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>From: "Jon Aske" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "CALICO-L" <[log in to unmask]>, "TeachTech" <[log in to unmask]>,        "LLTI: Language Learning and Technology" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Web-based (HTML) language exercises
>Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 20:19:30 -0400
>Importance: Normal

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A little while back I wrote to share with you my "discovery" of Web-based
(HTML) language exercises.  My idea was to promote their existence and to
encourage people to share their resources and their creations. A few people
showed great interest in the idea, but I haven't got any tangible results in
the way of an exercise repository.

At the time I mentioned that I was particularly impressed by exercises that
provide the student with instant feedback, as opposed to exercises which just
test the student.  I mentioned some such exercises I had found, but mentioned
that I didn't think that Hot Potatoes could give the same type of feedback.
I must say that since then I have become more familiar with Hot Potatoes and
the truth is that I am quite impressed.  I encourage people to give the
program a try.  This is quite a suite of programs:

Hot Potatoes: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/ (FREE!)

Another very nice resource for making Web-based exercises is Gary Smith's
WebPractest, which was recently upgraded and works now with both Netscape and
Internet Explorer.

WebPractest: http://www.wm.edu/CAS/modlang/gasmit/webpractest (FREE!)

And Web Author: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/larrc/webauthor.html (FREE)

One other nice example of Web exercises (Spanish):
http://www.lclark.edu/~benenati/gramatica.html

Thanks to all of you who shared your ideas and resources with me.  Once there
is a community of language instructors who are users of HotPotatoes and other
such products I am sure Web-based language exercises will become ubiquitous
and freely shared.

Jon
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Jon Aske
Salem State College, Salem, Massachusetts
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http://www.salem.mass.edu/~jaske/
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am
I? And if not now, when?  --Rabbi Hillel, 12th Century.