Working on the Website Entries

9th Week - Working on the Website Entries

Asalaam Alaikum dear Learnivores. The Arabic 'hello' means that 'may the peace be upon you', did you know that? Peaceful days, friends. It is finals week so I hope that peace will also be upon me. In this week's entry, I will keep you short as we as a group did not do much new.

Last week we started to search on our topics and we keep searching and writing some outlines. Our instructor let us give some break to focus on our finals and then do the remaining work more efficiently. Our group decided to keep doing some searches also in finals week as we didn't want to move away and prepare our website on time. I will be updating you later on.

This week, we have been given a few reflection questions about the validity of our searches and materials, and also some tools that may be helpful for our search. It was a bit hard to answer and it is slowly settling for me to act suspicious about the resource I found. It made me more aware of the situation and my responsibilities.

We also did a small meeting with our instructor Melda Hoca, we wanted to show and get feedback on how our organization and process is going. It motivated us a lot as a group. We needed a bit of validation. I hope right after finals we will be able to show her our entries.

So Learnivores, I won't be posting here for two weeks, take care of yourself!

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