TECHNOLOGY TOOLS and RESOURCES

[TIFLE] CMLIT/FR/GER/SPAN 589

CMC TOOLS

• A variety of Software Tools
  • http://beetle.la.psu.edu/tifle/software_tools.html
• On-line Listing of Synchronous CMC/Chat Tools
  • http://www.justfreestuff.com/chat.html
• Information on Instant Messaging
  • http://netconference.about.com/internet/netconference/cs/imresources/
• Tutorial: Instant Messaging 101
  • http://netconference.about.com/internet/netconference/library/weekly/aa042098.htm

MAKING WEB EXERCISES

• Swarthmore's The Makers Page for Creating Interactive Language Exercises
  • http://lang.swarthmore.edu/makers/index.htm
• University of Victoria's Hot Potatos software for interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web.

MUDs, MOOs, and MUSHs

• MOO information page
  • http://www.itp.berkeley.edu:80/MOO.html
• CafeMOOlano (the primary MOO we will use in TIFLE 589)
  • http://moolano.berkeley.edu:7000/
• LinguaMOO Information Page: A good site for educational MOO information and resources
  • http://lingua.utdallas.edu/
• MUDS and MOOs: An Overview, by Leslie Harris

SOFTWARE RESOURCES

Web browsers

Netscape Communicator

Microsoft Internet Explorer
 

FTP Clients

WS_FTP Limited Edition -- a popular FTP client for Windows

Fetch -- a popular FTP client for the Mac

IRC (Internet Relay Chat) Clients

mIRC -- the premiere IRC client for Windows

Ircle -- one of the more popular Mac IRC clients
   

Decompressors

WinZip -- Useful for decompressing ZIP files on Windows

Stuffit Expander -- Expands Macintosh StuffIt compressed files for Windows and Mac
 
 

Multimedia Plug-ins and Tools

Real Player G2 -- for playing RealAudio RealVideo broadcasts

Real Jukebox -- for creating RealAudio and MP3 files from audio CDs

Real Slideshow G2 -- make streaming slideshows with graphics, audio and video

Adobe Acrobat Reader -- used for viewing PDF files

Apple's Quicktime  -- the most popular media player for Windows and Macintosh

Macromedia Shockwave -- plays multimedia presentations over the web

Windows Media Player -- Microsoft's new Media Player for Windows and Mac machines

Winamp -- the most popular MP3 player for Windows
   

Videoconferencing Applications

Microsoft NetMeeting -- a popular videoconferencing program for Windows