Basic premises
Learning needs drive tech use, not vice-versa
Movement toward “normalization” of CALL
Simulations
Tom Snyder Productions Decisions, Decisions 5.0
SimCity and its variations for collaborative, project-based work
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego
Quandary (http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/quandary/version_2/examples/landlady.htm)
Collaboration at the computer
Text-based practice without a live audience
Movie maker: http://www.dfilm.com/live/moviemaker.html . See a sample.
Comic strip maker: http://www.makebeliefscomix.com
Practice with Quandary based on appropriate response to a prompt (Evil Landlady - see above)
Text-based practice with a live audience
Chat (many versions online) and Messenger (through MSN, Yahoo, others)
MOOs – TappedIn (http://www.tappedin.org), SchMOOze (schmooze.hunter.cuny.edu)
Second Life (http://secondlife.com)
Other typed interaction tools
Audio and video conversation tools
Skype (www.skype.com), Messenger, other audio conversation tools
Yahoo Messenger with video/video Skype/other video conversation tools
Finding class partners
ePals Classroom Exchange: http://www.epals.com/
IECC: http://www.iecc.org/
Good list of many resources: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/ATALL/Interaction/Finding_Language_Exchange_(eTandem)_Partners
Presentation software
OpenOffice ( www.openoffice.org ) - free
MS PowerPoint ( www.microsoft.com ) – training video: http://office.microsoft.com/training/training.aspx?AssetID=RC011298761033
Templates in PowerPoint for specific types of oral presentations - http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/default.aspx
Podcasts, video blogs, video storage site
Podomatic: http://podomatic.com
iTunes: http://www.apple.com/itunes/overview/
Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com
YouTube video clips – https://www.youtube.com
Audio/video creation tools
Audacity to record - http://audacity.sourceforge.net
Video/movie making software (iMovie for Macintosh, Windows MovieMaker for Windows) - both are free
Digital audio recorders and digital video recorders
Audacity to add teacher comment tracks to digital audio files from students
Voice comments in Word (see http://oregonstate.edu/~healeyd/tesol2008/voicecomments.html for instructions about inserting voice comments)
Audio blogs with audio responses
Pronunciation software - see some pronunciation links for one of my classes and a list of software and references
Speech recognition software
Microsoft Speech SDK ( http://www.microsoft.com/speech/speech2007/default.mspx )
Dragon Naturally Speaking ( http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/ )
Selecting the tool
Guiding use – roles, language, expectations
Integrating learning => normalized CALL