Transcript “What a site!”

“What a site!”
Contributed by
Suzan Moody and Lorit Sandholdt
to
New Ways of Using Computers in
LanguageTeaching
Edited by Tim Boswood
A presentation by
Masaharu Kariya and Paul Seefeldt
Overview of Lessons
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Level: Intermediate +
Aims:-Evaluate WWW sites as resources for research.
-Search for information on the WWW.
Class Time: 60 minutes over 3 sessions.
Preparation Time: 60 minutes.
Resources: -Computer with graphical browser for each student.
-Internet access.
-Hypertext authoring software (optional).
-Projection system (optional).
Rationale for lesson: This activity helps students apply library
research skills to research using the Internet by helping them to
generate topics and to judge the usefulness of WWW sites as
resources.
Session #1
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Review research process, generate broad research topics.
Divide class into groups and have students generate sub-topics.
Generate a list of Web resources by using web search engines
(like Yahoo, Webcrawler, Lycos, etc.).
Make a worksheet to evaluate sites (include name of site, URL,
appropriateness, criteria on which judgement is based.
Generation of topics
Environment
The Economy
Natural
resources
Pollution
Politics
Website Evaluation Worksheet
Name of site
URLL
Appropriateness
Criteria
Session #2
Review
use of graphical browser with
students.
Handout worksheet and demonstrate its
use by looking at and evaluating a few
sites together with students.
Have students fill in rest of worksheets
and prepare to discuss answers.
Session #3
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Discuss student answers as a class.
List criteria used to judge sites on
blackboard.
Remind students that different research
topics lead to different resources on web.
Stress that students should analyze the sites’
appropriateness for particular research
project.