Ever since week 6 started and we were given the green light to implement the technology tool we've chosen, I decided to talk about it with my students. As you know, the problem I'm facing with them is related to speaking. We have little time to practise, the students are too shy to speak and there is no detailed rubric to evaluate the quality of the students' performance.
The technology-related solution I came up with is to have the students video themselves, upload the videos and then I evaluate their performance based on a rubric I developed and introduced to the students prior to introducing the task. The students and I went through the rubric items by item and I'm going to post it on my twitter & instagram accounts.
I introduced the idea to the students and I explained to them reasons why we're resorting to this tool. I encouraged them to be as creative as they can be and offered them help by introducing some websites they can make use of.
We decided on a deadline: 28th May. 2014, and I encouraged students to submit their projects as soon as they're done with them so as to allow me enough time to evaluate each project meticulously. I also explained to the students that they can work individually, in pairs or in groups. When working in a group each student should be given the exact same time to speak and they are to mention how the work has been distributed among them.
On a different note, this week I learned to develop interactive PowerPoint slides and I really am so happy with the final product! It was a challenge for me as I've never used PowerPoint but as a presentation tool. In order to learn how to develop a PowerPoint interactive game (jeopardy) I went through many youtube videos and they were very helpful.
Congratulations Wadah on your great post. You show a lot of motivation, organization and a wonderful start by involving your students. Good luck in your technology-related solution.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, Juan. Hopefully, I'll update you guys with the rest of the experiment.
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Your blog post sounds great, your students are lucky to have an encouraging teacher like yourself. Good Luck - Albana/Kosovo.
DeleteHello Wadah!
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you about the idea that it is hard to assess students when performing an oral task. I must confess that I started to work on "Oral production assessment" as the first step to work on a doctoral thesis on this issue and I gave it up (because I do not have a lot of time to do it, in fact).
I really like the idea of your students recording themselves on a video so that you can analyze the material and use the rubrics to give them an accurate mark. I also like the fact that you and your students are negotiating the contents of the rubric, that's simply awesome!!!
I am looking forward to reading your final report about the experience so that I can see what your impressions have been, because I must say that I am incredibly interested in this topic!!! Good job!!!
Sorry I spelt your name wrong - it is Wadha. I do apologize.
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