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 * Effective Tools for Students and Teachers ** Below are extra CALL links which make CALL learning and teaching more effective and efficient. With rubrics, not only do they save teachers' time in assessment, but also they allow students to assess their works easily both by themselves, and in pair and groups. Importantly, collaborative and interactive activities are a core of CALL learning and teaching. As you know, there are many websites to enable people all over the world to connect with each other.



Rubrics These links are helpful tools to allow students and teachers to assess course work efficiently both individually and in groups. 1. [|RUBISTAR] See an example of a rubric (Assessing Persuasive Writing) 2. [|TeAchnology] See an example of a rubric (Assessing Presentation Skills)

Collaborative and Interactive Tools These links help to enable students and teachers all over the world to connect each other in virtual communities for language learning and teaching. 1. [|skype] 2. [|Yahoo!Messenger] With skype and Yahoo!Messenger, students and teachers talk through chat seeing each other's face and write instant messages at the same time. When students do a group project, those tools help students collaborate and interact each other. 3. [|wiki] 4. [|YahooGroup] With wiki and YahooGroup, students and teachers collaborate and interact each other as the above. Besides that, they write and share any information on the board to preserve it on the site as long as a member of these sites doesn't remove it.

Developed by Mika Sakamoto. GSL520/GED565: Computer-Assisted Language Learning Online  [|Saint Michale's College]  Last updated on June 19th, 2010. email: msakamoto@smcvt.edu