Portfolio New Media 2011

Redesign an old worksheet

Pupils are always board when they get a new worksheet. They know that they have to invest time to fill out the worksheet and most of them do not want to do it. That is because it is difficult for you as a teacher to get your students motivated for doing a worksheet. You know that it is very important for them to do worksheets, because they learn a lot. But they mostly do not care about it and are not of the opinion that worksheets are a good preparation for tests for example. They just do not want to spend their time on doing worksheets.
The only thing you -as a teacher- can do is to create interesting, colourful, nice looking and even funny ones to get your students motivated for doing worksheets.
Here is one example how you can improve and structure a worksheet so that it is more interesting for the students.



This one is the old worksheet:
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Look now, how easy it is to redesign it with the tool Microsoft Word. It does not take so much time, but the students will have a more positive attitude towards. Just try it!
shakespeare.docx
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