Website

I chose Wikipedia as mine website of interest:

http://www.wikipedia.org/

On this website you can create articles, practice reading and writing, edit existing articles, choose the language you want to practice and you can be a member of the community.

Conditions:

1) Interaction: you can have some interaction depending on the activity that you want your students to do for example students can work in groups and create an article about their hometown. Working in groups the students interchange ideas and they practice speaking, listening, reading and writing because they are talking to each other in English in order to create ideas to write the article.

2) Authentic Audience: The students will be able to write an article, edit articles that already been writing, exchanging ideas and thoughts with people all over the world and they can also upload videos and images but on an asynchronous way.

3) Meaningful activities: This website is very useful for writing and reading but not very useful for speaking and listening, so writing activities can be meaningful you can ask the students to translate an article, to create one, to compare, to work in groups and later you can ask them to make a presentation about the article they have chosen or written, in this way the learning is meaningful.

4) Exposure to/creation of varied language: This website is very useful because students create articles on the foreign language and they can read in different languages.

5) Right amount of time/feedback: With this kind of activities you can work with the students in numerous classes, it takes some time to write an article so you can ask the students to delivered it on their own time, giving them feedback on different classes and through Internet (email) to make sure that they are doing a good work and understanding what it is difficult for them.

6) Appropriate to personalities, styles, intelligences:Internet fits different types of personalities and intelligences, on the website you will find pictures, there are articles about history, art, math, society, technology, science and biographies. You can also work with different projects such as:

	Commons Free media repository		Wikinews Free-content news		Wiktionary Dictionary and thesaurus
	Wikiquote Collection of quotations		Wikibooks Free textbooks and manuals		Wikisource Free-content library
	Wikispecies Directory of species		Wikiversity Free learning materials and activities		Meta-Wiki Wikimedia project coordination

7) Motivating: It motivates student to create articles that will later be uploaded to the page for everyone to see so their self-esteem increases and they also become more autonomous because they are working on their own with the guidness of the teacher; to edit articles already written on the web so they can add their ideas to existing articles and help to improve them; to read articles that they won't usually read on paper with links to guide the students into more details investigations, so it is a very interactive and motivating website with different activities.

8) Student-centered: This website will aloud the students to solve problems of writing and reading focusing in their interests, they can choose an specific article to read or to create making them active and responsible participants on their learning process.

9) Autonomy:Wikipedia gives students the chance to work on their own with the guide of the teacher, students can learn from their mistakes and they can keep track of the article their wrote and they will be able to see what was wrong with it or what can be enhanced.

10) Multimodal: With Wikipedia you can do several activities such as creating and editing for writing and reading so I think it is multimodal on those abilities but not on speaking and listening.

11) Comfortable environment: the page itself is welcoming, you can choose the language you want to read, it is not a page with bright colors so it is not a bother. There are a lot of pictures and not only words and you can also be a member of the community, a sense of belonging.