An Overview of 6 Websites Evaluation from CALL Essentials

Ch.2. PIZZAZ! People Interested in Zippy and Zany Zcribbling

Instructional goals and objectives: The website is designed to provide simple creative writing and oral storytelling activities with copyable handouts for use with students of all ages.
Teaching/learning approaches or philosophies: This websites provides many interesting activities for learners to accomplish. It is a kind of task-based website.
Intended target audiences: ESL students who drive for improving their creative writing.
Required levels of language proficiency: From beginner through advanced.
Relevant technical information: No.

Ch.3. Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab

Instructional goals and objectives: To train learners’ listening comprehension mainly.
Teaching/learning approaches or philosophies: It provides various audio links for learners to evaluate their listening comprehension level.
Intended target audiences: Learners who long for improve their listening ability.
Required levels of language proficiency: From beginner (easy) to advanced (difficult).
Relevant technical information: No. Probably a good set of earphone.

Ch.4. MSN messenger

Instructional goals and objectives: To make people to have a convenient and easy communication space.
Teaching/learning approaches or philosophies: People can train their listening, speaking, writing and reading ability through using MSN system to communicate with others.
Intended target audiences: No specific target audiences, as log as you want to use it. Namely, people of all ages.
Required levels of language proficiency: People of levels of language proficiency. (If the learner’s English proficiency is not so well, he/she may consider setting a Chinese version one.
Relevant technical information: MSN system is required, of course.

Ch.5. Filamentality

Instructional goals and objectives: To help educators learn how to create their own websites.
Teaching/learning approaches or philosophies: It teaches people to create their website step by step; it classifies each process into each category so that learners are easy to understand.
Intended target audiences: People who long to create a website of their own.
Required levels of language proficiency: Intermediate to Advanced.
Relevant technical information: No.

Ch.6. Inquiry Page

Instructional goals and objectives: To help learners get a better understanding of the inquiry concept.
Teaching/learning approaches or philosophies: By charts, descriptions and hypertext to help learners know better.
Intended target audiences: Learners who want to know more about the inquiry concept.
Required levels of language proficiency: Intermediate to advanced learners.
Relevant technical information: No.

Ch.7. Cable News Network

Instructional goals and objectives: To inform people all over the world of some international affairs.
Teaching/learning approaches or philosophies: It just presents a large number of news articles for learners to read and listen to.
Intended target audiences: People who would like to know the current news.
Required levels of language proficiency: Intermediate to advanced learners.
Relevant technical information: No. Maybe a good set of earphone is recommended.