(Picture 1)
From picture 1, we can see that teacher can creat their owen room online and decide keep this room for how long time.
(Picture 2)
From picture 2, we can see that after teacher creat an online room, teacher can give the link of this room to students and then students can join this room and express their opinion online, other students and teacher can see their opinions. while students can use other name (e.g. English name, nick name, etc.) instead of their true name to join this room.
(Picture 3)
From picture 3, we can see that this website or this online room is easy to use. Students just need to write their opinions or answers and then click 'say' and then other people can see what they say.
Advantages：
1. Obviously, this website can create a online room for students to share and express their opinions and at the same time teachers can collect students' opinions.
2. This online room can give a way for shy students to express their opinions. In China, most students are shy and do not like speaking in the class, this online room can let them speak out their opinions more freely.
3. Many students like learning through computers, thus to acertain extent this online room can motivate students. And this is new for Chinese students, students always like new things and interesting things, especially new technology or interesting website.
4. Also this online room can store information. After collecting students' opinions or answers, teacher can store these information in his/her computer and his/her can analyse these opinions or answers after they go home.
5. Students can practise their writing skill by using this online room, since they need to consider grammar, spelling of vocabulary, completence of sentence and so on when they type their opinions or answers in English in this online room.
How to use (in class):
1. Teacher can use this online room to practise students. For example, if today we learn past tense, teacher can use this online room to let every student write a sentence using past tense or change present tense into past tense.
2. This online room can be used to find mistakes. For example, teacher send a reading material to students, let them find mistakes in this reading material and write these mistakes in this online room and teacher can collect answers easily.
How to use (outside class):
1. Teacher can leave some homework for students and collect the answer in this online room and ask every student join this room by using their true name.
2. Teacher can collect students' opinions about the hard extendof one text or a exam and which part or which question should be explained carefully.
3. Teacher can use this online room to collect students' opinion about teaching strategies.
Limitations:
It cannot be denied that todays meet is a very useful link for students to express their opinion. However, if we want to use this link in the language learning classes in China, there will be some limitations as listed below:
1. It is diffcult to ensure that every student can have a computer, an ipad or a smartphone. In China, government provides computers to many schools, but in other words, every classroom only has one computer for teacher to use. While in few schools, they have computer rooms, however, their computer rooms are always used by many students, thus every student only has few time to use computer, maybe they can use computer only once a week.
2. If teacher uses computer room, students will play computer games rather than listen other student's opinion. Because teacher does not control their computers. Computer games are always more attractive than this online room or teacher's questions, thus students will answer without thinking carefully and be perfunctory to teacher's questions or tasks.
3. Teacher cannot response students in time. This website provide teacher a online room for students to express their opinion, teacher can collect students' opinions and read these opinions after class. However, teacher cannot response students in time.
4. I cannot sure that this website can be used in China, since the Chinese government limit many websites and Chinese people can connect to these websites, such as, facebook, twitter and so on. Therefore, I cannot sure that we can use this online room in China.
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