Project Task # 5

My final project has been entitled ‘Developing and Practicing Student Literacy Skills.’ I have been planning to make a technological change in my class to implement this project. I would like to develop this project to extend my students’ English practicing hours outside the class duration. By making technological change and utilizing online tools, the goal of this project is to develop my learners’ literacy skills on their own, and make them lifelong and autonomous learners of English. One of my objectives of this project is also to make them confident in corresponding with others in written English. For my final project, I would like to make use two types of online tools new to my class such as blog and selected websites designed for developing language skills together with grammar and vocabulary. I have already talked to my class about this new project, and their duties and their approximate learning behavior with these new technological tools. Many of them seem to be quite excited while few of them feel nervous. I have noticed some of them seem to be less confident in operating online tools. I have reassured them that there is nothing critical to be worried of, and am trying to help them in every possible way from my part. I have already provided them the rubrics which will be used to evaluate their assignments. It will help them become self-judgmental of their assignments. I have developed the ground rules in dealing with this web tools and have planned to provide them sample of writing assignments. I am really excited and can not stop myself bringing this technological change in my class and using online tools to teach them English.

I have mainly planned this project for out-of-class activities/assignments for my students. The activities will be based on and centered around class blog. According to my advice, they have already opened account in gmail so that they can post their comments on the class blog. I have almost developed two class blogs, and they are asked to use it from today. One class blog will be discussion board where they will post one of their own on the main idea/topic and then comment on any two other postings by the due dates. Word limit for the former is 200 words whereas for the latter is 100 words. Another class blog will be for reflective posting. Here they will post what new language, vocabulary, grammar and interesting information they have learned from the class and from the referred websites. I expect that my learners will enjoy this way of learning English through interactive web skills.