Prepared by Michael Krauss, J.D.,
M.A.T.
Faculty, Academic
English Studies,
Lewis
& Clark College
This site is designed for those who are involved
with Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) for students of
English as a Second or Foreign Language.
I. Comprehensive Sites on CALL
Labs
II. What kinds of software should you
be looking at?
http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/teacher/technology/lab/software.htm#kinds
Some of the functions of desktop software can be achieved with
Web-based resources, some of which are free and are linked to
below.
III. Where can I find CALL software? What
about shareware/freeware?
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IV. What Web-based resources should be
included in a CALL Lab?
V. What Web authoring tools should be in a CALL
Lab? How can teachers and students use them?
A. Tools to create materials to be used online:1. Quia - Create online games (many formats), quizzes (several types), surveys and as many class pages (home pages) as you like with Quia. You put links to materials you or others have created. Here is a class page created for this training and another class page for a reading course I teach. Click here for directions on how to use Quia. Here's a PowerPoint presentation on Quia and its features. http://www.quia.com/web/Students can create with Quia too. Here is a student page that demonstrates some of the best Quia activity formats. Interested in having students build their own Quia activities? Here are lesson plans. http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/quiacreations/quiacreations.html
Quia is free if you access materials posted online by others, but costs $49.99 per year to create/edit materials of your own. You can get a free 30 day trial.
2. Quizzes - author, administer and grade quizzes online with QuizCenter or QuizStar. Both are free at this time.
http://school.discovery.com/quizcenter/quizcenter.htm
http://quizstar.4teachers.org/indexi.jsp3. Surveys - Zoomerang.com and SurveyMonkey allow you to create online surveys free of charge. Zoomerang keeps records of results for 10 days. SurveyMonkey is limited to 10 questions and 100 responses, but there are no banner ads on surveys. Sample survey created with Zoomerang.
http://www.zoomerang.com/Login/index.zgi
http://www.surveymonkey.com/4. Web Worksheet Wizard - Post text and images along with links. Can be used to create integrated lessons around a particular topic or reading. Here's a simple report (poster id 49061). Here's a comprehensive, integrated lesson on the Kyoto Protocol (poster id 57282).
http://wizard.hprtec.org/5. TeacherWeb - Allows teachers to create a basic home page easily by just filling in blanks with information. Your Web page resides on a server provided by TeacherWeb. You can build a hotlist of your favorite links, post announcements and homework, and write a short biography. There is also a template for creating WebQuests.
http://www.teacherweb.com/6. Filamentality - A free click 'n build Web site that allows teachers to create Hotlists, Treasure Hunts, Subject Samplers, and WebQuests. These have proven over the years to be some of the most powerful Web-based learning activities for students. More Filamentality information.
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/intro.html7. Hot Potatoes - The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is free of charge for those working for publicly funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web. NOTE: After making Hot Potatoes activities, the files will be created on your local computer. They will then need to be uploaded to a Web server. Here's a sample Hot Potatoes activity on Halloween, designed for lower level ESL/EFL students.
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/8. Quandary - Not free, but very interesting software for creating action mazes (branching stories). Students practice their higher order thinking/planning skills, then implement them using their language skills. Free download has limited functionality. Full version = $50. Samples of student work here.
http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/quandary.php9. Creating Materials for Offline and Online Learning - Isabel Perez presents a wide variety of online tools designed to produce both online and print-based materials. She notes if the tools are free, require registration, require a server, and can be done offline. There are examples and links to further information on using online tools.
http://www.isabelperez.com/webquest/taller/creating/index.htmB. Tools to create materials to be printed out:
1. Puzzlemaker-Free, 10+ different formats designed for printing.
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/2. Worksheet Generator-Free, 10+ different formats designed for printing.
http://school.discovery.com/teachingtools/worksheetgenerator/index.html3. Checklists (Rubrics) - Create checklists (rubrics) to evaluate student projects. When done, the checklist is ready to print out. There is also a Spanish language version.
http://4teachers.org/projectbased/checklist.shtml4. Graphic Organizer Maker (TeAch-Nology) - Free, very simple and quick. Create Timelines, SQ3R Chart Generator, Concept Web Generator, etc.
http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/graphic_org/5. Create a Chart (National Center for Education Statistics) - Easy as 1,2,3. Label the x and y axis. Enter your values and a range. Give your chart a title and you're done. Ready to print out and use. Encourage your students to collect data, graph it and come to conclusions about what they've done!
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/6. Creating Materials for Offline and Online Learning - Isabel Perez presents a wide variety of online tools designed to produce both online and print-based materials. She notes if the tools are free, require registration, require a server, and can be done offline. There are examples and links to further information on using online tools.
http://www.isabelperez.com/webquest/taller/creating/index.htmC. Tools to post student work:
1. Project Poster - Free click 'n build way to post student work. Here's a sample report created with a student's essay. (poster id 29372).
http://poster.hprtec.org/index.php
- Click here for a collection of copyright-free image Web sites. You can download these to use with your students or for yourself.
http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/hatchetweb/hatchettasks.html2. Nicenet - A no frills (and free) Web-based bulletin board. Create as many classes as you like. You can have threaded discussions, post links, send private messages, and upload documents to share.
http://www.nicenet.org3. Blogs - Short for "Web Log," refers to a list of journal entries posted on a Web page, and can take several forms: a personal blog, a tutor's blog, a learner's blog, or a class blog. Livejournal (http://www.livejournal.com/) and Blogger (http://www.blogger.com/start)are two of the most poplar blogging sites. Here's a tutorial for building a blog using Blogger.
Here's a journal article describing the educational use of blogs and pointing out some differences between Web-based bulletin boards and blogs. And another related more specifically to ESL/EFL. Here's a resource giving an overall look at blogs, a great place to start. Finally, here's a very complete bibliography on blogs. And if you are interested in following a number of blogs regularly, you'll want to check out aggregators such as bloglines.com.
Here's a link to my livejournal blog and my blogger.com blog, not up to date, but just samples.
VI. What free resources can help students
interact with one another online?
VII. What kinds of projects can students
create using CALL resources?
VIII. How can I get started making use of
CALL resources?
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