FLAX Building language material and creating exercises with FLAX Shaoqun Wu and Ian H. Witten Computer Science Department Waikato University New Zealand http://flax.nzdl.org

FLAX Building language material and creating exercises with FLAX To Moodle or not to Moodle? Shaoqun Wu and Ian H. Witten Computer Science Department Waikato University New Zealand http://flax.nzdl.org

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what’s FLAX?

agenda Installing FLAX from CD-ROM (?) FLAX in Moodle Experiencing FLAX exercises Scrambled Sentences Word Guessing Predicting Words and Phrases Collocation Fill-in-blanks Creating FLAX exercises (from existing material) Making your own digital library collection

Digital libraries for language learning Libraries contain the world’s best prose Digital libraries: text can be extracted and manipulated automatically Yields an unprecedented supply of practice exercises for students 6

Hundreds of thousands of documents Language Activities: individual, competitive, collaborative Digital libraries Hundreds of thousands of documents Millions of sentences Mary Joe

Installing FLAX from CD-ROM

Experiencing FLAX exercises Scrambled Sentences Word Guessing Predicting Words and Phrases Collocation Fill-in-blanks

Creating FLAX exercises Scrambled Sentences Word Guessing Predicting Words and Phrases

Making your own digital library collection

FLAX Free open source software (GNU licensed) http://flax.nzdl.org http://moodledemo.waikato.ac.nz

Designing an exercise

Designing an exercise

Designing a Word Guessing exercise

Designing a Predicting Words exercise

Choose collection (Moodle only)

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Create a new collection

Create a new collection