using websites

English Information Technology

Using Websites

Achmad BadawiAmikrotul ChasanahAuliaur Rosyidah

Using Websites in the classroom

ELT or Authentic Websites?

How to find useful websites

Web teaching dos and don’ts

Working with lower levels of language

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Planning lessons using the internet

How to evaluate websites






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- Kinds of webs:

- Websites as the sources of learning- The way to prepare your class web-

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- The ways to use web pages in classroom.

Work as a team with other teachers

1. As printed pages, with no computers

2. With one computer with an internet connection

3. In a computer lab with a set of networked and connected computers

1. Authentic sites2. ELT-specific sites

ELT- Web Authentic Web

- Guides the learners through not only the text, but also the layout, and navigation problems.

- Provide valuable opportunities for more controlled language work.

- Brushes up on certain aspects of the language.

- Poses the level and challenges.

- Keep motivation high in your electronic classroom.

- Provides an ideal opportunity to work trough the issues of “total comprehension”

Your choice of web design will depend largely on what you want to achieve.






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- The most useful and underrated skill that teacher and student can acquire is the ability to search through internet content, and quickly and efficiently find suitable resources.

- For teachers, having good search skills means finding useful resources quickly, speeding up lesson planning and facilitating web use in class.

- For learners, it means being able to quickly accomplish web-based tasks.

- Three basic ways of searching on the internet:

1. Search engine2. Subject guides3. Real language

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- Search engine is like telephone directory.

- To find the information you want, you must go from knowing what kind of information Google actually has on the web, those are:

- The other technique which is useful is to use ‘phrase’ search technique which involves wrapping part of a phrase in inverted commas, thus ensuring that Google will treat the words not as individual entities, but will actually look for sentences on web pages which contain those words in that particular order.

1. Search engine

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1. Page address on the web2. The page title3. When it was last updated4. Few keywords associated with it.






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- If Google is like telephone directory, Yahoo! would be like library.

- It divides its content into subjects area; and subdivisions of those areas.

2. Subject guides

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- RLS such as Ask (www.ask.com) allows the user to type simple questions as search queries.

- The website does not really understand the question itself, but rather selects the keywords from the query.

- A search on Ask should give you a result page with the answer of your question at the top, and links to relevant sites below that.

3. Real language searches

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Whenever you visit a search engine, be sure to click on the help link to see what hints and

tips the site owners recommend.

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There are various standard criteria for judging websites:1. Accuracy

2. Currency

3. Content

4. Functionality

1. Who wrote the page?2. Is the page content reliable

and correct?

1. Is the content up-to-date?2. When was the page last

updated?

1. Is the site interesting and stimulating?

2. Is it attractive and easy to navigate?

1. Does it work well? Are there broken links?

2. Does it use a lot of large files or not?






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Steps to plan lessons using the internet

1. Visit the websites you intend to use and make sure you know your way around them properly. Try to use sites which appear to have a potentially long ‘shelf life’.

2. Make a note of the particular pages you want your learners to work on.

Web-based session stages:

3. Warmer: things we do as a matter of course with introductory activities, interest-generating ideas, and so on.

4. Web section: the main activities of learning fro internet.

5. What next: free acts.






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- It is possible to work with lower levels, and the choice of websites will be also far more limited than the higher levels.

- Websites being appropriate for lower levels:Websites with simple, clearly presented text.

Websites with non-linguistic data which is easy to interpret.

ELT websites, where the content has been written, edited, and prepared with this audience.






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1. Providing your learners with knowledge and content which they do not know will motivate them to lead to more language production.

2. Do not discount simple text-based websites which might be very beneficial in your own context.

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