Authoring

Authoring Programs and Sites

> http://ltsblogs.org.uk/mfle/2008/03/08/communicate08-getting-the-most-out-of-digital-voice-recorders/ > http://argoedfrench.wetpaint.com/page/year+7+French?t=anon > http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=92 || exercises. Lots of ready-made materials are already available: http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/fwt.htm ||
 * ~ **Authoring Programs and Sites ** ||
 * **Clicker:** A powerful and incredibly easy-to-use writing support and multimedia tool by Crick Software, which enables you to write with whole words, phrases or pictures. It has won five BETT Awards, the "Oscars" of British Educational Software, as voted for by teachers. It can be used to support any area of the curriculum: http://www.cricksoft.com/uk/ideas/languages.htm ||
 * **Comic Creator:** Create your own comic strips: http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/comic/index.html. ||
 * **Comic Life:** A utility that enables you to create comics, picture albums, how-to guides - and much more! Just drag in your pictures, captions, lettering text and speech balloons: http://plasq.com/comiclife-win ||
 * **ContentGenerator:** This website offers a range of Flash-based tools for the generation of quizzes, games and other applications: [|http://www.contentgenerator.net] ||
 * **Hot Potatoes:** See: [|http://hotpot.uvic.ca]. A suite of five Web authoring tools for language teachers, written by Martin Holmes and Stewart Arneil at the [|University of Victoria], Canada. Create your own Web exercises in Windows or Mac format: i. Multiple-choice quizzes, ii. Jumbled sentences, iii. Short-answer questions, iv. Gap-fill exercises, v. Crosswords. ||
 * **Interlex:** A free vocab acquisition package by Andrew Quilley. It supports several different languages, is easy to use, comes with lots of ready-made vocab files, and students can write their own files to test the words they want to learn. The website also lists lots of useful links and has a file swap area where users can post the files they have created and share resources with other learners: [|http://www.vocab.co.uk]. ||
 * **JClic:** JClic is a freeware application, developed by Francesc Busquets, for the development of multimedia activities for language learners. With JClic you can create different types of activities: puzzles, associations, crosswords, identification activities, exploration actitivities, open-ended answers, multiple choice, etc: http://clic.xtec.net/en/jclic/index.htm ||
 * **Jeopardy:** A computerised version of the TV quiz show. Free software that enables you to build questions on any subject you like, including questions in foreign languages: http://stuhasic.com/jeopardy ||
 * **MakeBeliefsComix:** Make your own comic strips. This free site has potential for learners of foreign languages: [|http://www.makebeliefscomix.com]. ||
 * **MALTED:** A project funded under the Educational Multimedia Taskforce initiative of the European Commission. MALTED stands for Multimedia Authoring for Language Tutors and Educational Development and consists of a set of authoring tools for developing multimedia courseware for language learners. It was initiated by the Language Centre, University College London. The package has been widely trialled in Spanish schools and is supported by the Spanish Ministry of Education. Pity that our own [|DCSF] doesn't show the same kind of enthusiasm. Download the (free) MALTED package from here: [|http://malted.cnice.mecd.es] ||
 * **Quia:** Create your own learning activities: [|http://www.quia.com]. Includes lots of ready-made examples in foreign languages and a variety of other subjects - all submitted by keen registered users ||
 * **TaskMagic**: An easy-to-use authoring tool, produced by Martin Lapworth at MDLSoft, for creating non-Web-based interactive exercises for use in schools. Includes: Picture Match, Sound Match, Multi-Choice, Mix & Gap, Dialogues, etc: [|http://www.mdlsoft.co.uk] & http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/taskm.htm ||
 * **Teacher's Pet:** A free set of utilities (macros) for //Microsoft Word//, developed by Chris Lacey. The macros make the job of creating exercises with //Microsoft Word// fast and fun: gap-fill exercises, multiple-choice exercises, word jumbling, sentence jumbling, pronunciation exercises, punctuation exercises, dictionary searches, thesaurus searches, crosswords, storing word lists: [|http://www.teachers-pet.org] - and more to come! ||
 * **ToonDoo:** Create your own comic strips. Publish, share & discuss: [|http://www.toondoo.com] ||
 * **Voki:** A website that enables you to create and customise your own speaking cartoon character that can be embedded in your favourite social networks, blogs and websites. You can choose the [|Text-to-Speech] option, as in my example on the right, to give the character a voice, or you can record your own voice: [|http://www.voki.com]. See also [|Comic Creator], [|Comic Life], [|MakeBeliefsComix], [|ToonDoo]. See also:
 * **Voki & Digital Recorders by Kath Ashton:**
 * **Mrs Holton's French wiki, Voki samples created by children:**
 * **José Picardo's [|Box of Tricks] blog**, where he describes how he is using Voki to motivate boys to speak in the target language:
 * **Comic Creator:** Create your own comic strips: http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/comic/ ||
 * **Comic Life:** A utility that enables you to create comics, picture albums, how-to guides - and much more! Just drag in your pictures, captions, lettering text and speech balloons: http://plasq.com/comiclife-win ||
 * **Crosswords:** Chris Lacey's [|Teacher's Pet] website provides a macro for //Microsoft Word// that creates crossword puzzles automatically from a vertical list of words. Try the **Instant Online Crossword Puzzle Maker** at http://www.puzzle-maker.com/CW/. Here's another one, called **EclipseCrossword**: http://www.greeneclipsesoftware.com/eclipsecrossword/ ||
 * **Fun with Texts:** An authoring package for the automatic generation of text manipulation exercises. Lots of ready-made materials are already available: http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/fwt.htm ||
 * **Fun with Texts:**  An authoring package for the automatic generation of text manipulation
 * **GapKit:**  An authoring package for the generation of gap-filling and multiple-choice exercises linked with pictures and audio files. Lots of ready-made materials are already available for GCSE examinations: http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/gapkit.htm ||