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URL for the Multimedia CALL Lessons: http://personalweb.smcvt.edu/gsl520/multimediaCALLlessons.htm
Hardware
requirements: Windows 95/98/NT/2000, XP; speakers
Specific browser or plugins required: Internet Explorer 5.0 (or higher),
RealPlayer
Authoring materials used: Microsoft FrontPage 2000, Broadway
(streaming video), PowerPoint, Word, Excel (Visual Basic), Pronunciation
Power (CD-ROM), digital cameras, scanners, sound recording tools
The
authors of Multimedia CALL Lessons
The Multimedia CALL Lessons were
authored in partial fulfillment of the graduate CALL course requirements at
Saint Michael's College, and most of them were contributed by prospective
ESL/EFL teachers in the CALL Online course. The lessons constitute the
course participants' capstone project and are centered around extensive lesson
plans which incorporate a variety of technologies. The purpose of each
lesson is to engage ESL/EFL students in activities that improve their skills by
interacting with a variety of technologies.
TOPIC/TYPE of CALL Lesson |
AUTHORS |
The
Use of Articles (http://www.geocities.com/robertb_299/) (Click on Project on Robert's web site to see a lesson based on concordancing software, with links to online concordancers, an instruction worksheet for students, a sample concordance query for "the", and a cloze exercise authored using web software) |
Robert Bradford |
Diamante
Poetry (http://personalweb.smcvt.edu/gsl520/gsl520_online/DiamantePoetryLesson_files/frame.htm) (a lesson about written description and online collaboration in creating diamante-style poems--for an intermediate level high school ESL class) |
Jessica
Holbert |
Greetings--Getting
to know you in the United States (a lesson for practicing introductions with beginners. This lesson contains audio files (uncompressed) and therefore will take longer to load--patience; the wait is well worth it!) |
Stefani Us |
The
Haiku Play (http://personalweb.smcvt.edu/gsl520/students/HaikuPlay/multimediahaiku.htm) (an animated slideshow with links to student-produced Haikus and accompanying pantomime videos- based on the story of Helen Keller in the play "The Miracle Worker." Lesson involves note-taking, summarizing, interpreting, collaborating and using multimedia - email, powerpoint, graphics, Word, digital camera and printer) |
Pauline
Baird |
Short
Vowel Review
(http://personalweb.smcvt.edu/eseiler/The%20Lesson%20Plan.htm) (a 5-day lesson for beginners, age 8-10, in reading, pronunciation, and writing; includes work with Reader Rabbit's Complete Learn to Read System, Pronunciation Power, "The Little Red Hen", rebus writing, quadrant story maps, and a "Dear Little Red Hen" letter) |
Ewa Seiler |
4
Atlantic Waves (http://personalweb.smcvt.edu/gsl520/students/4AtlanticWaves_files/frame.htm) (an animated web adventure) |
Anna Marie Robinson |
How
the 2nd grade made terrariums http://personalweb.smcvt.edu/gsl520/students/Howthe2ndgrademadeterrariums_files/frame.htm (animated slideshow with sound) |
Margaret Rafferty and Louise Roy |
Let's
Visit Providence, RI (http://personalweb.smcvt.edu/gsl520/students/CALLLESSONPLAN_files/frame.htm) (an animated slide show for e-mail and Internet scavenger hunting) |
Shellie
Carr |
Grammar
Show--An irregular day in Grammar
Jungle (http://personalweb.smcvt.edu/gsl520/students/GrammarShow_files/frame.htm) (an animated slide show for irregular action verbs) |
Anna Marie Robinson |
A
Multimedia Pronunciation Lesson for "th" (http://personalweb.smcvt.edu/nkoizumi/project.htm) (an animated slideshow;; includes many audio activities for learning th--sound discrimination, audio directions on a map, a family tree and more; based on the software program Pronunciation Power) |
Luisa
Diniz & Noriko
Koizumi |
A
Multimedia Listening & Writing Project using the Titanic theme (http://personalweb.smcvt.edu/ymuramoto/Project%201.html) (a listening and writing lesson using images of Celine Dion and the movie Titanic, the sound and lyrics of the theme song by Celine Dion, a cloze test and many links to additional sources) |
Amanda Pitkin & Yukari Muramoto |
Let
your imagination go wild-- An interactive writing lesson using the
internet (http://personalweb.smcvt.edu/pseefeldt/) (a lesson plan for using ads and having students create their own ad copy; includes a semantic map and a discussion forum) |
Paul Seefeldt & Masaharu Kariya |
A multimedia writing/reading/listening lesson for Susan Cooper's The Boggart (an integrated lesson for int/adv middle school children, including e-mail exchanges, research, discussion--centered around the Boggart; text with marginal glossing, a sound recording of the text, and a multitude of links to castles and other related sites; the sound files will take 1-2 min.to load) | Barbara Dall & Jana Pedemonte |
Using
the PC as an Interactive Pedagogical Tool for
Concordancing
and Collocations and
The
Excel Spreadsheet Application as Basis for a CALL Activity Authoring
System (includes
a slideshow with a sample lesson for collocations; uses the Excel
spreadsheet, buttons, and sliders created in Visual Basic for the
collocations; click "Enable macros";
shows how to use Excel's Visual Basic to create collocations based on a
corpus) Using the PC as as Interactive Pedagogical Tool (HTML) |
Connie Malzfeldt and Karl Sklar |
A year to remember: A Yearbook lesson plan (a slideshow for creating a themed writing lesson plan for intermediate ESL kids in grades 7 and 8) | Peggy Ellis-Green & Dawn Maxson |
The months of the year (a pronunciation lesson for beginners; in animated slideshow format; includes links for advancing pages) | Karl Sklar |
The verb phrase (illustrations of verb phrases in the present tense, third person singular; includes sound; an animated PowerPoint slideshow) | Karl Sklar |
A
Multimedia Tour of Vermont for our Japanese e-mail Penpals (an animated slideshow; includes links and pictures taken with a digital camera; original presentation contained sound) |
Carol Blakely and Sarah Turner |
Teaching Reading and Writing through the Internet (includes music, pictures, and animated graphics) | Abdrabu Abu Alyan |
Nepal: A Trip without a Script (includes scanned slides in a PowerPoint presentation) To see it on Travis' webpage--click here | Travis Cote |
Pronunciation Practice for "th" (includes a PowerPoint presentation with recorded sound; click on the loudspeaker icon to hear the sound) | Lelia Senter |
The
Signs of the Zodiac (click
"Ignore" when asked to insert disk in drive a:) (a slideshow with many images and reading exercises; sound files not included) Signs of the Zodiac & Collocations (using Excel) |
Joe Piscotty |
Welcome to the St. Johnsbury Academy's ESL Program Homepages (a webpage with scanned in pictures, created by ESL students under Dale's direction) | Dale Hinchey |
Warschauer's Chapter 7 in multimedia format (a webpage with animation, graphics, and background music) | Dale Hinchey |
Warschauer's Chapter 5 in multimedia format | Dale Hinchey |