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Deciding how to best utilize web-based materials
is a challenge for most educators. Should they be reserved for use outside
of the classroom, or do they have a place in class? If used in class, should
they be completed individually or cooperatively? Do the interactive activities
actually contribute to the goals of the lesson, or are they disconnected
and seem more like a tangent than an integral portion of the lesson?
These are just a few of the kinds of questions
that teachers must address when deciding how they are going to use web-based
materials, or even if they are going to bother using them at all.
Although the answers to these questions are not definitive and absolute,
I do have some suggestions for how the activities provided in this site
can directly contribute to the work being done in class.
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Assign the corresponding web-based activity
for homework after the text activity (these connections are given in the
Activity Index)
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Critique an activity and email the informal
evaluation to a partner in the class (critiquing critiques forces the students
to think deeply about the aspects of writing an evaluation)
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Complete an activity with a partner (tone activities
such as #2 &7 are great for partners since they are tone related, the
subjectivity lends itself well to discussion)
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Compose a list of new vocabulary encountered
in the activities and discuss these in class (can be great for students
who are struggling to write something original about a film -- pushes them
beyond "It was good" or "I really liked it")
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Choose a favorite film review and list the criteria
upon which the author based his evaluation (great partner activity- could
pair students together with the intention of compiling a list of criteria
and then categorizing it)
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