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

Wordle in EDU401

The role of WeQuests in learning a foreign/second language

 

The first time when i heard about schoology,delicious, and scoop. it., i feel like ohh my god should i do all this work even though i dont know what they are and how people use them. But when i searched about them in google i found  enough information which were really helpful. Now with Webquest i faced the same problem and also i used google to help me identify what is this website and how to use it.

A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the internet, optionally supplemented with videoconferencing. There are at least two levels of WebQuests that should be distinguished from one another.

 

As a future EFL teacher, in shaa Allah I'll use WebQuest because it is really an interesting method of teaching a lesson. But first i will teach them how to use it.