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Post-2: Web-site Evaluation

Are you sometimes overwhelmed with the amount of information on the internet? Do you feel it necessary to understand how reliable the information you are reading is? Do you think your students should be made aware of the internet safety and security? If you answered "yes" to these questions, then it would be useful for you to get acquainted with the criteria for web-site evaluation and then practise using them yourselves first and then teach your students how to stay safe and secure online. Have a look at the list of criteria for web-site evaluation created by M. Krauss and Anholt from the USA who specialise in teaching courses of ICT in the language classroom for Ts around the world. Then use them to evaluate the resources listed after these criteria: Answer the following questions "yes" or "no". If you have more than 9 "Yes" answers, you can use resource you have found or were recommended to use. OBJECTIVITY/ADVOCACY: Some...

Post-1_The-Language-of-research-paper

Dear All, today we are going to discuss the language of research paper which is necessary for you to get a better idea about how you can write your own papers in the future. Work with another student and discuss the following questions: 1. In an average week, how many different kinds of sources do  you read? Which are fml and which are infml? 2. What are some of the differences in topics between different sources? 3. Have you observed any differences in the language in different sources? Share your answers in the thread. Support your answer with some examples.

Students' blogs

1. Prasolova Olga: o-prasolova16604.blogspot.com :  Tasks: article summary 1 2. Tolmacheva N. tolmachevaa.blogspot.com :  Tasks: article summary 1 3. Sizykh Alexander: alexandersizykh.blogspot.com   Tasks: article summary 1 http://alexandersizykh.blogspot.com/ 4. Sokolov Sergey: ssokolovlevin.blogspot.com         No posts (9.11) 5. N ina Tumina:  http://ninatumina.blogspot.com/     No posts (9.11) 6. Anna Spiridonova: annaspiridon.blogspot.com   Tasks: article summary 1 7. Mazin Ivan: wm10yo.blogspot.com   (no posts: 9.10)        8. Medvedev Andrey: medvedevan.blogspot.com   Tasks: article summaries 1, 2 (comment on it 10.11) 9. Borodina Zhenya: borodina250641.blogspot.com   (no posts)                                                        ...

Summary Template

Here is a link you need to follow to get access to a summary template that you should use to prepare a your summaries when necessary: https://goo.gl/iqYwZq