alextheteacher

03:32 pm: Week 7. Evaluation of existing internet-based activities
Hi all, According to our plan, by the end of Week 7 (let's say it ends next Wednesday, December 27), you are to submit a written evaluation of three existing internet-based activities. This is one of the main assignments of our course, a well-done evaluation will add 10 of 100 points to your final grade.

You are free to find the activites to evaluate in books, journals, or on the web. You may consider some sources that you have already used during our course:

• WebQuest Page at San Diego State University
• Teacher's Guide to International Collaboration on the Internet
• any other activity described somewhere on the Web. By the way, if you find a good website with activities for language learners why not to share the link with other participants in a comment to this entry.

Please try to find the activities that use various internet tools (e-mail, chats, web, blogs, etc). I mean they should not all be webquests primarily oriented to reading skills.

Unlike your usual weekly journal entries, I expect your evaluations to be formal writings. For each activity evaluation you need to include:

• Name of the activity
• Sourse (webpage URL, book title, author, etc).
• Audience it is designed for (age, level, etc).
• Brief description of the activity.
• What skills/competences it is intended to develop.
• Suitability evaluation - is it suitable for the audience it is designed (I mean, if the authors say that it is for 5-graders of intermediate level, does it look like that? If the audience is determined by you, you can skip this part of evaluation).
• Authenticity evaluation - does it provide an opportunity for a learner to receive some authentic language input? Does it engage students into activites or put them in (simulated) situations similar to those in the out-of-school context?

The length of each of three evaluations should be about 1,500-2,000 signs (you can measure it in the Word statistics).