Impression on TED-Ed

Ted-Ed is a useful tool for both teacher and learners in which ideas and thoughts of teachers and learners are shared. This free website also allows its users with the facility of creating lessons using video, a teacher can make customized lesson plan both publicly or privately.   TED-Ed’s main mission is to spread ideas and thoughts. TED-Ed usually cover almost all sectors like business, science, arts and many This website become more popular as it can be accessible more than hundred languages.

TED-Ed Lessons

1.     There are two types of TED-Ed lessons. One of them is called the original one which is basically in a process of award winning. This lesion is basically for the experts or teachers who have more experiences in specific field, For example the teachers, writers or animators.

2.     There is another kind of lesson which is basically designed for the visitors of the website. This one is easier for the users as the process of making lesson is quite easy .user can add as many question they want. As it is customized way of making own lesson a teacher can make more interesting way they think providing time code. two type of question is provided one is multiple question and open answer. Not only that user can also give brief and extra information with Dig Deeper. Lesson planer also provide open discussion question for all. This website is designed in a way that students and teacher can give their opinion and ideas every possible way.

Advantages:

Advantages of TED-Ed: there are many advantages that the user can find using this website like..

·        This website is very easy to use

·        Easy to modify the other’s work

·        This website if absolutely free so that anyone can use it

·        There is huge number of students and teachers who are cooperative giving thoughts and ideas so that getting quick response can be another advantage.

Challenge:

·        One of the main challenge is that it is very difficult or almost impossible for those who do not have the access of technology or internet as it is an online based tool

·        The limited way of making questions can be very common to learners as we can see that only discussion, question-answer, and multiple choice is provided. But other ways of lesion question pattern could be made like Fill in the blanks, essay writing,

TED talks help English language learners in a variety of ways: There are many ways through which a language learner can be benefited by the TED Talks.

TED transcripts – transcripts of each TED talk are available so that you can read along with the spoken word. This helps you to improve learner’s pronunciation skills.

On Language –  User can find many talks which are given by Expert teachers (Especially language and linguistic teachers). They discuss about the contend of language.

This website is very useful for the people who belongs to the educational field not only that it is very much useful in teaching and discussion of teaching and learning aspects.

 Impression on Everwrite Software:

Everwrite is a software which is not available for everyone as it only can run by paying . This software is basically for those who can use it for both practicing and learning .it is a helpful software that a learner or user can access  to learn of test any kind of grammatical aspect they want.

This software is very much easy to use as there is no difficult options of buttons which a learner or teacher cant understand.Every option is presented very clearly and organized manner. 

It can be proved as very interesting and motivational software as it cover almost every aspect of learning a language. Crammer(tense,prepositions,noun,comma etc), practicing of testing the thesis statements, everything can be found in one software. A learner can feel  motivated because of the way it is presented which is very simple and basically reading based  ,learner or the user can get feedback easily through the software

This software lack communication because there is no proper connection between the software and the learner.though it gives feedback but never explain the problem or the feedback whatever it gives is only the correct answer.and for the incorrect one is almost same answer  which is "INCORRECT!!".

This software do not provide any option to input new learning  or practicing task  for the users.It is a software which can be use by purchasing but it lacks its weight when came at the question of providing variety for the users .Learner cant i find newness while accessing or put new data as exercise as a result it become less interesting for the users.

Not only that this software provide very limited option in every aspect of learning (noun,tense,adjective)for the users to access so that user cant find variety in practicing or testing a task of language.

 So it can be said that this software contain both problem s and  advantages . the way it is designed is very interesting and user friendly  in many way ,at the same time it contains problem for the users but overall it is not a bad for the users.

                                             Academic Word List

AWL is a popular website among the learners and teachers. This website mainly design to expand academic vocabularies. Students need to learn many technical vocabularies which are important in their academic education with its feature,strategy any many more.AWL helps learners to improve themselves through texts of comprehension.

·        Learner can choose any text by their own to find out academic vocabularies using this website they also can practice it by selecting their level of study .

·        Student can learn the highlighted vocabularies by their own

·        This website also provide several word list which can be prove effective for learners.

·        It also provide comprehension text ,learner can also use if for study

·        Highlighter useful tool for developing teaching materials which focus on academic vocabulary, especially for mixed-discipline classes .

·        The AWL Gapmaker is also helpful for the teachers as it provide gaps in the comprehension text .it can be used as a practice material. Like AWL Highlighter they also can select level for whom they are selecting the materials..

·        It provide exercise word list for practice or teaching materials  for teachers.

·        Another important thing is it provide popular website links so that it become more easier to learn more vocabularies and general texts.

User friendliness:

• It is easy to use so that teacher as well as learner can easily use it for study purpose.
• There is descriptions for how to use it both in home page and and every options it provide (AWL Highlighter,AWL Gapmaker,Exercise etc)

Limitation/weakness:

• It do not provide use of same word in different sentence so that student need to work to find by themselves.
• AWL Gapmaker do not provide online solving option to find the error.no feedback system.

Though it has some limitation this website is very effective for teachers and students as well. 

Popular websites for teaching,learning and researching

In the age of technology people are getting so much attached to use technology to become more beneficial as it is  time consuming .in case of teaching and learning technology is getting popular day by day.nowadays websites are playing an important  role for everyone like teachers,students,researchers. Students can practice vocabulary,grammar and many more by using some effective websites.A teacher can find possible materials in these website or they can find the format suitable for his/her class .It is very much beneficial for researchers as many websites include many facilities . In this essay I am going to uphold some of these website which are quite popular among the users and describe their strength and weakness ,the objectives and their effectiveness and what it actually resembles for.

Word smart.com

Word smart is one of the website which is very popular among the learners.this website basically designed for the learners and focus on vocabulary learning.

Objective:The main objective of the site is to teach the learners new vocabularies providing option and possible meaning.

Effectiveness:This is an effective site for learning because it teaches vocabulary not seldom but simpler to harder one,so that learner do not feel lost in first glance.

Strength: 

1.      One of the important strength of this site is it provide a progress report so that learner get aware what score they are doing

2.      It also provide learners performance board of the learner

3.      It also contain points .its mean learner can gather points as they progress.

4.      It contain the list of top scorer

Weakness:

1.      One of the main problem of this site is it didn't provide the correct answer if learner do mistakes but is only show the mistake words learner do.

2.      Another important weakness is time.it provide less time think about the possible meaning

3.      Many words are not recognizable for the learner

4.      The higher level learner reach they have to buy those

Teaching/testing: Instead of focusing both it only focus on testing.

Lextutor

Objective : The main objective of this site is to help the learners ,researcher and teachers to use the specific English word and learn vocabulary .

Effectiveness:  It is a complex and multi task site through which people (learner,researcher and teacher) can be benefited as it helps in Frequency analysis  Range analysis ,Vocabulary Tests and many more.though its complex site but once we understand how to use it ,we will know how beneficial the site is.

Strength:

·         One of the strength is it help for getting an overview of the frequency profile of a text

·         It provide vocabulary test which contains level,

·         There are several vocabulary tests available, including the Vocabulary Levels Test, Vocabulary Size Test, the Word Associates Test, a test of the first 1,000 words, and a checklist test.

Weakness: As it is a online teaching site sometimes the answer can be incorrect .

Crossword puzzles (http//itesj.org/cw

Objective :The main objective of this site is to help the ELS student to learn the vocabulary and grammar providing  materials for ESL/EFL teachers  and learners for example  online textbooks, games and activity. For students there is a large collection of activities including quizzes and crossword puzzles. This paper will present an overview of what is available on these websites.

Effectiveness: It is an effective online site because it works as a online textbook to learn from any site of the world.Students can participate in varieties of activities including quizzes and crossword puzzles.this website also includes ongoing projects that teachers can use or contribute to and online textbooks.

Strength

1.      the first strength of this site is website is it provide lots of variety for learning which is a good thing as there are many website which only provide  similar activity for learning  vocabularies.

2.      teacher or learner can choose options on which they want to work on.(it can be food animals classroom objects or any common word)

3.      it is accessible for all

4.      it also gibes feedback after every activity.

5.      it provide hints so it is effective for learning

Weakness:

·         though it is helpful cannot encourage through activities what a teacher can.

·         cannot explain the feedback briefly  (in case of grammar)

·          only focus on testing

Teaching /testing:Instead of focusing both it only focus on testing

So it can be said that the the importance of those website cannot be ignored as it somehow manages to take the place of a teacher for the students.Teachers  and researchers are also are also getting benefited  as it works as a resource of all they need.

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