Week 5: Rubrics, Alternative Assessment, PBL, Webquest, and Project

Rubik or rubric? Sounds like something similar for me because they both can be very complicated. Rubric is very important in teaching because it becomes the parameter of how the students' works will be graded. I found it very difficult in the beginning to decide how the students will be graded. It takes time to formulate the rubric. However, this week I found a very helpful resource to formulate the rubric in easy way using www.rubistar.4teachers.org. I have created two rubrics for photo story assignment and essay writing. I will definitely keep using this website.

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Another thing that I learned is about PBL. Problem Based Learning for me will gradually make the learners become independent. The learners decide what is important and useful for them and do it for class activities to meet the learning objectives. I found Susan Gaers' examples very inspiring and motivating. I am happy that actually I have implemented some PBL approaches in my teaching.

Webquest is a very good example of project based learning. I have created my own webquest in www.zunal.com. I plan to use this tool to solve a problem that I currently deal in my class. I believe webquest can be very useful to support students and to prevent plagiarism problem. It is an inquiry based activities using technology that may stimulate and motivate the students to read more and write better.