If you use any of the following demos, shareware or freeware, please
share your impressions by e-mailing us at bgill@acs.ucalgary.ca.
If you can, comment on flexibility (can you do what you like or are you
restricted to one template or question format?), ease of use (is the interface
simple and intuitive?), and screen design (does it look appealing?) Were
there any annoying features or any bugs you noticed in the program? Was
it pedagogically sound and interesting to the student, and at what level?
Would you use this package in your own courses?
WWW Based Exercises
The University of Victoria offers a free suite of templates for the Web,
called Hot Potatoes.
This is hot stuff, fairly easy to use, and has been adopted by over 4000
users worldwide (as of 99/04/22).
Wait for the ALLE group's templates, Listen and Learn, developed by
Bernard Rochet, Manfred Prokop and Terry Butler at the University of Alberta.
Available Soon!
Link to University of British Columbia's WebCT
online course system if you need to manage as well as instruct.
General Authoring Systems
Question Mark Demo - general evaluation
system for teaching purposes. An unlimited site license costs about
US$2000. They have a very informative Web site at questionmark.com.
Daedalus - Integrated Writing System
Guided Tour. This is a very popular package but also very
pricey, with a site license starting at about US$150 per terminal for a
large lab. Check out the homepage at daedalus.com.
Quest is a full-service authoring
package comparable with Authorware. Approximate cost is US$4000. Download
a demo of this program.
The CID Tools from Utah State are
under development. A very sparse manual
is available for download.
Multi-use CALL Specific
Authoring Systems
WinCALIS Demo - Link to Duke
University's WinCALIS page for more information and lots of links.
Adam & Eve - Creates exercises
from instructor-entered texts. Download a demo
and/or a student disk demo.
WIDA software - Suite of authorable
templates for specific activities. Link to WIDA's
homepage, which has more documentation on these
programs as well as several others. Download WIDA software:
Front end. Not needed, but
it makes things more organic.
WIDA Matchmaster
WIDA PinPoint
WIDA StoryBoard
WIDA TestMaster
WIDA WordScan
Learn for Windows is authorable and
multilingual software. Download.
Single-use CALL Specific
Authoring Systems
Xcloze - Freeware cloze program for
DOS. Contains English data but recognizes French, Deutch, Italian, and
Spanish characters. Download Xcloze.
This program is written by Tim Johns of Birmingham University. Link
to his homepage, which includes some notes on the package.
WordFill v2.01 "The acclaimed cloze
testing engine from Lingua Systems." Noted for having very extensive
hint/help features, both for student and instructor. Download
WordFill. Link to the homepage for WordFill.
Cloze11 - Cloze11
download. An authorable cloze program.
Contexts DOS program Comes with
English data but could be used for any language. Download
Contexts. This program is written by Tim Johns of Birmingham University,
his homepage is here
and includes some notes on the package.
Eclipse creates "rebuilding" exercises
from instructor-entered texts. Download
Eclipse.
Choices creates,
gives, and marks multiple-choice test. Link
to a more detailled description within our site.
Other Interesting Programs
Rosetta Stone - Demo and Modules. Not
authorable but highly touted for its interface, which is based on neither
Windows nor Mac standard interface and is tailor-made for multimedia. Download
Rosetta Stone software:
Rosetta Stone Demo-requires
modules below
Rosetta Stone French Lesson 1
Rosetta Stone French Lesson 2
Rosetta Stone Russian Lesson 1
Rosetta Stone Russian Lesson 2
Rosetta Stone Lesson 1 Picture File-All
Languages
Rosetta Stone Lesson 2 Picture File-All
Languages
Click here to go to Fairfield's
Rosetta Stone homepage.
Here is a review of Rosetta Stone packages available on the WWW: Based
on the Demo
package
Conjugue v2.1 - Verb conjugation software
with a well-reputed interface. Conjugates verbs in twelve languages. Download
Conjugue v2.1. Check out the homepage here.
UniEdit - Demo UNICODE editor from
Duke/Wincalis. Text editing in any character set used by any human
language, and some nonhuman ones, too, including apparently Klingon
and some Tolkien languages. Download.
Markin allows
instructors to mark student-submitted electronic texts in a graphical HTML
format and email them back to the student -- no more red pens! Link
to more information on Markin.
Online Software Evaluation
Guides
CALL Software
Evaluation Guide from Rice University
Steven Draper's "Observing,
Measuring, or Evaluating Courseware"
A bibliography
of evaluating inateractive multimedia in CALL
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