Last Week I asked my students of Materials Designing course to select 5 websites for English Language learning and teaching. But, the condition was that they cannot select the same website. Everyone had to chose 5 unique websites. We have a group in Facebook where the students posted the websites they selected. It was students responsibility to check the previous posts before selecting websites to make sure that there was no similar websites.
I have 18 students in this course and all of them came up with (18X5) 90 unique websites for English language learning and teaching. Later, they evaluated those web based materials in terms of their usability in Bangladeshi context.
My students really enjoyed the task and I could realize that from their enthusiasm. Once they finished their task, they said that it looked like a small database of web based English language materials. The best part of this database is that the pros and cons of each website is mentioned here. So, someone can easily look at it and understand which website would suit his/her purpose.
I have 18 students in this course and all of them came up with (18X5) 90 unique websites for English language learning and teaching. Later, they evaluated those web based materials in terms of their usability in Bangladeshi context.
My students really enjoyed the task and I could realize that from their enthusiasm. Once they finished their task, they said that it looked like a small database of web based English language materials. The best part of this database is that the pros and cons of each website is mentioned here. So, someone can easily look at it and understand which website would suit his/her purpose.
Dear Mahmuda,
ReplyDeleteI understand that your specialized area of Interest is material designing.
During my ELT career, this had been a side-lined area and now I feel inclined on browsing some of the sites on this topic.
It would be really helpful if you could share some of the weblinks that your students have come up with and you had found them useful too.
Good luck!
Yusra