And, so it is. E-learning week has ended officially, supposedly. Not considering of course the humongous pile of tutorials we have to rush out manually to be handed up when we are back in school next week. Anyhow, everything thats done online has more or less been completed.
I have to say, E-learning wasnt as enjoyable as I thought it would have been. And when I said enjoyable, I didnt mean it in the sense of slackingly enjoyable. More of serious enoyable learning.
Here, is my review. Ratings, on a scale of Very Bad, Bad, Neutral, Good, Very Good.
Physics H2 I should think Physics lectures were rather well organised and presentable. Well, at least for me.
The one thing I hated though, were the "Microsoft Windows Text-To-Speech" audios clips the Physics Department inserted to accompany the lecture slides. Irritating, I tell you. What do you have against putting your voices on record? Too shy, perhaps? Anyhow, the Physics Department would be glad to know that if I had to choose, I'd much rather choose your voices over the machine's. >.<
And oh my Physics Department, is this really necessary!?
Whatever happened to the "Dont add uneccessary things into your presentations."?
Workload wise, I didnt really have much to do in the form of tutorials. Only reason why Im giving them a Good for workload estimation is because I've taken into account the overall workload of the E-learning. AND I thank god that Physics Department hasnt piled us with more work, or Id just have died there and then.
Lecture Presentation: Neutral Workload Estimation: Good Overall: Neutral
Mathematics H2 Math was a killer, definitely. Stupid Lecture systems, and what not.
What do you guys have against us having more than 30 secs to study a slide!? Stupid lecture couldnt be saved sometimes. And everytime we enter a wrong answer we are forced to review the slides over again!? Have you guys ever considered it may have been a silly mistake or a typo!? God.
And what the hell. E-learning isnt the time for you to dump all the stuff you think you arent able to finish in time because of your inabilities! Come on lahh Math Department, learn to share with the other departments can? Its not fair that we spend more than half our E-learning doing Math only right? Are you more important than the other subjects? You egoistic bunch of people.
Okay, sorry. I got carried away. Talking about Math just made me pissed. I shall attempt to be objective from now.
Oh wait, one last rant before being objective. EH! Can you guys choose teachers who's voices I will not cringe upon hearing, to do the voice explanation for the lecture slides? Wah lau! Mr Wong was good, I'll give you that. But what about the 2nd female teacher!? Constantly breathing hard into the mike, and explaning with her non-appeasing voice. Like, shit man.
Okay. Work to be done were to tutorial assignments. Of which, we were to hand up the Section Bs. The fact that our math genius Ms Poh took so long to do just ONE assignment only means one thing. Im going to die.
Oh yes, I almost forgot. Im not sure if its the whole department, of if Mr Gan's just plain inflexible. He makes us go online and join in a MSN mass conversations during our weekly timetable given Math timeslots. AND he takes attendance! Double!! Then all the 2608ers will be hellbent on NOT talking about math. And just as we thought he was no longer following our conversation, this happens.
Lance says: wtf Mr Gan says: mind your language, lance. Lance says: sry c0nkz....Time to start everything again.... says: I thought mr gan afk..... Who says: lol mr gan know what that means ah Lance says: duh Who says: he afk so long then suddenly see that magic word Who says: then appear *help YuXian fishh says: hahaha
And of course not forgetting his unintended sarcasm.
Lance says: evee + firestone = flareon Lance says: eevee* Mr Gan says: ok, I can see that you all are getting it. can solve the ques posted. Mr Gan says: the ans is 1/3.
Lecture Presentation: Neutral Workload Estimation: Very Bad Overall: Bad
Computing H2 Computing was the greatest joy on Earth. Well, at least comparatively to other subjects. I so love Mr Chua! Cool lecture slides and stuff. Even though there were 90+ slides to go through, they were rather pleasant to read, unlike SOME other subjects.
Im quite sure I know why E-learning for Computing was so enjoyable. Not gonna say though. (:
Lecture Presentation: Very Good Workload Estimation: Very Good Overall: Very Good
Economics H1 Econs was okay, I guess. Haha. Though Mr Chan's voice was pretty funny to listen to on a record. Lecture slides were slightly un-understandable. Though thats normal, actually. Haha.
"Mr Chan's voice so man!" Haha.
Workload wise, okay also. The only thing to be passed up next week was Question 1 to 4 of the Market Failure tutorial worksheet. All short questions. Which in the case of Econs, arent actually very short. There was actually a case study and 2 essay questions to be done but the fact that Mr Chan said "But you may want to prepare them this week if have available time." makes it appropriate to un-prioritise it. Right?
Lecture Presentation: Good Workload Estimation: Neutral Overall: Neutral
General Paper H1 As usual, no lectures to follow for GP. Only thing to go through being a 15+ minutes video on poverty. The thing I like about GP. But then again, 12 pages worth, to date, of discussion questions post to go through more than made up for the reading.
I guess GP was the subject there was least to adapt to, since it was generally self-learning usually anyway.
Workwise, the Discussion questions took up quite a bit of time, but GP has always been like that. The amount of work you looked like you did doesnt actually reflect the amount of work that you actually did.
And then there was the group presentation. Not very sure how we're supposed to be expected to get together to produce a presentation when it was supposed to be E-learning. But hey, the English Department usually expects the near impossible anyway, so not much of a surprise there.
Lecture Presentation: Neutral Workload Estimation: Bad Overall: Bad
Physical Education H-less Yes! There WAS work to be done for Physical Education during E-learning. Stupid no-link Olympics quiz and not forgetting the slides on Healthy Living which Im quite sure nobody went through. Total waste of my time.
All In All The idea of E-learning was great, though the execution was rather unpleasant. Workload designated for E-learning week too, was quite unfair. Hey, we're humans, you know. Staying at home to study doesnt mean you can expect us to study the entire day from 7 - 12. And also, I still think all the departments should get together to standardise and synchronise their styles of lecture presentations.
And if there was one thing that I'd taken from E-learning so far? It would be the realisation that there is a huge HUGE difference between how much the school expects us to study, as compared to how much we actually ARE studying.
"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows." - Sydney J. Harris
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