Tuesday, 15 April 2014

The role of WebQuests in learning a foreign language

A WebQuset is an inquiry oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the internet . A WebQuest helps learners to focus on using information rather than looking for it and to support learners thinking at the level of analysis ,synthesis ,and evaluation. there are six parts of WebQuest. The Introduction ( is a means of providing the students with background information), Task ( description of what the learner will have done at the end ), Process (the teacher makes suggestions regarding the steps of discovery), Resources (pre-selected web pages the teacher has located to help the learners), Evaluation ( effectiveness of the WebQuest ) , and Conclusion. Teacher must analyze the needs of the students who will  be interacting with the WebQuset , and provide them with multiple levels of support within a lesson.

Finally, as a teacher I will use WebQuset in classroom. WebQuset will help my students to increase competency in the use of technology and to foster cooperative learning. I think it is a good tool to motivate students to learn more broadly.   

Saturday, 5 April 2014

Evaluation

 Lanternfish ESL purpose is to bring printable quality resources to teachers and parents.
This website include Jobs, Worksheets, and Flashcards for the ESL and TEFL Teacher. It represents like word skills game, reading puzzle packet, alphabet worksheet and spring worksheets. The website include Microsoft word. And yes it is effective to both teachers and students. The website is interesting by providing songs, worksheets, creative writing, crosswords and flash cards. The website is helpful and useful for improve speaking, writing, reading, and writing. The website is difficult to use because it's not organaized. The font text's is differ and not spaced properatialy. The topics and links are confusing and not appear well to students and teachers. There is much of advertisements that make you annoying and not focused to what you want. The website is includes much of practices and worksheets but the problem is thatthat it's notnot organised properly well for learners. Absolutely, the website is going to be good whenwhen the information got organised well.


The Site was created by several contributors are Chris Gunn who is a web and materials designer , Stephen Gordon who is an editor and content creator specialized in business English resource materials , Cam lirette; an editor and content creator currently teaching at a university in Korea, Thomas lavelle; a writer and content director currently teaching at a niversity in the United States. This sites does not offer any sources about the information, only put { gunnchris  (   AT   ) bogglesworldesl.com} For questions about Web Site. any information collected on this site by Lanternfish ESL is of a non-personal nature.  Boggle'sWorld does not store or keep personal information on record but does keep aggregate numbers on the number of visitors, method of arriving at bogglesworldesl.com, location by region, servers, monitor type and operating systems. To use some sections of the discussion forum, however, users may be required to provide some personal information as listed in the profile below. The information collected in registration will not be used for any purposes other than administering the board and will never be given or sold to third parties under any circumstance. However, there is always a security risk from criminal parties hacking into the MY SQL database that we use.
The information and designs of website are not clear and confused for learners. It is difficult to use because if you want to search for something on the site, you will not find a research bar. The font of texts are different and the graphics are not distracting. The website shape's looked like an old fashioned.
The topics and links are confusing to learners because it have the same color. The website is not require any plog-ins and it is easy to load without any problems and users doesn't need to pay a fee or type in personal information before using the site. 

Website's  Title not appropriate with its purpose. The content of The site difficult for reader specially children . Lanternfish contains great number of information in different areas. The information usually update but some topic not. Graphics on the site are appropriate to the content. Some subjects do not meet the needs of ESL, because it dependent to other language. The skills required to use the sites are easy and appropriately challenging for its intended audience.