Week 5. PBL, Alternative Assessment, Rubrics, WebQuest.

Since nowadays I can't imagine my future lessons without web technologies. The more I learn about webresources and technologies's opportunities in students' motivating learning the language, the better I like to use them at the lessons, not just because "it's cool". I want to broaden the student's learning horizons and and opportunies.

The topics of  Week 5 are very up-to-date ones and appropriate for our course and English teaching. I begin thinking of topics for PBL, imagining what I'll do on my next WebQuest page, and those rubrics which will be of much help in evaluating students. When I showed rubistar to my colleagues from the university they were very interested and asked me to share all the links we have been given.  By the end of the course I'll show my colleagues the final project and share all the links at the teachers' meeting.

I have created WebQuest page "Listen carefully and repeat" on http://zunal.com/webquest.php?w=243968. telling the truth it is new thing for all of us. It has a lot advantages for self-learning and during the class. You can watch, listen, read, play hangman and other things. The WebQuest is a on-line lesson plan with it's rubrics, tasks, step-by-step process and of course, introduction! It is very convenient tool for teachers thats is not in teacher's copybook. Students are able to visit the lesson several times if they wish. In order to create it, teachers need to search or use the files they have in computers, to make the page work. The teacher must be self-motivated to do it and this tool helps to look at teaching from different angle. Yes, it is time-consuming work, but it will stay on-line forever. Other teachers can also use it. Why not? This is the world of sharing, isn't it?

I want to thank Kelley for joining and supporting us.

My post seems to be very emotional, but this is the way I'd like to express my feelings about this week 5.