Time To Be An Evaluator!

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Hello everyone!

This week, I am gonna talk about websites. Websites are extremely useful and benecial tools for almost all areas but especially it is used in education. Today, almost every teacher use some web tools like websites, podcasts etc. Because it is an visual and concrete way to help the students to understand the lesson's aims.

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For this week's task I'll evaluate a website which is used by ELT teachers and designed for ELT teachers as well. It is Designerlessons and it is all about lesson plans categorized for each stage of learners. (pre-intermediate, intermediate, upper intermediate, advanced)

The authors of this website are George Clinton and Neil McMillian. They are both english teachers and teaching trainers. According to them lessons should be fun and inspiring, useful and relevant, spontaneous and intelligent, unplugged and sometimes surprising. And they shouldn't follow the rules. Every lesson plan has its own aims, stages, focused skills. Stages are mostly like discussion, video comprehension (optional), questions, activities.

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The purpose of the website is to engage and promote conversation in a semi-controlled way. The teacher is responsible for guiding and correcting the language production in class.

We can't say this website is up-to-date as the last post that has been posted is on April 20,2016. It is the negative point of this website. Because for the education, it should be live and timely in order to make it more valuable.

Posts are appropriate for the target audience, this site may not seem colorful but plans are supported with appealing visual aids and pictures. And there is no broken links.

Teachers can use plans directly or they can change them a bit according to the their tasks.

In my opinion, it is a good example of ELT websites so I would highly recommend it. As it is full of fun and successful mainly because it really does serve its aims. Furthermore both students and teachers have fun while learning.

Hope you like my website evaluation. Now I am waiting for the comments :)