Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Comment on Yuki's

Hi Yuki,

I just visited your website finding the home page quite attractive. All the information were well organized and the instructions were easy to follow. I liked the background and color of the homepage. And the pictures and animations on the homepage were wonderful, relevant and flash. I wondered who you specially designed these activities for. Matching was rather easy. I think younger students would love to do this matching because they can easily get the correct answers, which would be quite motivating.

When I did the activities, I found that all the link "index" except on the page of cloze don't work. Would you pls check all the links on each page? One more suggestion is that you add link to your webquest on your homepage.

Thanks. I enjoyed doing those activities.

-Jin-

Comment on Esther's website

Hi Esther,

I have just visited your website finding it quite interesting and inviting. I think your website is a perfect site to learn your culture especially for all the international students including me. If your students are EFL/ESL learners or refugees ( I guess so because I know you are eager to help them), this website would be useful. They will learn a lot about these 5 major celebrations.

Apart from providing comprehensible information, you made good use of pictures. I have found there are beautiful, more importantly, relevant pictures under each heading, for example, Easter egg under "Easter", Queen's photo under Queen's Birthday, which i think is quite wonderful. Moreover, videos were utilised to increase students' motivation. Visual learners will find it quite motivating.

Hotpotato was used to create Australia Day quiz. Pity there are only 3 questions. If you had registered, you could have created more items. I did wonder whether we were required to use hotpotato to create all the activities or not.Most activities in this website are similar to those done in the webquest. Is it ok?

I also wondered whether it is better to add some links such as index and next page between these holidays so that students can go to home page or next page easily.All the information was well organized and all the instructions were clear, easy to follow. Well done.

Jin

October 30, 2007 7:22 PM

Comment on Maggie's

Hi Maggie,

It has been a long time since you last asked me to comment on your acitivities. Sorry.

The first impression when I visited your online activities is that it is quite flash. You made good use of picutures and animations. They were all well organized and I don't think they are too many. Moreover, you askekd learners to listen to short passeges to do the quiz. I think it will be helpful for those visual and auditory learners. That's good.

When I did the cloze 1, food game and listening comprehension, I found I had to go back to the home page to open those links. Would you pls consider adding hypelinks to your instruction? That would be more convenient.Thanks. I enjoyed visiting it.

-Jean-

October 23, 2007 11:28 AM


Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Wildlife Activities

Welcome to mywildlife activities. Looking forward to your comments. Either negative or positive is welcome. Thanks.

Jean's wildlife activities

Sunday, October 21, 2007

House warming


Last Saturday my former home stay mum invited me to her house warming party. What an interesting name, house warming. I put a photo of her villa of wonders.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Hot Hotpotato

Last week, I wanted to create the activities but I couldn't find where hotpotato is. Luckily, Maggie helped me download hotpotato and showed me how to use it to create different activities. I am sorry I had forgotten what was taught in the last workshop. I can't believe that happened one month ago. How time flies. Next week the assignments for PLD and for technology are due. So I have to hurry because I haven't completed the creation. Don't mention the rationale. Only one week left. Hurry.

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

National Day


How time flies. It is already the 2nd of Octorber. In the last two weeks, there were two important date for us Chinese: last Tuesday (Moon festival) and this Monday(National Day). People in China have a 7-day holiday to celebrate National Day. Woo. I wish I were in China. I wish I didn't have to worry about my assignments.
However, the mid-semester break was over; I am not in China. It is high time to think about the last assignments. It is right time to handle the hotpotato.