Browsing the Internet for Selflearning Materials

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Browsing the Internet for Self-learning Materials
The purpose of this workshop is to familiarise
teachers with Information Technology in relation
to self-access learning, and to facilitate the
integration of self-access into your school and
curriculum
Terri Leong ecterri_at_polyu.edu.hk Tel.
27667519 English Language Centre, Hong Kong PolyU
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Abstract

• Surfing or browsing the internet can be a
  pleasing or frustrating experience. In the
  workshop we will discuss ways of preparing task
  sheets to help students to find materials for
  self-learning. A successful experience on using a
  web-orientation task sheet with strategies for
  language learning through the internet will also
  be shared. Besides, some interesting and useful
  language learning web-sites will be introduced
  and ways to evaluate these sites will be
  discussed.

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Why internet (I)

• Internet sites give teachers and students access
  to a global database of current and up-to-date
  information to supplement class materials
• provide the situating context to integrate
  problem solving and collaborative activities

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Why internet (II)

• foster process skills
• increase studentsdomain knowledge
• make students become aware of social and cultural
  diversity
• increase studentsmotivation and intellectual
  curiosity

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Some Netskills (I)

• 2-window viewing (help to jump back and forth
  between two windows)
• minimizing and activating window
• search engines
• editing skills (copy, paste, and save)

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Some Netskills (I)

• knowledge of web features
• bookmarking
• hyperlinking (a link to same or new web-site)
• URL (Uniform Resource Locator, an internet
  address)
• opening a new window ( FilegtNewgtNavigator Window)
• open a pop-up window

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Two-window view
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Activity Types

• Net Search (Project for Upper Forms)
• Online Help (E-mail)
• Online Discussion (Bulletin Board)
• Language Study Activities (MCQ, Cloze, Puzzle)
• Online Conferencing (ICQ)
• Language Games (Proof-reading exercise)
• Study Tools (Dictionary, Grammar Aid, and
  Concordancer)

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Internet Project (Tour Guide I )

• You are a tour guide, and you need to plan a trip
  to New York
• Here are some guideline. The trip should
• be for 10 Hong Kong people
• take about two weeks this summer
• include interesting and significant sites
• include a round trip airfare from Hong Kong
• provide a budget which includes hotel
  accommodations, transportation, food, etc.

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Internet Project (Tour Guide II )

• Learning Outcomes
• a brochure about the trip
• simple itinerary of the trip
• a fact sheet about New York

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ICQ

• a desktop paging system that allow to set up
  chat rooms for multiple users
• holding discussion sessions remotely
• sharing documents
• giving or receiving feedbacks

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Proof-reading Exercise
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Answer Page in a Pop-up Window
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Language Study Activity
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Study Tool - Concordancer
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Dictionary Grammar
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Pop-up Screen Grammar Reference
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Placement Test
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Information Gap Activities
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Language Game
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Helpful Elements for Tasksheet Design

• list the aim and objectives
• give a clear guideline for students to follow
• provide space for students to record the
  information they find
• encourage students to use similar sources
  available

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The Use of A Web-Orientation Tasksheet
The task sheet aims at helping you discover ways
of learning English through the ELC Website.
Included are guidelines for accessing an
electronic dictionary (lexicon) and concordancer.
You can use these resources to learn about the
use of a word, phrase, syntactical pattern or
grammatical item online.
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A PolyU Student Favourite Self-Learning Websites
The purpose of this activity is to introduce you
to some interesting and useful language learning
websites.
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Internet Sites Evaluation Tasksheet (I)

• The purpose of the task sheet is to give you
  ideas that will enable you to use Internet for
  independent language learning. It will also help
  you to discover materials that will interest you
  and meet your learning needs.

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Internet Sites Evaluation Tasksheet (II)

• 1.Open Netscape. Type in the URL (an address)
  elc.polyu.edu.hk.
• 2.Click the "Student Self Help" icon. Then click
  "Language Enhancement Programmes".
• 3.Now click the "Language Learning" icon. Then
  click "A PolyU Student Favourite Self-Learning
  Websites." Read the introductions to these
  websites.

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Internet Sites Evaluation Tasksheet (III)

• 4.Choose the site that interests you the most.
  Add it's URL to the "Bookmark" or the "Favorite"
  list.
• 5.Browse the site and choose two or three
  activities to work on. If the site provides free
  registration, dont hesitate to register.

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Internet Sites Evaluation Tasksheet (IV)

• 6.After completing some activities, explain your
  findings to your partner and discuss with him/her
  how the site meets your learning needs. If you
  are working alone, think about how the site met
  or did not meet your learning needs.
• 7.Now fill in the missing information.

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Internet Sites Evaluation Tasksheet (V)

• Suggestions for future www language learning
  activities
• If you would like to complete some related
  activities for learning English through the
  www, refer to the other worksheets in the
  module "Using the WWW for Independent
  Language Learning and Training".

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Discussion Session