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Monday, July 10, 2006

Authoring tools: tense buster (a really expensive one)

AUTHORING TOOLS

- Hot potatoes is free
- There are other authoring tools which are not free. Tense Buster is one of them. There are 5 different levels of tense buster. It is more grammar related.

Interesting article on Tense Buster:
http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/ej31/m3.html
(you can write exercises , adding hints, explanations, and with scores)

Address of the website:
http://www.clarityenglish.com/TenseBuster/

There are different kinds of exercises: true or false, Gap Fill (where you can have hints), drag and drop, multiple choice, proof reading, target spotting and free practice.

How to use it. Create a new exercise.

- If you go to gapfill, there are 6 steps you have to follow. You can copy a text from microsoft word or from the Internet and then change the format if you want. In "add multimedia" you can even record your own voice and put it there, or add any other sound).

- in multiple choice exercises, you write several opcions (a, b and c) in add an option. In feedback, you will tell the computer which one is the correct one and which ones are incorrect.

- for the drag and drop option it's the "drop" one the one you use.

- REMEMBER: First you have to save and then add exercise

Prices

Once you buy it, it's yours. You have to buy one per computer if you want to use it in class. 20 computers are 1,600 euros. One computer, 320 euros.

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