Talk:Michelle's Portfolio

Instructor comments on your needs assessment and objectives -- Jz833665 21:26, 17 October 2010 (EDT)

Great to see your pages up. Please email me when your portfolio page is ready for me to read and comment on. --Jianwei

-- Sue Rappazzo 20:52, 25 November 2010 (EST)

Ni hao! I reviewed module 1 and was confused because I could not find the objectives. I also thought an introduction to what I was learning would have been helpful. Perhaps discuss the pinyin and characters and why you use the pinyin. The lessons seemed well organized. Will you use any media to help with pronunciation? Unless I was already exposed to Chinese, I would not be able to pronounce it even using the pinyin. You could use something like voicethread to add to the learning by pronouncing the words. There may also be some YouTube videos to help with basic converstation. I look forward to viewing this again. It will help me brush up on my Chinese!

Instructor comments on your portfolio and draft unit -- Jianwei Zhang 21:51, 28 November 2010 (EST)

Great to see the initial lesson created. You might be working on these now; there are many instructional design elements that need to be added such as unit objectives.

Your course-level objectives state:

Manage basic situational conversations.
Master basic thematic vocabulary.
Master basic grammatical structures.
Be familiar with the most common Chinese cultural concepts.  

How many conversational situations/grammatical structures/words/cultural concepts will you address? I do NOT think it is necessary to create an ambitious course to address these all in order to meet the requirement of this course. Even just handle well the first objective will be adequate.

You are creating an instructional case report for this design project. Do you have a core teaching strategy to want to demonstrate in these lessons, such as authentic language learning? whole language? Please read the following instruction re. instructional case report. General_Suggestions_and_Feedback#What_issues_should_be_addressed_in_an_instructional_case_report

There are three things you need to add:

  1. In your portfolio before the lessons, you need to add a summary of your design rationale to lay out your major thinking implemented in the lessons.
  2. In the beginning of each lesson, add the corresponding unit-level objectives.
  3. In the end of your portfolio, add a reflection paragraph to synthesize your success/failure and what are the things other teachers may learn from this case.