Web- based lessons

When a teacher incorporates one or several Web sites to a lesson, we are referring to Web-based lessons. These lessons might be conducted in a traditional classroom with an online component, or entirely online, from every participant’s own house. Web sites can be used in a language lesson for a variety of purposes, including learning any language feature, research, collaboration with teachers and learners around the world, and many others.
Of course, teacher surveillance plays a critical role in the success of a Web-based lesson. In order to point students in the right direction, Web-based lessons should include specific steps describing how and when the site will be used during the course.

This is an example of a lesson plan for a Web-based class:

Class/Level: ESL / EFL basic level
Computer Time: One academic hour
Aim: To learn (and practice) the use of superlative form of adjectives
Objectives:
To learn (and practice) basic Internet navigation skills
To find and summarize information on a Web site
Web Site: Roadside America http://www.roadsideamerica.com
Steps
Pre-computer classroom activity
1. Class Brainstorm/Mind Map:
a. Do you know some tourist attractions in NYC?
b. What are some of the largest, smallest, tallest, strangest and most amazing things you know or have heard of in the United States?
Computer- online activity
2. Go to Roadside America at http://www.roadsideamerica.com
Explain to students that this is a Web site that features the most unusual tourist attractions in the U.S.
3. Click on The Electric Map
4. Instruct students (working in small groups) to select three states. Students click on the state (from the map or the list) and read about the tourist attractions on that state. At each state instruct students to make a list of the largest, smallest, tallest, shortest and strangest attractions they read about. They can also write short (three lines) descriptions of the attractions.
5. Ask students to report back to the class on the attractions they visited.
Follow-up activities:
Ask students to select one tourist attraction from Roadside America they found interesting, funny or weird and to write a detailed description of the selected attraction. Switch descriptions between groups and ask them to draw a picture of the attraction above or beneath their partner's text. Ask students to share the illustrations in class. For fun they can compare their drawings with the photograph of the attraction on the Web site.