Electronic Materials

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Electronic Materials

• Informational Resources, exercises, and activities that create by teacher and which the students use on a computers as web page or CD-ROM content, or even in printed form.• The production of the materials may include

working with external web pages, using web page design skills, the use of small programs installed on the computer or more complex CD-ROM production software.

You will be able to provide extra practice for weaker learners, and consolidation and a review exercise for group.

You will start to generate a large bank of materials which can be used in class r for self-study at any point in the future.

Learners often enjoy the chance of competing against the computer with these kinds of discrete answer exercise types.

You can check which language areas learners have had problems with and provide further practice materials if necessary.

The Reasons Creating and Using Electronic Materials in Class

Creating Electronic Materials Online

Use some of the simple exercise generators which can e found online.

Discovery School Puzzlemaker

•http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/•Reviewing vocabulary.

Smile •http://smile.clear.msu.edu•Multiple choice, true/false, drag and drop, sentence mix, paragraph mix, cloze and multiple select.

Authoring Tool

Definition

Using AT to Produce Materials

Definition

An authoring Tool is an instable program that allows you to create materials in electronics format which can then be distributed on A CD-ROM, DVD, USB pen dive, floppy disc, or via web page to your learners.

Using Authoring Tools to Produce Materials

Authoring Materials

Hot Potatoes

Interactive Stories

Clarity Software

Creative Technology

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Hot Potatoes

• Small Windows or Mac program that creates a variety of exercise and can be freely downloaded for educational purposes (http://hotpot.uvic.ca/)

• Allow you to create web-based exercises of the multiple choice types, short answer, jumbled sentence, crossword, matching/ordering, gap-fill.

• Allows you to included 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 everywhere with an internet connection.

Hot Potatoes

JQuiz JCloze JCross JMatch JMix The Masher

JQuiz• Put the title• Adding Questions• Four answer for each questions with their own

feedback.• Mark the correct answer

• To packaged al of your exercises.• This is a utility accessed from the start page of the Hot

Potatoes.• This program will guide you through linking a set of

individual items into a small learning packaged.• Provides full navigation between the various elements.

The Masher

Interactive Story

• Learners read scenarios and then make choice to decide what they will do at certain key points.

• Excellent for reading comprehension practice or as small-group decision that encourage collaborative and critical thinking skills.

• Encourage learners to develop a wide range of skills from listening to debating, agreeing, and disagreeing and making points and supporting them.

• http://www.halbakedsoftware.com/quandary/version_2examples/

Clarity Software

• Can be used for a variety of different exercises types including audio, graphics and video content, allow for the creation of listening comprehension exercises, interactive dictations and presentations.

• Has a sophisticated leaner tracking option.• Allowing you to see your learners’ progress

through the materials.• http://www.clarityenglish.com/

Creative Technology

• Learners reconstruct written texts from smaller chunks.• http://www.cict.co.uk/software/t

extoys/index.htm

• Creation of various types of activities, surveys and web pages, as well as extensive learner tracking options.

• The site offers a variety of ready-made templates for materials creation and the ability to set up a study space for your learners, as well as access to over two million activities already in the library.

• http://www.quia.com/subscription/

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