Week 5: Rubrics, PBL, Technological tools and more...

Hello,

This week continued to be highly productive to me. I am impressed by the friendly interface of http://rubistar.4teachers.org/ To build up a rubric was very easy, and I like the flexibility it has for you to adapt the rubric in whatever way you want. Then reading and talking about Project Based Learning reminded me how meaningful this type of assignment is. PBL is one alternative assessment tool that may cause a great impact on our students' learning.

Lastly, to determine a learning problem from my classroom and a potential solution helped me to explore a wide variety of technological tools. I must confess that again, I felt a little overwhelmed for the quantity of tools available online. However, I am eager to try some of them gradually.

Let's enjoy our week 6...

Lorena
El Salvador

Week 4: The Discovery

I feel simply impressed by the amount of information available on the net related to the things I am interested for. This week, I discovered the ESL Independent Study Lab -Writing at http://legacy.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/writing.html

This page has an excellent list of websites to do all sort of activities to develop writing skills and sub-skills. However, once I started exploring things here and there, I realized the websites have much more than writing. For example, Tune in to Learning http://www.tv411.org/ has not only excellent writing interactive lessons but also Reading and Vocabulary and more.

Now, for some reason I feel beyond impressed a little overwhelmed because I have the sensation that what I have discovered is just a microscopic piece of the huge immensity of things to be found on the net.