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A variety of CD-ROM-based exercises to improve business English, though many activities would be applicable to general language learners as well. Topics include Business, Communications, Companies, Finance, Import/Export, Industry, Marketing, and Personnel. Activities include Pronunciation, Hangman, Definitions, Word Order, Anagram, Maths, and Identify. British English.
Companion software for the Making Connections textbook series. This series of three CD-ROMs (levels 1, 2, and 3) incorporates listening, note taking, chart building, and lateral thinking skills in high school contexts. Topics are drawn from science, social studies, literature, and math. The programs have recently been adopted by the State of California.
Markin is a teacher's tool created by Martin Holmes for marking student writing in electronic form. A student's text can be pasted into Markin from an e-mail message or a word-processor file. The teacher can then annotate the text using a set of buttons, footnotes and other kinds of feedback. The marked text can then be exported as a World Wide Web page in HTML format, and sent back to the student. The student, opening the page in a Web browser, will see that parts of the text have been made into links. Clicking on a link will take the student to the teacher's comment or error diagnosis. The program will also automatically compile error statistics for each piece of work which is marked. Download as shareware. Only short texts can be marked up without paying and registering.
Students practice punctuation and capitalization rules by finding and correcting errors in paragraphs or longer text. The bottom of the screen shows a list of the missing punctuation marks and the number of capital letters. While some exercises come with the program, teachers are expected to add more of their own material. It works well to use students' own work as the basis for exercises. Windows version available Jan 1999.
This offers historical footage from ABC News as well as still photos and text about the life of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement. Clips of young adults talking about the effect of the Movement on their lives today are also included. The program consists of a double-sided videodisc controlled by a HyperCard stack. There are extensive options for viewing, including with accompanying text, in Spanish or English, or in clips to copy to a videotape. Because the options are numerous, students will probably need an introduction to the program by a teacher. For best language learning results, the teacher should give students information gathering or information transfer tasks to perform. The strength of the program is in the large quantity of information provided in a hypertext format that allows movement among ideas.
Reading, math, and language skills for young learners (pre-K to 2). Designed for native speakers.
Topics include paying for a meal, sales slips, unit pricing, saving on transportation, sales tax, finding a job, overtime, piecework/commission work, and finding net pay. CD-ROM.
CD-ROM of math learning resources for grades K-6 with instructions in English and Spanish. The program can be used by students and teachers to model textbook examples or as a standalone application. It offers assistance in subjects including place-value blocks, counters, money, time, fractions, probability, spreadsheets/data/graphers, geometry shapes and geometry drawing.
Contains the following content areas: Whole numbers, probability, geometry, measurement, fractions & decimals. Also available in Spanish. Titles sold separately.
This typing program offers a step-by-step tutorial (written for native speakers, so not very useful by beginners or intermediate level students without a teacher's help getting started), record-keeping so that learners can start up again where they left off, and game options for further practice. The road race typing game is very popular with some learners. Sometimes sold bundled with Correct Grammar by mail order vendors. On CD-ROM or on disks.
MaxAuthor is used by an author to associate multimedia with text to prepare it for use by students using the MAX family of lesson activities: MaxBrowser, Listening Dictation, Pronunciation, Multiple Choice, Vocabulary Completion, and Audio Flashcards. The author records separate audio for both sentences and words and has the option of recording audio in the training language only, but can also record translations or paraphrases in any other language or dialect. The author can either manually define the word and sentence boundaries or let MaxAuthor choose the boundaries automatically. Download from the website at http://cali.arizona.edu/docs/wmaxa/maxadown.htm
Includes an on-line component designed to encourage students to explore the ancient Mayan ruins. On CD-ROM or on disks. MECC titles are now sold by Learning Company School.
Practice with numbers in real-world contexts, including shopping, cooking, weighing packages, and sports. CD-ROM. Australian English.
Three CD-ROM set, with Math Munchers, Word Munchers, and Knowledge Munchersª (formerly Trivia Munchersª Deluxe). Arcade-style games. Word Munchers drills the variant spelling of vowel sounds. Students are presented with a model (/i/ as in fish), they then move around a grid selecting all of the other words that have the same vowel sound while trying to avoid little monstors that randomly move through the grid. The program can be set so that students will only work on a limited set of vowel sounds. There is no instructional phase to the program, so teachers will want to either preteach the common patterns and exceptions or encourage their students to be persistent discovery learners. Knowledge Munchers is a trivia-style game in arcade form. Math Munchers works on math skills. MECC titles are now sold by Learning Company School.
A versatile and fast concordancer, very professionally done. It works on huge text files and produces concordance output on screen which can be manipulated in numerous ways (e.g. sorted by 1 to n words to right or left of target, source text can be accessed, non-productive items ejected, printing to file, etc.). Comes with an excellent manual explaining many uses of concordancers. The optional corpora are separated into business, science, humanities, etc. texts, generally taken from British newspapers. Recently upgraded.
Teacher-management software for handling, student information, grades, and statistics in many report types, including teacher-designed ones. Upgraded to include importing & exporting of info, making of rosters & work sheets, attendance by day/student. Easy-to-use, flexible, and completely customizable.
A CD-ROM based set of reference materials, including on-line versions of The American Heritage Dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia, The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, The People's Chronology, The Hammond World Atlas, and the National Five-digit Zip Code and Post Office Directory. There are hypertext links between most of the materials, so the student can click on a word in the encyclopedia, and Bookshelf will jump to its dictionary where the student can even hear the word pronuounced. Well-designed and very informative, but like most multimedia programs, it really needs an up-to-date Mac or PC.
For students doing English for Academic Purposes, this is the best of the CD-ROM encyclopedias. It covers more topics and in a more sophisticated way than others I'm familiar with. Its interface isn't quite as good as Compton's, and its multimedia content isn't as extensive as Grolier's but the overall contents, especially the digital videos, are more thoughtfully arranged. (J.Magoto) Updated annually. Current version does not run under Windows 3.1.
This CD-ROM has both the traditional two-dimensional maps and three-dimensional ones, including a globe that learners can spin. Culturegrams and a 'family portraits' section that looks at the lives of 31 families in dept give added depth to the global information presented. Includes color graphics, sound, and videos. Requires Windows 95 or later. Will not run on earlier versions of Windows.
CD-ROM with interactive math activities. A Spanish version is also available.
A computerized version of one of Mario Rinvolucri's grammar games, combining language learning with strategy. It's a virtual boardgame based on the ancient Japanese game "Go" in which students must master an area of language in order to win. MindLines is the American English version while MindGame is the British English version. Students can play against each other or against the computer. Each of the five levels comes on a separate CD-ROM or as a compilation. It comes with an authoring component. A demo is available from the website.
Game show format with items from ExamView test banks. Use ExamView to create your own Quiz Show question sets. Simply create a bank or test in ExamView and have your students open the file in Quiz Show. Can be used with Pearson's Classroom Response System wireless pads, as well.
Concordance program. Can load multiple files totaling several million words, then view contents from within the program. Searches can be case-sensitive or case-insensitive, have wildcards, and include non-letter characters such as '-' or apostrophes. Unwanted concordance lines can be deleted, while a multi-line context can be displayed for a given concordance line. A word list function with a frequency count and calculation of the frequency of collocations is also included. Results can be sorted by search word, text order, or first or second word to the left or right. An earlier and less full-featured version, MonoConc for Windows, is $70.
CD-ROM-based multimedia presentation tool that lets users create multimedia productions. MP Express can import and utilize any standard picture, sound, or video including QuickTime VR. It can also record narration. This can be used by students to create presentations. The company also sells resource CDs that contain movies, pictures, backgrounds, music scores and sounds for use with MP Express. Currently shipping Resource CDs include On the Brink: Endangered Species and Living Deserts & Rainforests.
A terminology database that allows students and translators to access a large library of specialized electronic bilingual dictionaries and build their own customized annotation files. DOS and Windows.
An computer-based flash card system designed to teach English as a second language to children. Features several games for learning the vocabulary and the capability for students to listen to digitally recorded pronunciations of each word and also to record their own voices. If using an IBM or compatible, this program requires an MPC-compliant machine and runs under Windows.
Word-processor with speech capability (uses a speech synthesizer). Words are spoken as they appear on the screen. The computer stores a list of each user's words in a 'word bank.' Students can see or hear the words in the word bank in a window of the screen while doing additional word processing. Useful for Language Experience Approach activities. DOS version is on disks, while the Mac version is on CD-ROM.
Students work through exercises to learn vocabulary related to the family. Then they try the MysteryFamily Activity, where three members of a family are hidden behind silhouettes. The student must guess their identities by asking them questions and listening to their responses. For help, students may read a short biographical sketch about each person. The program keeps track of the number of questions asked and includes a special display when all identities are correctly guessed.
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