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- Dr. Deborah Healey
- English Language Institute
- Oregon State University
- deborah.healey@oregonstate.edu
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- More usable common tools
- Word-processing/presentation
- Easy authoring
- More use of less common tools
- Speech recognition
- Visual aids to pronunciation
- iMovie/Movie Maker
- Wireless communication
- New players
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- Present and near future possibilities
- Better teaching and learning
- Focus on creativity
- Greater learner control
- Broader marketing
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- Wordstar 1.0 circa 1980: just a word-processor
- Encouraged revision
- Encouraged longer writing
- MS Office 2003 – a kitchen sink
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- Insert comment: Voice and text annotations
- Track changes
- Compare documents
- AutoSummarize
- Grammar checking
- Translation
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- Presentation wizard
- Easy use of media
- Internet hooks
- Form is easy; needs attention to content
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- Hot Potatoes
- Not just ‘wrong, try again’
- Student-created exercises
- Record-keeping issue
- Quality takes time and effort
- MS Office: Save as Web page
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- Speech recognition
- Speech to text and text to speech
- Visual aids to pronunciation
- Wireless communication
- iMovie/Movie Maker
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- IBM ViaVoice and ScanSoft Dragon Naturally Speaking (commercial);
Microsoft Speech SDK (68MB file)
- Increasing accuracy in transcribing speech
- Forces speaker to focus on accuracy
- Text to speech improving
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- CALL applications
- TraciTalk – one of the first
- DynEd offerings: Dynamic English, Functioning in Business
- Rosetta Stone, Learn to Speak English, Tell Me More, Connected Speech,
EyeSpeak
- Variety of implementations
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- Ineffective
- Somewhat effective
- Pitch and intensity contours
- Useful
- Graphic representations of similarity
- Speech pathology tools
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- iMovie and MovieMaker
- Free
- Relatively easy to use
- Exciting for students
- Good group project
- Requires high-end equipment
- High-speed processor, lots of RAM and hard drive space
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- Why not videotape?
- Easier to edit
- Easy to add titles, music
- Easier to make high-quality copies
- Advantages of tape
- Easier to record
- Cheaper
- Holds much more
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- Free to move
- Connection to others and/or Internet
- Multiple types of hardware
- Laptop
- Hand-held – smaller, faster, cheaper
- Cell phone – voice and text
- Wireless lab
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- Gaming community
- Artificial intelligence + great video
- Larger market = bigger players
- Media giants: Microsoft, Disney Time Warner (?)
- Looking at Hispanic market in the US
- Looking at very large markets outside the US
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- “Just a tool”
- Student focus
- More creativity and control for students More flexibility to respond to
learner needs and differences
- More demands on teachers
- More mass-market options
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- Curriculum
- Organizational scheme for learning
- Not just programmed learning and direct instruction
- Link between language and people
- Research on best practices
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- Do classroom-based (action) research
- Try it and share your results
- Pressure vendors to create products that work for us and our students
- Keep looking for the best fit
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