Comments on Jean's and Jennifer's Websites

Jean’s Website 25-10-2007

Overall, your project looks great! You post the updated and the newest information on your website. Students are motivated in learning and doing the activities. All the activities are well-organised and the links do work. The pictures look very nice and the presentation is attractive. Mix exercises are very interesting.
The principal of your project is training students' reading skills, is that right?I think you assigned too much reading tasks for your students.
Here are some suggestions:1. Quiz: students read one article then answer one question. There are 6 in total! All the questions are the same but differ in animals' name, students can only search the keywords to answer the question but skip reading the whole article. It would be better if you could vary your questions. 2. Matching game was created the same problem. 3. One more point, your instructions are very clear in every section, however, the guideline of the crossword is not clear enough, I keep reading the article but I don't know how to do the crossword. It would be better if you can highlight some keywords, then students can learn or know how to locate the information. Learning sounds effective if you'd like your students to focus on some vocabularies.
In summary, I like the topic very much and I enjoy reading and completing the activities. Well done! Jean

Jennifer’s Website 25-10-2007

You did very well in this project. You create a very attractive and colourful website for grade 6 students to learn more about X’mas issues. Your students need to read 2 websites/articles in order to finish all the activities. They are so relaxed and feel no pressure to learn. For sure, they learn by doing and by fun.The purpose of your project is to learn X’mas vocabularies, is that correct? There are 3 vocabulary activities. Clearly, your students will obtain high marks in these activities. Your instructions are very clear and your students locate the keywords without failure. But why design 2 crossword exercises? I think 1 is enough. And you haven't created some MIX activities yet in this website? It would be better if you could design 1 or 2 mix exercises instead of the cross activity.
Overall, I'm happy to visit your website; there are some interesting articles to read and many moving objects to catch my eyes and very user friendly. All the materials are well-selected and highly focused on the purpose (vocabulary learning and reading tasks). As other classmates said, a conclusion section was one of the bonus points of your project! A lovely product, I like it very much!