This week I learned how to design two magnificent tools in teaching English. One is for assessing the students' performance, that is rubrics. The other for conducting active, collaborative, autonomous and student-centered teaching context. Rubrics are just great in constructing the students knowledge and motivating them to reflect on their own learning. Rubistar is a magic website to design your rubrics, just sign up for a free account and one click and your rubrics are ready to print off or save on your computer. I also, learned how to design a webquest. It is the technology - based project that get every one involved, the teacher and the students. Zunal is an interesting website to create webquests. It was really a challenge for me to make my webquest motivating enough starting from choosing the topic, then going through choosing images and resources. that was really amazing especially when I finished it and i saw it ready for effective English learning. I can not wait till I bring all of this into action and see what drawbacks I will face and try to overcome them.
Hi Hala,
ReplyDeleteIt is true that this week has really changed the world around us with these two major techno tools, Web Quest and Rubistar.
Even I can not resist using these. Let's see what future unfolds with the technology.
I will certainly want to know if there is any drawback you find.
Cheers,
Mithun Khandwala
Hi Hala
ReplyDeleteGreat post. The drawbacks comment also jumped out at me, and of course, there are no perfect tools for all situations. Add it to your toolbox and use it when it seems appropriate, right? But of course, when we are learning to use new tools we do not always implement them in the best way.
Robert