Transcript Ch10 Producing electronic materials

Multi-Media in TESOL
Producing electronic materials
Kuei-Min Huang, PhD
Today’s Outline
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Producing electronic materials
Practical Session
Online Materials
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http://ctle.cyu.edu.tw/clarity/
Try every type of activity by log-in with
your student number
What are electronic materials?
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The term refers to informational
resources, exercises and
activities that we create ourselves
and which our students use on a
computer as web page or CDRom content, or even in printed
form.
What are electronic materials?
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The production of these materials may
include working with external web
pages, using web page design skills,
the use of small programmes installed
on our own computers or more
complex CD-ROM production software.
Building up ideas
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Go and have a look at the following
website: http://a4esl.org/
Try the following activities.
http://a4esl.org/q/f/z/zz29bms.htm
http://a4esl.org/q/f/x/xz88mgu.htm
Why do we create and use our
won electronic materials in class?
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To provide extra practice for weaker
learners and consolidation and review
exercises for groups.
To build up collection of our own
resources with our won learners’
needs in mind.
To provide a change of pace
To motivate our learners. They enjoy
competing against the computer
An easy one to start with…
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The Hot Potatoes suite includes six
applications, enabling you to create
interactive multiple-choice, short-answer,
jumbled-sentence, crossword,
matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises
for the World Wide Web.
Using Hot Potato
Hot Potatoes
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Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is
free of charge for those working for
publicly-funded non-profit-making
educational institutions, who make
their pages available on the web.
Other users must pay for a license.
Practical Session
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Please set up a Hot Potato account for your
own with your student number
Go to http://hotpot.uvic.ca/
Download and install the program
Register as instructed
Create 3 different type of materials. In which,
each type of material must contain at least 3
exercise items.
Use the Masher to combine all your activities.
Save your materials as both ‘webpage’ and
‘hot potato’ files then zip and e-mail the zipped
file to [email protected]