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Using Websites

Using website in the Classroom

Using ebsites is the one of easiest and least stressful ways of getting started with technology in the classroom. The web is a source of content which can use for finding or searching a lot of informations.

You can use web pages in the classroom in a variety of ways:

1. As printed pages, with no computers.
2. With one computer with an internet connection.
3. In a computer lab with a set of networked and connected computers.

We have to explain about why internet content may be useful to them and you can teach abou attitude to operate and to use this technology.

How to find useful websites?

There are three basic ways of searching on the internet.

Search engine

Search engine is almost directly analogous to a telephone directory, or any other database of stored information, for example: Google which have twelve billion web pages.

Subject guides

Yahoo! Currently claims to index nearly twenty billion pages and still the search venue of choice for many people who remeber when it was the only way of searching the internet.

Read language searches

www.ask.com allows the user to type simple questions about anything.

How to evaluate websites

• Accuracy, who wrote the page?, is the page content reliable and factually correct?
• Currency, is the content up-to-date?
• Content, is the site interesting and stimulating?, is it attractive and easy to navigate?
• Functionaly, Does the site work well?, does it use a lot of large files or alternative technologies?

Websites which are more suitable for lower levels will include:

1. Websites with simple, clearly presented text.
2. Websites with non-linguistic data which is easy to interpret.
3. Websites with visuals
4. ELT websites, where the content has been written,edited and prepared with this audience in mind.