ELA 5/13

Today, we learned how make surveys on Google, and it was amazing how quick the process is! What’s great about it is that the format is all in there, so no need to insert boxes and lines etc. In the class before ELA class, I am working on a group project and was thinking of doing a survey, so this class came at a good time. I still have to get used to using all the Google tools, however. For example, I always get mixed up with Google Drive and Google Group and always end up opening so many unnecessary tabs.

This sharing of documents and sources is a new thing to me. I always preferred to do essays alone because I was embarrassed to show it to others (unless it was the teacher) and felt bad for taking away some of my classmates’ time when they were busy typing away their own. However, I decided to ask two of my classmates to peer-edit my book review for me, and it was very useful. They pointed out mistakes and confusing parts that I was completely blind to that I was just glad that I had asked them edit my essay before it went to Rab! Five years ago, I probably would have agreed that sharing ideas online for an in-class essay test is somewhat like cheating, but now I feel like the significance of writing essays is not the brilliance of the ideas, but how the ideas are organized and presented. I hope I can make use of this sharing in many ways.