Concepts and Practices for Teaching ESOL
Michael Krauss, Lewis & Clark College
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Michael Krauss, Lewis & Clark College
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and Answer Center
Michael Krauss, Lewis & Clark College
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and Answer Center
The following is a list of answers to questions submitted by those who have taken this workshop. Perhaps you'll find the answer to your question here.
Question-submitted: The next time I teach the highest level reading class, I'll develop an activity that makes the students evaluate websites. I think this is critical before students move on into mainstream courses. They use the Internet for everything now even though we try to get them to use other resources (magazines online indexes, etc.). Just plug in some key words on a search engine and take whatever comes up highest on the list seems to be the motto. Does anyone know of some good techniques, exercises for evaluating websites?
Answer: John is interested in Web site
evaluation--teaching students to learn how to select high quality
sites. Here are some resources you might find useful, both for
yourselves and for use with students. My approach is to show students
guidelines for evaluating Web sites and then look at several pages
with the students to help them apply the guidelines. After practicing
with a teacher, hopefully students will apply what they have learned
when they are searching the Net on their own. Anyone else like to
chime in here with ideas?
http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/usia/syllabus2.html#day3
Just this week, Randall Davis of Randall's
Listening Lab posted a very interesting listening activity based on
the recent partial solar eclipse, which occurred on Christmas day. As
a post-listening activity, Randall gives students an assignment that
includes evaluation of Web sites. You may find that interesting for
your upper level students. There is also valuable information there
on web site design, for those of you who are into that.
http://www.esl-lab.com/sun/sunrd1.htm
Hope this gives John and others a starting point for Web evaluation.
Regards,
Michael