User:Marysidorova

SLA: Internet tools that support writing language skills (the table for assessment) Among I-net techniques supporting writing we can name e-mailing, blogging, doing WebQuests and writing to Wikipedia. They are also connected with reading skills, by the way. They can be divided into 2 groups according to their organization: thematically organized (WebQuests and Wikipedia) and chronologically organized (e-mailing and blogging). Let us make a scale for these activities assessing and performing the evaluation in the form of the table. Nine parameters that can be used are divided into 3 large groups: A.	Form: 		1. Simplicity (of access and doing). 2. Comprehensive layout. 3. Composition/coherence/image/form itself. B.	Function: 	4. Authenticity. 5. Potential for creativity. 6. Potential for collaborative work. C.	Result: 	7. Development of computer skills. 8. Development of language (reading and writing) skills. 9. The possibility to the further use of the obtained result by others.

The table itself could look like this: No of parameter	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Total e-mailing Blogs WQuests WikiPedia You can ask any user (may be a teacher or a student) to assess these activities, putting numbers from 1 to 4 (from the best to the worst) and after that to summarise the numbers and draw a conclusion. The activity which has min score is a winner. As for me, I tried to do it myself and I’ve got the following results:

No of parameter	1 (sim)	2 (lay) 	3 (com)	Form	4 (auth)	5 (cre)	6 (coll)	F	7 (c.sk)	8 (l.sk)	9 (use)	R Total e-mailing	1	4	4	9	1	4	4	9	4	2	4	10 27 Blogs	2	3	1	6	2	3	3	8	2	1	3	6	20 WQuests	4	1	3	8	3	1	2	6	1	4	2	7	22 WikiPedia	3	2	2	7	4	2	1	7	3	3	1	7	21 So, in my case the winner is Blogging (but the results are not very differentiated). As you can see, it’s possible to assess Form, Function and Result by themselves for each activity. So, here Blogs win in Form and Result, WebQuests in function. To make the results more realistic and differentiated, you can also use the 10-mark scale and interview more people.

Maria Sidorova, Omsk