Hi everyone!
After choosing the web tool we were going to work with, it was time to get to know it better and try to use it and discover how it could help me as a teacher and how it could be useful to my students.
As Rita said before, it can be a very useful tool for teachers, because we can create worksheets very quickly and with resources that can serve as guidelines to our students.
Since Rita aimed her work at her 8th and 9th graders, I decided to create some material for my 5th graders. Of course they don't have the same language proficiency as older students, so I had to create much simpler content.
Here are two examples of the worksheets I've created for them:
parts of the body and United Kingdom
The first one can be used as a homework (sometimes we don't have enough time to get everything done in class) and the second one is an example of a research work that students can accomplish in a more autonomous way.
In my opinion, this web tool can be very interesting, because teachers can produce materials and immedialty publish it online so that students can access. That way, work can be done outside the class, in a way that makes students more conscious of what they have to do to accomplish the tasks they are given.
These worksheets include links which are important guidelines and sources that students can use to solve the exercises/ tasks.
I also think that my 5th graders, because they are not as proficient and autonomous as older students, may find this tool a bit more difficult, but I think that can be solved if I explain them what they have to do very carefully and if the content of the worksheets is very simple. Not all of my students can access the Internet at home, so that could also be a difficulty, but overall I'm quite pleased with this tool. :)
Carla Silva
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