On the sixth meeting we were discuss about the characteristic of search engine. We as learners have to use the information accurately and creatively. Mr. Dedy was giving the information about How to evaluate website with six criteria that are ; Authority,Purpose,Coverage, Currency, Objectivity, Accuracy.
Mr. Dedy gave the assignment for us to evaluate the English learning websites and authentic website .I was contribute with my friends that are Ricky Ilham kurniawan and Vany Ika putri to evaluate and make essay.
First Essay
EVALUATING WEBSITES FOR ENGLISH LEARNING
EVALUATION OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING WEBSITE (ENGLISHCLUB)
- Authority
This website provides detailed information of the website founder, Josef Essberger and the people who contribute regularly. Most of the people who contribute on the materials to this website are English teachers and TEFL consultants. EnglishClub.com is supported by IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language).
- Purposes
The general purpose of this website is to help people learn English. Specifically, this website helps people to learn basic English skills such as speaking, listening, writing, and reading. Not only basic English skills, this website also help the users to learn grammar.
- Coverage
EnglishClub.com promises that everyone who joins this website will get useful materials and will be able to speak English. This website gives learning materials in depth. It also provides many features that useful such as test, quizzes, games, videos, articles, lesson plans, and many other learning resources. This website has a gateway to TEFL.net which is maintained by the same person, Josef Essberger.
- Currency
For the learning materials, this site doesn’t give any information about when the materials were written or updated. But for articles, they give the information. Because there is no time information of the learning materials, test, and quizzes, we believe that those parts are not updated. But the articles are updated monthly.
- Objectivity
The information in Englishclub.com is not presented with any particular biases. The advertisements there are not related to the content of this website because those come from google ads. There is an English Store page that sells selected English learning and teaching resources for all levels which all products are directly developed and recommended by English Club.
- Accuracy
The founder is supported by IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language). We believe that this website is accurate because this site provides correct information related to English language lessons. The materials follow the rules of grammar, spelling, and composition. But unfortunately, this website does not give a bibliography.
ESSAY
English Club (EnglishClub.com) is a free website for English language learning platform. English Club provides various courses and test that can be accessed by anyone. Through our evaluation, we determined some factors to distinguish this site over others on the internet. Some of those factors are: How this site act as a reference for learning, the materials & activities that are provided in the site, and the presentation of the website.
English Club acts as a great reference for English language Learners and teachers. With this site students can learn the four language skills listening, reading, speaking, and writing. They can also study grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. All of those is done through games, videos, lesson plans, quotes, blogs, pictures and a variety of other resources. This site allows the members to make their own English page with blogs, photos, videos, music, groups and friends. Teachers are allowed to create a group discussion for their students or a group for fellow teachers around the world. English Club promises that everyone who joins this website will get useful materials and will be able to speak English.
We find this website useful as it gives learning materials in depth. It also provides many features that useful such as test, quizzes, games, videos, articles, lesson plans, and many other learning resources. This website has a gateway to TEFL.net which is maintained by the same person, Josef Essberger. The materials follow the rules of grammar, spelling, and composition. But unfortunately, this website does not give a bibliography.
Moreover, the information in English Club is not presented with any particular biases. The advertisements there are not related to the content of this website because those come from google ads. There is an English Store page that sells selected English learning and teaching resources for all levels. All products are directly developed or highly recommended by English Club.
Based on our of evaluation, English Club has a lot of beneficial information and tools for learning and teaching English. This site is accurate and does not give any particular biases. However, the learning materials are not really up to date. We definitely recommend anyone to use this site as your English Learning platform due to the various tools it provides.
Second essay
EVALUATION OF AN AUTHENTIC WEBSITE (NEW YORK TIMES)
The founder of this news portal is Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones (the news portal was first created in 18th September 1851). This website does not give any information about the author/founder. However, we can find about it from other sources (such as Wikipedia). In this news portal, every articles are being provided with the information about the writer and when it was published. The article authors of The New York Times are consisted of the staff from New York Times but also other from freelancer who are trusted by the company.
The general purpose of this news portal is to provide readers and subscribers with news information through various of articles. The information or the news that are covered in this website are not limited only to U.S but also other countries (global news).
The information that were given are in depth and detailed. Information related to the article can be used as an English Learning Resource (Reference). For example, expanding various vocabulary and variety of reading activities.
New York Times is always up to date to cover the latest information or news that are being provided for the readers and especially for the subscribers. Each article is also provided the date of when it was published in order for the readers to be informed whether the informed the validity of the news/information they have read.
The information that was provided in the site are mostly factual and commonly unbiased (with an exception of the opinion section). This news portal provides various of different topic (World, Politics, Business, Food, Arts and many more) that can be seen on the main page. New York Times does not contain any irrelevant advertisements to disturb any readers (since the website mainly gains profit from the weekly subscription).
New York Times provides data or information that are needed by the readers regarding the topic of a certain article, either the data being shown directly in the website or provided the valid information sources.
ESSAY
New York Times (nytimes.com) is a premium news portal that provides a great quality of information for any free users as well as their subscribers. Various articles are available in this news portal and can be used as a news reference, and possibly as an English learning source. Through our evaluation, we determined some factors in order to further identify this news portal. Those factors are: as a reference for learning, the materials provided, and the presentation of the news portal.
New York Times acts as a decent reference for English learning activity. Even though the main purpose of this news portal to be a portal for news sources, New York Times can also be used as a source to find information references for reading activity and a class discussion. The variety of words used in the articles can also be use as a way to expand any individual’s vocabulary. However, it is important to note that there will be no English materials/theories that will be explained in this news portal.
New York Times as a news portal, is very useful. This news portal provides articles with various different topics globally. Not only just common news such as political issues and economic crisis, but New York Times also provides some interesting topic (World, Politics, Business, Food, Arts and many more) that can be seen on the main page.
The articles that are presented in New York Times are quite trustworthy and factual. New York Times rarely gives any biased information (with an exception of the opinion section) as the writers are those who are either the qualified staff or a trusted freelancer (not specifically explained in nytimes.com). The validity of the information in each article can usually be checked in the news portal because the date of when said article was published as well as the informants or links are provided. The advertisements usually consist of job listings or other interesting articles which are not irrelevant and distracting for readers.
Based on our of evaluation, New York Times is a great news portal. This site published many articles that are factual and does not give any particular biases if needed. However we cannot recommend this news portal as a English learning reference, as there are many other websites that are intended for such purpose (such as EnglishClub.com). With that said, it is a great reference for general information.
Mr. Kurniawan also tasked us to make outline and annotations with diigo
We have to chose the topic of useful and interesting resources from internet that are:
- Internet safety
- plagiarism
- netiquette
This is my diigo that i have been annotate :
Ajeng's Blog 