Activity/tool | Resources | Who directs | Type of activity |
Writing | |||
Insert comments/Track changes/Autosummarize - see more information at oregonstate.edu/dept/eli/mar2002.html | L/C,P or T/S, Word | Teacher or peers | Individual, pair, or group |
Write and draw; desktop publishing | S/C/L, sw | Teacher | Individual or group |
Criterion from ETS, a subscription-based service. See the demo. | L,I, sw | Computer/student | Individual |
Online discussion at Nicenet | S or L, I | Teacher and students | Group |
Class mailing list - Egroups.com or yahoogroups.com | S or L, I | Teacher and students | Group |
Weblogs (Blogs) at Diaryland | S or L, I | Students | Individual |
Webquests - see
examples and instructions
|
L,I |
Teacher and students |
Group |
Discussion | |||
MOOs: SchMOOze or TappedIn | L,I | Teacher | Group |
Online surveys at www.getfast.ca ; www.opinionpower.com ; www.response-o-matic.com | L, I | Teacher and students | Group |
Class Chat ( L.E.C.S. ) -designed for classroom use | L,I | Teacher | Group |
Action mazes - see some examples
|
L; I or sw | Teacher | Individual or group |
Langland Project
organized by Doug Coleman |
S or L, I | Teacher and students | Group |
Other | |||
Pronunciation software with speech recognition, pitch and intonation contours | L, sw | Students | Individual or pair |
Digital video and sound: English Insight from Don Sorsa,
dsorsa@depaul.edu
; Voice of America
; CNN
etc. |
T,I or C/L,I | Teacher or students | Individual or group |
Text to speech: PlainTalk (built into Mac), Speech SDK (Microsoft Speech Technologies) | C/L | Teacher | Group or individual |
Class website (tripod.com ; quia.com ; school-based) | C/L, I | Teacher and students | Group |
Companion websites from publishers to accompany texts, such as Prentice-Hall's | L/S, I | Teacher | Individual or group |
Commercial courseware with record-keeping | L, sw | Students | Individual or pair |
Content material online: World Lecture Hall and MIT online | C/L, I | Teacher | Individual or group |
Three good sources of information about labs are
Ohio University's
Language Resource Center
Claire Bradin's Planning
a Language Resource Center
Vance Stevens's
Web Resource for CALL Lab Managers
Go to the workshop home page:
oregonstate.edu/~healeyd/catesol/
See One Computer and Low Resource
Possibilities
Deborah's Attic
English Language Institute
Oregon State University