CALICO Re-Cap

Here are a few of the interesting topics covered at the CALICO conference.

• Bubbleply.com - add speech bubbles to online video
• Voki.com - have your students create a character and make it talk with their words.
• Comiqs.com - create online comics from your pictures and words
• Second Life - virtual reality environment.
  Pros
  • wow factor

  • native speakers of target language readily available
  • spontaneous FL speech
  Cons
  • spontaneous speech

  • higher end computer needed
  • fast network needed
  • learning curve is steep
• Hot Potatoes - Moodle plugin for creating interactive quizzes
• Educational language Podcasts from iTunes Store for Free
• Free Survey sites:
  • Survey Monkey

  • Zoomerang
• Sites specifically for Spanish
  • cervantesvirtual.com

  • donquijote.org
  • studyspanish.com
• Ning.com - make your own online community like Facebook but for specific topics (like French Film)
  

• Merlot.org - Multimedia Educational Resource for Online Teaching
• Using online video in language courses:
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_sharing_websites
• eslweb.org - TESOL resource website
  

• Development platforms:
  • Runtime Revolution - Curtis Ford used this for his Russian Multimedia Program

  • FLV - The YouTube video format (flash based)
  • Flash Helix Server
• Apple Learning Interchange
• Captionate software - for adding captions to videos from sites like YouTube