Group 6's website

The website was designed for primary school students, since all the developers were primary school teachers. The website designed could therefore be a platform of resources for the students to continue self-studies beside classroom time. The main focus is to train their reading skills since reading plays an important role in the new English curriculum. There were ten sections in the website.

It is hoped that the website can bring about a multi-dimensional learning environment to the students and the students can learn how to read, interact with digital texts in such context. It is expected that the students will take a more autonomous role and use more of their creative mind, with the help from teacher-facilitator, using our website as a tool for reading texts, researching more about the texts in related links and admiring each others’ written work (tongue twisters).

This website can be used by the students for self-learning. Students can choose a particular text type to read and complete the online quizzes related. They can click on a particular word to learn its pronunciation. In addition to self-learning, this website can also be used as an assisting tool in classroom teaching. Some teaching plans were provided online under the section “Let’s teach”.

After developing this project page, we found that technologies were not difficult to use, Dreamweaver and Hot Potatoes were both user friendly. A website developed by teachers would fit learners’ need since teachers knew their students better than other program developers. Students learn very fast, they learn to use new technology, such as forum and guestbook, quickly. CALL can not only be used to assist classroom learning, it can also be used by students for self-learning. A well-designed CALL could make learning more efficient. You can feel free to browse our website.

Dora, Fiona, Paul & Venus