I've mentioned at the start of this blog📄. 

Miss Disa announced that Chloe and I would be reading an article in DOGO News. Meanwhile, Shasmeen would finish Unit 1 from last week's meeting✨. Miss Disa had provided a website called "HowToPronouns" that helped me very much. It was very useful in finding the pronunciations of some specific words such as Gansu, linxiaens, and paleozoological. 

Thus, Miss Disa sent a google document titled "Things to finish: AEP 8". At first sight, I got quite scared😲. Fortunately, I realized that I had finished most of them. I immediately ticked off Unit 1 Questions 1&2, Blog 1, and the Labelling of the Blog✅. Therefore, there were only two things left to do. First, I had to make a final recording. Then, I would have to type the words I found difficult to pronounce. 

Honestly, finishing this activity took a lot longer than I expected. I had to keep redoing it until I could pronounce most of them correctly🔊. I have to admit that it did give me some hard time when there were some background noises. Even so, in the final outcome, I was the only one heard. As a whole, reading the article made me pronounce words I've never known before and learn many facts about dinosaurs.

I knew my time was limited so I told myself that I would try recording one last time or upload the spare one just in case it reaches the end of AEP classes. Well, I guess that technique worked. I was finally done with the recording😄!! All I had to do was to upload it in the Padlet link. Suddenly, I noticed that there was no add button. Turns out, Chloe had noticed it too. Therefore we both told Miss Disa about the issue. 

Eventually, the problem got fixed! I uploaded the final product. Now, there was only one task left to do. I had to write down some challenging words from the news article📰. I wanted to get the merit points so I typed as fast as I could. Some of my answers were: paraceratherium, linxiaens, and bugtience. In that case, I ticked off the last two tasks and was good to go! 

We wrote down our thoughts about the day in Miro to serve as our exit ticket🎫. Therefore, we all said "Goodbye and thank you, Miss Disa." and exited the google meet. Thus, the class had ended.

Thank you so much for reading this blog. Have a great weekend✌!

Signing off - Meral

'Informative Week' Blog 2.1, Ayse

 

Hello, I'm back with another blog, for this week we've accomplished a lot and at the same time it was very collaborative. Time literally just flew by, I can't believe that 1 week of AEP passed already. This week, on Tuesday we continued with learning line graphs. It was really fun, I've learned a ton of new words which are synonyms of the word "wane". What we exactly did was create a Venn diagram which was named: 'Super Sonic Flowery Bubble' by Deesha, and 'The Flower Venn Diagram' named by Miss Disa. The Venn Diagram looked amazing, it was colorful, full of words and really pretty.

The subject started off with us doing our typeshift which took me a short time to complete and it was a good startup for the class, since I had Math and Chemistry before AEP, I was already exhausted. Later on Miss Disa told us to look for the synonyms of the verbs that described a line graph, we used the word 'wane' as I said a while ago, as the base word, we used some of the verbs that we searched up last week. Each one of us did a circle for a word, for instance, I focused on the word 'decrease' which means to make or become smaller or fewer in size, amount, intensity, or degree. I've looked up for synonyms for decrease and I've found and learned words like: lessen, depreciate, minimize diminish, and decline. This lesson was one of those times were I would never forget about. After we fulfilled our tasks and talked about it, Miss Disa placed a line graph for 2011 on Miro and we had to summarize the information of the lines and give a description of them. That was all for the day, on Tuesday we did typeshift(which I gave up on) and start our blog.

What I have learned from this lesson is that words are very complicated, but actually fun to learn. This lesson will surely help me when I'm trying to describe something to someone, and at the moment we are also talking about Venn diagrams in math, so this will surely help me. I'm also amazed that lines can show and describe something in a much more simpler way.

Looking forward to the upcoming classes!!! I am hoping to improve the skills I have learned so far, thank you Miss Disa for being patient with us!! 💗

Overcoming Challenges -AEP- Chloe - Blog 2

Getting used to going to school again is no picnic! My body's still adjusting to waking up very early; so, as you might've guessed, I was still groggy when I logged into AEP. I didn't have that much breakfast either, but I knew I didn’t want to be late. 

I tried my best to wake myself up and prepare for the day. Thankfully, "Typeshift" helped with that, since it acted as our warm up. Just like last week, the "Typeshift" challenge seemed to be easier. I finished in under a minute and proudly posted my time on the Google Sheet Miss Disa instructed us to paste it on.

After that, we headed on over to "Miro.com." There was a single post-it note waiting for us on the board. It instructed us to write down the things that we had learned last week. Whatever we wrote would act as our entrance ticket. So now we have two tickets: one entrance and one exit ticket. Honestly, I think this is a really efficient way for students to remember what they learned from their last session. It helps us to recall everything we did and strengthens our memory. 

As I selected my sticky note color, which was green, the things we did finally came flooding back to me: family vocabulary, "Typeshift," exit tickets... It amazes me how if I wasn't instructed to remember what had happened, chances are, I probably would forget all about it. I can't even think of what I had for lunch last Friday, which was only five days ago! I guess these entrance tickets really do serve a useful purpose!  

Anyways, I wrote down the topics we had learned and waited for the others to finish. After about five minutes, it was time to move on. Our teacher then posted more post-it notes on the board. This first one said to draw two non-identical twins, while the second said to draw a widower. I was pretty excited since I love drawing! 

However, right off the bat, I started losing control of the mousepad. Whenever I tried drawing circles for the heads, they turned out wobbly and I'd have to restart. I guess I need to work on having a steady hand more!

On a positive note, I found the music being played by the timer quite fitting. It really gave me the feeling like I was in one of those Mission Impossible movies! It adds a nice touch to the AEP atmosphere and lets me have fun! 

Moving on, Miss Disa gave us a chance to choose the type of class we wanted: upbeat or quiet. Surprisingly, only three of us attended class today: Shasmeen, Meral, and myself; so, it was a smaller class than usual. I voted for upbeat, since I still felt a bit groggy and thought it would keep me more alert. Meanwhile, my classmates were still deciding. Eventually, Meral chose upbeat as well and the voting ended. 

Meral and I were then told to read an article about dinosaurs, while Shasmeen would finish up on last week's activities and blog. Our teacher directed us to "DOGONews" and I got started right away.

There definitely were some tricky words in there like paraceratherium, lixiaens, Hezheng, and many more. I needed to look up how to pronounce all those words, since we were assigned to record ourselves reading the entire article. Thankfully, we were given a website called, "HowToPronounce," which helped a lot! It did take me a few times to correctly pronounce them, but I got the hang of it eventually.

However, when it was finally time to record, I did encounter many problems. I was using the website "Vacaroo," which was highly recommended. Yet, my first two tries both ended in the same way: they ended up getting deleted. It was really frustrating. I kept pressing the "upload" button, thinking that it would give me a link to upload it somewhere when, in reality, it just asked for new audio and deleted my hard work. 

I reminded myself to not hit the "upload" button when it was my third attempt. I copied the link and decided to test the audio. Only, this time, my voice was too soft! I could barely hear myself. Even when I maxed the volume, I could barely be heard. So again, I had to re-record myself. 

I guess the fourth time’s the charm because my next attempt was a success. My voice came out loud and clear. Once I finished recording, I copied the link and found that the audio was finally perfect! Only ten minutes were left for our AEP sessions and I was finally ready to upload the audio. I do admit that this experience was a bit stressful for me. I know I could've been faster if only I hadn’t encounter such problems. 

Even so, my problems were still not over yet. When I headed over to "Padlet," which was where we would upload our audio (because "Miro.com" didn't have that function), I noticed that there wasn't the usual add button. I knew immediately what I needed to do: inform Miss Disa to give us access to edit the board. 

Meanwhile, Miss Disa was creating a to-do list for us to complete. If we did everything written before the session ended, then we'd receive merits. The list consisted of: unit one, questions one and two; blog; blog labels; news recording to "Padlet;" and difficult words on a sticky note. I checked off most of them except the last three. 

Quickly, I opened the blog website and labeled the blog I'd made last week with my name and grade level. After that, I decided that posting the difficult words I found in the article would be the fastest. I chose a pale, yellow post-it note and wrote down the words I’d mentioned earlier (paraceratheriums, lixiaens, Hezheng) and some others like paleozoological and Gansu. It was simple and easy, just a matter of typing them correctly. 

Moving back to the "Padlet" problem, coincidentally, Meral was also facing it at the same time. We both informed Miss Disa. It wasn't at all complicated, but class was almost ending. I hurriedly pasted and posted the link I got from "Vacaroo." With the last few minutes of AEP, I checked off all of the things on my to-do list. I felt proud, but the day was not over yet. I still needed to write my exit ticket. 

I headed to "Miro.com" and chose a light blue sticky note. I typed like lightning, talking about how I felt productive and even managed to finish everything on time. With that done, it was finally time to leave AEP class. What a rush the whole experience was! 

Even though I met several problems while recording, I'm happy that I still got to finish everything on time, learned some new words, exercised my tongue, and even think I'm getting better at "Typeshift."  I really do hope that I persevere through more tough times like these in the future. The road ahead may look smooth, but it is also filled with many bumps. Overcoming them is what makes you stronger and I'll do my best to prepare for them.