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Week 6: Developing Webpage Activities (1)

This week you will have to work a bit. There are various sites on-line with the purpose of helping teachers develop their own webpage activities. Some are better than others. Some aren't really ESL/EFL oriented, but can be used. It is up to you to decide which one or ones you like and how you can use it or them.

The sites: Visit these sites and decide which one you'd like to work with this week.

HotPotatoes (http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/hotpot/ - downloads) is a program you can download free (unless you are an institution). It's a small program and doesn't take long to download.

Once you have the program you can make a number of different types of activities. Most are fill-in-the-blanks and other passive formats, but they can be used for different kinds of purposes. The links below will take you to some activities I developed (I am not an expert, so there might be errors). http://www.oocities.org/XXXXXX . These were developed to supplement a lesson focusing on current news. All these were created using HotPotatoes.

Quandary (http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/index.htm?quandary/ ) is made by the same people who made HotPotatoes. It is another downloadable program. It's free, but the program you download free is more limited than the version you can pay for.

I have to admit I haven't done anything with this program yet. It does look interesting. Follow the link above to see some examples of activities.

WWW4Teachers sites (http://www.4teachers.org/ ) We'll just look at one of them in detail. You can try out for instance QuizStar (http://quiz.4teachers.org/index.php3) . There are also sites for project-based teaching: NoteStar note-taking tool (http://notestar.4teachers.org/ ), RubriStar for making rubrics –go there, they'll explain what rubrics are—(http://rubistar.4teachers.org/ and TrackStar for making lists of websites—we'll look at Filimentality's version in a couple of weeks—(http://trackstar.hprtec.org/ ).

We'll look at the Web Worksheet Wizard (http://wizard.hprtec.org/). Here is an activity I made using it: http://wizard.hprtec.org/builder/worksheet.php3?ID=13119.

In two weeks' time we will work with Filamentality, a powerful webquest creating tool.

 

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