Evaluating Websites

 

The website we decided to choose is Wacky Web Tales and the URL: http://www.eduplace.com/tales/ This website is for kids who are in the third grade and above! Each of the many tales offered let you fill in blanks to help create the story plot.

The purpose: The purpose of this website is educational, and to provide tales for kids in order to make them learn new vocabulary and listening to these words and try pronounce it in different ways and what kids prefer it. This website can keep kids entertained for hours.

         Clarity: The website is very clear and somewhat colorful and visually appealing.  The tales are written in a clear way. The page and the links are well organized and there are many pictures. There is no spelling, grammatical or word-usage mistakes.

Accessibility: The website is open, free to use, and everyone can access.

Goals : The website goals is to teach children a new vocabulary and learn in funny way. and it is really effective and useful especially for those who are 3 years and above.
 Information and resources the site provide :

•  The information is objective.

• The site provides thorough coverage of the topic.

• The information on the site well written and there is no misspelling or grammatical error.

•  The site provide a works cited page.

• The site include multimedia elements that help explain the topic.

Navigation :

•  the site  is organized but not clear to those how use it for the first time.

•  the design suit the purpose

•  No ads that might distract me

•  the site does not take a long time to load

•  the site does not  indicate when it was first created and last updated

• the links work, and do not lead to error messages, such as “Page Not Found” 

•  the extension in the URL is  eduplace.com/tales/

•   the extension tell me about the source of the site

•  most of the resources on this site meet all my needs

• this Web site has a variable tales and offer it in a good ways for this  , it considers as a better research source than some of the other sites I've already visited.

Name of the group: Rise in Glory

 

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How would English language teachers use blogs, wikis and delicious with their students?

 

 

Blog , wikis and delicious are social networking web-sites.  wikis and delicious have a similar properties. blog is a little bit different. teachers can benefit from it by give students writing activity and ask them to write a lot. so, it will help them to develop their witing skill. wikis and delicious are useful in sharing several links , short video, and photos.

The Possiblity of Reaching Bax’s Normilasation in our national context: Why is it possible?When is it possible/reached/achieved?How will it be reached?

Bax argues that, "Our aim should be to attain a state of `normalisation' in which the technology is invisible and truly integrated"

-          Normalisation to be achieved, Stephan Bax suggests that we must begin using technology in every things in our life as something normal. We must use it without fear and change our habits in order to be used it normally.

-            In country like KSA , which young people are representing 60% of the population , normalisation is not impossible task but it will take time to be achieved.

-          Normalisation is possible because most of the  new generation like to use technology.

-          It will not take a lot of time to be achieved especially in countries  that have a large number of young people.

-          It will be reached if we used computers in classroom context to make learning easy.

-         Teach students to use communication websites as twitter and face book.

-         Provide schools and universities with equipments like, smart board, progector, and laptop.

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