eWriting Grant Developers'
FAVORITE TOOLS
The tools
purchased/licensed to create the eWriting software
include the following: WebCT, PowerPoint, Impatica,
Impatica On Cue, Camtasia, Snagit, Flash, FrontPage,
Macromedia MX (DreamWeaver),
Hot Potatoes (and Masher), Respondus, StudyMate, Lectora,
Flashlight Surveys, Wimba, AnimationFactory, Gifart,
Toolbook, Adobe Premier, and Alive MP3 Wave Converter
On this page, you
can explore the types of exercises and activities
created using some of these tools.
- To start,
click here and logon
- User
ID: guest4
-
Password: ewriting
- Minimize that
window to KEEP IT OPEN BUT MINIMIZED or the
program will ask you to logon again. Then begin exploring these
activities.
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1--
Mouse-overs (with buttons to click) Image map
------------------DreamWeaver + behaviors
OR Alt+Text FrontPage/Dreamweaver |
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2--
Mouse-overs (hover to check)
------------------DreamWeaver (Hotspots + popup
Behaviors) |
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3--
Flash cards
------------------Hot-potatoes OR StudyMate |
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4--
Drag and Drop
------------------Hot-potatoes |
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5--
Drag and drop .. building sentences
More
------------------Hot-potatoes ToolBook |
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6--
Matching
------------------WebCT, Respondus, Hot-potatoes |
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7--
Crossword Puzzles
------------------Hot-potatoes |
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8--
Short answers and Fill in the blanks
(see #4)
------------------WebCT, Hot-potatoes |
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9--
Scrambled sentences
------------------Hot-potatoes
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10--
Cloze
------------------Hot-potatoes |
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11--
Self-Tests
------------------WebCT, Respondus, and Hot-potatoes |
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12--
Multiple Choice with feedback
------------------WebCT, Lectora and
Hot-potatoes --- Respondus |
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Teacher Talk Tools
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14--
PowerPoint
with sound
------------------PowerPoint
(narrated) + Impatica |
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15-17-- Flash
movies on how to
use the WebCT program or
do an activity or do a specific
word processing task (Thesaurus /
double space)
------------------Any program,
or Webpage, or Document (anything that can be shown
on your monitor) + Camtasia |
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18--
Camtasia movie (e.g. using Word to explain and show
sentence patterns, punctuation)
------------------Word + Camtasia (FLASH) |
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19--
Sound files that read and comment on
what is on the screen "
------------------sound
recorder" + audio MP3 converter |
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20--
Vocabulary help
------------------ WebCT
OR Hot Potatoes |
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21-- Flash movie
on how to use
Wimba
------------------Camtasia and
Wimba |
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Graphics
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| 22.
http://www.animationfactory.com/
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| 23.
http://www.gifart.com/ |
| 24. Screen
capture tool: Snagit
http://www.snagit.com/ |
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| Surveys |
| 25.
Flashlight online surveys |
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Would
you like to see the project being developed by these
tools?
To
explore the WebCT versions of the 6-level eWriting
Program, click here.
Please note that these programs are still under
construction. They will be available for
public use in 2007. |
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This
eWriting: ESL Writing Success
Project was created with the generous support and
guidance of the Fund for the Improvement of
Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), US Department of Education |
