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Internet-Based

Project Work

Why do Internet-based project work?

• It’s a structured way for teachers to incorporate the Internet into the language classroom.

• Cooperative learning and interaction are encouraged.

• Interdisciplinary purposes allow for cross-over into other departments and subject areas.

• Critical thinking is encouraged.

Steps to prepare an IBPW:

• Choose the project topic.• Make the task clear.• Find the resources.• Decide on the outcome.

Glossary of internet

• Bookmark: This is a way for you to mark a site on the Internet thatyou may want to visit again, just like putting a bookmark where you left off in a story you are reading.

• Boot: This is a term that means to “start up,” or “boot up,” your computer, or basically, to “boot it into gear!”

• Buddy List: This is a list that you have the option of keeping on your Internet Service

Provider. It can contain screen names of your friends and family that you like to “talk” with through instant

messaging or e-mailing.

• Byte: It usually takes 8 or 10 bits to make a byte, so a byte is bigger than a bit!

Internet-based simulations

A Business English simulation

WebQuests

What is a WebQuest?

• It’s a mini-project in which a large percentage of the input and material is supplied from the Internet.

• It differs from projects or simulations in their fairly rigid structure.

Types of WebQuest:• Short-term WebQuest: Lasts a couple of

classes.

• Longer-term WebQuest: Might last a few weeks, a term or even a semester. It has specific outcomes others can respond to.

Example

•“Who Made my Trainers?”

http://www.xtec.cat/cirel/02/webquests/english/2index2.html

Tutorial Video: webquest.flv Links

Skills set for producing a WebQuest:

• Research skills.• Analytical skills.• Word processing skills.

The WebQuest design process:

Exploring the possibilities stage:

Choose and chunk the topic Identify learning gaps Inventory resourcesUncover the question

Creating your WebQuest stage

Write the Web page/ WordEngage learnersScaffold thinkingDecision: implement and evaluate

Webquest Links• http://webquest.org/index.php (inside the page you

will find all the information that was presented in class)

• http://questgarden.com/search/ (the link of this page is included in webquest.org)

• http://www.nelliemuller.com/ESL_WebQuests.htm

• http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/archives/webquest.shtml

Thesaurus • In a thesaurus, you will find synonyms for

words.• First, you look up the word in the thesaurus.

Next to the word you will find a list of words that mean the same things as the word you looked up.

• Like wonderful –great, magnificent, excellent, terrific, cool, and fantastic

• Also in a thesaurus you will find an antonym for the word. Like horrible or awful would be an antonym for wonderful.

Dictionary • We use a dictionary to look up words.• You will find the meaning of words in a

dictionary. • For example, when you do not know the

meaning of a word in a story. You may use a dictionary to look up the meaning of the word.

The benefits of email and chat room

• they allow learners to interact in an authentic context with native speakers without being restricted by location.

• Chat rooms can promote learner autonomy.

• students have the opportunity to observe the language used by native speakers.

• they allow communication to take place in real time.

A sample text chat lesson plan• Before the class

1. Make contact with the teacher of a similar class in term of level, class size and access to technology2. Learners also need to be confident about how to use the chat program.3. With the teacher of other class, set a time for the chat.4. Try out with other teacher before class

• Class room management issues1. Ideally learners are put in pairs for the first chat.2. Learners can either conduct the cat in pairs, or consecutive learners can be allowed access to the same computer for a certain amount of time3. Using voice chat rather than text chat in the single computer classroom

• During the chat1. Provide hand out worksheet2. Each learner has a slightly different worksheet3. Asking questions on their worksheet4. Print out their chat script and complete the worksheet from that, once the cat is finished.

• After chat1. Display their profile in the classroom separately2 Create learner profile in an inter-class blog

Thank you!!!!