Web-based lessons, design and evaluation

What is a web-based lesson?
According to World Education Literacy Division (2005), a web-based lesson is a lesson that incorporates a Web site or some Web sites. It can be conducted entirely online or in a traditional classroom lesson with an online component.
There are different purposes for a web-based lesson such as: research, reading. writing, publishing and collaboration with other teachers and students around the world.

What are the advantages?
• More interaction and dynamism
• Development of creativity
• Promotion of critical thinking, original activities and collaboration
• Opportunities for all learning styles
• Improvement of interaction teacher-student and student-student
• Usefulness for language learners because they are exposed to a variety of formats, images, video and sound

What does a web-based lesson plan include?
• Date
• Teacher
• Class / Level
• Topic
• Objectives
• Web sites used
• Name of web site 1 (2, 3…)
• URL
• Rationale for selecting this site
• Other materials
• Teacher preparation
• Steps for learners
• Description of pre-computer/classroom activities
• Description of computer/online activities
• Description of follow-up activities

Web-based lesson

Teacher: Ayleen Trujillo Ruiz

Class: English II Level: Intermediate

Topic: Translation techniques

Aim: Students will practice previous knowledge and apply translation techniques

Objectives:

• Students will analyze sentences taken from the text


• Students will translate and explain the technique used


• Students will summarize the text
  

Materials: The Boy Who Drew Cats (short story)

Warm up:

• Students on WIZIQ make a word map based on the title of the story with words they expect to find in the text


• The professor explains the basic techniques used in translation with a Power Point Presentation


• The professor explains basic vocabulary. If students do not understand any word they can look it up in http://www.wordreference.com/ (an online dictionary)


• Students go to the web page http://www.aaronshep.com/stories/045.html and read the text

Body

• Students answer oral comprehension questions about the text on WIZIQ


• Students answer a True/False exercise


• Students analyze morphological and syntactically some sentences taken from the text shown in the blackboard (WIZIQ)


• Students put the events in the order in which they occur on the class blog
  

Wrap up

• Students translate some paragraphs from the text and explain the techniques used in the translation on the blog.


• Students by turns will summarize (in Spanish) the text orally and then they will do it on the blog, including images, etc.

References

http://tech.worlded.org/docs/surfing/section5.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project-based_learning