The NFSA (National Film & Sound Archieve) offers
educational community a very good website which has lots of digital resources like videos and audio clips that are available for streaming as
well as downloading, to be used by teachers and students.
You will see this page will be coming up on your computer screen:
We can just click on the topics to get into the activities. For example, I choose for on the rails because I'm interested in mapping and some historical as well as geographical knowledge:
For this specific topic, the activities are more on listening with visual aids. Students need to listen to the listening material first and then proceed answering questions based on the listening activity.
While analysing and evaluating this technology, there are noticeably several advantages as well as disadvantages of this tool that I can address. The first good thing is it provides learners with learning language through using the language; which is more of practicality rather than theoretically.
There are several steps to be followed in using this website. Firstly, go click on the link below to get into the website : http://nfsa.gov.au/learning/digital-learning/.
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| The topics are in blue with some details below it. |
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| You can choose your group, either a student, a teacher or a Rail Enthusiast. |
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| We can see at the big map of Australia and know the names of the places there with the attractions for each place. |
For this specific topic, the activities are more on listening with visual aids. Students need to listen to the listening material first and then proceed answering questions based on the listening activity.
While analysing and evaluating this technology, there are noticeably several advantages as well as disadvantages of this tool that I can address. The first good thing is it provides learners with learning language through using the language; which is more of practicality rather than theoretically.
Learning through language
not really systematic
For exploring issues rather than language.
Lots of websites which consist of:
1. Game,
2. Geograpical knowledge (Australia),
3. some Cultural elements intoduced (Fashion, what kind of
clothes are suitable to be wear according to different situation/place).
4. Health (Nutrition, Diet, Disease
like Osteoporosis)
What level of students?
How to use it?
What would students learn?
Advantages:
1. Visual + Audio aids
2.Of advantages for learning Geography ('The ghan').
3. Each of the website
Disadvantages:
1.Need to have Shockwave Player plug-in
2. It's only about Australia
3. Only content-based activity with no language point. But,
teacher can use it as a material rather than rely on the tool itself to teach
language.
no consistency
organisation of the web
unable to control the info= info overload
combinations is good cognitively, study by Richard Maya
long video with only one question= no balance. students
might be demotivated
being forced to watch everything
Audioboo
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