Technical requirements for doing the exercises on this site.
Hilite exercises and Poetry tool.
You will need Macromedia Shockwave http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/
and Apple's Quicktime 4 http://www.apple.com/quicktime/
to view the content of these pages.
You will need at least a 4.0 or greater version of Netscape
Navigator http://home.netscape.com/computing/download/index.html
or Microsoft Internet Explorer http://www.microsoft.com/.
If you need components here, this could take some time but, please be patient,
it is a one time operation.
Shockwave: centre de téléchargement en français
http://sdc.shockwave.com/fr/shockwave/download/?&Lang=French
You can check the versions of Shockwave and QuickTime on your
computer from the following page.
http://movies.commons.ucalgary.ca/cgi-bin/alle/index.pl
JAVA You must also make sure that JAVA and Javascript are
enabled in your web browser.
For Netscape 4.7 Edit> Preferences>Advanced - click to Enable
Java and Java script.
For Explorer 5.0 Tools> Internet Options> Security> Custom -
click appropriate boxes.
Hot Potatoes exercises
You need only make sure that JAVA and Javascript are enabled in your web
browser. See above.
Hot Potatoes is a software package developed at the University of Victoria
Language Centre http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/
and is free for educational non-profit use.
Exercises on external sites
Most of these do not require plugins but we can not guarantee they will
always work properly or be available.
Dan Maher with thanks to Julian Wood, Learning Commons, University of
Calgary
page created August 25 2001
last update September 7, 2001
