Final Assignment
FINAL ASSIGNMENT COMPUTER ASISSTED LANGUAGE LEARNING
(CALL) :
“PRODUCING ELECTRONIC MATERIALS (Page 126-135)”
Group 3
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What are Electronic Materials?
When
we refer to electronic materials creation and use in the context of this
chapter, we are talking about information resources, exercises and activities
that you create yourself and which your students use on a computer a web page
or CD-ROM content, or even in printed form.
There
are many reasons why you might want to create and use your own electronic
materials in class. Firstly, you will be able to provide extra practice for
weaker learners, and consolidation and review exercises for groups. Secondly,
as you build up a collection of you own resources with your own learners needs
in mind, you will start to generate a large bank of materials which can be use
in class or for self- study at any point in the future.
A
large school might event work electronic materials into a more collaborative
projrct, building up a wide range of digital resources which are then shared
between group members over a server.These may be adaptations of existingprint
materials in some case, or completely new exercises. With the ready
availability of web storage, these can be uploaded to a central repository, or
a more robust storage platform such as a Virtual Learning Environment
A.
The A4ESL homepage
features a wide variety of exercises in many different categories and in many different
language combinations.
B.
A Sample intermediate
multiple-choice grammar exercises from the site. The learner is given a gapped
sentence and has three choices with which to fill it. Feedback is given after
each question, and a score is kept.
C.
A Sample Intermediate
vocabulary crossword on animals with clues down the right hand side of the quiz
grid itself. Learners type one letter in each gap in the grid.
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Kangungan (NPM : 201412500359)
Creating
Electronic Materials online
Informational
resources such as electronic materials are very useful for exercises and
different activities that can be used in CD-ROM or online or even printed.
The are different
ways in which we can achieve this:
• Working
with external web pages
• Using
web page design skills
• Using
small programs designed for those purpose
• Exploiting
more complex CD-ROM production software
How can we
achieve this?
• Making
adaptations to printed materials. Using tools that can help digitalize them.
There are simple exercise generators that include word-searchers, true/false,
multiple choice, unscramble setences
• Uploading
exercises to a central repository or a cloud storage platform
• Using
authoring tools, there are many authoring tools that can be used for free
online. It is a matter of looking for them in a browser like google or in some
CD-ROMs or DVDs that some editorials provide teachers with.
What
is an Authoring Tool?
• An
installable program that allows you to create materials in electronic format.
• Can
be distributed an a CD-ROM, DVD,USB, via web page to your learners.
• authoring
programs are used to make CD-ROM based
refernce tools like microsoftencarta but also more simple resources like
information leaflets, brochures, handouts and interactive
exercises.
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Using
Authoring Tools to Produce Materials
Perhaps the most
famous authoring tool in our field is Hot Potatoes. This is a small Windows Or
Mac Program that creates a variety of exercises and can be freely downloaded
for educational purposes (http://hotpot.uvic.ca/).
This program will install on your own computer and allow you to create
web-based exercises of the following types :
·
Multiple choice
·
Short answer
·
Jumbled sentence
·
Crossword
·
Matching/ordering
·
gap-fill
It also allows
you to include audio files in MP3 format and will even allow you to store your
exercises on a central server so that they can be accessed from anywhere with
an Internet connection. To get started, install the program and find it in your
program folder. When you first start it up you will be presented with the
following screen.
Now it’s time to
actually create the quiz as web page. First make sure you save your quiz so
that you can return to it later to make edits if you need to (File-Save). Now
we will turn this into an interactive web page. Click on ‘File — Create Web
page’and then choose the ‘Webpage for v6 Browsers’option. Give the filename and
then save it. You should now be able to look at it in a web browser.
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Fitria (NPM : 201412500331)
If you want to
delve deeper into things like formatting the output, changing colours, and so
on, then you should look in the Options menu when you are creating a quiz, or
investigate the ‘Help’ file that comes with the program.
This is utility
accessed from the start page of the Hot Potatoes program which will guide you
through linking a set of individual items into a small learning package, with
full navigation betweeen the various elements.
Interactive
stories
Another area to
explore in electronic materials, and a move away from straightforward test and
practice exercises, is the creation stories where learners read scenarios and
then make the choices to decide what they will do at certain key points.
You can see some
examples of typical interactive stories (or reading mazes) here
(http:www.halfbakedsoftware.com/quandary/version_2/examples/)
Each time a
choice is made the story unfolds further. This dessert island scenario in
particular is a familiar language practice tool, presented in a slightly
different way. The examples below were made with a piece of software called
Quandary.
You need to give
your reading maze a title (Exercise Title) and the give the opening screen a
title (Decision Point Title). Click on ‘+New Link’. Select ‘Create a new
decision point’ and give it a relevant title.
Notice that the
‘Go Shopping’ option is now automatically link to Decision Point 2 and ‘Wait
till tomorrow’ is linked to Decision Point 3. Use the forward arrow next to the
Decision Point number to advance to Decison Point 2 and add the text for that
option.
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Dwi Rengganis (NPM : 201412500321)
Now
you will have an opening screen with two options, each linked to another
screen. When you have finished your small maze, save it (File – Save File) and then convert it to a
verb –based activity for your learners.
Make
sure that you brush up on your search skills from chapter 3 before venturing on
to see what’s there. To get you started, here are a few more examples:
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