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A CALL Online Student Reviews this Web Project Miki Sakuma from Japan Original Site of Student Web Project Area Restaurants Recommended by St. Michael's College Students ESL Students: Ken Ninomiya, Masako Okawa,and Harumi Ono from Japan Professor: Christine Bauer-Ramazani, Michael's College in Winooski, Vermont The students who created the project: Masako Okawa, Harumi Ono, and Ken Ninomiya I was impressed with seeing the students` projects. As some of the students who made the web sites are my classmates, I can tell my classmates had never made websites before Christine's class. I can imagine how they were excited with that project. There are three reasons why I think this technological project, worked well in ESL classroom. First, students must be highly motivated because nowadays getting the skills of computers becomes necessary in daily life and a lot of students want to acquire the computer skills very much. Second, after the students completed their project, they are able to feel that they could acquire a computer skill: making a web page and also that they improve their English because they actually used English in their web sites and communicated with native-speakers (for example, clerks in the restaurants). Third, I believe that high-level learners can improve their English through content based instruction. (From my classmates, I can tell that the students, who made the web sites, are high-level.) In this point, presenting technology in EFL/ESL classroom is a really nice topic in the content based classrooms." Miki Sakuma, MATESL, 5/31/2001 Christine Bauer-Ramazani's description of this CALL project. Return to: Collaborative Projects Integrating Technology | Home Page   TOPICS Online Magazine - ©1997-2007 - All rights reserved Published by Sandy and Thomas Peters - topics.mag@gmail.com