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CREATING HOT LISTS

As a teacher, you can guide your students to the safe and nice websites by creating hot lists. For this reason, teachers should choose the sites that will enhance learning and interest of the students. Filamentality is a way that helps the teachers to reach this aim. By using Filamentality, one can pick up a topic , use fill-in-the-blanks to find the good websites. Moroever, one can easily manage a website without having problem with HTML. Teachers can create their own web-based activities or see the ones made by other users. It is easy to do it. One just click on the button ‘Start a new page’, and the process starts. At the end, one can create Hotlist, Scrapbook, Treasure hunt, Sampler or Webquest that a learner will need. Another useful site is Delicious. One can reach to their own bookmarks (favorite websites) thanks to this website even though s/he does not use their own computer. Moreover, people can share their bookmarks, and see the most popular bookmarks on Delicious.

WEBQUEST

It is the lesson activity provided from internet. It was developed by Bernie Dodge at San Diego State University in 1995. There are two types of webquest, including short-term webquests and long-term webquests. By using a short-term webquest, a learner can have a basic new information. However, after a long-term webquest, a learner can analyze deeply the knowledge and make use of it during another activity. As for how to create a webquest, it is easy for one who knows to place a hyperlink on a document. The main titles used in a webquest are Introduction, Task, Process, Evaluation, Conclusion, Teacher Page and Credits. Also, one look into the given Webquest Templates or the stored examples on the site www.webquest.org before preparing one.

PODCASTING

A podcast is digital media tool that includes audios and videos. A learner or teacher can download a podcast or they can listen to them or watch them. The best point of it is the fact that learner can reach to several podcasts on the net. Also, they can choose the topic that is interesting for them. They can find the podcasts that are suitable for their levels. They can do their own podcasts besides all.Englishcaster is a website that both teacher and learners can directly use the podcast aimed for them. Also, by using the website www.podomatic.com , people can create podcasts after creating an account. They can find lots of podcasts under different categories, and learn the most popular ones of the day. There is also forums in this website that the users can discuss different topics or learn from each other (for example , they can discuss the tips of podcasting.)