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INTRODUCTION

The Ministry of Education sees ICT as a means, not an end in itself. As such, all

Efforts are concentrated on developing new media as tools in the service of richer

Curricula, enhanced pedagogies, more effective organizational structures in schools,

Stronger links between schools and society, and the empowerment of disenfranchised

Learners.

Te web provides an alternative to the traditional classroom in the delivery

education. A number of changes in educational theory and practice, in particular

theories about what it means to know a language and what the relative roles of

teachers and students are make it an especially important new educational resource.

Changes in the new world of communication also, make it necessary for the web to

become an important component of the educational matrix.

The concept of ICT in education is seen as a system that enables information

gathering, management, manipulation, access, and communication in various forms. In

line with this, the Ministry of Education of Malaysia has formulated three main policies

related to ICT in education.

ICT is for all students. ICT is used as an enabler to reduce the digital gap

between the schools.

ICT is used as a teaching and learning tool, as part of a subject, and as a subject

itself.

ICT is to be used to increase efficiency, productivity, and effectiveness of the

management system.


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WHAT SHOULD A PERFECT WEBSITE HAVE?

1. Interaction between the readers and web site.

Interaction lets the readers to communicate with the web site. If visitors are involved

with the site there is a greater chance of repeat visits as well as improved loyalty. From

the web site I chosen, the interaction between the web site and the readers is done

when activities that teaches an alphabet using is made between the links. For example,

when you click on the link

www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Dell/4678/furbytopg.html , you will find how the

reading activities are done.
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From the home page of the web site, cartoon is used to attract the students.

3. Must have reasons

Children are very smart nowadays. A web site must have a very good reason on why it

must be published. If it is published without any means, then no one is going to surf it.

4. Must have sense of credibility

Readers are very wise. You have to give them enough proof that your claims are true.

They need to see some testimonials and even case studies at least so that they are

sure. What important is, your content must be from yourself.

WEBSITE SELECTION

www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Dell/4678/index-2.html
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As a future English teacher, I have chosen a very interesting website to be aids

on teaching my students-to-be.

The main essentiality why I have chosen the website is because the desire of

mine to teach reading skills to my students. If you believe that reading merely involves

the ability to make sound of the words printed on a page (or even in a letter). It is

important for us to realize that reading is much more complicated than this. My

understanding of the skill I am going to teach and my choice of how I am going to teach

the skill will very strongly influence what and how I will teach.

So, we will take some time trying to understand what reading involves before

going on to think about how actually to teach it.

The website is all about reading skill. It teaches students how to use a letter in

forming a word, the position of letter in a word and many more. Included are the

activities which interacts student with the website. The aids of graphics and pictures are

also included so that students will know what things are the words trying to tell the

student. This website is a kind of simple one selected to be a helps on how to teach

student about reading skill. What I just hope is that the website will going to enhance the

students knowledge about reading better.


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1. THE SELECTIONS OF FONTS

The web page displays many different machines. The fonts availability of the

home page of the website is in comic sans MS. This font appearances is totally fine

balanced on one platform which making it readable to all. The letters are written with a

medium sized font. Some of the fonts are written bolded. This s because some

important things that the reader should take note must be the most attractive one

appeared. This will take the reader attention so that they know what important thing they

should be aware about the teaching web site. The fine controls of the fonts, such as the

cascading style sheets (CSS) which allows specifying of fonts itself, line spacing, size

etc are being finely managed. For example, most of the statements or the sentences

are being centered fixed. Other is that when the spacing used between the sentences is

1.0 which will not make the readers being confused to be read when they are scrolling

down on the web page.

Another point to ponder is the colour using of the web site. The use of colour

from the web page is not being abused. First, the significant proportion of the potential

viewers of the page does not have any problems with colour. The main reason of this

statement is because the colour of the fonts and the background is different. These

unlimited colour palettes will not makes the fonts look gloomy but instead brighter

colours that has been used in the website interpreted deep-rood emoticon. Why I say

this? In some cultures, every colour has its own association. As same as the colours

used in this website, the readers have their own interpretation with the colours of the

fonts and what it implies when they click on the texts.


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From my observation, almost all of the texts are a link. This means, they contains

another pages which shows another information about the one clicked. The texts

change its colours once they have been accessed, providing cues to the user about

what material they have already accessed. On teaching progress, we will know which

part have we taught the children and which part is not by using this advantage. Take a


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look on the example below:


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To compare with the different size of the monitors used by all people around the

world, this websites prevents a very long line of words. It was designed with a maximum

values of widths which compacting simple understandable words in it.

2. GRAPHIC USING

While graphics and icons tend to play a significant role in web site page design,

their use should be carefully thought out. The home page of the web site contains at

least 6 graphics in it. The first one is below the headings and the other 6 is below the

links of words which teaches the reading skill of an alphabet. See the example:

The one below the headings.


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The one below the links.

From the graphics, we can see that the background does not vary with it. So it shows no

complexity between the designations of the graphics used with the one as a

background.

Another thing to be analyzed on the graphics in this website is that it attracts

readers by the way it appears. I am saying this because the colour used are not same

and has their own tone and appealing. The pictures also are different between one

another even though some of it does not really shows the relationship of the pictures

itself with the links they shown.

The pictures are very attracting. This is one of the advantages of the web site if it

wants to attract pupils to surf the page. The children may feels that the pictures are so


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interesting because it is in cartoon mode and we all know that children loves cartoon

much more than a real picture.

An example of cartoon strips if we click on the link

from the home page. You may continue clicking on the button to follow

the stream of the cartoon strip. As the children do this, they may know how to read and

understand the words in the pictures. This is a perfect teaching method by using a web

site.

3. MAIN USAGE OF COLOURS


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Using many different colours within graphics may well result in the browsers for

older machines running out of entries in the colourmap, with unpredictable

consequences. In case of the web designation advantages, as discussed earlier, the

colours of the web page is totally attracting readers especially student to read it. The


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colour varies one another. For example,


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From the pictures above, the colours of the background varies with the pictures in it.

The fonts are pink in colours while the picture doesnt have the same colour used with

the background. We can also see that the colours used are not just in one tone but it is

different with the other colours. They are in soft mood and perharps one students read

it, they will not feel very stress and pressured enough. Let us just think how it will be if

strong and dark colours are used. No children will going to be attracted for sure.

4. LINKS OF INFORMATION

A reading text or a group of reading text on a topic in the home page of the web

site sourced can be used as a stimulus of reading. For example, after studens have

already know the alphabets very well, some exercise or interactive activities are

designed to full fill the purpose of the website. For example:


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The exercise asks the student to click on the pictures that has the same middle sound

as I pig. This is a kind of way on hoe the web site wants to be interactive with the

students. It also shows that the web site has a very important role in reading process

which means that it serves a different pedagogic function.

THE WEAKNESSES

1. LACK OF MULTIMEDIA AIDS

From the web site, it is very hard to find a single multimedia content. What was

mean by multimedia content here is the aids of audios and videos. Movies and sound

are both available to users of the web. One problem associated with this web page is

how hard to watch or hear any digital helps. With the help of multimedia materials,

student will actually going to pronounce the letter better because the page is teaching

student about reading and phonics. It will also make an explosion of knowledge to the

student. This is because those multimedia will going to teach the student with

visualization together with audios.

2. ONLINE CONNECTIVITY

To surf the web page, internet connectivity is so necessary. Without internet connection,

internet explorer is nothing. If student cannot surf the internet, how can they gain the

information presented by the website?

Another problem about internet connectivity is that the area where it is necessary to

connect to the internet is so limited here in our country. Only certain places are being

located as where internet connection is available.


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As a briefing, internet connection is all about money.

3. TEACHERS KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ICT

Using technologies as an aid of teaching means that one have to master the

knowledge of it first. Teaching to someone without knowing what it should be is like a

blind which leads another blind. What happened next is that both then fall into the ditch.

Without knowing how to use the technology helps, how can someone use it as a

teaching material? The student will be more confused what you are trying to do instead

og gaining knowledge. For this, we have to know that it is actually not a burden to learn

about technologies now days but to master it is a must. Especially to the teachers who

are using todays invention.

4. GREATER ACCESS TO COMPUTER

Once computers are very expensive nowadays and only large organizations

could afford to own them. They are also rather large and unless companies or a person

have a lot of space, owning several was a practical impossibility. So what the problem

is? Students are not working. They dont gain money everyday as to show that they

dont have enough money affording to buy a set of computer. Without any devices that

can help them to surf the internet, how they will learn about reading skill by using the

internet? In a short word, owning a device to surf the internet is a problem for some

middle-classed people, so surfing only to the homepage of the website means a lot to

them.

SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO OVERCOME THE WEAKNESSES


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1. USE AIDS OF MULTIMEDIA

The website is an aid for teaching the alphabets uses in words to the students.

So I really suggest that the web designer to put some video or any audio in the web site

to make the student understand the uses of the word in reading processes. For

example, a video or a moving pictures ( one in a GIF form ) must be added at least one

in every page so that student will be more attracted to the website and so that they will

learn how to pronounce ( and use ) the letter very well. This will indirectly teaches them

how to read better.

2. SHORT TERM OF ICT COURSES FOR TEACHERS

When the teachers attend this short term of courses, they will know how to apply

technology in their teaching skill. Even though they will not be so expert on it but at least

they will now know how to teach by using the helps of computer device or the internet.

Student will indirectly gain those knowledge also and they can easily surf to the website

to learn about reading and phonics.

3. ONLINE CONECTIVITY AVAILABILITY IN SCHOOL

It will be a pleasure for all students if they can surf through the internet in their

own school. A school with a computer laboratory helps but without internet is actually no

use. I would like to say that if student can surf to the internet anytime in their school,

they can surf the web site designed so that they can learn about the reading and

phonics. Online availability is not only for this purposes but think about the uses of

internet.


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CONCLUSION

Information technology is constantly evolving. Ways in which information is packaged,

stored and used are constantly changing. The problem with this approach is that it is not

based on a systematic evaluation of the pedagogic potential inherent in the web

recourses. The web site used as an example is not the only one we can use in teaching

skills. There is still a lot of web site we can use as an aids of teaching and learning skill.

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