THE INSTRUCTIONAL APPLICATIONS CENTER

WWW Instructional Implementation Guides

Language and Technology Course Syllabi

Selected WWW Instructional Application Sites

WWW INSTRUCTIONAL IMPLEMENTATION GUIDES:

• For general Web page creation resources, refer back to the MMLL WWW BASICS PAGE
  which contains: General Web Research Guides and Search Engines; Multimedia Authoring / Web Page Creation Tools and Tutorials; and General Technology Resources.

• And refer to the MMLLAB LANGUAGE & TECHNOLOGY RESOURCE PAGE
  for these additional resources: Language Faculty Forums and Resources; Language Research Guides and Tools; Academic Language Resource Centers; Selected International/Multinational Resources; and a Language and Technology On-Line Bibliography

• For initiating Web Research projects, view the Web version and/or download the more complete PowerPoint version of the MMLL NET INFOSEARCH GUIDE (PPT) slide presentation for use in the language lab or in the classroom (with the virtual lab classroom equipment: laptop and multimedia projector).

• Patricia Pecoy's Collection of Web-Based Activities for Foreign Languages
  provides a variety of excellent application models.

• Lauren Rosen's Teaching with the Web:
  Easily implemented U of Wisconsin discovery projects using City Net, Metro Link, World News Tonight and other basic Web Resources.

• Colby's CBB Mellon Grant Projects Language Web

• Projects...OU CALL
  (Ohio University"s Examples of Student Projects).

• The French Quarter Centre Pédagogique WWW Instructional Applications Center
  provides a continuously updated selection of the best of WWW enhanced instructional applications, particularly for French.

• CU-SeeMe Video-conferencing Resource sites:
  • Cornell University's CU-SeeMe page
    All about CU-SeeMe's free video conferencing program (also White Pine's Enhanced CU-SeeMe) for desktop Chat and Video Conferencing with QuickCam, etc.
  • A CU-SeeMe Reflector for Language Learners,
    Rongchang Li, Interim Director, The Culpeper Multimedia Language Learning Center, Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN.
  • Connectix QuickCam,
    from Multimedia Materials Development for International Communication - Jean LeLoup and Bob Ponterio.
  • CUSeeMe 1 and 2,
    from A Communications Technology Module for the FL Methods Course - Jean LeLoup.
  • Viseoconférences et CU-SeeMe (en français!)
    du "Consortium international francophone de formation à distance - CIFFAD.

• With the increased interest in WWW Video-conferencing and Web Chats, check out these sites for background on MOOs (Multi-user Domain - Object Oriented), MUDs and MUSHes and the newer WOOs:
  • MOOs, MUDs, and MUSHes, and MOOs (Lesson plan activity)
    from Jean LeLoup's Communications Technology Module for the Foreign Language Methods Course (see link in Course Syllabi section, below).
  • Interactive Internet Language Learning
    Nice introduction from U Oregon, Yamada Resource site.
  • The Purpose of MOOs (Rachel Rein), and Rachel's Super MOO List
    up-to-date information and resources for MOOs, WOOs, etc.
  • TECFA Educational VR (MUD) sub-page
    A comprehensive educational MUD resource site maintained by Daniel Schneider at the University of Geneva.
  • A MUSH and MOO ODYSSEY (Wendy Baker Davis)
    An example of a MUSH session plus suggestions on the instructional implementatiion of these language Chat options, technical information on MUSH/MOO clients, and a listing of major MOO and MUSH sites.
  • WebCrawler Chat index
  • WebChat
    • WebChat: Discussion support via the World Wide Web - Ellen Yu Borkowski,
      ...WebChat(tm), a new service being offered on the (University of Maryland) web server, is a multimedia chatting application for the World Wide Web. WebChat allows students to include pictures, sound, or video with their comments. Links to other web sites can also be embedded in their comments...
  • Le MOO français (telnet address: admiral.umsl.edu 7777 or: 134.124.15. 7777)
    - the French educational MOO's new home at the University of Missouri - St. Louis.
  • MundoHispano (telnet address: admiral.umsl.edu 8888 or: 134.124.15.13 8888)
    - the famous Spanish Language MOO now also at the University of Missouri - St. Louis.
  • schMOOze University (an EFL/ESL MOO at CUNY)
    (telnet address: schmooze.hunter.cuny.edu 8888)
  • GERMAN MUSH activities
  • German Chatline links
  • MOO-WWW
    Two of the most seductive and exciting technologies to emerge from the net in the last few years are MUDs and the World Wide Web. There are various ways in which the two can ge linked...
  • Worlds Chat
    Worlds Chat is a completely unique chat experience ... Its lifelike images, sound and navigability make it the closest thing to actually "being there" available on the Web today.
    • CNET comparative reviews - chat clients - Worlds Chat
      Finally, we agreed that Worlds Chat is the best of the avatar chat worlds, combining wonderful 3D graphics with a full gallery of fun avatars..., easy-to-use messaging features, and great online help.
  • Discover THE PALACE
    Forget chat rooms and move to The Palace --the first, best and only way to interact with people face to face...

LANGUAGE AND TECHNOLOGY COURSE SYLLABI:

• Multimedia Materials Development for International Communication
  (CAP529, FRE529, ICC529, SPA529) - This definitive "Introduction to Multimedia Authoring" course pilot, clearly presented and backed up with the hands-on experiences needed to give language faculty confidence in multimedia development, is another super contribution to the profession by the FLTEACH moderators Jean LeLoup and Bob Ponterio, SUNY Cortand, fall, 1997.

• A Communications Technology Module for the Foreign Language Methods Course - Jean LeLoup,
  designed to facilitate the integration of technology education in the Foreign Language Methods curriculum ...this module was supported by a grant from the State University of New York Office of Educational Technology (SUNY Educational Technology Initiative Project #14 Languages Across the Curriculum Multimedia Development Project.

• Integrating Technology into Foreign Language Education.
  This excellent summer '97 course offered by Patricia Pecoy (Furman University) contains a goldmine of Web page creation resources, tools and tutorials, for example:
  • Teaching with the Internet
  • Useful Software
  • How to Scan an Image
  • How to Insert an Image into a MSWord Document
  • How to Prepare a Color Transparency
  • Basic HTML
  • Put Some Pzazz in Your Web Pages: Color, Graphics, Images and Sound
  • How to Make an HTML Table
  • How to do Interactive Web Forms

• Foreign Language Resources on the Internet (FOR 389.41)
  Mark Davies productive Summer 1997 (and Summer 1998) Course at Illinois State University containing links to more than 200 mini lesson plans!

• CLTR: Grad. Cert. in Computers, Technology & Language Learning Course

SELECTED WWW INSTRUCTIONAL APPLICATION SITES (listed by language):

• FRENCH WWW INSTRUCTIONAL APPLICATION SITES :

  • French Civilisation
    A trailblazing interactive instructional application grant project by Marie-J Ponterio (SUNY Cortland), with sound, including:
    • Histoire

  • Musée Média - AUX PAYS de la FRANCOPHONIE
    This exciting new French Canadian interactive site uses animation. If you don't yet have it installed on your computer, you'll need to download the Macromedia Shockwave Plug-in.

  • SILLONNEZ LE MALI EN TROIS PAS!
    Peul du Mali est actuellement étudiante à l'Universite de Cortland . Elle sera votre guide d'honneur pendant votre séjour remarquable au Mali.
    The student, Mariatou Dialo, is from Mali, Bamako. She completed the page for a one credit independent study course. According to her professor, Bob Ponterio (SUNY Cortland), "she kept coming back wanting to learn more so she could add to her page. It now has several maps, several photos of people in the town, samples of rugs and "pagnes" ..., some history, a dialog in a market. She has now taken a job and moved to another state, but has added voice using RealMedia."

  • Chronologie littéraire française 1848-1914 ; hypertexte réticulaire
    Initialement, cette chronologie était destinée à l'introduction d'un cours de Maîtrise/Doctorat donné à l'Université Aoyama (Tokyo) consacré à la littérature et à la critique littéraire au XXe siècle. Elle a évolué vers ce document modèle de l'intégration d'Internet dans un cours d'études supérieures.

  • A preview of the French Interactive Documentary, Dans un quartier de Paris,
    Check out this stunning grant-funded project with Quicktime and MPeg movies. Eventually be published in CD-Rom format by the Yale University Press, Dans un quartier de Paris (long named "Dans le quartier St. Gervais") is a multimedia interactive documentary, filmed in Paris, which offers users a chance to explore a uniquely French cultural space, the micro-world of a quartier, located in Le Marais area.

  • Heinle and Heinle publishers have recently put on the Web these Activités à l'Internet to accompany their French VOILÀ multimedia program. Check them out. They provide a good model for integrating the WWW into your beginning French curriculum.
    • Included in the Voilà site is a link to a Web demo of the CD-ROM component of this clever intermediate level E-mail Whodunit to Develop Writing competence in Intermediate Level Language Classes developped by Terri J. Nelson and Walter C. Oliver at California State University, San Bernadino: Un Meurtre à Cinet.

  • LIRE FRANÇAIS: How to read a French newspaper - superbe!
    Ce site (du quotidien régional Sud Ouest) est réalisé avec le soutien de la Région Aquitaine, et en collaboratiion avec le DLVP - Université Victor Segalen - Bordeaux II:
    • Accueil - Bienvenue
    • Les clés d'un journal
    • Le parcours de lecture: Les rubriques, Les articles
    • Les outils: Les points de grammaire, le dictionnaire
    • Le village: Le forum, Les jeux, Le carnet d'adresses, e-mail
    • La semaine de Sud Ouest - La France vue d'ici

  • Collaboration entre pairs et processus d'écriture dans le MOO
    Mémoire qui propose un emploi intéressant du MOO (TECFA: TEChnologies de Formation et Apprentissage de la Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Éducation de l'université de Genève).

  • Le site LETTRES de l'Académie de Lyon (France)
    A goldmine of resources for French Language and Literature study.

  • Enseignez le français avec Internet:
    Carol Netter's pedagogical guide from her excellent Swarthmore ClicNet site.

  • The AATF TEACHING WITH INTERNET FAQ:
    Great AATF award winning ideas and internet instructional applications.

  • Applications pédagogiques de l'Internet,
    Also thanks to the AATF award winning ideas project, but with additional, highly motivational, courrier électronique et roman interactif ideas for stimulating writing activities in intermediate and composition French courses.

  • Sites utiles pour les enseignants de Français Language Etrangère:
    The "France.Diplomatie" Web resource list for French teachers.

  • Allô prof - Devoirs et leçons:
    Fiches pédagogiques prepared by the Consortium Allô prof, Quebec.

  • Page Pédagogique des internautes

  • Le Français des Affaires - L'ENTREPRISE
    Toujours dans le cadre des simulations globales: L'IMMEUBLE et L'HOTEL...voici pour le Français des Affaires, L'ENTREPRISE...

  • Journal de Bord

  • Le Centre Pédagogique du Village Planétaire.

  • The French Quarter Global Village WWW Instructional Applications Center.

  • For a more authentic, content-based curriculum, (and to minimize "hand-outs!"), publish your own workbooks on the Web for use with French-published manuels such as this UR Online Instructional Guide to accompany Hachette's HISTOIRE CM, the UR French 221 civilization supplement.

  • Here's a model online interactive multimedia French course for beginners from the Centre International d'Études Pédagogiques in Sèvres, ALF: SAY IT IN FRENCH!, with a Voxware link to download the ToolVox Player plug-in.

  • Français 26 - La Civilisation française
    Patricia L. Pecoy's French 26 French Civilization Mellon Foundation Web-based course project (Furman University, winter 1997)

  • VT French Culture and Civilization courses : FR 3205 and 3206
    excellent resources with easily accessible bank of visuals to support the study.

  • The WWW Notebook for Teachers of FRENCH:
    Sonya Moore's helpful VCU guide containing Information, Resources, and WWW Activities.

  • TBob's ever-growing collection of French Lessons from Everywhere@Globe-Gate.

  • FRE 314: Syllabus du Français Commercial

  • YOU BE THE JUDGE

  • FL 308

  • Le site de la Polyvalente Hyacinthe-Délorme

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• GERMAN WWW INSTRUCTIONAL APPLICATION WEB SITES:

  • GERMAN FOR BEGINNERS (Dr. Peter Gölz - UVic)
    with Web Exercises (including tests, exams, MUSH activities, and a German Chatline links), Materials, Dictionaries, Sound with ReadAudio.

  • UKentucky German 101 Independent Study Program
    a very workable model for distance learning programs, with a practical Preparation of Assignments page for the use of Netscape mailer in submitting all assignments, thanks to Phillip S. McKnight, course author. (German Independent Study courses are offered at UK through the 202 level.)

  • Self Placement Test for German, Macalester College

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• HISPANIC WWW INSTRUCTIONAL APPLICATION SITES:

  • VT Spanish Culture and Civilisation Course - SP3204
    excellent resources, including bank of visuals.

  • Spanish Language Exercises Web Page,
    prepared by Juan Ramón de Arana and hosted by Ursinus College, offering examples of different approaches to common language challenges for the foreign student of Spanish.

  • Ernesto - familia
    an example of the use of a "streamed" captured video clip activity, from FLTEACH.

  • MundoHispano, the famous Spanish Language MOO
    (telnet address: europa.syr.edu 8888).

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• CHINESE WWW INSTRUCTIONAL APPLICATION SITES:

  • Teaching and Learning Chinese

  • How to read Chinese-character files

  • Read Chinese in Net Applications

  • Material for Beginners

  • Mandarin Pronunciations (GB)

  • Animated Chinese Characters

  • Conversational Chinese Online

  • Chinese Language Phrases

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• PORTUGUESE WWW INSTRUCTIONAL APPLICATION WEB SITES:

  • Universidade de Aviero

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  JAPANESE WWW INSTRUCTIONAL APPLICATION WEB SITES:

  • Japanese History - Exploring Japanese Feudalism (demo)

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• RUSSIAN WWW INSTRUCTIONAL APPLICATION WEB SITES:

  • Beginning Russian Through Film (Cornell),
    an exciting experimental first-year Russian language course project sponsored by The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning and by the Institute for European Studies at Cornell University. According to the Russian Program Director, Slava Paperno, "Traditional textbooks are to a large extent replaced by (Web-delivered) excerpts from Russian films, videos, televisiion commercials, television programs, and non-rehearsed videotaped scenes. All transcripts of the dialogs in the clips, all glossaries, exercises, as well as the course description and syllabus are on our Web site, as are the soundtracks of the clips and audio recordings of the exercises. The digital video files are on CD-ROMS, that are used in conjunction with our Web site." The site also contains instructions for downloading and configuring all software required for use of this Web site, including Russian fonts with accented vowels.

  • GOLOSA
    Using Golosa: A basic Course in Russian with Russian Web sites integrated in each chapter lesson, plus practical instructions on Cyrillicizing your PC.

  • OTLICHNO!
    An interactive self-instructional drill program available for download (created with the Libra Mac Authoring Tools). OTLICHNO helps students to practice all the 6 Russian cases in a context environment and is currently available for Macintosh platform only. It is recommended for students of 3rd semester of Russian and above. It is for out-of-class use, students may work by themselves.

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