Reflection and feedback

As students have worked with a partner to look through each character's project, they have been asked to reflect on the content of the project (using the task sheets) and also on their own progress and that of their partner, in using the learning object (self- and peer-assessment).

The learning object is designed to allow students to add some comments about the character's project or to upload their own work on a similar topic. Unfortunately students cannot save their work in position in the learning object, so any work that they add should be printed as a record.

 You may wish to direct students to use the + button to:

• add their own comments about the character's project in either English or Indonesian, depending on their level of experience with the language. (Remember that in a real-life collaborative web project, it is likely that each class will do some work in their own language and some in the target language.)

• add a project of their own about the same topic.

Reflecting on the language used in each project:
For each project, give students a copy of that script (with or without the English to support them) and have them work in pairs to 'deconstruct' the language used. You may challenge them to:

• find all the examples of particular parts of speech used eg verbs, pronouns, conjunctions

• find related words - and explain why they are related (they may have the same base word, or the same suffix or prefix, or they may all be descriptive words, or ...)

• find imperative language - the words used to tell people what to do (e.g. 'Look at ...')

• look for words with contractions and explain what other ways those could be written (eg proyekmu = proyek kamu)

• list five new words and work out some strategies for learning those.

Commenting on the character's project:
Discuss with students the appropriate language for commenting on the work of other students. Is it culturally inappropriate to write anything negative or critical, for example, in both Indonesia and Australia, in a collaborative web project situation?
Ask students to suggest some likely feedback phrases in English and support them in writing and saying those in Indonesian. Some examples are available here in Word or PDF.

Adding an Australian version of a project:
The initial task sheet for each character's project prompts students to think about what they could include in each section of their project. However it is likely that students would need to prepare their own project away from the learning object - researching on the Internet, taking / finding suitable photos and preparing the graph - adding Indonesian to each section of course.

Instructions on how to upload students' work into each section of the project format are given in the Extension activities section.

See the Assessment section for assessment of student' own projects.