Saturday, 26 October 2013

Evaluating website



We have decided to choose this web site: LANTERNFISH http://bogglesworldesl.com/

It is an educational website for ESL and TEFL teacher.


It contains worksheets, flashcards, games, songs and lesson plans for the English learner. 
It is presented in boring and uncomfortable way because it has a lot of shining colors, 
also the content differs from what is mentioned in the description of the website.
The external documents/links that the website include are critical thinking class,
Glossary of ESL terms, Site search.
It contains useful materials but most of them are unorganized, and showed in 
inappropriate way for target language learners, it should be more organized and more arrangable. 
It attempts to help English language learners, in improving English language.
       The web site offers a lot of practice and exercise like flashcards, which contain
 some arts with different words and sentences, crosswords and games that offer ways 
to play in classroom, and there are neither assessment nor feedback.
       This web site is not easy to use, because the contents are unconnected and 
there is a gap among ideas and between given information.
The page looking confused and difficult access to information, it has some of broken links, which 
make the learner feel lost. The colors of background are not comfortable for the reader eyes. 
Graphics chosen randomly, and they are low quality; many font style and size are used.
About the strengths of this website, although there are a lot of negatives in this website, 
there is some positives, the importance one offering a good materials, games and ideas 
for English learners, especially the beginner learners.

Some suggestions for this website to be improved:
-It should be more arrangable and organized.
-It should have comfortable colors like bright ones.
-Graphics and images should be there in organized way with the offered ideas.
-It is better to used one font style.
        -Focusing in spelling, grammar and punctuation.



·      This website is for and educational purposes. The publishers are group of ESL teachers from Asia and North America.
·      They provide “contact us” link.
·      They didn’t mention the author's credentials. It is not created or sponsored by a reputable organization.

·      There are a lot of English learning aspects not there.
·      The website used a wide variety of fonts, styles and point sizes.
·      There are more than 5 errors in spelling, punctuation or grammar in the final draft of the Web site.
·      There are media elements, but it was used randomly.
·      Actually the website is not organized. It is hard to navigate.
·      There are some ads, which distract the learners.
·      It can be loaded quickly.
·      We did not found any date for created the website and last updated.
·      The links work but we should open in a new tab.
·      This website is useful for the learner because it have a lot of worksheets and exercises. They can find what they want about the education purpose.
·      This site is very good for the learners and the teachers to use it in the classroom, but it needs some organization and arrangement.



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