Evaluating Websites

The website we decided to choose is Wacky Web Tales and the URL: http://www.eduplace.com/tales/ This website is for kids who are in the third grade and above! Each of the many tales offered let you fill in blanks to help create the story plot.

The purpose: The purpose of this website is educational, and to provide tales for kids in order to make them learn new vocabulary and listening to these words and try pronounce it in different ways and what kids prefer it. This website can keep kids entertained for hours.

Clarity: The website is very clear and somewhat colorful and visually appealing. The tales are written in a clear way. The page and the links are well organized and there are many pictures. There is no spelling, grammatical or word-usage mistakes.

Accessibility: The website is open, free to use, and everyone can access.

Goals : The website goals is to teach children a new vocabulary and learn in funny way. and it is really effective and useful especially for those who are 3 years and above.
Information and resources the site provide :

• The information is objective.

• The site provides thorough coverage of the topic.

• The information on the site well written and there is no misspelling or grammatical error.

• The site provide a works cited page.

• The site include multimedia elements that help explain the topic.

Navigation :

• the site is organized but not clear to those how use it for the first time.

• the design suit the purpose

• No ads that might distract me

• the site does not take a long time to load

• the site does not indicate when it was first created and last updated

• the links work, and do not lead to error messages, such as “Page Not Found”

• the extension in the URL is eduplace.com/tales/

• the extension tell me about the source of the site

• most of the resources on this site meet all my needs

• this Web site has a variable tales and offer it in a good ways for this , it considers as a better research source than some of the other sites I've already visited.

Name of the group: Rise in Glory

“Wordle in EDU 401”

” The role of WeQuests in learning a foreign/second language?”

In our course (EDU401) every week we learn new thing that we didn't heard about it before, and now we learn about Webquest.

A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web.[1] These can be created using various programs, including a simple word processing document that includes links to websites.

WebQuest plays a major role in many  in TEFL/TESL field like activating critical thinking, student-oriented activities, enquiry-oriented language use, cooperative and collaborative learning and Project-based learning. It improves the students’ critical thinking. Webquest is very beneficial becouse it helps students improving their critical thinking while they use it in solving survey or snswering question in Webquest.

Project-based learning (PBL) supports the use of webquests..

In future, i will  use Webquests with my EFL students becouse Webquest is very beneficial way of learning and today's students prefer learning via new ways and Webquest is one of them.