CURSO DE ESPECIALIZAÇÃO EM ENSINO DE                                                                                                     

 SEARCH ENGINES    

 http://www.google.co.uk/help/basics.html

http://www.google.co.uk/help/refinesearch.html

http://www.google.co.uk/help/features.html

 PART A -   Surf the links above and

      a) make a summary of the most important Google Web Search Features;

      b) use different strategies to find out information about ONE of the following topics: second

          language acquisition; communicative approach; classroom research; language functions.

      d) Send a report to our discussion list including  your summary  and your search results.

      c) Compare Google with the following search engines:

http://www.ask.com/

http://www.findarticles.com/

http://www.alltheweb.com/

 

d) Find out information about "communicative competence".

 

e) Make a report about the main features of the three search engines and include a list of the most important  information pieces you found about "communicative competence".

         f)  Read and comment your classmates' reports.     

PART B  -  search images and sounds

 

Suggested sites for images:

 

http://www.clipart.com/en/

http://office.microsoft.com/clipart

http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/JapanProj//FLClipart/

 

Suggested sites for sounds:

 

http://www.ehow.com/how_9444_find-cool-sounds.html

http://www.fozzy42.com/SoundClips.html

http://www.findsounds.com/index.html

 

     1. Try to find out other good sites for images and sounds and share them with your classmates.

 

    2. Select multimedia  material, from different sites, to prepare a lesson to teach one language function. Organize the material in a word file. Attach it to  an e-mail message and send it to our group