Options in CALL for Materials Development*



Instructional websites

Activities for ESL students
Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles; project of The Internet TESL Journal with thousands of contributions by many teachers.
Interesting things for ESL Students http://www.manythings.org/ by Charles and Larry Kelly
Web Resources: English as a Second Language http://www.polyglot.pitt.edu/web/englishlistening.html Resources used by ELI students at the Unversity of Pittsburgh
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab http://www.esl-lab.com/index.htm Listening exercises at all levels

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Word Processing
Resource
URL
Comments
Word Processing-based Activities
for a Language Class
Ideas for communicative classroom activities based on word processing

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Digital Audio

Software
Availability
Platform
File Formats
Comments
Sound Recorder
Comes as part of Windows operating system
PC

wav

Easy to use; wav files are very large
PureVoice
PC & Mac

Purevoice, wav on PC

Purevoice, aiff on Mac

Creates very small files; can insert or overwrite in a file
Audacity
PC & Mac

wav, aiff, mp3

Allows editing;
the most complicated;

version 1.1.1 available in several languages

Audio Recording Options in the Language Media Center Labs

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Blogs & Wikis

Resource
URL
Comments
TypePad
hosted weblogging service; 30 days' free trial
Live Journal
hosted weblogging service; free and paid versions
Blogger
hosted weblogging service; free and paid versions
Movable Type http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype for more advanced weblog publishing
Resources for Blogs & Wikis
http://www.edvista.com/claire/callcourse/blogs&wikis.html

links for blogs and wikis

Audioblogger http://www.audioblogger.com/ Add audio posts to your blog
Blogs and Wikis: Environments for On-line Collaboration

Overview article by Bob Godwin-Jones
Create Your Own ESL/EFL Weblogs

Blogs for and by ESL/EFL learners
Wikipedia
Multilingual encyclopedia to which anyone can contribute
wetpaint http://www.wetpaint.com/

site for wikis

PbWorks (formerly PBWiki) http://pbworks.com/ site for wikis

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Authoring Tools

Hot Potatoes
No charge for educational purposes, but you must register
Authoring in CALL http://www.edvista.com/claire/author.html Links to other options for materials development

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More
Gliffy http://www.gliffy.com online diagram software
Ning http://www.ning.com social networking site
Claire's home page http://www.edvista.com/claire/ Starting point for CALL-related resouces

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*Session for LING 2143, Materials Development for Second Language Teaching & Testing, June 26, 2009


Robert Henderson Language Media Center, University of Pittsburgh
http://www.polyglot.pitt.edu/events/matdev_options.html
Last revised: June 26, 2009