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Information resourses, exercises, activities you create yourself for students to use on a computer ( web page, CD-ROM content, … )
The kinds of materials The time avialabe The resources you have
Determine the choice of tool
Provide extra practice for weaker learners
Build up a collection of your own resources which meet your own learners’ needs
Provide a change of pace Highly motivating
http://a4esl.org/ http://www.manythings.org/ puzzle maker( P128 ) Smilehttp://smile.clear.msu.edu/
What is an authoring tool? An authoring tool is an installable
program that allows you to create materials in electronic format.
When choosing a suitable authoring tool, you have to pay attention to
1. cost 2. your ability to use it
Mediatorhttp://www.matchware.com/en/
products/mediator/showcase.htm Macromedia Directorhttp://www.adobe.com/products/
director/
The masher
Audio mp3 test
What?How?Why?Who?
Learners read scenarios and then make choices to decide what they will do at certain key points
They are excellent for reading comprehension
and small-group discussion 1. collaborative skills 2. critical thinking skills 3.listening to debate 4.agreeing and disagreeing 5.make points and supporting them
Because they are text-driven activities, we can produce them
for any level.
Take Quandary , a reading maze, for example
1.Clarity Software J:\Clarity English language teaching online
Home.mht
2.Creative Technology – Software for Teaching J:\TexToys - Authoring tool for Rhubarb and
Sequitur language learning exercises.mht
3.QUIA http://www.quia.com
1. various types of interactive exercises. 2.websites which allow for the creation of interactive exercises 3.examined reasons for using interactive exercises with learners 4.learn how to produce different exercise
types 5. produced an interactive reading maze
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