A new week has almost come to an end and now see two new products in my portfolio: a rubric created using RubiStar and a webquest with Zunal.com.
These two assignments made me think of how much our students can benefit from technology-enhanced projects in language learning and in particular , webquests. Likewise, how powerful this can be to promote learner autonomy.
It was interesting to read about the principles of Project-based learning (PBL) and research showing the results in students engagement and motivation, and the development of building skills , communication, critical thinking and collaborative skills. Some good reasons to start thinking in implementing it in my lessons.
I tried the extra credit activity, not because of the "extra" , but I took it as a challenge to give it a try to Zunal.
The site is user-friendly and provides simple guidelines to help you create your own webquest from ready-made webquests or from scratch . Setting up the configuration is not at all difficult. What took me some time was to describe a real world task that could be appealing and fun to my students. The evaluation came easily as I had already created a rubric !
More ideas to include in my project...
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