Wicked Project-Part C

My Script

After I told my students that they were going to post their writing on Edmodo and comment on each other’s writing, they were very excited. One reason is because that they get to type Chinese characters, which they think is cool; the other reason is that they love to show one another what they can do with this language and learn from each other.While I was doing my wicked project, what surprised me was how well students have done in writing and character typing. We had an easy time installing the Character typing tool on their computers.

So I created a post on Edmodo, and ask students to post a story about their favorite animal. Later on while I was reading their posts, I had so much fun. My students did a much better job than I expected. I all put lots of efforts in organizing their writing and selecting great sentence structures and made their writing interesting. Some students even used first person’s view to write a riddle about an animal.

While I was designing this activity, I planned to let my students comment on 3 other students. However, I have 16 students, if they all respond to 3 others, the posts might be too long. So I decided to let students comment on 1 other classmate using our clock partner chart. These two students will be editing peers.

In order to evaluate, I would ask them to write what they like about their peer’s writing, what mistakes. Also, they need to contribute at least three more sentences to make their peer’s writing look better.

When they are finished, I will create an assignment box on Edmodo. Each students need to upload their final writing. They need to post their original writing and the final writing both in the same document.