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Computer Assisted Language Learning. WELCOME to CALL. OPERATIVE SYSTEMS. DOS DISK OPERATIVE SYSTEM AMIGA OS/2 IBM MACINTOSH POWER MAC 8600 APPLE UNIX server LINUX NETS WINDOWS 98, NT 4, 5, 2000 workstation, server. MEMORY.
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Computer Assisted Language Learning WELCOME toCALL
OPERATIVE SYSTEMS DOS DISK OPERATIVE SYSTEM AMIGA OS/2 IBM MACINTOSH POWER MAC 8600 APPLE UNIX server LINUX NETS WINDOWS 98, NT 4, 5,2000 workstation, server
MEMORY BIT binary digit (information unit corresponding to 0 or 1), BYTE sequence of 8 bits FLOPPY DISK 1,44 Mb RAM Random access memory ( temporary or virtual) 4, 8, 16, 32, 64,128…Mb ROM Read only memory, CD optical disk 640 700 Mb HARD DISK 1, 2, 4, 6,8 Gb DVD Digital Video/Versatile Disk 17 Gb Back -up: ZIP cartridges 100 to 1000 Mb: JAZ CD Writer
BASIC SOFTWARE : WINDOWS 3.1; W 95, 98, 2000Multitasking: works with more applications and functions contemporarily, Multithreading: collects and pastes from different applications(thanks to the RAM memory), user friendly : simple interface and easy operations
APPLICATIONS: WORKS 3, 4, 2000 word processor, data base, spreadsheet OFFICE 97, 2000 Word word processor orthographic and syntactic corrector in many languages Excel spreadsheet, graphics Access data base Powerpoint presentation of slides Outlook organizing agenda , e-mail Office programs can be saved as HTML !!!!!
SPECIFIC Multimedial: TOOLBOOK 4 (AMICO 4 -GARAMOND) Toolbbokll Assistant Instructor integrates JAVA and HTML for the INTERNET MACROMEDIA Director (see many didactic CD) Front Page web pages, Illuminatus Editors HTML NETSCAPE COMMUNICATOR 4x and INTERNET EXPLORER 5 editor and browser (you can download from the web as shareware-expire after 1 month- or freeware- no charge) PUBLISHER 98 graphics program to edit newspapers, brochures COREL DRAW 4,5,6,7,8 publishing desktop, photographic CAD computer aided/assisted design (Auto cad) MID. ‘ musical instrument digital interface’ audio management(requires little memory not sofisticated as WAV. sounds) UTILITY routine programs : antivirus (Norton,Mac Affee) , exploding WIN ZIP, e- mail (Eudora),anti-crash, save data etc…
DIDACTIC Floppy floppy 1,4 Mb TENSE BUSTER home user, 1 user 1-5 users , 1-40 users floppy 1,4 Mb WIDA AUTHORING SUITE (Pinpoint, storyboard, testmaster, wordstore, gapmaster, choicemaster, matchmaster,) CD-ROM640/ 700 Mb THE GRAMMAR ROM INTERACTIVE ENGLISH CLICK ON ENGLISH WORDBIRD BBC English INTERACTIVE ENGLISH LET’S DO BUSINESS BEAUTY’S WORLD ….. ….. Encyclopaedia ENCARTA, OMNIA… Dictionaries, Translator programmes, Karaoke,…
Use of Computer in the field of Edutainmentin a Teaching/Learning unit:PLANAIM: introducing new language, practice, test, remedial work , developmentSet the level (?) Time devoted (?) PRE - Computer Work Revision, warming up Computer work: reading, listening, writing, speaking, use of mouse for different tasks....POST - Computer WORK follow up, revision, expansion,consolidation, dramatization,…future projects in the field of authoring/editing…
SOFTWARE- General didacticstrategies and characteristics DRILLS - practice, questions, exercises, rules, feed backTEST - true-false, multiple,,,,,,,, choices, essay INQUIRY- in the menu lists and explanations are providedSIMULATION - situational with graphics and soundsTUTORIAL- information and suggestions on what/how to doGAMES - matching, rebuses, puzzles, crosswords…FIXING- explanations of errors (how?: default samples in a data base)
MULTIMEDIA Information product which uses different means and ways of communication.Information program - which integrates written text, sounds, images, graphics, animation, video (in a fantabulous future: integration of smells,/ neuronal applications with sensors for empathetic transmission of sensations) Characteristics: interactivity, active subject, dynamic possibility of modification, open possibility of creativity, Edutainment: gamelike features
HYPERTEXTHT was first coined by T.NELSON( a philosopher) in 1965, it means a “non linear treatment of the text”. Navigation is not sequential, but it” happens” freely, working like thoughts associations and according to personal wishes and opinions. The first Hypertext program was HYPERCARD , a program by Apple .Roland Barthes: HT is a “stereophonic text”Other authors: “textual universe in expansion, multidirectional text without hierarchical connections”.
AdvantagesPossibility ofIndividualized educationSelf access , freedom, respect of Personal RhythmsInteraction: Immediate and Objective analysis with Marking and Feed BackConvenience in editing-Printing, Cancel, Insert and Remove in Blocks, Orthographic and Syntactic Correction in many Languages Rapid exploration of the ActivitiesOperations: Data storing, Search: QUERY(ODBC), Automatic translation (i.e.Global link)Communication: in the Inter -and intraNET, chat, newsgroup, discussion forum, info-interchange, e-mail, videoconference