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Category 2 Silver award

  • Title :
  • Subject :
    Foreign language English
  • Publisher :
  • Country :
    Denmark
  • Evaluation :
    • The website is easy to enter, and the immediate impression is that it is also easy to use and navigate The page layout on screen is attractive and clear with plenty of white space
    • The activities are straightforward, simple to follow and test the reader's understanding
    • There is allowance made for differentiation
    • The text on New Zealand is simple and informative and a good introduction to the country
    • There is a very good selection of learning tasks, including Reading and Listening (see for example the page on Alligators under Wildlife)
    • A very comprehensive on line materials pack providing high quality language learning materials as easily exploitable, by teachers, or by learners as an autonomous learning tool.
    • The material enables the users to take advantage of a wide choice of very relevant, effective digital language learning resources, including assessment activities.
    • The user of the online material can very easily choose to work with any of the texts and connected activities (Did you get it, Work with words, Present) of the 6 categories at 3 different level of difficulty.
    • The application takes into account differentiation as it enables the teacher to easily, assign different texts or exercises to different learners or groups of learners at different levels, track the learners' progress thanks to particularly well-designed and efficient Learning Management System (my Site).
    • "Present" is a really innovative learning activity which enables the learner to easily plan, design and display sophisticated presentations about the texts studied, embedding videos, sound, pictures which can be viewed by the other learners via the "class wall padlet" facility.
    • A series of really well designed video tutorials (Reading tools, students' presentations, for teacher) enable learners and teacher to easily work out how the various appliances of the LMS can best be used.
    • A rich interactive material with many activities: listening, talking, writing, watching films, exercises.
    • Many interesting topics for young people; the main categories are wildlife, countries, sports, youth culture, music, and technology.
    • Each subtopic has three levels of complexity, and the students can train on one level and go to the next one using the first level as basis; the three levels provides differentiation in a good way inside the same framework.
    • The students are challenged in many ways through a variation of exercises; they can save their work on My Site, and they can make presentations through slide shows, written texts, and videos on the Class Wall.
    • The pages are colorful, and the images are of high quality.
    • The texts are spoken in a good way by mother tongue speakers.
    • The teacher can give homework by using a special teacher's button leading to the homepage pages.
    • There are a lot of funny and playful lecture starters that can be organized by the teacher (stealing marshmallows, playing knots and crosses etc.); the exercises build a vocabulary and a grammar that can be used in new activities.
    • The technology is easy to handle.