On this page you will find a selection of websites that have been found and can be used to create materials. Not sure how online materials work? Have a look at some other languages with exercises online.

Sites with loads of Activities that are dead Good
1. WebAuthor - Make Interactive Web Exercises on the fly! WebAuthor can be used to make web forms for Web Assisted Learning and Teaching of Languages (WALT). A set of CGI programs are used to write the code for you - all you need is enter your data in the fields given. You can also copy/paste text from any word processors. CGI software running from the server at Language Resource and Research Center at the University of Pennsylvania, makes the forms with suitable script so, you can simply copy the source code and keep it in your web space.  http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/larrc/webauthor.html
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2. Makers Brilliant resource from the Tri-College Mellon Language Project The Tri-College Mellon Language Project began in September 1997, when Haverford, Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This Project is intended to assist faculty teaching foreign languages at these three small liberal art college integrate technology in their teaching and encourage them to work together in a more collaborative, consortial manner.
It's very easy to use - a web form takes your information and places it in a javascript. It then writes the resulting code to a web server. After the page is made, it's no longer dependent upon the server where it was made. It can be moved to any web server!  http://lang.swarthmore.edu/makers/index.htm
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Images to use in your materials

Art Today  It was free but now it's not. You could try it anyway ...

Address: http://www.arttoday.com/PD-0031927/Main/main.html

Creating Cloze Activities - Clozemaker
http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/ClozeMaker/jswiz/clozemaker.htm

You can use this utility to create your own gapped exercises, either from existing word lists of grammatical items such as prepositions and irregular verbs, or by writing your own word list. You can use your own text or choose one from our own database of texts.

Creating ESOL Activities (Cloze, reordering etc)

The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for non-profit educational users who make their pages available on the web

Address; http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/

An interesting review of the software from Language Learning & Technology
Vol. 5, No. 2, May 2001, pp. 28-33 is at  http://llt.msu.edu/vol5num2/review3/default.html

Creating Games and Activities
You can see games created by others and create your own at Quia

http://www.quia.com/dir/eng/ 
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Crosswords
It's difficult to find a good crossword maker on the web. You could try Andrei Grigoriev's page at http://www.clearlight.com/~vivi/xw/index.html    
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Treasure Hunts
Filamentality. They say
"Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet sites, and turning Web resources into learning activities. It helps combine the "filaments" of the Web with a learner's "mentality". Support is built-in through Mentality Tips that guide you along the way to creating a Web-based activity you can share with others even if you don't know anything about HTML, Web servers, or all that www-dot stuff."
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More links at http://www.furman.edu/~pecoy/mfl195/intermed.html
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Lost for Ideas?
Have a look at how other sites have created online language learning materials (and get an language learner perspective(?)).

Thai
See and hear exercise for Thai learners with a Thai-Script Dictionary
http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r21270/644/members/sina/sinaxxx/DictionaryFrames.htm

SAC Index

Paul McGuinness 2001