1. KFLC 2007 Improving Student Learning Through Interactive Online Exercises Eddy Cuisinier & Nathan L. Love Western Kentucky University

2. Interactive Online Exercises Simple multiple-choice exercise Simple multiple-choice exercise with feedback Simple matching exercise Matching exercise with sound and images Exercise with video 1 Exercise with video 2 Crossword Cloze exercise (exercice à trous) Sentence jumble

3. French exercise online Simple multiple-choice exercise Eighteenth-century enlightenment authors Interactive exercises allow the instructor to prepare exercises for students that provide practice, familiarity and feedback. The instructor need not be present to supply corrections, since the answers can be written into the exercises themselves.

4. French exercise online Simple multiple-choice exercise with feedback Which article? The instructor can provide not only the correct answers, but an explanation as well. With this option, the online exercise, although carried out away from class and instructor, can help the learner to understand why answers are judged correct or incorrect

5. French exercise online Simple matching exercise Idiomatic expressions Interactive exercises are easily created thanks to applications that are free online. For instance, Hot Potatoes, a downloadable program that can be used at no cost for educational purposes, provides cloze, matching and multiple choice exercises, as well as short-answer questions, crossword puzzles and scrambled sentences.

6. French exercise with multimedia matching exercise with sound and images Pronominal verbs Web-based exercises can be delivered to any Internet-connected computer equipped with a browser. Students relate well to visual and auditory presentation and reinforcement.

7. French exercise with multimedia Exercise with video 1 Jean-Marie au téléphone The use of sound and video provides relevance, appearance of authenticity, as well as illustration various functions of language. This form of online instruction is particularly beneficial to students in French courses that propose objectives in the receptive skill of listening comprehension

8. French exercise with multimedia Exercise with video 2 La famille de Karin Although students feel at home with sound and image as part of their learning environment, video created by the instructor or learner results in multimedia of even greater relevance and resulting sense of engagement.

9. French exercise online Crossword le passé composé: être Online interactive drills appeal to many who appreciate gaming activities that are so prominent in our society. As an individual activity, the learner need not fear embarrassment or disapproval for mistaken answers.

10. French exercise online Cloze exercise (exercice à trous) vocabulary restaurant la chambre de Margot We should not neglect the inherent iterative aspect of any Web-based production; the vocabulary items, video or the sound files can be replayed as many times as needed.

11. French exercise online sentence jumble Questions finding answers online to online exercise Francophonie How to form the interrogative could be practiced as a multiple choice exercise, fill-in-the-blank, or matching activity, or as a jumbled sentence that must be sorted out. Setting up an online activity that requires online structured search.

12. Brainstorming with You & Looking Ahead Do you have suggestions ? Have you had good experiences with online interactive activities? Do you know of other sites that can generate online activities?