Extra credit

What I choose in the list top 100 are Facebook and Skipe.

Facebook is one of the famous social networks in the world. It is different from others in that it is easy to find friends. If a person add another person as a friend, he can know who is the friend's friends.

I think it is best of best because it make people more social and it is so famous that everyone in the world know what it is and how to use it. English is a global language. It will be helpful to make foreigner friends to use communicate in English on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/

Skipe is a instant messaging tool. when I want to contact my friends or when I want to play games with my friends with talking, I used to use it. It's free. I think Using it with foreigners for improving learners' English speaking ability is good. Also some people, including me, say the sound quality is better than other tools.

http://skype.daesung.com/main.asp

Reflection paper

Why is technology necessary for teaching English?

I've learned about teaching English with technology in this class. I already know how it is useful to use technology for teaching English. For being great a techer, nowadays I should know how to teach English with technology in class. It's not choice, but it's essential. I want to be good at technology to teach English with it more efficiently.

I've learned internet-based project work. I know what it is, but I'm not familiar with it. It's difficult for me to use it. Whenever I take classes in the beginning of the semester, if there is presentation evaluations which I make it with computer in a class, I had not taken it because I had never used it. In order to overcome it, I take a computer lecture in this semester and l'm learning. The more I learn it, the more I'm interested in it and feel how it is useful and easy. I want to learn how to associate Internet with teaching English in this class.

My strength is understanding learners' mind. I really know that how English learners who are at low than other students feel when they learn because of they are like me. I want to teach students who do not know English almost, but they are highschool students and want to learn.

My weakness is my English pronunciation and that I have low confidence to use English. My pronunciation is so bad. Everyone say me, " Your pronunciation is so bad so you try to make effort to be good at it. therefore I have low confidence when I stand in front of people for presentation. I will overcome it through technology. In other wise, I get the lots of audio files and try to listen a lot and repeat what they speak.

Actually, I'm afraid of this class because I'm technophobe and I'm not good at English. Although this class is difficult for me to understand, if I make lots of effort, it comes to fruition to me.

The site I choose

A website I analyze is located at http://www.eslpod.com/website/index_new.html. and it speaks about learning English for ESL through podcast or records which has stories and scripts ideas in English. It created by Dr.Lucy Tse and Dr.Jeff McQuillan and Other professors helped it.

Both Dr. Tse and Dr. McQuillan received a Ph.D. in applied linguistics and education at the University of Southern California. The purpose of the site is to help ESL continue to improve their English. Although many site has the same aim, this site is so different than others in that it provide English at a slower speed and use everyday phrases and expressions. I think the most important thing in learning English is to learn through materials which learners understand comfortably. In the left most part, there are introduction about ESLpod such as what is ESL podcast?, learning guide and Testimonials which shows how people feel this site, ESL podcast blog where people use the materials freely and ESL podcast store where people get the more information about variety story ideas and so on. The lower part of the introduction contains the TOP 10 podcasts so that people can know what popular is. The middle part in this site contains ESL podcast blog of this week and in the lower section of it, there is latest ESL podcast. The most right contains about ESL pod cast store. If you want to know more information, click STORE on the top of the site. This site is easy to navigate through and students what they want quickly.