Monday, September 1, 2008

"Technology in use"

Computer Assisted Language Learning Examples:

http://www.geocities.com/bethvw/hotpot/vnchapter1cloze.htm

In the web page above we can find a good example of a CALL activity where you have to fill the blanks and give a suitable answer. The main help is that you have an exclamation mark that gives you the meaning of the word that you have to put. Besides you have the complete list of words needed and they tell you that you have to use the word just one time each.


http://www.geocities.com/bethvw/hotpot/classflags2.htm

In the example above we can see something totally diferent on the grounds that you have to match things. Besides, I think that this link does not give you enough examples just 5.

Computer-Mediated-Communication example:

www.facebook.com

I think that facebook.com is a very good example of CMC, because in this web page you can do as many thing as you want. For example you can chat with your friends (synchronic), and also you can send messages if your friend is not online (asynchronic).
So, I found that if you create an account on facebook you can do many meaningful things to learn english.
I could not find out a bad example, because I think that CMC is the best way for students to learn. Besides, most of chats web pages provide good ways of interaction.

Drills and Practice example:

http://bcs.wiley.com/he-bcs/Books?action=mininav&bcsId=1033&itemId=047136777X&assetId=392&resourceId=32&newwindow=true

The link above gives a really good example of Drill and Practice. We can found many activities related to human body, but it has images and tells you when you are right or wrong before continuing the activity or getting in the next level.

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