Hello Everyone,
Week five started with great enthusiasm for me as I was
eagerly waiting for learning or refreshing my concepts of alternative
assessment, rubric and project based learning. I was not disappointed at all as
I did get to know a lot of new things about alternative assessment, project
based learning and most importantly rubric.
My most engaging learning experience was to make a rubric.
My first challenge was to navigate around Rubistar and after some time I got hold of it. Then came the real realization when I happened to see that the page would expire after 40 minutes if I don't save it within that time. The thing that I understood later is I could have saved the format at first and then fine tune all the details. But I guess that is the real way of the world, we learn by making error or is that mistake. The process of making the rubric made me think about the class where I actually plan
to share it. It has also made me go through terms and criterion again and again
as I did not want my students to face any difficulty to understand the rubric. The
other difficulty was to come up with the terms that all of you will understand.
For example, I was quite hesitant about the term to use for main point as my
past learning says every kind of details in a paragraph can be referred as
supporting details.
The other challenging task, not in terms time and effort
rather in terms of decision making, was to decide about which blog service to
choose i.e. blogger.com and wordpress.com for our class blog. I finally choose wordpress.com as I felt
that my students would be discouraged by the fact that to create a blog in
blogger.com they have a open a new gmail account.
Regards
Farid/ Bangladesh
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