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Webquest Evaluating online materials for your class

Introduction

Designing materials for your English learners is part of most teachers

responsibilities. Today, you have many resources to help you with thisactivity:o Internet

o software

o on-line materials

o teachers and learner websites

However, not everything you find in these resources is appropriate foryour learners. To be able to decide what is best for your learners you willneed to consider some asessment criteria. In this Webquest, you willfamiliarize with different online materials as well as with criteria to

evaluate them and decide which the best options for your learners are.

The task

You will visit some websites related to criteria people should considerwhen evaluating online materials for their learners.

With your partners, you will construct a checklist that you could usewhen assessing online materials for tour learners

Using agreed criteria you will visit some online websites resources and

assess the value of the resource for your own learners

Finally, you will report to your peers the results of your search. In smallgroups you will summarize your results in a format that helps otherteachers in your institution decide if a given online resource isappropriate for their learners.

The process

For this activity, you will be working in pairs. Read the articles oncriteria to evaluate online materials and make a flow chart tosummarize the most important information.

There will be 2 groups. Each group will read the links assigned. Whenthe time is up, you will have the opportunity to share with anothergroup to complement your own information.

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Group 1 Group 2http://www.libraryinstruction.com/evaluating.html

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~nguyen/web/

http://epress.lib.uh.edu/pr/v8/n3/smit8n3.htmlhttp://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/

After sharing with another group, go back to your initial pair and designa simple and useful checklist that English Teachers at your institutionsmay use to assess online resources.

For an example click here:

Once you had designed your checklist you need to test it for validity and reliabilitypurposes.In the same pair, go the websites assigned to you and using your checklist decideif the suggested pages are appropriate for a chosen group of learners.

Group 1 Group 2http://www.readingonline.org/ http://www.kimskorner4teachertalk.com/writing

/menu.html

http://www.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-

to-read/load.htmhttp://www.ohiou.edu/esl/teacher/writing.html

Now, answer the following questions based on your visit:1. What do the pages have in common?2. What makes them different?3. Which did you like better? Which features in this web did you find

particularly helpful? Why?4. Do you think you can use these with your students to help them develop

their reading/writing competences? How?

Once you have finished the review, prepare a 2 slide PowerPoint presentationrecommending or discouraging your fellow teachers to use these pages. Referback to the checklist you designed previously.

http://www.libraryinstruction.com/evaluating.htmlhttp://www.libraryinstruction.com/evaluating.htmlhttp://www2.hawaii.edu/~nguyen/web/http://www2.hawaii.edu/~nguyen/web/http://epress.lib.uh.edu/pr/v8/n3/smit8n3.htmlhttp://epress.lib.uh.edu/pr/v8/n3/smit8n3.htmlhttp://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/http://www.readingonline.org/http://www.kimskorner4teachertalk.com/writing/menu.htmlhttp://www.kimskorner4teachertalk.com/writing/menu.htmlhttp://www.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/load.htmhttp://www.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/load.htmhttp://www.ohiou.edu/esl/teacher/writing.htmlhttp://www.libraryinstruction.com/evaluating.htmlhttp://www.libraryinstruction.com/evaluating.htmlhttp://www2.hawaii.edu/~nguyen/web/http://www2.hawaii.edu/~nguyen/web/http://epress.lib.uh.edu/pr/v8/n3/smit8n3.htmlhttp://epress.lib.uh.edu/pr/v8/n3/smit8n3.htmlhttp://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/http://www.readingonline.org/http://www.kimskorner4teachertalk.com/writing/menu.htmlhttp://www.kimskorner4teachertalk.com/writing/menu.htmlhttp://www.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/load.htmhttp://www.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/load.htmhttp://www.ohiou.edu/esl/teacher/writing.html

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Evaluation

To evaluate your work, the following criteria will be used

Beginning

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Developing

2

Accomplished

3

Exemplary

4

Score

Flow chartCriteria toevaluateonlinematerials

Incomplete

representationwith little

relevant detail

A suitable

representationof each article

with relevantdetail. Shows

understandingof different

elements butdoesn't cross

analyzeamong the

four articles

A clear and

detailedrepresentation

of the articleswhich shows a

soundunderstanding

of the crucialelements of

evaluatingonline

resources.Finds

interestingpoints of

comparisonamong the

four

A clear and

detailedanalysis

whichshows

unusualinsight into

the criteriafor

assessingonline

materialsMakes clear

anyrelevant

points ofcomparison

among thearticles

Checklistcriteria toevaluateonline

materials

Incompletewith littlerelevantinformation

A suitable listof criteria withrelevantdetails

A clear anddetailed list ofcriteria

A clear anddetailedcriteria

showingawarenessofaudience

Powerpoint:Evaluationof Website

Superficialwith norelevantinformation

Suitable withrelevantinformationand visuals

Clear andexplicit.

Clear andvisuallyexplicit.Showsgreatawarenessof

audience

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Conclusion

Congratulations! You have completed this Webquest on evaluating onlinematerials for your class. I hope you have accomplished the following:

1. A clearer idea of the criteria that we as teachers need to use inorder to select online materials for our EFL students.

2. Motivation to explore online resources as an option to providematerials for your learners

3. Interest to explore Webquest as an option to design learnerscentered tasks for your classes.