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FLAX Building language material and creating exercises with FLAX
Shaoqun Wu and Ian H. Witten Computer Science Department Waikato University New Zealand
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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
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where’s NZ?
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what’s FLAX?
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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
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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
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Hundreds of thousands of documents
Language Activities: individual, competitive, collaborative Digital libraries Hundreds of thousands of documents Millions of sentences Mary Joe
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Installing FLAX from CD-ROM
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Experiencing FLAX exercises
Scrambled Sentences Word Guessing Predicting Words and Phrases Collocation Fill-in-blanks
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Creating FLAX exercises
Scrambled Sentences Word Guessing Predicting Words and Phrases
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Making your own digital library collection
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FLAX Free open source software (GNU licensed) http://flax.nzdl.org
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Designing an exercise
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Designing an exercise
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Designing a Word Guessing exercise
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Designing a Predicting Words exercise
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Choose collection (Moodle only)
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My Collections
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Create a new collection
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Create a new collection
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