Week 5

It is unbelievable we are half way to the end of the course! The time really flies, it seems we started not long ago and it is already week 5!
Every week is different, if I had a lot of fear at the beginning of the course, I feel much more confident now. As Nasim stated, week 4 was not easy, we had to create a technology enhanced plan, had to read a lot of articles about reading and writing but compared to the last week assignments week 5 seemed very easy to me. I have used PBL in my teaching practice,  most  of the creative teachers in Azerbaijan implemented PBL model even before computers and internet appeared at schools.

I was absolutely fascinated by the possibility of evaluating students' knowledge through Rubrics. Rubrics gives exact criteria for evaluation of the language skills. The students can clearly see what is required from them to achieve top results. It didn't take me much time to create rubrics and I introduced some of them to my students so that they knew how their knowledge is evaluated.

I tried Web-quest but, unfortunately, couldn't finish it as I was stuck at the evaluation part. I was amazed at how well Elena created her webquest page. This is something worth trying and I will explore it again and again until I manage it.

I decided to create a blog as a Final project, though Robert commented that it might take longer period to analyze the results. I think I can describe in my project the parts I will try with my class.