E-CREATION TOOLS AND SELF-MADE COMPUTER-BASED RESOURCES BY ISIS BATRES AND JULIO DEL ÁGUILA

GET ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS TO PLAY AND BE CREATIVE WITH LANGUAGE

E-CREATION TOOLS Software or applications of software that provide a free forum for students to publish their original work. “construct activities that maximize opportunities for ELLS to interact with other in English”

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS Web publishing sites Presentation software Exercise creation tools Movie makerPodcasting

WEB PUBLISHING SITES Content provided through the use of a website for access by the public in general. All about creating a web page. Example: Geocities

PRESENTATION SOFTWARE Software design for creating presentations. Example: Power point

EXERCISE CREATION TOOLS This is a software that creates different exercises that can be used as assessment tools. Example: hot potatoes

MOVIE MAKER It can be used to create movies from still photos or video clips. Example: Windows movie maker

PODCASTING It enables the distribution of audio files over syndicated feed that can be replayed on media players or computers. Example: Audacity

LET´S PRACTICE We are going to create a Jeopardy game in power point.

Step one: Open a Power point and choose insert table from the toolbar. Step two: Create categories by writing the titles in the first row. Then assign the values for each question to the cell.

Step three: Create categories by writing the titles in the first row. Then assign the values for each question to the cell. Step four: Insert one slide for each value you placed.

Step five: On each slide insert two text boxes one for the question and another for the answer. Step six: Select the box with the answer and insert animation, so it will appear with a click.

Step seven: Once you finish with the answers and questions, insert an icon or image to make it a button to get back to the main page on each slide Step eight: Get back to the main page and insert hyperlinks, from each value to the slide it represents.