Downloadable CALL Software Demos
If you have a Mac with QuickTime installed and some time for the download, I invite you to download a few samples of my ESL/EFL lesson prototypes from CELIA, The Computer Enhanced Language Instruction Archive. The following focus on listening comprehension at the high-intermediate to advanced level, and include many reading, writing, and some pronunciation components. They are all freeware. (Windows versions coming soon!) 
Clinton
Debate
(968K uncompressed)
Computer
Camp
(2.1MBs uncompressed)
VOA.News.9.2.94
(1.3MBs uncompressed)
Japan
Quake
(2.2MBs uncompressed)
Screen Shots from CD-ROM Projects
(From:
"Guerrilla Marketing")I was an interactive writer with CO/OP Media, who along with Houghton Mifflin Interactive, and Vertigo Development Group partnered to create the Guerrilla Marketing CD-ROM, a consumer title based on the series of best-selling books by Jay Conrad Levinson. The Guerrilla Marketing CD-ROM combines solid information about marketing with inspirational advice and examples to teach small business owners about Jay's most important marketing "weapons".
(From:
"The Adventure Kids")
I was a writer and programmer on this project developed by CO/OP Media.
Designed to introduce pre-schoolers to reading, writing and math, this product
features two spirited characters who help to gather and share information,
make choices, and experience the ensuing results as the adventure unfolds.
(From:
"Grandma June's Ladybugs")
Another CO/OP Media production, this collection of interactive stories stimulates
a child's imagination and provides a creative forum for learning. I worked
as a programmer and interactive designer on this project.
(From:
"Medical HouseCall")
I was project manager, writer, and programmer on the tutorial produced for
this American Medical Informatics CD-ROM. In the tutorial, simulations and
animated characters take the user on a tour through the extensive medical
diagnostic tools of this home reference product.
Online Reviews and Articles
I have written and published many articles and reviews on Computer-Assisted Language Learning and multimedia technology. Here are a few which are available online:
"Computers
and Language"
"On
the Internet" (TESL-EJ)
"ReCALL
Software Guide"
"Teach Yourself Web Publishing
with HTML in a Week"
Web-Based Software Demos
As a member of both Netscape's Developers' Program, and Macromedia's Shockwave Beta Development community, I was able to take part in the early testing and debugging of Shockwave, Navigator 2.0, and other plug-ins. Look for frequent additions to this area of my portfolio., if you aren't already.
Then Take A Demo ESL
Shockwave Grammar/Listening Quiz or two.
- Here is a demo draft of a
distance learning ESL project I co-authored with Maggie Sokolik for
UC Berkeley and Nihon Telephone and Telegraph.
Or
Learn The American Sign Language
Finger Spelling Alphabet.ASL Shockwave Demo
Now On-Line!(Featured in a Microsoft TV ad campaign!)
Or
Experience
Space Is The Place . . .
A Shockwave CyberPoem.Just Be Sure To
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