Where there is a well,there is a way. week 5 An a dventure

Hi every one,
What a week!
This week was very exhaustive for me.I have to finish the semester plan and the worksheets for this semester.It's the beginning of our second semester here in Jordan.Yes it was a very busy one.Now to my feelings a bout week 5.   Every week I learn something new, really fantastic ! After watching the video tapes and read the reading articles.This week I have found out the benefits of Project Based Learning. It helps us motivate our students and integrate their language skills in a more natural,easy way
"WebQuests are interesting and motivating to teachers and students. An effective WebQuest develops critical thinking skills and often includes a cooperative learning component.
http://zunal.com/index.php is a free site to make your own WebQuest 
The best reason is that, like any carefully planned lesson, a good WebQuest makes learning interesting for my students. WebQuests is really a powerful learning tool. Web Quests are a way to let students work at their own pace, either individually or in teams.

The idea of WebQuest was something new for me and it is one of the best ways to write projects. It is designed to do the work step by step which guides very well both teachers and students and provides a lot of rubrics and checklists. 
At the beginning it was veryt difficult but I understood it finally. 
The alternative assessment is a great tool because it focuses on students' strengths and weaknesses.
 Rubrics and Alternative Assessment

after reading about rubrics ,I found that Creating rubrics with the help of http://rubistar.4teachers.org/ saves teacher's time and efforts. And I used to spend too much time to do them myself! but from now on I will use of http://rubistar.4teachers.org/ to make my rubrics 

The third task was to focus on one problem:

• One problem in my class:
  
  My students are having difficulty in writing correct sentences in English. 
  One potential solution I think:
  
  I think a blog can be a good tool for my students to write freely outside the classroom, they can respond to each other and can communicate using English 
  Another thing, when they start blogging, they will be motivated that their written work is published online for the whole world to see and read. I think this will encourage them to write correctly and neatly.

• Another task was :Creating a Web Quest It was my first experience with making WebQuests so it was very simple and I admit that it was very hard but it was a try ,I  promise I will read more and improve ,I hope I did a good start.This is my link:
• http://zunal.com/evaluation.php?w=229339
• Finally I will say May God bless all the teachers in the whole world ,because they can make a difference in our world .
• A word of thanks goes to D. Donna ,May God bless you our angle .
• A word of thanks goes to all members in our stunning group for their determination to be betterYours faithfully....Enam from Jordan