10/18 Reading & Writing

  

  Reading & Writing 

 Once again, the teacher let us access to more websites that can help students enhance their reading and writing activity. In my opinion, writing with the involvement of technology is a helpful way to reduce mistakes and some grammatical problems because we can install some spell checkers to fix the errors we make like Grammarly, a plugin that can be connected to Word. Furthermore, we can write more authentically and clearly by using other websites. However, I think technology has its pros and cons. If we rely on technology too much, we may forget how to write correctly when needing to take an exam without spell checkers. Consequently, we make even more mistakes when the Internet is taken away. Therefore, we must check out the words that are fixed by the spell checkers in case we make the same mistakes. 

Today, I explore a website called VoiceThread. I think the biggest advantage of this website is that we can post a presentation publicly and receive feedback from all over the world. I consider the main problem of this website is that the quality of the videos is uneven. For example, some people may post a three-minute-long video without speaking. Therefore, teachers need to spend extra time searching for suitable videos.