tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74036122867342498542024-02-19T00:48:36.751-08:00ICT in WarwickMichellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13229422345452441388noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7403612286734249854.post-21856755485301326752012-03-09T14:47:00.001-08:002012-03-22T15:20:23.978-07:00Smartboard<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Smartboard
is not a website; it is a system and machine that teachers can use this machine
to motivate students. This machine is similar to whiteboard, but this machine is
smarter than whiteboard. It has more functions than whiteboard. It not only can
be used as a whiteboard, but also can be used as an online classroom.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">How to use:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Smartboard
can be used as whiteboard or blackboard, but what teachers write on this board
can be saved in the computer. Thus teachers can save what they write (note of
this lesson) in class and post this note to their blogs and students can
download or review these notes. In this way, students do not need to make any
notes in class. They can only concentrate on what teacher is talking about.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Smartboard
can provide teachers to make some tasks with clues. Teachers can use these
tasks to motivate students to learn new words. Teachers can provide the Chinese
meaning of the new words for Chinese students, and let students write down the
word, and check whether they write the right words or not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Teachers
also can find many funny pictures in smartboard. Some pictures can be used to
teach children English, but some pictures can be used for students to make a
presentation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Smartboard
provides a pen, called ‘magic pen’. If teachers draw a square, the part in this
square will be magnified. If teachers draw a circle, the part out of this
circle will be dark, and the part in this circle will be stressed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Advantages:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">It can
save the pages that teachers used in class. In this way, students can review
the notes anytime. It will save students’ time to make notes in class, and they
do not need to focus on the notes rather than the teachers’ explanations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Teachers
can use this to motivate students to make presentations in public. Since this
system only can be used by one person every time. Thus teachers can ask student
to prepare a presentation before class and show their presentation in the
entire class.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Disadvantages:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">I admit
that sometimes this system is good, but this system makes some simple questions
into complex. For example, this system provides teachers to make their own
task, such as making sentence with disordered words. While most teachers refer
to give students some papers with different words and let them make these words
into a sentence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">This system
can be used by one person every time. Thus teachers cannot let students to work
in pairs or work in groups. Or this system only be used by teacher, it will be
same with a projector.<o:p></o:p></span></div>Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13229422345452441388noreply@blogger.com0考文垂西米德兰兹郡(大不列颠)联合王国52.406822 -1.51969352.329328 -1.6776214999999999 52.484316 -1.3617645tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7403612286734249854.post-66145448203202098702012-03-05T12:35:00.001-08:002012-03-05T13:45:29.180-08:00Hot Potato<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hot potato is a software
that teachers can use this to design their own tasks (e.g. cloze, cross, sentences-making ,
matching, etc.) for students. This software is free to download and use. It is
sweet that this software provides a tutorial for the beginners to learn how to
use this software, since this software includes many kinds of ways to design
tasks. After teachers finishing their tasks, they can put these tasks on the
website, and then ask students to do these tasks online. In this way, students can
be interested in learning English.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>How to use:<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">1.</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Teachers
can use JMatch to design a match for students. Students need to match synonyms
and in this way, students will get many synonyms and understand a new word
deeply.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">2.</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Teachers
can use JMix to make a Jumbled-Sentence. Teachers need to type the whole sentence
in this software, and then put the words in wrong orders. In this way, teachers
can practice students’ writing skills, and let students know the sentence
structure. This task will more suitable for teachers to teach sentence structure.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">3.</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Teachers
can use JCloze to make a gap-filling exercise for students. In this way,
teacher can test whether students understand the text or not and test their
English level.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">4.</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Teachers
can use JCross to make a crossword exercise. Teachers need to give students
some questions or hints to guess what the word is and this will motivate students
to learn some knowledge outside the coursebook and new vocabulary.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">5.</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Teachers
can use JQuiz to make quiz for students. This task can check students’
understanding of a text or the meanings of new vocabulary.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">6. <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">Teachers can ask students
to design their own tasks. Taking their tasks to school and let other students
do these tasks. Teachers can check students’ understanding of what they have
learnt. Also students can communicate with each other and get some feedbacks
from their peers and teachers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">1.</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Teachers
can use this software to motivate students to learn English. Since teachers can
design some interesting tasks for students to learn new vocabulary, to
understand text deeply, to relate the text they have learnt to their daily
life, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">2.</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: 宋体; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Teacher
can use this software to make some homework for students. It is more
interesting to do these tasks than to copy the new vocabulary many times. After
students doing these tasks, they will remember the meaning or the use of new
vocabulary, since these tasks are like games for students.</span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">1.</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The tasks
which are designed by this software cannot be used in the test, since the
answers can be found on the Internet easily.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">2.</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">All tasks
need to be typed by teachers. It is a heavy work for teacher to design a
wonderful task for students to do. It will also waste teachers much time to
design suitable tasks for students.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13229422345452441388noreply@blogger.com0考文垂西米德兰兹郡(大不列颠)联合王国52.406822 -1.51969352.329328 -1.6776214999999999 52.484316 -1.3617645tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7403612286734249854.post-69874476748900019932012-02-09T04:49:00.000-08:002012-02-09T04:50:20.831-08:00Wallwisher---post your wish here<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Wallwisher is free and similar to Todaysmeet, but in my opinion, I think that wallwisher is more fun than Todaysmeet and wallwisher can motivate students since this website provide many different backgrounds for people and student not only can add their comments on the 'wall', but also can add website, video and pictures to this 'wall'. Students do not need to log in or register. People can see all walls and add their comments to that wall. If people want to make a wall, they need to find a topic for this wall and add some dscription of this wall, if they do not want to show every comments, they can choose the approve. Since this website do not need to log in, thus if people do not log in, this website will not show their name, but they can change it.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">How to use:</span></strong><br />
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1. Teacher can put the question as the topic of the wall, and ask students to this wall and add their answer to this wall. But teacher should choose the approve, since if lazy students can see other students' answers, they will copy it.<br />
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2. If teacher want to get some feedback of a exam or a lesson, he/she can use this website. And students can choose whether leave their name or not. It is good for shy students who do not like express their opinions in public.<br />
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3. Teacher can use this website to give students a way to practise grammar. For example, teacher can put a sentence as a topic of a wall, and let students change the tense, structure, verb form of this sentence. Students just need to post their answers to this wall is ok. They also can choose whether leave their name or not. In this way, teacher can find some mistakes, and explain these mistakes in class.<br />
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4. Teahcer can use this website as online room to teach language. For example, teacher can put the language piont as the topic of a wall, and add some videos, pictures or website that related to this language point. Students can use this wall and learn this language point at home or review after class.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Advantages:</span></strong><br />
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1. this website is more colorful than Todaysmeet, thus this website can motivate students to answer a question.<br />
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2. This website can add comments, videos, pictures and website, thus teacher can use this website to attract students to finish their homework.<br />
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3. This website can give a way for shy students to express their comments or opinions.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Limitaions:</span></strong><br />
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1. This website cannot use for a large size class, since if this website is used for a large size class, it will be mass if all students express their opinions. And teacher will not have enough time to read every comments since some comments will be covered by other comments.<br />
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2. If students do not log in, it will not show their name.Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13229422345452441388noreply@blogger.com0考文垂西米德兰兹郡(大不列颠)联合王国52.406822 -1.51969352.329328 -1.6776214999999999 52.484316 -1.3617645tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7403612286734249854.post-25785255424518789612012-02-09T04:25:00.000-08:002012-02-09T04:50:36.269-08:00Dvolver---make your own small movie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dvolver is a website that people can make their own small movies, or cartoon. This website is easy to use. It provide the different backgrounds, different situations, different ways that people meet and different characterises of people. Students can choose their favourite one and make small movies. At the same time, they need to design the dialogues for the people when they meet each other in the small movies. In this way, students can find a way to practise their writing skill and communication skill.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>How to use:</strong></span><br />
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1. Teacher can give a topic for students and let students make small movies around this topic. Students can do this after class and send their movies to teacher or post their movies on their blogs, facebooks, or other place.<br />
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2. If students learn a new grammar in the class, teacher can let students use this new grammar to make a small dialogue by using this website. It is fun to do homework or to do some grammar exercises.<br />
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3. Students can work in pairs to finish a small movie. Since this website only can play music, but not play the dialogue. Therefore, after students finish their small movies, they can take this small movie to the class, and add their own voice when play this movie.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Advantages:</span></strong><br />
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1. This website can motivate students. It is easy to use and fun to make their own movies.<br />
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2. This website can provide a way for students to work in pairs and exercise their grammer or sentence structure.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Limitations:</span></strong><br />
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1. This website only can play the music, it cannot read the dialogues.<br />
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2. Students cannot use their own pictures as background or situation. Students only can use the pictures that this website provided.<br />
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3. This website only provides 4 situations that people meet each other.Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13229422345452441388noreply@blogger.com0考文垂西米德兰兹郡(大不列颠)联合王国52.406822 -1.51969352.329328 -1.6776214999999999 52.484316 -1.3617645tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7403612286734249854.post-71385934542241486882012-02-08T08:58:00.001-08:002012-03-22T14:53:56.965-07:00Breaking new English---fun to learn English<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Breaking
new English (</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">) is
a website that teachers can use this website to teach English or add some extra
materials for students to do after school. This website provides many tasks for
teachers to choose and also this website provides a teaching plan for teachers
to consider. This website will update every 3 days, and the materials are
related to our daily life. It is a best material for teacher to motivate
students to learn English.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">How to use:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Teachers
can use this website to practice students’ listening skill. Since the articles
are not long and the vocabulary is not difficult for senior high school
students. Thus teachers can download the MP3 file and play it for students to practice
their listening skill.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Teachers
can use ‘missing word’ to motivate students to remember new vocabulary. It is
boring to remember words without any tasks. Thus this task can motivate students
to remember new words, and in this situation, students can easier remember the
meaning and usage of new words.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Teachers
can use ‘sentence jumble’ to motivate students how to organize an article. This
task can motivate student to rewrite this article. After doing this task, they
will have a better understanding of this article.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Teachers
can print the handout that this website provides. In this handout, teachers can
find many tasks about reading, gap-filling, group work tasks and so on. Teachers
can use these tasks to check whether students understand this article or not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Advantages:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">This website
can motivate students to learn English, even after school. Since the materials
that provided by this website are up-to-date and related to our daily life, the
most important thing is these materials are very interesting. Thus it is easier
for teacher to attract students’ attention and motivate them to learn English.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The tasks
that provided by this website are not very difficult. Therefore, students will
not lose their interest to do these tasks. If they work in pairs, they will
find some joy when they do these tasks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Teachers
can use the handout that provided by this website in their English language
learning lessons. Since the handout is complete from warm-up part to homework
part, also the structure of this handout is very clear and the tasks are very
suitable for students to do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Disadvantages:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The tasks
that provided by this website only can be used in class or regard as homework
for students to do. These tasks cannot be regarded as test for students. Since these
materials are online, students can find the answers online, it will cause
students to be lazier.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The handout
provides so many tasks, but it does not provide enough explanation of the
article or new words. Therefore, if teachers want to use this handout, they
need to add the explanation of the new words or the article before their
lessons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Some tasks
need use computers. Thus students must in computer room or they need to take
their own computers to school. It is impossible in China. We have computer
room, but it is difficult to control students when we use computer room to
teach English. And if students take their own computers to school, teachers
will not be more attractive than their own computers. Thus they will not listen
to teachers rather than play their computers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13229422345452441388noreply@blogger.com0考文垂西米德兰兹郡(大不列颠)联合王国52.406822 -1.51969352.329328 -1.6776214999999999 52.484316 -1.3617645tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7403612286734249854.post-90038505843818070162012-02-01T13:54:00.000-08:002012-02-09T04:51:00.644-08:00Flickr--picture presentationFlickr is a website which people can use it to make presentation with different photos or pictures, then people can add some words to these photos or pictures. after people finish this presentation, they can send this presentation to someone else or put this presentation to their blogs. the picture blow is Flickr:<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">How to use:</span></strong><br />
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1. teacher can let students do their own presentations about a place or a people. Students can search pictures and photos in this website and then use these pictures and photos to finish their presentations. Also they can add some words to these pictures and photos. After they finish their presentations, they can send their presentations to teachers or put the presentations to their blogs.<br />
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2. teachers can use this website to do presentations to explain a task about a place or a people. Presentations will more vivid than books and can attract students' attention.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Advantages:</strong></span><br />
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1. this website can motivate students.<br />
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2. giving teacher a new way to make presentation except PPT , and more vivid and easier.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Limitations:</strong></span><br />
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1. lazy students will ask other people to help them to finish this task.<br />
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2. if teacher use many pictures in his/her presentation, students' attention will focus on the picture rather than the content.Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13229422345452441388noreply@blogger.com0考文垂西米德兰兹郡(大不列颠)联合王国52.406822 -1.51969352.329328 -1.6776214999999999 52.484316 -1.3617645tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7403612286734249854.post-9775372220423971512012-02-01T03:34:00.001-08:002012-03-26T15:55:46.246-07:00JING<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">JING
is a kind of software that teachers can use it to screenshot and add their
voice. This software is free to download and use. It is very easy to learn how
to use it and teachers can choose the area that they want to show to students.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">How to use:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Since
this software can screenshot and add teacher’s voice. Therefore, teachers can
use this software to give feedback to students. Teachers can collect students writing
tasks, and use this software to give them feedback. It will save teachers’ much
time. Since teachers do not need to write, they just need to speak the mistake and
use the mouse to show students where the mistakes are.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Teachers
can use this software to explain vocabulary. However this software only can
record 5 minutes. Therefore, teachers cannot explain much vocabulary once. But they
can explain little vocabulary once and make many recordings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Teachers
can use this software to give students homework. For example, teachers can let students
use this software to make a presentation about a place or a picture. Also teachers
can only give students a topic and ask student to find some pictures and make a
presentation by using this software.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Teachers
can screenshot a period of a movie without voice, and ask students to dub the
movie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Teachers
can ask students read the text after school, and use this software to record their
voice and send it to teacher. Teacher will find some problems in their pronunciation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Advantages:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Since
teachers can use this software to give feedback to students, teachers can save
much time. Since they just need to speak. Although this software only can
record 5 minutes, but we can speak many things in 5 minutes. But we cannot
write many words in 5 minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Students
can save this feedback from teacher, and review it anytime.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Students
can practice their listening skill when they see the feedback from teacher. Since
they need to listen to the feedback and notice where mistakes are and how to
correct. In this way, students can practice their listening skill after school
in a relax way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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only can record 5 minutes. Therefore, teachers cannot record a long feedback or
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only is screenshot, thus students only can hear the voice of teacher, but they
cannot see teacher’s face. Therefore, this software is only suitable for listening
exercises, but not suitable for pronunciation practice, since students cannot
see teacher’s mouth. Because teacher cannot be seen, it is impossible for teacher
to show something or to use some gesture or facial expressions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13229422345452441388noreply@blogger.com0考文垂西米德兰兹郡(大不列颠)联合王国52.406822 -1.51969352.329328 -1.6776214999999999 52.484316 -1.3617645tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7403612286734249854.post-66601018316429179952012-01-27T14:46:00.001-08:002012-03-26T16:32:41.168-07:00webquest--- project for teacher to choose<a href="http://questgarden.com/author/create/preview.php?u=139013&l=139013-120209050232&pt=student&p=introduction">http://questgarden.com/author/create/preview.php?u=139013&l=139013-120209050232&pt=student&p=introduction</a><br />
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quest provides a project for teachers to choose to enrich their lesson, it is
easy to find many different web quest online, and the levels of those web quest
are different, thus teacher can choose proper project and use them in their
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garden is a website that people can use it to make their own web quest. It is
easy to make a web quest in quest garden. Since this website provides details
about how to make a web quest and provides some samples for beginners to refer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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can use this to find suitable project for their students. Teachers can use this
project to enrich their lesson. If teachers find a similar topic web quest with
their lesson, they can use this web quest in class, it will be fun and
attractive for students, maybe they just use one task or one part of this web
quest, but in this way, teachers can motivate students to learn English.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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can use this to practice students’ four skills and co-work skill, since web quest
provides many tasks for students to do and some tasks are designed to work in
pairs or work in groups.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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can use this to encourage shy student to speak English in class, since some
tasks are group tasks, thus students can play a small drama and if students focus
on playing games, they will forget to be afraid. Therefore, this can motivate
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can motivate students to learn English. Since students need to do tasks or a
project, in this process, they will learn English and find interesting of learning
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Web quest
is not suitable for non-native speakers. Since if we design simple project, it
cannot achieve the goal. But if the project is designed difficult, students will
lose their patient to do this project.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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want to use a web quest, he/she must do many work to adapt it and add to omit
some part or find the suitable way to introduce this web quest to his/her
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will be lazy if they can find the answers on the Internet. Since web quest is
online project. Therefore, some students will be lazy and find answers online
rather than think by themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13229422345452441388noreply@blogger.com0Ringway Rudge, 考文垂西米德兰兹郡 CV1(大不列颠)联合王国52.406822 -1.51969351.7915455 -2.7831205 53.0220985 -0.25626550000000003tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7403612286734249854.post-69118846361885280202012-01-23T09:14:00.000-08:002012-02-09T05:29:46.175-08:00Make you own presentation with your voice<a href="http://www.brainshark.com/brainshark/viewer/fallback.ashx?pi=912269153"><video controls="true" height="366" poster="http://www.brainshark.com/brainshark/brainshark.net/common/getimage.ashx?pi=912269153&w=440&h=366&sln=1" width="440"><source src="http://www.brainshark.com/brainshark/brainshark.net/apppresentation/getmovie.aspx?pi=912269153&fmt=2"></source><img border="0" height="366" src="http://www.brainshark.com/brainshark/brainshark.net/apppresentation/splash.aspx?pi=912269153" width="440" /></video></a>
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My brain shark (<a href="http://my.brainshark.com/Home.aspx">http://my.brainshark.com/Home.aspx</a>) is a website that students can upload their own documents (e.g. ppt, word, photo, video and so on) and add voice to these documents. Students can make their own presentation or small video at home. This website provide teacher a way to practise students' speaking skill.<br />
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1. teachers can give students homework (e.g. making a presentation about themselves), and then use this website to add their voice to their presentations. And then send this presentation with voice to their teacher. In this way, students will have chance to practise their oral English.<br />
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2. teachers can use this website to correct students' homework. Teachers can use red pen to mark where students' mistake in word, and then add teachers' voice to explain why that is mistake and how to correct it.And then send this word with teacher's voice to students<br />
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1. students can practise their oral English and it is easy for students to use. And it is fun to attract students' attention.<br />
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2. this website can motivate students to do homework. Using this website to do homework will be fun and easy.<br />
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1. the lazy students will ask other people to help them. For example, lazy students will ask other people to write the draft for them and they just read the draft. Although they also practise their oral English, they do not use their brain to think about this task.<br />
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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.<br />
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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.</div>
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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.</div>
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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.</div>
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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.</div>
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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.</div>
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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.<br />
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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.</div>
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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.</div>
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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3. Teacher can use this online room to collect students' opinion about teaching strategies. <br />
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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.</div>
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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 p<span class="hps">erfunctory to teacher's questions or tasks.</span></div>
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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.</div>
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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.</div>Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13229422345452441388noreply@blogger.com0考文垂西米德兰兹郡(大不列颠)联合王国52.406822 -1.51969352.329328 -1.6776214999999999 52.484316 -1.3617645