Monday, October 29, 2007

My Commentaries on

Zahran's and Natdhaya's Websites &
Brief feedback on Sherry's and Maggie's websites

ZAHRAN~
Congratulations! Your website is really organized and well designed. Below is my feedback on your website:

1.STRENGTHS:
(a).I love the photos you put on your website which reflect the characteristics of your country, Oman.
(b).Your website is well connected to your webquest and the two guides 'Johina and Basil' make the activities look more real and lively.
(c).You use a 'self-assessment' form to understand the learners' reading ability, learning strategies and attitude towards these activities you designed. It's really a good idea for teachers to understand their students' learning situations.
(d).You encourage collaborative work between the students. The learners are required to exchange what they've learned and send a group summary to the teacher after doing these activities.

2 SUGGESTIONS:
(a).I found the font size in the 'instructions' and 'self-assessment' is a little bit small. Maybe you can enlarge them.
(b).The timer you put in your exercises may make the students feel stressed when they are doing them. What do you think?
(c).When I did the 'Marvelous Oman Match' activity, I found the learners could guess the answers directly without reading the suggested articles.
(d). Maybe the suggested readings load will be too much for the learners because they are required to read 13 articles to complete all the activities.

In general, your website is marvelous and neat. You give the learners very clear instructions which can avoid confusion and keep the learners from getting lost. You really have done a great job!

Jennifer

NATDHAYA~
I love the topic of your website. It’s very interesting. Below is my feedback on your website:

1.STRENGTHS:
(a) Your website is well connected to your webquest.
(b) The arrangement of your template is very clear.
(c) I love the idol photos you put on the ‘World Idols Matching’ which make the activity more lively and amusing. The content of this activity is interesting, too.
(d) In the activity of ‘Fact or Fiction’, if the answer is a ‘fiction’, you provide the learners with correct information for it. That’s good!

2 SUGGESTIONS:
(a) Would it be better if you use drag and drop template for the activity of ‘World Idols Sequence’?
(b) Maybe you can divide the ‘World Idols Crossword’ into 2 activities because there are 18 words on it.
(c) Is there any information that can help the learners to complete the activities of ‘World Idols Cloze’, ‘Fact or Fiction’ and ‘World Idols Crossword’?

In general, your website is cool and clear. I love it. Well done and Congratulations to you !

Jennifer

SHERRY and MAGGIE


Hi Sherry,
Your website is really eye-catching, and the colors and animations you chose are very pretty. All your exercises are very colorful, too. I believe all your students will enjoy doing these activities, especially the visual learners. I like the feedback you use for the activities when the learners don't get the right answers. Your students are
encouraged rahter than discouraged. Well done!

Jennifer

Hi Maggie,

Your website is cool. You also have two listening practices (dialogues) for the learners. I like them! I also love the mixed-up sentence exercises you designed because the photos and pictures you put on them make the learning more amusing.
Well done!

Jennifer

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Dear Jennifer,
Thanks for your comments and those comments are realy cheerful and useful as well. By the way I need to congratulate you on finished your master degree! Wish you all the best in the future and have another fabulous two years in Japan!
-Sherry-