http://www.todaysmeet.com/
Description:
Todays Meet is a creative website that helps to improve learners' writing skills by creating a chat room that enable them to communicate and interact by writing.Teachers can use it in the class interactions.
Why is this particular tool or technology relevant to language learning?
It is a very flexible tool that teachers can use it in many ways.One way is to use it as an exercise before
and after a reading text. Before starting, students will be grouped into pairs and then their teacher asks
them to use this website to write what they know about the topic of the text. This activity is a kind of
discussion, interaction and giving ideas and opinions that the whole class can share. After reading and
discussing the text, the teacher asks the students again to write in pairs a summary of that text and to
highlight the main ideas.
Description:
Todays Meet is a creative website that helps to improve learners' writing skills by creating a chat room that enable them to communicate and interact by writing.Teachers can use it in the class interactions.
Why is this particular tool or technology relevant to language learning?
- It is easy to use and does not require high experience in technology
- It enhances creative writing,
- It develops students' writing skills,
- It can make the lesson very interesting which make students motivated and eager to learn English,
- It engages students in the language in an interactive and communicative way which according to SLA research is considered as a vital factor for language learning to occur.
It is a very flexible tool that teachers can use it in many ways.One way is to use it as an exercise before
and after a reading text. Before starting, students will be grouped into pairs and then their teacher asks
them to use this website to write what they know about the topic of the text. This activity is a kind of
discussion, interaction and giving ideas and opinions that the whole class can share. After reading and
discussing the text, the teacher asks the students again to write in pairs a summary of that text and to
highlight the main ideas.
What limitations can you see with the use of this technology?
- It can only be available for a certain period of time. Students can not go back to the websit whenever they want to see what they and their pairs wrote because the chat room closes after a limited time.
- It does not guarantee that all students will participate in the activity.
- In big classes teachers wiill not be able to see and correct all the students mistakes.
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