some changes

Hi everyone,
As i am revising the draft of my project plan, i have earlier stated my problem that students use technology for 'Fun'. along with it i am adding more information on it that is some of the teachers assigned some creative writing but they just download it from the internet and paste it whereas some of the students task is done by their parents doing the same . Similarly, they just spend time searching unnecessary things in internet even in their computer classes.
Mandi

Overall reflection, week 7

Hi everyone,
It was another interesting week that i gained a lot of ideas on learners' autonomy and got to learn different ways of autonomy. so far i tried to find useful article to post on the Wall wisher which was again a very interesting task for this week. i made few changes in my project draft and now working to prepare a final draft. I made a plan that i will be using Wall Wisher when i will start teaching.

Regards
Mandi

Reflection

This week i concentrated myself on teaching large classes with the help of power points and got a very good exposure on creating interactive power points.
Regards
Mandi

A bit confused

I am little bit unhappy this week that i am not teaching fr this term as if i was teaching, this was the time i would implement my project in my classroom but still i have a hope that whenever i will be teaching i will be implementing it.
Regarding the change in my project, as i have stated that my students are using internet for 'fun' rather than utilizing it, i thought to make them utilize their knowledge by assigning them a task in web-quest rather than Nice net and i have already designed a project of publishing a class magazine in my web-quest.
Your suggestions will help me to improve my plan further.

How is the solution?

Hi everyone,

As I have already mentioned earlier that ‘Fun is the problem’ with my students, nowadays I feel that I can utilize the idea by the same course I am doing. In other words, if I introduce Nice net to my students and assign some assignments as Robert does in our classes it will be very much effective. Similarly, I have found that Web quest; http://www.zunal.com/ too will be very much effective solution for my students as they will enjoy and learn varieties of language learning issue at the same time.

Regards

Mandi 

wonder week

Hi everyone,
This week i did two interesting task. one is to create a rubric in rubistar.com and another is i designed a project for my learners which you can find in http://zunal.com/webquest.php?w=182833 
Waiting for your comments
Regards
Mandi

PBL and alternative assessment ! amazing techniques

Hi everyone,

The readings on alternative assessment, rubrics and project based learning (PBL) reinforced me to think of the project I used to design for my students of class four and five in order to develop their language skills. Similarly, I REMEMBERED A POSTER PRESENTATION by one of the Japanese instructor in last years NELTA Conference which was based on PBL and how it helped the teacher to MOTIVATE HIS STUDENTS in collaborative learning and improved their learning.

Thus, I am here wanted to state how PBL can be used to help motivate students more. As PBL promotes student centered learning rather than traditional teacher centered learning, students are always motivated to involve themselves in interaction activity rather than monotonous lecture class.

Similarly, now I have realized that PBL can be incorporated with technology in my class. Just a simple example is as they are investing their time on playing games on computer and using internet to chat with the friends, I can assign them to choose a story (after providing the link related with the story) and interpret it in their own words. Moreover, I have found advantages rather than limitations of using PBL in my classes.

Rubrics plays significant role in any assignments we assign to our students as it sometimes helps students on the questions as how much to do and how to organize their writings which I have found even while doing the assignments of this course.    So far I found myself using analytic rubrics in my classes and in special cases multi trait rubrics especially for higher level students.  Similarly, PBL is not a traditional method. Thus, alternative assessment system should be applied so that the learners would get chance to evaluate themselves and progress in their own pace.

As PBL, alternative assessment and web quest are based on self- directed learning, it helps learners to promote independent learning as they get opportunity to learn by doing as well as in their own pace and style. 

Your comments will help me to grow more on PBL AND DESIGN NEW TASKS FOR MY LEARNERS.

Regards

Mandi