Transcript Chapter 3 Using Websites (in the book How to teach English with

Chapter 3
Using Websites
(in the book How to teach English with technology )
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Using websites in the classroom
ELT websites or authentic websites
Finding useful websites
Evaluating websites
Lesson planning
Working with lower levels of language
proficiency
Web teaching dos and don’ts
1. Using websites in the classroom
1. One of the easiest and least stressful ways of getting started with
technology.
2. A window on the wider world.
WWW  Wow, Wow, Wow What is it?  What is a beautiful world
it is.  What a wild life (with a virus) it is. World Wide Web
3. Bountiful and available t-and-l resources
4. Various Ways to use webpages:
webpage printout with no computers, internet, intranet.
5. Using or not Using websites in the classroom – Exploring the
reasons
Using or not Using websites in the
classroom – Exploring the reasons
Using websites
Not Using websites
Because:
a, b, c, . . .
Because:
h, i. j. . . .
2. ELT websites or authentic
websites
ELT websites
authentic
websites
Benefits
In accordance with
students’ needs or
interests
Related to many
people’s daily life
experiences,
interesting and
bountiful
Limitations
Limited topics or
content
Not in accordance
with students’ needs
or interests
examples
Online translators:
Writing Lesson for
Business English
Online encyclopedias
http://esl.about.com/library/weekly/aa080200a.htm
http://academics.smcvt.edu/cbauerramazani/gsl520_online/students/endang_species/e
ncarta_lesson_fullscreen.htm
3. Finding useful websites –
Four ways of searching on the Internet
1. Search engines
e.g. Google search (by phrase)
(ex. Baracelona olympics marathon)
2. Subject guides
e.g. Yahoo search (by subject)
(ex. □1. a phone number in New York
□2. the latest Pulitzer prize winner for music
□3. basic first aid procedures for choking
□4. intellectual copyright law
reference
3. Real language Searches
e.g. Ask (www.ask.com)
capital of Scotland => What is the capital of Scotland?
government
4. Meta Search
e.g. Youtube,
blinkx TV video Search
Real language Searches –
Sample Treasure Hunt
Use your search skills to find some
information on p. 32 of the textbook
4. Evaluating websites –
Criteria for judging websites
1. Accuracy
5-WH q’s, reliable or reliable?
2. Currency
content up-to-date?
date of updated
3. Content
interesting? Attractive? Easy to navigate?
4. Functionality
work well? Any broken links? Use large files or
alternative technologies?
5. Lesson planning
Three stages: WWW
1.Warmer
2.Web
3.What next
Lesson planning –
Sample: Movie Stars
• Three stages: WWW (p.38-39)
– 1.Warmer
– 2.Web
– 3.What next
6. Working with lower levels of
language proficiency
1) Borrowed words
2) Warmer
3) Web
7. Web teaching dos and don’ts
• Use your search skills to find some
information on p. 41 of the textbook
Discussions
• 1. Considered how to evaluate a website
for classroom use.
• 2. Provided a list of Internet teaching dos
and do’nts.