Website Evaluation

Hello again everyone!

This week's task is evaluating an ELT website. I chose to evaluate One Stop English  website. The website is an English Language material website.I think this website is a great aid for English language teachers. Because the website is so rich in materials and i think i will definitelyuse that kind of ELT website in the future when i become an English Language teacher. The following subtitles will help you learn more about the website.

Audience and the purpose:

The audience of the website is English language teachers and the website mainly aims to provide English  Language Teachers with limitless resources and materials for their lessons.

The authorization:

The website is authored by Macmillan Education which is a English teaching material Publisher.All materials are created by the expert teachers and authors team.

The content:

The website contains a lot of resources and materials such as flashcards,audios,videos,podcasts,worksheets,learning plans,etc. There are categories like children,teenager,business English language teaching and each category has lots of resources .

Last update date:

There is not an actual date showing last update but there is a lastly news lessons part and there is a news which is dated 18 April 2019.Actually this information shows that the website is uptaded regularly.

Broken link-error control:

The website’s foundation dates back to 2000,so there is not any technical problem nor a wrong information.(the date is written at the bottom of the home page.)

Images’ quality and appealing to target audience:

The images and the materials are really high quality and they appeal to English Language Teachers. There are categories for all skills and there are seperate parts for each skill and for each subject and these parts rich in content. A teacher can find whatever he/she wants to teach his/her students.

That’s all for this week! Take care of yourself, see you next week every one! J

You can reach the website by clicking here

Padlet Project

Hello everyone! After a short midterm break here we are again.

This week's topic was creating a padlet. Our teacher wanted us to creat a padlet in collaboration with our friends. Firtsly,i want to talk about what padlet is. Padlet is "an application to create an online bulletin board that you can use to display information for any topic." This is the definition taken from teachersfirst website. This is the first time i used a padlet. Personally,I had a great fun while i was creating my first padlet with my friends.We chose ‘Project 1’ and our topic was “Climate Change”.We worked together in collaboration with my friends on this Project.We shared and discussed effects,causes and evidences of climate change,and we stated possible solutions to Climate Change.Then we also conducted a short survey about Climate Change.
At the end,we learned a lot of informations,facts about Climate Change and we had the ability to state possible solutions to prevent this rapid change in the earth’s atmosphere.

I think creating a padlet contributes to the development of all skills of 21.century learning skills. It contributes to ‘critical thinking’ and ‘creativity’ skills as students create content while it contributes to ‘communication’ and ‘collaboration’ skills as students share content and prepare the padlet.As a prospective teacher i will definitely use padlet in the future.

By clicking here you can reach the padlet we created.