In my technology related
project, my main objective is to use technology to motivate students in reading
and writing tasks/activities. I would like to find out whether technology and
internet resources would provide high level motivation and interest in reading
and writing tasks.
There is more to do, peer evaluation and introducing the students to rubrics for evaluation, reading more online and making more posts......during the next week. They are writing their mid-term exam conducted by the school next week but I hope they will find time to do their reading and writing tasks.
I made some changes
in my original project step in order to get more focused. First, I got my
students create their own blogs and send their blog links to me by email. Keeping
in mind the course objectives of my class, I wanted my students to read their
lessons on their own. I asked them to read the lessons from their e-textbooks available
online in the text books publisher’s website. To start with, I asked them to
read three lessons (two short stories and one short biography) from the online e-text book. Then I asked them
to write a short summary along with a brief comment on each of the three lessons and
post them onto their blogs. Most of the students have completed the reading of
the lessons and the posting of the summary to their blogs. Once all the
students have completed this task, each one of the students will visit at least
five blogs of their classmates, read the summaries and write comments on each
of the posts in the blogs.
I have visited their blogs and I have found them
awesome. My joy finds no bounds when I see their marvelous blogs in terms of
design and content. I have already begun to feel the change that is happening because of technology. Students
who are not at all interested in reading these lessons using the text books and
would not be interested in writing tasks in the classroom are showing a lot of
interest and are writing wonderful reviews in their blogs.
Writing comments in
the blogs would certainly be another interesting activity for them. This will
be their next task, which is an impossible task in the classroom, given the
nature and the size of the class.
There is more to do, peer evaluation and introducing the students to rubrics for evaluation, reading more online and making more posts......during the next week. They are writing their mid-term exam conducted by the school next week but I hope they will find time to do their reading and writing tasks.
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