Media Pembelajaran

Name : Siti Asminatun
NPM : 06211210026
Semester IV B

Summary Chapter 3 ( Using Website )

Using website is one of the easiest and least stressful ways of getting started with technology in the classroom. You can choose from authentic sources or ELT-specific sites, monolingual or multilingual sites, sites with multimedia, or just simple text , for those on slower connections. the web is a source of content which can be used as a window on the wider world outside your class, and is of course a readily available collection of authentic material.
Of course there are plenty of ELT websites which provide content that your learners’ can use, for example, language practice activities they can do their own they provide valuable opportunities for more controlled language work and are often a great help to learners who need to brush up on certain aspects of the language or to prepare for an exam.
Find useful websites for teachers , having good search skills means finding useful resources quickly, speeding up lesson planning and facilitating web use in class. For learner , it means being able to quickly accomplish web-based task, thus ensuring that the technology enhances the learning experience rather than impeding it. It make sense, then, both to acquire these skills and to spend some time sharing them with your learners.
There are three basic ways of searching on the internet :
Search engines: although there is large variety of search engines, perhaps the most well-known is Google. A Search engine is almost directly analogues to telephone directory , or any other database of stored information .
Subject guide : yahoo, derives its description of subject guide from the fact that it divides its content into subject areas, and sub-division of those areas.
Real language searches : your choice of search facility will depend on how you like to work, and which site you find particularly and useful.
Evaluate website : having found potentially useful website , the next step is to evaluate how useful and appropriate they are for the classroom. There are various standard criteria for judging websites which can serve as a starting point for your evaluation : accuracy, currency, content, functionality.
Planning lessons using the internet by this stage you will have found, evaluated and decided on a collection of web page which you want to use as part of your teaching. the next area to consider is how a technology based lesson plan will look in comparison with the sort of plans you usually produce.
A lesson plan – movie stars, upper-intermediate to advanced lesson concentrating on famous movie stars and their lives and work.. the language areas covered are : asking and answering questions, reacting to information and showing interest.
Warmer, introduce the subject by talking about learners’ favorite movie stars and their work at this level , a simple class discussion will work fine , but prepared to prompt with various subject areas : favorite movies ,recent, visits to the cinemas, forthcoming films, best and worst films, and so on.
Web, have your learners visit the sites and find an actor they are interest in-these are all audio interviews, with no transcripts.
What next , give each learners a chance to report back on what they listened to, who was interview were. Activities to do here, including : speaking activity :an interview, writing activity : a day in the life, writing activity: an interview, writing activity : a biography
Working with lower levels of language proficiency. Borrowed words, warmer, web, what next.
Web teaching dos and don’ts, planning carefully and adopting a structured approach to the way you use websites in the classroom should give you the confidence to try out different ways of introducing your learners to internet content..