Wed Feb 24 - LAB

I do get so stressed when I have to use some sort of technology in the language lab, especially this new one which is unfamiliar to me (well, it's an old lab, but new to me). Thankfully putting on the DVD was okay, although I couldn't hear the sound through my own headphones, and couldn't get it on the room speakers, so everyone had to watch it "individually" on their own headphones, with me sitting in one of the rows as well. Doing it this way gives me the impression that each person is watching it "all by themselves" and there's not that sense of community watching which comes when everyone is watching the movie together. Thankfully they all laughed at the right parts!

In the end I decided to show certain parts of the movie with subtitles, and others without them. This seemed to work well. It appears to me, though, in hindsight, that the section in the worksheet on Captain Shakespeare is too difficult; very few people were able to pick up why he called himself that and what his crew understood - even with subtitles. I think I'll need to change those questions if I show this movie again.