Week 5: Rubrics, Assessments and Project Based Learning (PBL)

Task Creating a rubrics

First I prepared a set of rubrics for the guideline of writing essay or evaluating essay on a word document and opened the link: " https://sites.google.com/site/courtneyswebskillswikifall2013/rubrics" provided by our instructor, Courtney Cunningham. It was actually "Courtney's Webskills Wiki – Fall 2013" page where I clicked on "+Add file" button which let me browse my word file from my computer. It was then listed in the page. Then I shared the link of my rubrics on the thread of "nicenet.org" which is our "virtual classroom" named ICA – Internet Classroom Assistant.

Later on, when I read the other colleagues' posts on "Nicenet", I came to know that there was some other ways my classmates were recording their rubrics, something in different way than I did. It was in " http://rubistar.4teachers.org/". I decided to try it. When I entered into this link, it demanded some of my personal information and password which I completed. Wow! There I got some ready-made templates for rubrics, so easy! But I used my own categories ignoring its ready-made ones. How flexible!  Then I saved it and made it available online by clicking the given button on screen. I again shared my another new link on "Nicenet". Again I opened the link: " https://sites.google.com/site/courtneyswebskillswikifall2013/rubrics" where I clicked on "+add Link", pasted the new link and saved.

Between these two, I think the later one is better.

Project Task Week 5

As our course instructor, Courtney Cunningham emailed us and informed not to write week-5 Project Task unless we received her feedback, I was looking forward to her valuable feedback. As it appeared on "Nicenet" page, I was initially worried on how to make it better, because I realized that I couldn't be specific on my or my students' issues or problem. I waited some days and read some other classmates' responses on the thread, I got some kind of clear view. I know my students have very low proficiency of English language, particularly in all skills. But among them I think they are very weak in writing skill, so I chose that one for my project task. I still anticipate some constructive feedback in this regard from my instructor and classmates. In advance, I have bookmarked some links in "delicious.com" which will be helpful to implement my plans in the future.

Project Based Learning, Assessments and Rubrics

"zunal.com" is a useful web page to create a forum for the project based learning. It gives a guideline for the project work. I learned to create an account on "zunal.com" and set a project as per the guideline given in the web for the Project Based Learning (PBL). Actually "webquest" in zunal.com and "rubrics" in rubistar.4teachers.org will support to materialize the concept of "Less teaching and more learning", a true learning.