Ending our blended learning course with a final Project.

Trying to make final projects meaningful.

The students I work with are college level students and as part of the final evaluation process, students have to give a final presentation to their classmates at the end of the course.  This  final work applies to the blended-learning English course students too.  For this  final project, which must last no more that 8 minutes and not less than five, students get to choose a topic and work on it applying  at least  80% of the content seen  in the course.   The teacher can gives suggestions on the kind of topics, work with colleagues to establish guide lines,  and takes students suggestion into account.

From passive  audience to active audience.

Final presentation projects area a good opportunity to promote audience participation. For a while, I have been asking audience to ask questions to the presenter after the presentation. It is the audience who should be evaluated on how logic and coherent are their questions.  The audience can use their notebook to aid their participation. Presenters should answer at least three questions.  Audience can be very productive. At the end everybody participates, asking and answering questions, and listening to such interaction,