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.
