Week 6

Implement the technology tool

As a class project, I often have my students make a presentation about some topics. As I mentioned in week 4 and 5, the problem is that we don't have enough time to listen to everyone's presentation/speech since we have other things to do on top of practicing the presentation in pairs for quite a long time. I really wish we had more time, but the curricula is set, and we have to follow it.
Therefore, I decided to use blog for my students to share their presentations and give feedback/comments to each other.

At first, the thing I needed the most was the classroom webpage, on which I can have my students share their presentation essay on the blog. I went through a lot of different webpages, such as google site or padlet. But I thought weebly was the easiest site for me to create the classroom webpage with.
I tried creating one, which I am still working on. Here is the website, http://englishcommunication-minami.weebly.com

What I like about it besides how easy it is to use this site is that I can totally control/manage students sites, too. I can create the students' account and blog URLs. I can put links to students sites on the classroom webpage so that anyone can visit each student's page with only one click.

Furthermore, the weebly site has such a useful help center, so it will make easy for my students to create their only blog pages. https://weebly.zendesk.com/hc/en-us

I will make as many accounts as students' numbers, give them a password, and have them create the details for their websites and share their presentation in their blogs.

ABCD Objective is,
After writing an essay on their favorite activity to persuade audience/reader to join them(C), the students(A) will share their essay in his/her blog(B), and write at least 3 comments to different presenters in their blogs(B) with a passing score of at least 75% according to the annotated rubric.

Here's my rubric for this activity.
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php?screen=PrintRubric&rubric_id=2454286&

I would like to come up with some follow-up activities.


Kunie Kellem
Japan