Dear Donna, Kelly and all my colleagues,

This week is the hardest time for me as I had to get behind in my assignments after being absent one week to Greece for a seminar. I am sorry to bother Donna to check my assignments afterwards.

Rubric and alternative assessment

Alternative assessment suits the new approach of teaching English with communicative approach as the traditional pencil-paper tests cannot be used properly anymore. The suggested articles can give many ideas about enhancing alternative assessment in my lesson plans. Rubric is very important for this kind of assessment and RubiStar is a special tool to  make appropriate rubrics, I am glad that this course let me know many good tools for improving my teaching.

Project-based Learning

My school has just started a new academic year last week and I have been assigned to teach Independent Study Course, it is delighted to have the chance to learn more about project-based learning and I will be able to use it in this course. I think project-based learning and independent study have similar process.

Create a Rubric

I had fun with making a rubric from RubiStar and I will make more for my assessment in the future. This  time I have made a rubric about oral presentation of tourist attractions in Thailand.

WebQuest

I tried to make my WebQuest, but I am still not satisfied with it, I then paused it for a while as the limit of the time. I hope that I can get back to improve it and be able to show you all the link later, hopefully I can get some extra points from it, Donna, please forgive me for being late.

I read my colleagues' blogs with impressive, you all are wonderful to make such great jobs.

Best wishes,
Jirawan
Thailand