--- Forwarded Message from John DuQuette <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:37:43 -0400 >From: John DuQuette <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: [log in to unmask] >User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070728) >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: #8655 Computer Games / Language >References: <[log in to unmask]> >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> Hello Robert, Have a look at Yabla Clic http://clic.yabla.com Try any video in the "FREE DEMO" section and click the GAME button at the bottom of the Yabla Player. This is a randomly generated "cloze" listening challenge, thus you can play any number of times, with a different game every time. If each user has their own user name, then results can be tracked and scores tallied per user. John DuQuette yabla inc. +1 212 226 2370 > Dear Colleagues, > Here at UAlbany we are going to institute a computer game night and I > need some suggestions on what games to buy. I want to try to > maximize the amount of interaction that the students can have with > the language. So I am looking for games that are particularly > language heavy. We are beginning this in French, but hope to expand > to other languages soon. > > I also want to add that this initiative is inspired by a presentation > that I saw at CALICO by Felix Kronenberg from Pomona College. > > Thanks for your time. > Robert > > > Robert Summers > Coordinator of Language Technologies and Infrastructure > University at Albany > HU 238 > 1400 Washington Avenue > Albany, NY 12222 > > 518-442-4153 (office) > 518-442-4111 (fax) > > > Received: from mout.perfora.net by listserv.dartmouth.edu (LSMTP for Windows NT > v1.1b) with SMTP id <[log in to unmask]>; Thu, 4 Oct 2007 > 21:32:03 -0400 > Received: from [72.228.52.113] (helo=[192.168.1.3]) > by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrus0) with ESMTP (Nemesis) > id 0MKp8S-1Idc2s0oVg-0003PZ; Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:32:03 -0400 > Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) > To: [log in to unmask] > Message-Id: <[log in to unmask]> > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-8-639841020 > From: Robert Summers <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: French language computer games > Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 21:32:02 -0400 > X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) > X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18N6arzyzrL9+3F5O9rLdA5T6w1F/s170+estx > IBWeMHh4KMOGZXEMDPlf+OWDdCy7KksIkkhU4qIDuBY/nlJQkO > 0TB4v+m9vwSbpz1IUCHuKkR1NT1xMjb > > > --Apple-Mail-8-639841020 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset=US-ASCII; > delsp=yes; > format=flowed > > Dear Colleagues, > Here at UAlbany we are going to institute a computer game night and I > need some suggestions on what games to buy. I want to try to > maximize the amount of interaction that the students can have with > the language. So I am looking for games that are particularly > language heavy. We are beginning this in French, but hope to expand > to other languages soon. > > I also want to add that this initiative is inspired by a presentation > that I saw at CALICO by Felix Kronenberg from Pomona College. > > Thanks for your time. > Robert > > > Robert Summers > Coordinator of Language Technologies and Infrastructure > University at Albany > HU 238 > 1400 Washington Avenue > Albany, NY 12222 > > 518-442-4153 (office) > 518-442-4111 (fax) > > > *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************