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Sara's Reflections
Objectives
Reflecting on the multicultural
project, I see that we accomplished most of the initial objectives.
Students were successful in comparing and contrasting the ideas
within the literary texts we read. They were also successful in
creating responses to literary texts through a variety of methods.
The students did a great job using grammatical conventions of written
Standard American English. More editing and revising is needed on some
pieces, but we simply ran out of time. While the documentation
isn’t necessarily obvious on the website, students did reference lists.
This is one of the revisions that will need to be done in the future to
finish the project. Students used a variety of print and
electronic materials. I was very happy to see the wide selection of
materials they found on the authors they were researching.
To
Do
We still need to
work on completion of the websites to share their
projects with a wider audience. Because many of my
students do not have internet at home (and some
don’t even have computers), most of the work had to
be done at school during class time. Frequently we
had trouble getting enough working computers.
Publishing their findings on a webpage has been very
difficult for some students and most did not finish.
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Morrison's 2008 Africa Website (PDF)
Next Time
Next time I will probably spend more time
demonstrating how to design the webpage. I assumed
that my students knew how to do this because they
had done it last year. However, most did not. A
few students were willing to help others and
demonstrate for them and made more time for me to
get around to more students. However, as shown in
some of the student reflections, several were
frustrated by the work and wanted and needed more
help. I might also talk about a few basic
rules of layout to make their WebPages more
professional and creative.
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