Tuesday, 16 September 2014

                                   MOUNT TABOR TRAINING COLLEGE
                                                   PATHANAPURAM  

                                                         SEMESTER II

              EDU10.2 TECHNO-PEDAGOGIC CONTENT KNOWLEDGE ANALYSIS-ENGLISH
  
                     TOPIC: CONTENT-BASED WEB RESOURCES
                                   -NEED
                                   -WAYS OF USING


SUBMITTED TO                                                                   SUBMITTED BY

 Prof.  E.K.JIJAN                                                                         BETTY M RAJAN
 MOUNT TABOR TRAINING COLLEGE                                 ENGLISH
 PATHANAPURAM                                                                     REG. NO. 13 303 010



INTRODUCTION


          “As the digitisation of society unfolds, today’s world has become a wired one, encapsulated by

 the World Wide Web” - (UNESCO, 2002)


            “We view an internet as an extension of human powers of understanding”
                                                                                           -Marshall McLuhan
                                 To memorise is less important than to master the skill of searching the web.

Students need the ability to respond and adapt themselves to these changes. Students need to actively

 interpret and organise the information that is available, fitting it into prior knowledge or revising

prior knowledge in the light of what they have learned. A decade ago, the use of computers in the

language classroom was a concern of only a small number of specialists. But now, with the advent of

multimedia computing and the internet, and the role of computers in language teaching has become

an important issue confronted by a large number of language teachers throughout the world.

Technology is useful not just in language leaning but in the study in the literature, culture and film

also. Ten years ago it would have been difficult to connect technology and culture or technology and

literature or to find a synergy between those fields. Now, technology is the medium that binds

together these disciplines.

CONTENT

                                Web is an enormous collection of knowledge in the form of words, images, video

 and programmes. These are efficiently organised in the Internet. Internet is the abbreviation of Inter-

network system and is described as network of computer system. In a general sense, the Internet is

defined as “a global pool of information and services, accessibly by means of locally executed

interface software”. It is a huge network of computers, which links many different types of

computers, which share a common mechanism for addressing computers and a set of communication

protocols for communication between two computers on the network.

   The World Wide Web contains millions of  sources lead us to information of infinite variety, stored

in computer networks across the world WWW contains lacks of books from famous  libraries  across

the world .There is a large number of sources to get information for academic studies and research in

Web. The Web refers to a specific kind of internet interface. The Web documents contains link that

lead to other web pages and they contain graphics, sound and so on which open up new possibilities

for presenting information .The Web was invented  in early 1990s  by  Tim-Bernese-lee

               The concept of a web resource is a primitive in the web architecture and is used in the

definition of its fundamental elements. It is graphical, easy to use system on the computer that offers

a vast amount of information. It consists of a huge collection of documents web pages that are stored

on computers around the world .Web pages provide a vast amount of information and can include

graphics, sounds and even movies. The collection of pages that gives information about an

 organisation or an individual is called website. It is the most popular and promising method of

accessing the internet. The main reason for its popularity is the use of a concept called Hypertext

Hypertext
                    It is the text displayed on a computer or other electronic devices with references

(hyperlinks) to the other text that the reader can immediately access by a mouse click. Apart from

running text, hypertext may contain table, images and other presentational devices. Hypertext is the

underlying concept defining the structure of the World Wide Web, making it an easy to use and

flexible format to share information over the internet. And a hyperlink is a graphic text is an internet

document that can connect readers to another web page, or another portion of a document. Web users

 will usually find at least one hyperlink on every page. The simplest form of these is called embedded

 text or embedded link.


                           Hypertext documents on the Internet are called web pages. Web pages are created by

 using a special language called Hyper Text Mark-up Language (HTML).It is a sub set of the more

generalised language called Standard Generalized Mark -up language (SGML) which is a powerful

language for linking documents for easier electronic access.


Hypertext Poetry
                             Hypertext poetry is a poetry that has had hyperlinks embedded into it by the reader.

 Internet learners select a poem and then they add hyperlinks to that to help explain their

interpretation of the poem. The hyperlink can link to pictures, words, other poems, and any allusion

the line of words in the poem brings to the reader’s mind.

                      The use of new digital media for reading ,writing and representing  poetry encourages

 an exploration of the relationship between text and image and how and sound might be used to

mediate meaning -making Literature or poetry  for that subject matter be lifted from the printed page

 and explored in multi-modal ways like pictures, paintings audio clips etc. New media have an

immersive and per formative potentials, that encourages the students to get into a poem and play with

 it. Giving students opportunities to create poems or respond to and annotate existing poems using

new media, enables them to use technology in meaningful ways. In a sense all use of web resources is

 educative and it involves access to information and contains huge quantities of data on numerous

topics.
 1. It has information and contains most of the advanced research topics is highly technical or

 scientific areas besides information on very pretty topics.


2. It provides wider access to good quality education at low cost.


3. It provides information and education to the wider population located in every nook and corner of

the globe.

4. The learning process through these resources is interesting and interactive

Virtual classroom
                                Virtual class room is web based environment that allows participating in live

training events without need to travel. students can listen to lectures, participate in lab exercises, ask

questions and receive feedback just as he/she do in conventional classrooms .It saves  the expenses

and travel  time to a training site. These are the classrooms functioning in a system of virtual reality.

These are cyber classrooms, where the teacher and the students can converse in real time. In every

sense, a virtual classroom tries to stimulate, in every way it can, the learning platform provided by a

conventional classroom. These classrooms are capable of replacing partially or totally the

conventional educational, evaluative and administrative functioning of a regular classroom by

 adopting the advanced computer and ICT technologies like the Internet, e-mail, online chatting,

www, CD ROMs, DVDs, teleconferencing and video conferencing.

NEED
                       The need of Web resources is that it makes interactive, authentic, meaning learning

opportunities possible. Learners can observe, explore, recreate and receive immediate feedback about


 real objects, phenomena, and process that would otherwise be too complex, time consuming or

 dangerous. Teachers can focus students’ attention on learning objectives when real-world

environments are simplified, causality of events is clearly explained and unnecessary cognitive tasks

 are reduced through these sources. There are a number of appropriate options available to the

students for interacting with their teachers and with their colleagues with the help of these resources

   WAYS OF USING
                                      While going through a descriptive poem or a short story, the leaner has to

visualise the scene with all its colourful details. This can be made much easier and enjoyable if the

teacher can provide the leaner, an opportunity for exploring the ‘web’ and find similar still pictures of

 the same, like copies of the world famous paintings and photographs. To enable the leaner to

 visualise the scene, the teacher can ask the leaners to search for famous paintings which picturise

 similar scenes with all their idyllic charm and beauty.


                              The teacher can help the leaner by suggesting that they can utilise web resources

for the purpose. The extensive use of computer technology in widening the scope and range of the

leaners understanding of literature. There are different sites, where one can get the video, audio and

presentation files of different kinds of literature. If we would like to download the audio version of

the poem, it may get from websites like www.libirvox.org or www.thoughtaudio.com. Some sites like

 www.youtube.com for the visualisation of the audio.


                            Sometimes we may not find the appropriate file in the net. Under such

circumstances, we can seek the help of a worldwide community by posting a request for extending

the possible help in the above said sites or to the larger teacher communities across the world like

www.britishcouncil.com and also can even post a request in sites like www.libirvox.org for the audio

versions of poems or stories. We can link the downloaded audio or video files to the text stored in

your computer or to internet in a connect-classroom. ‘Hypertext’, ‘Hyperlink’, and the ‘Hypertext

poetry’ can be used for such purposes


CONCLUSION  
                                 Technology can indeed add enormous value to human endeavours. Web related

tools are intrinsically appropriate for language leaning. They provide the user, a high degree of

immersion and the potential for varied interaction. The convergence of full-motion video, sound, still

images, text, graphics and animation reconstructs the leaner, the multi-dimensional nature of

language-its visual, nonverbal and cultural as well as linguistic dimensions.


REFERENCE
                               www.google.com

                                Wikipedia

                                 Web resources










                                               

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