WEB SITE EVALUATION SHEET

APPLY TECHNOLOGY

1. Name of the site visited.

2. Web address.

3. Types of site:

· Teacher resource P

· On­-line instruction P

· News or information P

· Chat -roomP

· Games or simulations X

· List service P

· Others P

4. Detail description of site; that is, what information does it contain? And what types of activities are available?

5. What is the best thing about this site?

6. What is the greatest shortcoming of this site?

7. How could you use this web site with an English class?

8. Which skills could be the most reinforced through this site?

9. On a scale of one to five, how would you rate this site?

One = least favourable, five = most favourable.

ANSWERS

1. Dave`s ESL café (English Second Language ).

2. www.eslcafe.com.

3. This is an interesting Informational Web site whose purpose is to present factual information. It can be used for creating dynamic learning communities to supplement the face-to-face classroom or as a platform for distance education classes. Academic professional organizations benefit from its interactive features and the ability to provide public content, member-only resources, and member subscription management.

4. This web-site contains different but meaningful information which help our needs as students, such as: grammar activities, (idioms, phrasal verbs) help center, quizzes, student forum and slang. All of them are available but there are others like chat central, book stores etc.

5. The best thing about this site is the opportunity that this one gives to those students who don’t know how to use a complicated software or web-site, also it has all the skills that people want to learn and understand about a second language in order to improve and also increase their knowledge.

6. We think the greatest shortcoming that comes from this web-site involves the problem which students of a high level could present at the moment of developing their own knowledge in it, because it seems it was made for beginners.

7. We think we can use this web-site as a model to make students sure it is no longer the way they can get the second language as easy as they hadn`t thought before. The guide will be developed as it follows: first of all, teaching students new words, sentences` structures and how to apply all the English rules. Secondly, evaluating them with quizzes, also asking them for vocabulary including its pronunciation and finally make them to put the hole knowledge into practice.

8. We think the most reinforced skill could be the speaking one because as you know, languages are made to communicate, thus students would communicate with other people and also have the experience to communicate with native speakers.

9. We would rate it with a four score.

WEB SITE EVALUATION SHEET

APPLY TECHNOLOGY

ELIUD

JOSE ARROYO

LINA ARRIETA

CESAR PATERNINA

ENGLISH V –A

UNIVERSITY OF CORDOBA

MONTERIA-2007

AGREE OR DISAGREE ACTIVITY

First of all, i agree with ¨agree or disagree¨ activity because it is a goodway to make students interact in the classroom bygiving their answers in the speaking form.

As students have to speak, the teacher or their own partners can correct them by supporting them to give a clear message or even in the pronounciation of some words.

Students can compare their feelings in order to allow the teacher to know what they believe or think about the questions that are given to them.

For this reason, students cancompare and also argue their ideas but in an interactive way.Also teachers can interact by being asked by his/her students or by asking students what comes into their minds in order to answer the given questions.

Finally, students can be given some advices if they are wrong,that is, when students answer in an illogical way, their ideas can be corrected by arguing with al the classroom.

I would apply this activity in the educational context in order to let students to express their thoughts using their previous knowledgeand also to develop their learning styles.

I would apply this acticiy in a medium level because they already have the fluency in order to speak and also because i could work in a comfortable way

How technology is important in the educational context

The Internet is a complex repository containing a huge maze of information from a variety of sources. It has become a prominent source of information for many people worldwide. The Internet wave has also hit the educational landscape in many big ways. The use of technologies such as the Internet as a teaching tool in schools is not the issue now since it is pervasively used. Rather, the issue is how to effectively employ such technologies and harness fully the new opportunities created by them to promote positive student learning experiences.

Schools need to consider how technology-based instructional programs are mounted to ensure that students use the Internet efficaciously as a learning tool for various authentic learning activities such as conducting research on a given topic or finding relevant information for an assignment. Bruce and Levin (1997) posit that the Internet can be viewed as providing the following three basic types of tools in the educational domain:

· Tools for inquiry
· Tools for communication
· Tools for construction

In conclusion, the Internet has been beneficial in the educational domain as a repository of gargantuan amounts of rich information. However schools, educational policy makers, and instructional/curriculum designers who intend to employ the Internet as a learning tool in their instructional programs must bear in mind and highlight to students the fact that just not any piece of information found on the net can be accepted as being authentic.