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FAMOUS PEOPLE

Como inicio de la actividad vas a leer un cuestionario para completar y después poder elaborar una línea del tiempo y resumir la vida de la Princesa Diana.

Para contestar las preguntas consulta las páginas de internet señaladas y lee la biografía de la Princesa. Te recomiendo ir seleccionando y guardando la información que consideres importante para después releerla y aparte de contestar el cuestionario, escribir en la siguiente sesión una línea del tiempo o mini-biografía. Con esta actividad estarás repasando los verbos en pasado.

Al terminar el cuestionario aplica la rúbrica que se encuentra inmediatamente.

PRINCESS DIANA

ACTIVITY 1. Instructions:

Read the questionnaire first and then check the next web pages about Princess Diana:

- http://www.biography.com/deathiversary/princess_diana/princess_diana.jsp

- http://www.biographyonline.net/people/biography_princess_diana.html

- http://www.princess-diana.com/diana/biography.htm

After checking the information answer the following questionnaire:

1. Where was Princess Diana born?
2. What was her real name?
3. Who were her parents?
4. What was her occupation before her marriage?
5. Who did she get married to?
6. When did she get married?
7. How old was she when she got married?
8. When was her first child born?
9. What was his name?
10. When was her second child born?
11. What was his name?
12. When did she get divorced?
13. When did she die?

NOTE: You can copy the questions and paste them in a Word page to facilitate your answers.

ACTIVITY 1. RUBRIC FOR SELF-EVALUATION.

POINTS: _____________

4 points - If you answer correctly all the questions.
3 points - If you answer correctly 8, 9 questions.
2 points - If you answer correctly 6, 7 questions.
1 point - If you answer correctly 3, 4, 5 questions.
0 points - If you answer correctly 0, 1, 2 questions.

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SELF-EVALUATION

What I consider my main achievement is the discovery of a variety of tools and sites, all of them with multiple ideas to help teachers and students. And the best thing is that through all these digital and media tools they can be very creative and evidence their own learning. With the blogs and wikis they can prove their ability to speak, listen, read, write and be proud of it. They are free to revise and correct any time they wish. So I thank Maria Elena Delgado for opening this box of surprises. I HAVE A LOT TO LEARN.

PORTFOLIO ASESSMENT

I think a blog and also a wiki can be used as excellent tools to implement Portfolio Asessment. A good example is this course: we can evaluate our own and our peers blogs, and revise the blogs whenever, wherever on line and as many times as we wish.

A portfolio is a digital tool where students can collect and then revise their best works. It measures and provides evidence of the individual works and document learning by focusing on product and process, where they incorporate and use the 4 language skills.

There are some advantages of a portfolio assessment vs traditional forms, for example: the portfolio measures student's ability over time and captures many facets of language learning performance; the assessment is embedded in instruction and involves student’s own assessment; students learn how to take responsibility, and it’s done by teacher and student, so they are aware of criteria. AND I AM SURE LEARNERS FEEL THEY ARE USING LANGUAGE.

For teachers who are not familiar with portfolios the suggestion is to have students collect everything they do in a folder. Later, they work on portfolios revising, adding self-assessments, annotating and organizing. If it is in the computer, it’s easier, because the students work on their portfolios at any time. At the end, they will have learned how to set goals by themselves.