My Fifth Week Reflection

Hi Robert and  readers,

 One after another we have come to reflect the fifth week reflection. As earlier, the days are well-structured. Having exposed to numerous jargon and new learning on the web interactively, I have done pretty good jobs this week,I feel. After reading the journal article entitled Focus on Basics (1998) by Susan Gaer, there bulged out many ways to help students motivate more using PBL.  Here I posted on 'How can PBL be incorporated with technology in your class-or alternatively what limitation are there to using PBL in my class?' Next, I found that rubrics and alternative assessment are two of alternative assessment tools in assessing learning. Such assessment uses activities that reveal format and testing of the students' task seeking good points and being equally focused to performance of the learners, but not the weakness/es. So they are alternative tools to traditional ones.In PBL, Ss choose the topic of the project themselves and form a community of friends to work with, so are much more motivated. From this inception, it sows the seeds of independence although they can consult to their teacher whenever required. Further than this, Ss are expected to utilize an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most of or all information that learners work with comes from the web. From a learner to teacher/teacher educators, the WebQuest helps to meet ones' needs. For example, 'Search Techniques' in WebQuest enables Ss to find good resources on the web with stepwise guides: Step Zero: Before you Search, Four Nets for Better Searching, and Specialized Search Engines. 

Besides, I created rubrics using rubistar on evaluating an informal letter which coincidentally addressed my need of assessing composition/writing. Likewise, creating account on rubistar, I hope, would be very beneficial for future such evaluation or testing purposes. 

The third task was to stating how one can change the problems, which we talked in earlier week, into solutions. It is quite good to find out solutions from within which we call emic in research saying, "The truth is here ." So, I am planning to address problems related to speaking skills using webquest via zunal.com though I am unable to create it now. The sixth week, perhaps, I will make it. Using this webquest my Ss can work out in my absence or out of contact.

But, because of time constraint and pretty busy schedule I'm sorry to say that I was unable to create the webquest righteously. Hope I would be doing so this week.

That's all about my fifth week mirror on learning. 

How do you feel? Please reply.

Yours,

Young & Yummy 

Yubaraj

Kathmandu,Nepal