Thrilling Journey!
By reading articles
about Project-based learning (PBL), I learnt something very crucial to put into consideration when
presenting a project to students. There should be specific guidance both
teachers and students follow systematically to gain satisfied results. Since my
project problem is about students' autonomy, I came through the point where insisted
on the importance of being balanced in your control as a teacher and in
providing room for students to build autonomy.
It is my first
time to create rubrics. Once you signed up to the suggested website http://rubistar.4teachers.org/, everything would
be easy because it is a tool helps you create rubrics with some options in both
categories, content and you could change (to suit your curriculum requirement and learner's level) , edit and add to your rubrics later on. I
will definitely use it to create other rubrics for my classes.
For WebQuest, as
I read about it, is a team website through which a group could work on a project. Unfortunately,
there is a problem occurred while I register on "Zunal ".
Therefore, I tried "QuestGarden" which is a bit difficult for me. I am still
struggling to create a WebQuet. I will share it once I do it successfully.
As for step 4 of
my project, I focused my attention on one single issue: how to incorporate technology
to help my students become more autonomous rather than depending entirely on their
teacher and textbook as their main resource of learning English language. This
have to be done gradually since my students are accustomed to relaying on their
teacher most of the time. The suggested websites discussed in this course such
as - Learn English/British Council (http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/),ESL
independent study lab (http://legacy.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/toppicks.html) and Elllo
website ( http://www.elllo.org)
can be the foundation stone to start with. I have already asked them to think about a skill they would like to enhance and then explore the 3 websites to choose the best for them. Tomorrow, we will have a discussion about their skills and the most preferable site for them.
Cheers,
Iman, Oman
Cheers,
Iman, Oman
Dear Iman:
ReplyDeleteI would like to thank you for your brief yet concise description of Week 5 tasks.I appreciated your idea about your quick response by implementing the assessment tools very soon in your class.Please, let me know about what is going to happen during discussion.
Regards
Makram( Tunsia)
Hello dear colleague,
ReplyDeleteI really appreciate your comment. I post week 6 reflection where you can find how things went so far! Implementing our solution is not an easy task to do because while putting things in action, some unexpected circumstances showed.
Cheers,
Iman, Oman