1999 ELI Technology Seminars Creating Internet Resources

Activities and Resources
Thursday, August 12, 1999
English Language Institute
Corvallis, Oregon

Instructor: Deborah Healey
deborah.healey@orst.edu

Online quizzes

Online crossword puzzles

• Creating crossword puzzles at ITESL-J, http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/cw/project.html or http://www.clearlight.com/~vivi/xw/down.html

Online references for help with website creation

• Beginner's Guide to HTML at http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html
• Bare Bones Guide to HTML at http://www.cs.adfa.oz.au/other/barebone.html

Creating interactive stories/Action mazes

• Sample action mazes at Larry Davies' action mazes -- http://www.fun.ac.jp/~davies/actionmazes/index.html
• Martin Holmes's action maze -- http://www.tuj.ac.jp/cite/landlady/llady1.htm
• Planning the options and storyboarding
• Creating the links
• Testing

About programming interactivity into websites

• Programming for Teachers articles
• Matt's Script Archive at http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/ has lots of CGI scripts
• CGI scripts for educators at Linguistic Funland, http://www.tesol.net/scripts/index.html
• Javascript tutorial at http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/javascript/tutorials/tutorial1.html
• Javascript code library at http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/javascript/code_library/index0a.html?tw=javascript
• Javascript example - popup toolbar at http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/geektalk/96/39/index3a.html?tw=javascript

More with graphics

• Using a digital camera
• Saving graphics as .gif or .jpg for the web

Checking links to external files

• NetMechanic at http://netmechanic.com/
• Also Info Link at http://www.uwo.ca/its/doc/hdi/web/infolink.html
• Big Brother at http://pauillac.inria.fr/~fpottier/brother.html.en

Lunch

Adding sound to web pages

• Copyright issues
• Issues in saving audio files
• Randall's tutorials at http://www.esl-lab.com/utuorials/lesson3.htm?
• Different audio file formats (10 min)
  • RealAudio, .wav, .aiff, and .au files; and now MP3
  • "Audio for the Masses" at http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/geektalk/96/42/index3a.html
  • MP3 Search at http://www.smartsurfers.com/mp3search/search.html
  • Sound effects library at http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/soundfx/SFXfree.html
• Searching for audio files at Hotbot, http://www.hotbot.com

Discussion of what you've seen and possible applications

Creating lesson plans for your pages

Using tools to create interactive sites

• Note Tab Light is free at http://www.notetab.com/snt.htm (Windows only)
• Hot Potatoes from the University of Victoria is free to educators at http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/ (Windows and Mac)
• See a description of how one teacher uses these two programs at Jon Aske's website, http://www.salemstate.edu/~jaske/webexercises.htm

Adding more graphics and sound to your pages

Debrief the day

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Wednesday, August 11

Friday, August 13

Information about credit

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