Hi everyone!

This week's been a bit tough in terms of tasks. Let's make a little comment on each one of them.

The readings about alternative assessment and project-based learning were really interesting, though I think that applying those techniques would demand a big deal of time from our students, something not easy to find with adult learners that work and study at the same time.

I found the rubric generating tool fantastic! I've shared it with some of my colleagues at university and they think the same, so much that we are going to experiment introducing some of these rubrics in our admission exams taking place in March, particularly for the writing and oral tests.

The task concerning a problem that currently affects one of our classes and a solution to it using a new tool was relatively easy, as all my classes share the same difficulty when we test their listening skills. The tool I chose is lyricstraining.com and I am planning to introduce it to my class as soon as our brand new multimedia lab is ready.

Last but not least, I took the option of creating a webquest to earn an extra credit, and that was hard because of the time it demanded. My quest involves research on the cities with the most diplomatic missions and the reasons they are so. It has been thought for my students at the Diplomatic Academy, so the learning scope for a traditional EFL class is rather limited, but I hope it works well with the target learners when it is actually undertaken. In case you are curious to know what it looks like, it was created using Quest Garden and you can find it on the following URL:  http://questgarden.com/167/38/2/140209052510/ 

Well, this is all for now. I'm going to read somebody else's blog and make a comment or two. Thanks for reading this.