Week 5: Project-based Learning, WebQuest, and Rubric

Seeing the world through students eyes! That's what I learned most in this week as Donna said to me, and indeed I got the points of what Donna did tell me. You are just kind of a mirror to me Donna, showing our "sins", correct us when we were wrong, no judgement, and keep us believing  and motivating that we can do everything for our own goods.

Being a better teacher is always about giving the options to students and this week I learned so much about that. One of them is project-based learning. Just like Gaer's project title: Less Teaching and More Learning. So, by designing a well prepared project, we'll have the opportunity to develop more on monitoring the students works and improvements. Using tools can be very helpful, effective and efficient. We can use  Rubrics to give student's chance on checking their assessment result online and finding the correction more details. This is my rubric's address:  http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php?screen=ShowRubric&rubric_id=2072997

Project-Based Learning also gives a new atmosphere for students to have collaborative and peer learning. They communicate each other, give comments and correction, even at the end, the teachers have to check again and give more inputs. On line discussion can be another alternative to do so.  At the beginning, perhaps, It will take a big effort to set everything as we wish and need more time to prepare and provide valuable and easy access information. This can be also uploaded through WebQuest: this is the page for gathering and sharing valuable materials provided for the class. And here is my WebQuest address: http://zunal.com/webquest.php?w=108896 I still need to work on it more, since I still just put a preliminary design for it.

It's an excellent week for me though. even I have to fight with fever and heavy flu at weekend. I found this week very fascinating and challenging.

Happy sharing!