Online Learning website(Ch5)

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/

This website mainly teaches users how to build online learning activities. It provides a User Guide teaching users how this program can be used based on their learning goals, a step-by-step Guided Tour, downloadable handouts, and tips throughout the process on the website. As long as users fill in the blanks at this website, the users can start their own web page. And it also offers search page for users to get more related information to design learning activities, such as files created by other Filamentality users and knowledge of Network Explorer web site.

Basically, this website contributes some techniques building a learning website to
users. A reasonable first step is to simply compile a list of web-based resources to make students click the links for more information, and then setting a multimedia scrapbook for students to dig through a collection of sites containing photographs, sound clips and videos.

Furthermore, designers are encouraged to make a promote learning asking questions to each information to hunt more related information, requiring students to respond questions from a personal perspective and forming an active attitude in learning, and using webquest to challenge students in problem solving. All designs of activities explain clearly how they work and what goals they have on this website. In this way, users can be easily to work effective and professional online learning activities.

Online Learning Website(CH2)

http://www.eduplace.com/

This is a two-sided website.

In “educators” part, it provides educators with many teaching materials to teach. Teachers can click one topic to choose one related book that guides teachers how to teach, what to teach step by step according the grade of students.

In “students” part, the website offers students e-books to learn a glossary about the topic, related information to read, animated activities, and weekly current events reading. All designs in this website make me surprise to know what a fun learning can have.

Furthermore, below the page, there are four parts for students to learn further. First part is Wacky Web Tales that provides learners with some cute topics, like meeting the animals, super salad, and simply delicious, to basically learn five parts of speech, like nouns, adjectives, and verbs. We just fill in the blanks with related words, and the website uses our words to form our tales. And second part is current events. There are some online magazines and articles for children to form a habit that reads every week. As for the third, it belongs to evaluation part that we learners can select one or all three questions to answer. If students get stuck, the website provides hints for each question. Therefore, in solving problem, this program is helpful to build problem-solving skills of students. Final part even offers information how to learn from, search for and evaluate websites. It indicates that learning from websites along with illustrations and related links is another technique to make learning effectively and conveniently.

Briefly, the manifestations and manipulations of this website are suitable for young children grading1-8 to learn online. It successfully uses multicolored designs and useful learning techniques to make learners become more creative and more active in learning.

Online Learning Website(Ch3)

http://www.brainpop.com/

Lesson: animated movies online

Focus: Listening skills, answering to quizzes, vocabulary of topics, reading skills.

Preparation: Select one topic, and write some relevant terms with certain topic on the board. Like topic is “Writing Process,” and teacher should help students be familiar with those words, like “revise,” “drafting…” Discuss with students what process of writing they are used to take.

Presentation: choose one topic and click icon to play animated movie at the website, http://www.brainpop.com/. Students are asked to listen carefully, and take an interactive quiz after listening. Teacher can hand the scripts out for each students, and require students of writing the contents correctly while watching the animated movies once more.

Practice: Students continually practice the topic by playing games related topics, and reading comic strips. Students must hand out the results of games that aim at the acquisition of vocabulary and write words downs according to related comic strips. Certainly students are allowed to try more topics individually on the website.

Evaluation: Based on the answers to quizzes and results of activities, have students take notes about topics during the course. Discuss together in groups what they have learned in this class and report it to the class for additional feedbacks.

Extension: provide curriculum-based content, seven main subjects including: Science, Math, English, Social Studies, Health, Arts & Music, and Technology, the main focus grades for BrainPOP are 3-12 and at grades K-3 should visit BrainPOP Jr, individual practice of listening, reading and writing mainly, but discussions and reports in groups, develop according to national education standards (NCTM, NSES, and NCTE)

What I am attracted most at this website are cute icons and rich resources about topics. It is really interesting that as long as you login in, you can try every field to train your listening skills. Furthermore, it contains many related activities that also train learners in other skills along with lively designs and bright colors to let learners arouse interests in learning language.

IT IS ME

Abby Chang

I am a girl in 20. Now I study English Literature in NCU in Taiwan. Like other girls, I love daydreaming about what I should be or will be in the further. Sometimes thinking the meaning of self-existence, sometimes doubt whether my dears will cry for me when I pass away one day and something like that, I am really a weird kind of person. As for my likes and dislikes, I like bright yellow color along with brilliant pink color, and dislike wrinkled fingers in bathing. I like wearing a heavy coat outside while not wearing anything inside at all, and dislike the untouched feeling of pulling armpit hair.

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“Never say that you do not have the sixth day that means you are a person who did not want to reopen your hand to count the sixth day when you have counted five days.”

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