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Tips and Tricks Eid Mubarak! Happy Thanksgiving! Welcome to our second collection of
interesting CALL materials for this semester.
About Us
All websites are working at press time—but remember, the Internet is a
Submissions Wanted moving target.
CNA-Q IT Tutorials
This site could be great for teaching students vocabulary to describe
people. It takes a photograph you upload, and
distorts it to illustrate various adjectives: happy,
angry, ugly … I even got it to make me look young
and thin (on the right)! Requires registration.
http://www.moonjee.com/
While the US election is still on, amuse and confuse your students by
playing this video, featuring them as US Presidential candidates.
They’ll listen to every word!
http://www.tsgnet.com/pres.php?id=379346&altf=Fvhfof&altl=Dbnqcfmm&lap=2
And as if that weren’t enough, here’s another MS Word tip from the
real Rebecca Hatherley:
Note the white background of one image here obscures the second image.
Fix: You can create a transparent area in most pictures.
About Us
CALL stands for Computer-Aided Language Learning. We on the CALL
committee have a mandate from the department to aid and abet you in
using educational technology in your classroom. We currently comprise two
committees: software evaluation and materials development. If you are
interested, we would be delighted to have you join us in this cause.
Current Members:
Steve Roney (chair),
John Allan (chair, materials development),
Sheldon Chisholm,
Douglas Culbert,
Susan Curtis,
Scott Dagilis,
Darlene Liutkus,
Cheri MacLeod (TLC liaison),
Scott Webber
Rebecca Hatherley (Academics liaison),
Dan Rieb
Larissa Conley
Linda Earl
Alan Vallely
Submissions Wanted
If you have a tech tip to share, or know of an interesting
and relevant website, please send it along to
Stephen.Roney@cna-qatar.edu.qa for inclusion in a future
issue.