Week 5!

Week 5 can really be rated with 5 stars! I liked the week tasks. As Donna promised I got magic tool this week, and more than one!

I have read articles on Alternative Assessment, types of rubrics. I liked the definition that alternative assessment focuses on students' strengths not weaknesses. I liked this way of looking at it. However I have never thought that rubrics are form of alternative assessment. They are for me quite traditional ones. Maybe the idea of self-assessment and peer-assessment can be called Alternative assessment, but if the rubrics are used by a teacher, this is quite traditional one for me.

Rubistar is an excellent tool! The teachers' life can be so much easier with this tool! Creating rubrics takes minutes.

I have also found out that Webquests can be a project! I have always thought of the webquests as the webseacrh to find answers to questions. But have never stretched it further, as asking students to summarise the info and create a booklet, or a poster etc. Unfortunately I didn't have time to create my own Webquest, but I have enjoyed looking at various ready-made ones on the Internet and the ones made by my colleagues on the course.

The last task was the project task, we are pushed forward and forward in planning our project. I hope I will manage with this, so far I have lots of questions in mind.

Nodira