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Producing electronic materials. What are electronic materials?. The informational resources, exercises and activities created on the web page or CD-ROM . The example electronic material: ESL Students website ( http://a4esl.org ). What are electronic materials?.
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What are electronic materials? • The informational resources, exercises and activities created on the web page or CD-ROM. • The example electronic material: ESL Students website (http://a4esl.org)
What are electronic materials? • The sample of EFL web page.
What are electronic materials? • The sample of EFL web page exercises.
What are electronic materials? • The sample of EFL web page exercises.
Creating electronic materials online • One of the easiest ways of getting started in this area is to use some of the simple exercise generators which can be found online. The sample of the online exercise: • Discovery School Puzzlemaker (http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/) • Smile (http://smile.clear.msu.edu)
Creating electronic materials online • Discovery School Puzzlemaker webpage
What is an authoring tool? • An authoring tool is an installable program that allows you to create materials in electronic format. • The web sites for exploring the electronic materials: • Mediator (http://www.matchware.com/en/products/mediator/edu/why.htm) • Macromedia Director (http://www.adobe.com/products/director/) • Neobook (http://www.neosoftware.com/nbw.html)
Using authoring tool to produce materials • Types of creating web-based exercises: • Multiple choice • Short answer • Jumbled sentence • Crossword • Matching/ ordering • Gap-fill
Using authoring tool to produce materials • The authoring tool web site: Hot Potatoes (http://hotpot.uvic.ca/)
Using authoring tool to produce materials • The steps for creating exercise on Hot Potatoes: • Click on JQuiz to get started. • Put the title of the exercise. • Adding question 1. • Adding answers and feedback. • Marking the right answer.
Using authoring tool to produce materials • The sample of Q1
Using authoring tool to produce materials • The sample of Q2
Using authoring tool to produce materials • Interactive stories Another area to explore in electronic materials is the creation of interactive stories.
Using authoring tool to produce materials • The sample of creating interactive stories.
Using authoring tool to produce materials • The sample of creating interactive stories.
Using authoring tool to produce materials • The sample of creating interactive stories.
Using authoring tool to produce materials • Other example web of creating interactive stories sites. • Clarity Software • Creative Technology-Software for Teaching • QUIA
Exercise • A. which Potato? 5 4 6 2 1 3
Exercise • B. In a Quandary