Wordsift (week 7)

on

This is the website source:http://www.wordsift.com/



Lets make the review.

Introduction

This authoring tool eventually makes teaching and learning in the second language more advance.This technology is suitable for all language teachers (English,German, Dutch,Italian,French and Spanish) and all levels of students.This website brings in the idea of Visualize Text! in further upgrading English language learning. It is a fascinating website that, allows teachers to insert text and play with the results. In simple means, it takes the most used! 50 words!!! of the passage that the teacher inserts and allows brings up Google images!!! that correspond to any word that teacher then clicks on. Teachers also get to use the Visual Thesaurus! word-cloud web on that page, and the best part is that they can see the words that they select in their original context!. In sum,the possibilities for word study using this site are endless. It is a great educational tool which is also fun to use and play with.

Instructions

How do teachers and students go about using this website?? Don't worry just press the link attached below:


The link above briefly explains to us on how to go about using this amazing website for our lessons. Moreover while the speaker is guiding us through the website,the speaker has also done some example activities in order to help us to understand better on how this website actually works. I really hope this can assist teachers in utilizing this website.

Additionally, there is also an example below:



The advantages gained from this website are:
  1. teachers can vary their teaching methods
  2. teachers can teach English in a more interesting way
  3. best way for students to retain or remember vocabulary that they learn
  4. introduce students to a wide range of vocabulary
  5. it provides the really use of a word in a real text and can be used as example sentences
  6. it is a visual thesaurus/dictionary with definitions
  7. helps to identify the important words that appear in a text
  8. can be used as tool for pre-reading activity
  9. allows teachers to manage the amount of vocabulary and language they want to teach in their text
  10. its fun!
  11. develops students language enrichment
  12. can be used to teach many language 
The disadvantages of using this website are:
  1. Not as visual appealing
  2. Cannot change font, size, 
  3. Cannot protect phrases or remove words
  4. No word count or shapes
  5. Must have e-mail to save
  6. Some advanced features of dictionary or thesaurus are not free
Recommendations

All creative teachers out there this is your tool!!! Teachers can do wonders with this website.Teachers can use this tool for pre-reading activities in order to pre-view a text and  to activate students schemata about the upcoming reading text.Teachers can also use this website to review assigned text to identify difficult words and relate appropriate pictures to explain the words or use the thesaurus. Teachers can do group activities by giving students a word each group and asking them to identify and discuss the related words with the given word by using the visual thesaurus. Last but not list, teachers can carry out a whole-class vocabulary test. Teachers can use the common to rare link and show the images from selected words and expect students to recognise the unfamiliar words, and relate the word with the best picture that represents the word.


Referencesforthepicture:Wordsift.com
Referencesforthevideos:teachertraining.com andgwientjesyoutubechannel.

Comments

Post a Comment