I know.... I promised
(mostly to myself, but also to my all-of-two followers, that I would make an
effort to post more regularly. Well... no more promises. I'll post when I can,
or, more accurately, only when I have something to say. Maybe if I have less to
live up to, I will manage to do so :-)
Anyway,
I am really excited about an experiment on which I am embarking this year with
my 10th graders. In my school (Nofei Habsor) we do the Bagrut Research (aka:
NBA... but it's not really new any more) Project in the 10th grade. I have done
lots of projects in the past, and always get a few kids who lose them by the
time we get to the oral bagrut in the 12th grade. Since our school
is highly technological, and all of the kids who are in the 10th
grade today got laptops when they came into school in the 7th grade,
I decided to embark on a paperless-project experiment! Most (but not all) of
the work will be done online! I have prepared a template for it in Googlesites,
and plan to teach my students to make their own project website. They will be
working in pairs, as we always do for the project. Each of their sites will be
visible to the others, when they are completed.
Not EVERYTHING will be
online. I still want to see drafts and they will still need to write some
things by hand. But I am hoping that there will no longer be a problem with
misplaced or lost projects! (And, hopefully, they will learn a lot about
Google-stuff on the way!)
I will keep you posted
here! (Promise? ;0)
