PRODUCING ELECTRONIC

MATERIALS

JUAN CARLOS SALAZAR

ISABEL CRISTINA PINTO G
L. ALEXANDRA PINTO G

What are electronic materials?

Informational resources, exercises and activities created
by yourself

Use on a computer as web page, CD-ROM content, or in

printed form.
May include working with external web pages, using web
page design skills, the use of small programs installed on
your own computer or more complex CD-ROM
production software.

Creating your own electronic materials in class

To provide extra practice for weaker learners, consolidation and
review exercises for groups.
To generate a large bank of materials.
To provide a change of pace and can be highly motivating.

To check which language areas learners have had problems

with and provide further practice materials if necessary.
To be uploaded to a platform.

-http://a4esl.org/

Creating electronic materials online

The Discovery School Puzzlemaker
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/

Online tools
Smile: http://smile.clear.msu.edu
-You can create a free account and manage your own online bank
of exercises with student tracking and a good variety of exercise
types.
-You can choose from multiple choice, true/false, drag and drop,
sentence mix, paragraph mix, cloze and multiple select.

Powtoon http://www.powtoon.com/
Endangered animals

Calameo http://es.calameo.com/#
Endangered animals

Edmodo
https://www.edmodo.com/?simplified_landing_page
=1&go2url=%2Fhome%23%2Fgroup%3Fid%3D141
67339

Goconqr https://www.goconqr.com/es

Google drive (Gmail)

https://www.google.com/intl/es-419/drive/

What is an authoring tool?

It is an installable program that allows you to create
materials in electronic format which can be distributed on
a CD-ROM, DVD, USB pen drive, floppy disc or via a
web page to your learners.
They are used to make CD-ROM-based reference tools
(Microsoft Encarta) but also more simple resources
(information leaflets, brochures, handouts and interactive
exercises)

To explore
Mediator
(http://www.matchware.com/en/products/mediator/edu/why.htm)

Macromedia Director
http://www.adobe.com/products/director/
Neobook http://www.neosoftware.com/nbw.html

Using authoring tools to produce materials

Hot Potatoes can be freely downloaded for
educational purposes http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ to create
web-based exercise:
-multiple choice

-short answer

-jumbled sentence

-crossword

-matching/ordering

-gap-fill

Hot Potatoes website

http://hotpot.uvic.caltutorials6.htm : tutorial

lnteractive stories
Learners read scenarios and then make choices to decide
what they will do at certain key points.
-Reading comprehension practice
-Small-group discussions (encourage collaborative and critical
thinking skills).
-To encourage learners to develop a wide range of skills from
listening to debating, agreeing and disagreeing and making
points and supporting them.

Interactive stories
http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/quandary/version_2/examples/

Clarity Software: (audio, graphics and video content, and allow for
the creation of listening comprehension exercises interactive
dictations and presentation http://www.clarityenglish.com/
QUIA: http://www.quia.com/subscription/

Symbaloo
https://www.symbaloo.com/home/mix/13e
P70VCLi

Activity
In groups of three or four design an
electronic material for your class.
Explain it.