Week Seven

Hi Everybody,

I could introduce the WebQuest designed as part of the project only week. As I scribbled on the previous post, I had to teach the basics of using internet in the previous week. This WebQuest http://zunal.com/webquest.php?w=171109) was the first one of that kind that my learners got introduced. I could arrange ten computers in the lab for this purpose. I must thank my colleagues at the school for helping me do this. The LAN was not working. We had to spend a lot of time fixing it. I had saved a word file with URL of the WebQuest on the desktop of every computers. The learner are asked to ‘ctrl+click’ the link and they went to the WebQuest.

The learners were heavily dependent upon me how to go about it. I watched them for five minutes to know whether they will do the work themselves. Most of them clicked on the picture where there is no hyperlink. I had to go from computer to computer to guide them. Finally I connected a LCD projector on a computer and explained the things they had to do.  This is the problem with first time users! They found the WebQuest interesting when they got the concept of the icons and what they mean. The reading materials on different sites that were linked posed a lot of challenge to my learners. Many of materials were not ‘digestible’ to them. I think I have to rework and customize the reading texts to make them comprehensible. The learners found tasks interesting as there is an option to check their answer. They were happy when they got immediate feedback from the computers. What I realised is the need of introducing more interesting activities and less theories and definitions!

Thank you

Best wishes

Sujith