As I posted last week, as part of my implementation of my "online" project with my reading skills students at Ulatina, I want to explain the steps I followed this particular week.
Prior to the class, I created a Wiki in Google Sites as part of the implementation of my project. Once I had my students' email addresses, I sent them an invitation to join me in this site for them to have access to everyone's mails.
In this very moment, I keep on updating this "site" with the blogs' addresses students are currently creating for their reading projects.
If you want to take a look at my BIN-08 Reading Skills II's Wiki, click over here:
https://sites.google.com/site/bin08readingskillsii/
STEP 4: WebQuest Creation
Before Thursday, February 25 class, a WebQuest for the short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne entitled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" was created. Since this story is part of our course syllabus, it was easy to adapt it for this online experience.
During the process of creating a WebQuest to fit all requirements a Quest must have, the complete task was carefully planned, and it can be accessed at:
http://bin-08-reading-skills-ii.blogspot.com/
It must be stated that one of the most pain-staking tasks in planning a WebQuest was the creation of the rubric that goes along with it. Each single step that you want students to follow must be carefully recorded and then taken into account for the evaluation. If finding the sources you want students to check is time-consuming, carefully designing the rubric for the final product evaluation is a long process that will get to see its product at the end of the task.
STEP 5: Student Blog Creation
As part of our regular class on Thursday, February 25, students were explained, by using the WebQuest, what they were supposed to do, step by step. Since none of them had ever worked with a WebQuest, they were told to follow the whole process sequentially. Besides, they were also told about the resources available for finding the information requested through the task, and how they were going to be graded at the end of the process.
After the explanation of the WebQuest, students were instructed on how to start posting on their newly-designed blogs. They were helped in case something related to the project was not clear to them. And in some cases I took some time to work individually with them to have all the information straight by having them actually do everything so they could taste what to create their own blog was all about.
As the WebQuest states, they now have a week to complete it.
STEP 6: WebQuest Assessment
This will be the next step for this project by using the rubric at
Eventually, they will start interacting among themselves to provide feedback to each other.
Friday, February 26, 2010
WOW! Jonathan,
you have been working really hard this week.I have visited your class blog and I really liked the way you displayed the information for your students, like a webquest student page.Uploading the rubrics on scribb.com is a great idea. You shoul have added a short description of the document to grab teachers interested in rubrics for reading's attention
If I have understood,this classblog is for the literature class and is devoted to extra reading practice out of the class. What do they do in class , then ?
Hassina
PS: sorry,Jonathan ! But, I don't really like the sombre colors.