Susanne's
Feedback
[as posted in BaW YGs, message#1646]
I'm
reporting live from a just wonderful session of live
storytelling in Aiden's class with Taiwanese university
students. We met in Alado; and started to tell our stories;
I had prepared a little story so I just read it aloud
- I had
already been experimenting with recording in HandyBits,
and ended up with uploading two zipped .wav files temporarily
in our BaW Yahoogroups file folder. The
text is saved on a homepage at http://susnyrop.bloki.com
: It was pretty interesting for me to learn that the
students found it very peculiar that a grandmother would
know how to use computers for anything; even their own
parents only used computers for playing games, so they
wanted me to be a good example form their parents :-)
Renata
was nervous when she called me in YM right after I got
up in my early
morning, in good time before our session; she told me
had not prepared anything special so I was really impressed
to hear her tell a good slice of her life story about
how she came to Japan as a young woman [snipped]
She
started her speak with playing some music with a relevant
song text about making your life a full circle, and
she linked to a homepage what a good idea for an introduction!
I think the students were emotionally touched by her
narrative, and they had so many good and thoughtful
questions to ask her. They were very well prepared to
improvise their questions - it was great to hear how
the students were laughing and having fun during this
session, sharing one microphone. Many of them demonstrated
that they also speak Japanese, and one even said a few
sentences in German; these students are ready to meet
the world, as they are really good at foreign languages.
At
the end, Bob was also telling us how he retired from
his job some years ago
and decided to start on his own with the Elder university,
And how he was
setting up a server just now - with the help of Venny
who is a good old Webhead in Taiwan!!! I think this
made our full circle.
Susanne
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