I'm so happy to receive Karen and Jennifer's comments on my website. Your comments will make me more motivated and work harder. After hearing 4 classmates' opinions, I realised that some shortcomings from my project. For example, my instructions was not clear enough, too many moving objects and not enough clues in crossword activity and so on. Thanks to Billo, Zahran, Karen and Jennifer. All of your feedback gave me some ideas to write my rationale and reflecion essay.
However, I'm looking forward to hearing more comments on my project.
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Hi, Maggie.
I visited your website, and answered about half of the questions or quiz.
Here are my impressions on your website.
Good point:
1. You really considered the leve of the words you chose for this site.
2. The students are supposed to read and listen in a meaningful way. I mean, in order to answer the questions, the student have to read some documents in another website like that of HK Government, or listen to some recorded interactions. In other words, students read to write, or listen to write on your website. This seems a meaningful way of learning English.
3. The variety of skills would be developed if they successfully answer the questions.
Some suggestions to improve your weebsite:
1. The amount of information the students (around 10 years old) have to process to anser the question is too large in some quiz. Maybe they have to look at the wnother page of an website again and again if they do not have any background knowledge (schema) about Hong Kong.
2. You put too much information on Hong Kong. Maybe many of them do not want to look at the Government website in order to gain much knowledge on HK. All that many students would need is succinct information to answer the quiz. If students can read all the website on your page, they will be definitely motivated to learn more. But if they can read only very small part of the website, they will be demotivated, or they will be disappointed with the fact that they cannot read all. Too much information sometimes demotivates the students.
3. How about making one or two question which are not related with HK? This would make students relaxed after the answering about HK.
There are all I can say now. Generally speaking, your website would be instructive for many students. In order for students to study with this website, you have to make them interested in HK or you have to brainstorm them with HK-related issues. For students who are interested in HK, this website is very attractive.
I hope this will help.
Oscar
Hi Maggie,
This may not be a critical comment. Just want to tell you that when I first saw your website, the word I only had at the very beginning was Wow!! It’s very attractive and it’s got an eye-catching design with lots of graphics and nice pictures spreading throughout the website so that it would make young students being more fun to do the activities. I may be a visual person!!
I found that the instructions are clear and easy to understand what students are supposed to do. Your HP activities are also varied, enjoyable, and challenging to do. Moreover, what I love about your website is that a requirement that students need to read the texts, or listen to the dialogues about Hong Kong before doing each activity can give students more opportunities to improve their language abilities. I definitely like additional websites which I found really interesting. Students can expand their knowledge and have fun at the same time. You know, I myself have learned some numbers in your language from one of websites. How interesting!
Overall, the website you’ve created is highly effective and I’m sure your students would be really appreciating it and enjoy doing these HP activities. Well done.
-Nattythai-
Nattythai
Thanks for your comments on my project!
Cheers
Maggie
Hi Maggie,
It has been a long time since you last asked me to comment on your acitivities. Sorry.
The first impression when I visited your online activities is that it is quite flash. You made good use of picutures and animations. They were all well organized and I don't think they are too many. Moreover, you askekd learners to listen to short passeges to do the quiz. I think it will be helpful for those visuall and auditory learners. That's good.
When I did the cloze 1, food game and listening comprehension, I found I had to go back to the home page to open those links. Would you pls consider adding hypelinks to your instruction? That would be more convenient.
Thanks. I enjoyed visiting it.
-Jean-
I want to add something from instructed SLA research.
Chapelle (1998) has an article entitled Multimedia call: lessons to be learned from reseach on instructed SLA. He suggested 7 evaluation of the call activities in terms of SLA angle.
1. Is there evidence that learners attended to salient linguistic characteristics of the target language
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2. Do learners choose to see the modifications of linguistic input?
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3. Do learners produce "comprehensible output"?
4.Is there evidence
that learners notice errors in their output?
5. Do learners correct their linguistic output?
6. To what extent do the learners interact with the computer to engage in modified interaction focusing
on form and meaning?
7. Do learners work toward communication-oriented goals?
Salomon, Perkin and Globerson (1991) states that traditional computer learning applications assess the effect of computer technologies on the leraner, where the learner has no input into the process.
This is all that I find. Besides, do you know something about the computers' role , teacher's role and learner's role in the learning process? I think this is a better way to reflect more on the activities.
I am just beginning. Worried a lot. Good luck.
Dear anonymous
Thank you so much! You post many challenging questions however you offer useful criterion for me to think about how to evaluate my product.
I try my best to answer part of your questions.
Student or learners' role:
According to Sanford (2000), information literacy is a process of turning information into meaning, understanding, and new ideas. Three roles of students:
1. students require to understand the rationale behind using information as well as actually knowing the exactprocedures of conducting the information search.
2. Students need to ‘know-how’, and ‘know-why’.
3. being information literate would contribute towards personal fulfillment through the learning to learn principle.
Teachers' role:
1. Teachers should have a sound
understanding of the information process and give students opportunities to use a wide range
of information sources.
2. create a student-centred learning environment
for learning
3. provide motivating learning experiences for students
4.enhance meaningful learning to cater for individual learning differences
Cheers
Maggie
Hi Maggie,
I have visited your website, and my first impression of it was that there are many graphics and animated pictures, which is suitable for your students because they are 10 to 13 years old. When they visit this website ti finish all the online activities, I think they will be motivated bacause online activities can give them much fun by comparison to traditional paper exams.
I tried some of your online activities, I found they work well and the exercises are interesting which can help your students to learn something more about HongKong. Students are demanded to read and listen to some materials before they do the exercises, I think it is really good for them to practice their reading and listening skills. Since your students are 10-13 years old, I think the links you put in your website are beyond their abilities to understand. It is good to give students enough input, but from my personal view, there are too much information for them to read. I also think you should give students more hint in order to help them to finish the crossword.
As a whole, your website is well-designed and it works well. Well-done, congratulations!
Cheers!
Molly
Hello Maggie,
Sorry my comment is too late since you have already finished your reflection. However, I still want to say that your project impresses me a lot by involving listening skills in this lesson because I find difficulty in practicing my students’ listening skills by only using the software “hot potatoes”. Certainly, you also explore some other new software when designing this website. If you have time, would you mind showing me how to use it? Thank you very much.
Best wishes,
Yuki
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