CELIA Mac teacher-utils Listing

Files from TESOL's CALL-IS Macintosh Library. Questions may be
sent to Deborah.Healey@orst.edu.

Shareware programs are those where you pay the author if you find the program useful. Payment information is usually found when you start up the program. Freeware programs are freely copiable.

If the FTP server is out of commission, these links will not work. In that case, you will need to navigate through gopher to these files by going to List of categories at gopher://luck.latrobe.edu.au:70/11/Information%20Technology%20Services/La%20Trobe%20Archive/pub/CELIA/english/mac and working from there.

1996 Software List -database

Via gopher: gopher - 1996softlist.hqx
Via ftp: 1996softlist.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: teacher-utils
Software type: reference
Objectives/skills: reference
Student age: teacher
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 3600
Date listing updated: 01/31/97
Description: This is the 1996 Software List from TESOL's CALL Interest Section in standalone database format. You can search, edit, and print information from the List. A print version of the 1997 List is available from TESOL. Contact TESOL at publ@tesol.org for information about purchasing the print version of the list. An electronic version of the 1998 list should be available at TESOL time in March. Contact Deborah.Healey@orst.edu in April for more information.

1996 Software List - Word

1996softlist_word.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: teacher-utils
Software type: reference
Objectives/skills: reference
Student age: teacher
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 500
Date listing updated: 01/31/97
Description: This is a rough printout of the 1996 Software List database (also available on CELIA). A print version of the 1995 list is available from TESOL, 1600 Cameron St., Alexandria VA 22314; e-mail: publ@tesol.org. The 1999 List in print form is available from TESOL.

SoftList 95

95tesol-software-list.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: teacher-utils
Software type: reference
Objectives/skills: reference
Student age: teacher
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 183
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Includes CALL-IS 1995 software list, CAELL Journal Annotated Bibliography.

Adventure

adventure.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: discussion
Software type: simulation
Objectives/skills: group disc., reading
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 215
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: The classic adventure; text-based rather than graphical.

AdventureMaker + docs

adventuremaker.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: discussion
Software type: simulation
Objectives/skills: group disc.
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: any
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 174
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Authoring system to create an adventure game.

AIDS stack

aids.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: stimulus-content
Objectives/skills: reading
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: advanced
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 216
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Hypertext information about AIDS and HIV put together by Tulane University. They'd like wide distribution. HyperCard-based.

American Profile

american-profile.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: discussion
Software type: stimulus-content
Objectives/skills: reading, group disc.
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 99
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Multiple-choice quiz about Americana. Doesn't give the correct answer, but indicates a wrong answer.

Animals

animals.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: discussion
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: group disc.
Student age: any
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 13
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Teach the computer about animals through yes/no questions.

Ars Magnaª + files

arsmagna.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: vocab, group disc.
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: advanced
Cost: Shareware-$10
Size uncompressed: 235
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Takes an input word or phase and generates all possible anagrams. Millions and millions of them if given too many words.

Articulation Practice + doc

articulation-practice.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: pronunciation ?
Software type: tutorial-language
Objectives/skills: pronunciation
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 744
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Designed to help teachers recognize, distinguish, and name points of articulation, this can also be useful for students.

Biorhythm II

biorhythm.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: discussion
Software type: stimulus-content
Objectives/skills: group disc.
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Shareware-$15
Size uncompressed: 60
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Creates biorhythm charts. Includes an explanation of biorhythms.

Buddy-O-Matic

buddy-o-matic.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: writing
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: writing, group disc.
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 430
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Create "buddy" stories by choosing plot elements.

CDictation + docs

cdictation.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: teacher-utils
Software type: authoring
Objectives/skills: authoring
Student age: teacher
Proficiency level: programmer
Cost: Shareware-$25
Size uncompressed: 1628
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Authoring program to create dictations that work from music CDs.

Choicemaster data files-various

choicemstr-data-cloze.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: cloze
Software type: Choicemaster data files
Objectives/skills: vocabulary, grammar
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 40
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Contributed by Don Friend; material from Monique LaPierre and Don Friend. Use with Choicemaster from Wida/Eurocentres. Quizzes related to Gapmaster clozes.

Choicemaster data files-various

choicemstr-data-gr.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: grammar
Software type: Choicemaster data files
Objectives/skills: grammar
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 53
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Contributed by Don Friend; material from Monique LaPierre and Don Friend. Use with Choicemaster from Wida/Eurocentres. Various grammar exercises.

Choicemaster data files-various

choicemstr-data-voc.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: Choicemaster data files
Objectives/skills: vocabulary
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 72
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Contributed by Don Friend; material from Monique LaPierre and Don Friend. Use with Choicemaster from Wida/Eurocentres. Various vocabulary exercises.

Clinton Debate

clinton-debate.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: listening
Software type: tutorial-language
Objectives/skills: listening
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: advanced
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 1128
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Based on a short audio excerpt from comments by US President Bill Clinton during the 1992 Presidential debates. Listening and other exercises. By Jim Duber. Requires QuickTime.

Clip art

clipart.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: teacher-utils
Software type: art
Objectives/skills: art
Student age: any
Proficiency level: any
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 655
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: A collection of clip art from the Boston Computer Society.

Computer Camp

computer-camp.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: listening
Software type: tutorial-language
Objectives/skills: listening
Student age: any
Proficiency level: advanced
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 2272
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: High-intermediate to advanced listening and more. Based on a TV news report about a computer camp for children in California. By Jim Duber. Requires QuickTime.

Conc 1.70 + doc

conc.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: concordance
Software type: concordancer
Objectives/skills: reference
Student age: teacher,teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 400
Date listing updated: 02/01/97
Description: Concordance program that does word and letter concordances. Not as fancy as commercial programs, but well worth the price.

Constructing the Paragraph

constructing-the-paragraph.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: writing
Software type: tutorial-language
Objectives/skills: writing
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Shareware-$25 indiv, $100 site
Size uncompressed: 380
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Elizabeth Hanson-Smith's step-by-step HyperCard guide to the paragraph.

Corpora

corpora.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: concordance
Software type: corpora
Objectives/skills: reference
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: advanced
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 160
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Corpora taken from biology and chemistry lectures given at Sultan Qaboos University.

CrossMaster v0.4 + docs

crossmaster.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: authoring
Student age: teacher
Cost: Shareware-$10
Size uncompressed: 132
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Create crossword puzzles. Commercial programs are better, but this is free.

CrossWise + doc

crosswise.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: vocabulary
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: low int-adv
Cost: Shareware-$10
Size uncompressed: 215
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Scrabble-type word game.

Dasher Demo

dasher-demo.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory:
Software type: demo
Objectives/skills: authoring
Student age: any
Proficiency level: any
Cost: Freeware (demo)
Size uncompressed: 675
Date listing updated: 08/27/95
Description: A demo of an authoring system that can incorporate sound and graphics. It makes it easy to create fill-in, true-false, and matching exercises.

Digital laboratory +docs

digital-lab.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: teacher-utils
Software type: authoring
Objectives/skills: authoring
Student age: teacher
Proficiency level: programmer
Cost: Shareware-$25
Size uncompressed: 2212
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Authoring program to create pronunciation exercises with digitized sound.

Dinosaurs

dinosaurs.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: stimulus-content
Objectives/skills: group disc.
Student age: any
Proficiency level: any
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 208
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard stack about dinosaurs.

Directions

directions.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: listening
Software type: tutorial-language
Objectives/skills: listening
Student age: any
Proficiency level: beg-int
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 685
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard stack for listening practice. Works best with speakers or headphones.

Daedalus Integrated Writing Exchange Demo

diwe-1.3.4.demo
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: writing
Software type: demo (writing)
Objectives/skills: writing
Student age: any
Proficiency level: any
Cost: Freeware (demo)
Size uncompressed: 1500?
Date listing updated: 02/01/97
Description: A demo of a high-end collaborative writing system that includes e-mail, a shared workspace, and a teacher mode.

Eliza v1.5

eliza.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: discussion
Software type: simulation
Objectives/skills: group disc., writing
Student age: 5th gr+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 53
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: The classic psychotherapy program. Combines reading, writing, and discourse skills.

English Speaking Dictionary

eng-spkg-dict.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: tutorial-content
Objectives/skills: (part of ESD)
Student age: adult
Proficiency level: beginning
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 5295
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard stack with sound. Includes several stacks--Amphibians, Birds, Fish & Marine Life, Imaginary Animals, Insects & Spiders, Reptiles, Sports, Words, Ed/Sci1, Food & Eating, People & Occupations, Safety & the Workplace, Transportation.

Alphabet & Numbers

esd-alpha-nos.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: tutorial-language
Objectives/skills: literacy
Student age: any
Proficiency level: beg. literacy
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 2150
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard stack with sound. This is has Numbers, Capital Letters, and lowercase letters stacks.

Express Yourself!

express-yourself.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: stimulus-content
Objectives/skills: reading, group disc.
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: advanced
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 640
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard stack about the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution - freedoms of speech, press, assembly explained.

Fast Formatterª

fast-formatter.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: teacher-utils
Software type: utility
Objectives/skills: reference
Student age: teacher
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 18
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Works a bit faster than the Finder for formatting multiple disks.

Flash Card Template

flashcard-template.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: teacher-utils
Software type: testing
Objectives/skills: reference
Student age: teacher
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 10
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard stack to use as a template in making flashcards.

Fogg City Adventure

foggcity.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: listening
Software type: tutorial-language
Objectives/skills: listening, reading
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 757
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard stack for listening practice. Works best with speakers or headphones.

Frankenstein 1.0 + doc

frankenstein.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: stimulus-content
Objectives/skills: reading
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: hi int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 656
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard stack with the text of Frankenstein. Hypertext, not graphical. Can be annotated.

FreeText 1.03 + doc

freetext.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: concordance
Software type: concordancer
Objectives/skills: reference
Student age: teacher,teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 448
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard-based concordance program with a lot of extra goodies for programmers. You can't save the concordances to disk, though.

Gapmaster data files-various

gapmstr-data-cloze.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: cloze
Software type: Gapmaster data files
Objectives/skills: cloze
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 50
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Contributed by D. Friend, D. Healey with material also from Monique LaPierre. Use with Gapmaster from Wida/Eurocentres. Various cloze topics.

Gapmaster data files-various

gapmstr-data-gr.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: grammar
Software type: Gapmaster data files
Objectives/skills: cloze, grammar
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 120
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Contributed by D. Friend, A. Larson, R. Steinbrecher, D. Healey, M.Volpe. Use with Gapmaster from Wida/Eurocentres. Cloze with a grammar focus.

Gapmaster data files-various

gapmstr-data-voc.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: Gapmaster data files
Objectives/skills: cloze, vocabulary
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 40
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Contributed by D. Friend; material from Monique LaPierre and Don Friend. Use with Gapmaster from Wida/Eurocentres. Cloze with a vocabulary focus.

Glider+3.1.2

glider.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: discussion
Software type: strategy
Objectives/skills: group disc.
Student age: any
Proficiency level: any
Cost: Shareware-$8
Size uncompressed: 157
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Navigate a glider through a house. Should be used for a writing or discussion task set by the teacher.

Grademaster

grademaster.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: teacher-utils
Software type: teacher utility
Objectives/skills: reference
Student age: teacher
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 32
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Gradebook program.

Grammatik Demo

grammatik-demo
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory:
Software type: demo (gr checker)
Objectives/skills: writing
Student age: any
Proficiency level: advanced
Cost: Freeware (demo)
Size uncompressed: 516
Date listing updated: 08/27/95
Description: A demo of a style- and grammar-checker. The commercial program lets you add your own 'rules,' making it more useful for ELT than most other programs of this type.

Guided Reading + docs

guided-reading.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: teacher-utils
Software type: authoring
Objectives/skills: authoring
Student age: teacher
Proficiency level: programmer
Cost: Shareware-$35
Size uncompressed: 1200
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Authoring program for making hypertext/hypermedia documents.

HangMan Plus 2.0

hangman-plus2.0.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: vocabulary
Student age: any
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Shareware-$10
Size uncompressed: 101
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Guess the word or get hanged. Has words in categories and you can create a custom word list.

HyperAce Demo

hyperace-demo.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: listening ?
Software type: demo (listening)
Objectives/skills: listening
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: advanced
Cost: Freeware (demo)
Size uncompressed: 675
Date listing updated: 08/27/95
Description: A demo of a listening comprehension program for advanced learners. Exercises incorporate critical thinking skills, making this quite interesting as well as useful.

HyperQuest 1.03

hyperquest.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: discussion
Software type: simulation
Objectives/skills: group disc.
Student age: 5th gr+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 313
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Graphical, HyperCard-based adventure game.

HyperQuizª

hyperquiz.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: teacher-utils
Software type: testing
Objectives/skills: authoring
Student age: teacher
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 26
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard stack for making computer-based quizzes. Commercial ones work better.

HyperTalk Tutorial

hypertalk-tutorial.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: teacher-utils
Software type: programming
Objectives/skills: reference
Student age: teacher
Proficiency level: programmer
Cost: Shareware-$25
Size uncompressed: 92
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard-based tutorial on the programming language within HyperCard (1.2.2 version)

HyperTest + file

hypertest.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: teacher-utils
Software type: testing
Objectives/skills: authoring
Student age: teacher
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 40
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard stack for making computer-based quizzes. Commercial ones work better.

Hyper Word Hunt 6/18

hyperwordhunt2.0.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: vocabulary
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: advanced
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 192
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Guess the hidden word by using a variety of context, grammatical, and semantic clues.

HyperZap v1.3

hyperzap.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: teacher-utils
Software type: programming
Objectives/skills: reference
Student age: teacher
Proficiency level: programmer
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 15
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard stack that unprotects other HC stacks.

I Ching

i-ching.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: stimulus-content
Objectives/skills: group disc.
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 40
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Computer version of I Ching; gives readings which can be discussed.

Immigrants + files

immigrants.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: stimulus-content
Objectives/skills: multi-skill
Student age: 5th gr+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 760
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard simulation of life in the mid-1800s for Irish immigrants to the US.

Inigo Gets Out

inigo.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: discussion
Software type: stimulus-content
Objectives/skills: group disc.
Student age: any
Proficiency level: any
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 156
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard stack with adventures of a black cat. No language is built in, so it needs a task set by the teacher (writing, discussion, etc.).

International Poetry

international-poetry
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: writing
Software type: authoring
Objectives/skills: writing, speaking
Student age: any
Proficiency level: any
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 48
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Template by Dominique Lap that lets learners type in a poem in English and in their language and record both. Requires HyperCard 2.1 or better, not HyperCard Player.

Internet Tour

internet-tour4.0.2.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: stimulus-content
Objectives/skills: reading
Student age: teen+, teacher
Proficiency level: advanced
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 774
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: A hypertext explanation of navigating the Internet and using different Internet tools.

IPA fonts + doc

ipa-fonts.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: teacher-utils
Software type: fonts
Objectives/skills: reference
Student age: teacher
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 460
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Set of IPA fonts from Summer Institute of Linguistics.

IQ Test 1.0

iq-test.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: discussion
Software type: stimulus-content
Objectives/skills: discussion
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Shareware-$8
Size uncompressed: 672
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: While its accuracy as an IQ test is questionable, this makes for some good discussions about the correct answer when learners work in groups. Send $8 to the author for the correct answers and reason why.

Islam + files

islamic-history.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: stimulus-content
Objectives/skills: reading, group disc.
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: advanced
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 480
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard stack with extensive information about Islam.

Island Paradise

island-paradise.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: listening
Software type: tutorial-language
Objectives/skills: listening
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: advanced
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 687
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard-based listening practice. Learners hear a short passage, then try to answer comprehension questions about it.

Jabberwock

jabberwock.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: vocabulary, reading
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: advanced
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 16
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: An explanation of the Lewis Carroll poem.

JFK

jfk.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: stimulus-content
Objectives/skills: reading, ref
Student age: teacher,teen+
Proficiency level: advanced
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 527
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: This is a hypermedia stack with a QuickTime version of the Zapruder video. Lots of information for reading or discussion, as well.

JPU Essays 2.1

jpu-essa.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: writing
Software type: teacher utility
Objectives/skills: writing
Student age: any
Proficiency level: low int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 970
Date listing updated: 01/26/96
Description: JPU Essays 2.1 is a HyperCard ª 2.2 stack by Jozsef Horvath that facilitates reading and commenting on student essays. The essays included were created over a four-year period by students at Janus Pannonius University, Department of English.

KidPix

kidpix.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: teacher-utils
Software type: art
Objectives/skills: art
Student age: any
Proficiency level: any
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 104
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: The freeware version of a delightful graphics program, the creations can be printed but not saved. (You need to buy the commercial version to save the output.)

Lembracs + doc

lembracs.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: vocabulary
Student age: 5th gr+
Proficiency level: low int-adv
Cost: Shareware-$10
Size uncompressed: 150
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Scrambled word vocabulary game. Can be played individually or in pairs.

List Words V1.1

list-words.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: teacher-utils
Software type: word frequency
Objectives/skills: reference
Student age: teacher
Cost: Shareware-$5
Size uncompressed: 40
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Goes through a text file and lists the words in alphabetical order with their frequency in the text.

LogoD¾dalus + files

logodaedalus.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: vocabulary
Student age: 5th gr+
Proficiency level: low int-adv
Cost: Shareware-$15
Size uncompressed: 170
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Boggle-type vocabulary game with its own dictionary to check words against.

Logogrip

logogrip.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: vocabulary
Student age: 5th gr+
Proficiency level: low int-adv
Cost: Shareware-$15
Size uncompressed: 170
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: A vocabulary game where you try to make as many words as possible using the letters in the word on the screen.

MacAdLibs + docs

mac-adlibs.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: writing
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: writing, reading
Student age: any
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 12
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Create Mad Lib stories by choosing nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs as prompted by the computer. The machine will generate the story.

Mac Tuberling

mac-tuberling.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: discussion
Software type: game-other
Objectives/skills: group disc.
Student age: any
Proficiency level: any
Cost: Shareware-$8
Size uncompressed: 132
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: A computer version of Mr. Potato Head. This one speaks the names of body parts as they are clicked on. Learners can save or print their creations. Needs a teacher task for best results.

MacBillboard

macbillboard.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: teacher-utils
Software type: art
Objectives/skills: art
Student age: any
Proficiency level: any
Cost: Shareware-$35
Size uncompressed: 102
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Shareware "paint" program. Can be used over a network.

MacEnquirer 2.0

macenquirer.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: writing, group disc.
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: advanced
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 16
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: This creates tabloid-newspaper-style headlines from a series of words. The teacher should give students a task to perform with the output.

MacTrivia

mactrivia.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: group disc.
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 20
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Trivia quiz about the Mac. Authorable, so you can put in your own content.

MacWord Hunt v2.0

macwordhunt.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: vocabulary
Student age: 5th gr+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 71
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Look for words hidden within a grid.

McVicker's Author Tools

mcvicker-utilities.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: teacher-utils
Software type: programming
Objectives/skills: authoring
Student age: teacher
Proficiency level: programmer
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 93
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard stack with lots of useful scripts

Merz Poetry 3.1

merz-poetry.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: writing, group disc.
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: advanced
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 127
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Creates random poems; these can be used for creative interpretation work.

NewLexis Demo

nwlxsdemo1.02.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: demo (vocabulary)
Objectives/skills: vocabulary
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware (demo)
Size uncompressed: 1353
Date listing updated: 03/27/97
Description: Demo version of a shareware program for vocabulary practice. Words are based on the University Word List. The demo is a fully functional version of the program, but can only be used 25 times before it locks.

NewReader Demo

nwrdrdemo1.04g.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: demo (reading/vocab)
Objectives/skills: reading, vocabulary
Student age: any
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware (demo)
Size uncompressed: 2050
Date listing updated: 03/27/97
Description: Demo version of a shareware program that offers timed and paced reading, sentence jumbles, and a variety of vocabulary exercises. The demo is a fully functional version of the program, but can only be used 25 times before it locks.

Periodic Table

periodic-table.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: stimulus-content
Objectives/skills: reading
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: advanced
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 58
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard stack with information about elements.

Personal Language Tutor

perslangtutor10.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: teacher-utils
Software type: tutorial-language
Objectives/skills: authoring
Student age: any
Proficiency level: any
Cost: Shareware - $15
Size uncompressed: 1026
Date listing updated: 02/01/97
Description: Authoring system for interactive drills with error-checking and record-keeping features. Teachers can create "lesson books" with a range of activities in up to 20 different lessons.

PhrazeCrazePlus + files

phrazecraze.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: vocabulary
Student age: 5th gr+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Shareware-$10
Size uncompressed: 200
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Like Wheel of Fortune; spin to see how much money you can get if you guess one of the missing letters in a phrase. Authorable.

Poetry Shop

poetry-shop.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: writing
Software type: tutorial-language
Objectives/skills: writing
Student age: any
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Shareware-$10 indiv, $50 site
Size uncompressed: 152
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Prewriting program that prompts students step-by-step in the creation of six styles of poetry and a fiction starter. By Elizabeth Hanson-Smith.

Process Yr Thots Demo

process-yr-thots-demo.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: writing ?
Software type: demo (writing)
Objectives/skills: writing, word-processing
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware (demo)
Size uncompressed: 201
Date listing updated: 08/27/95
Description: A demo of the computer portion of a text+software bundle for teaching process writing and word-processing skills together. The program has the worksheets; the text, the readings.

Practise Your Cloze

pycloze2.2.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: tutorial-language
Objectives/skills: vocabulary, reading
Student age: any
Proficiency level: beg
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 88
Date listing updated: 02/01/97
Description: Displays a text that the student has to work on, plucks words out at random and asks the student to pick the missing word from a group at the bottom of the screen. Teachers/students can add their own texts and exercises. With the (free) stack "PYS Sounds" in the same folder as this program, you can use a number of congratulatory noises and other goodies. Requires HyperCard Player. Written by Bruce Laidlaw & Prasit Yutasane.

Practise Your English

pyeng2.8.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: tutorial-language
Objectives/skills: vocabulary, grammar
Student age: any
Proficiency level: beg-int
Cost: Shareware
Size uncompressed: 160
Date listing updated: 02/01/97
Description: Shareware HyperCard program. It needs to have the free companion program PYS Sounds in the same folder. PYS Sounds holds all the encouragement etc. The program works on common patterns in English such as tag questions, verbs, and homophones. It contains some twenty exercises, but the teacher can add more.

Practise Your Sounds

pysounds.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: utility
Objectives/skills: utility
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 248
Date listing updated: 02/01/97
Description: Freeware HyperCard program. If you have any of the following programs: Practise Your Reading, Practise Your Spelling, Practise Your Jumble, Practise Your Matching, Choose the Best, Practise Your Typing, Practise Your Cloze, Practise Your English, Practise Your Phonetics, then, PYS Sounds needs to be in the same folder, as it holds all the encouragement, fonts, gadgets etc.

QTDictation + doc

qtdictation.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: teacher-utils
Software type: authoring
Objectives/skills: authoring
Student age: teacher
Proficiency level: programmer
Cost: Shareware-$35
Size uncompressed: 1592
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Authoring program to create dictations that work from QuickTime movies. Requires QuickTime (and movies).

Quotes & Quips

quotes-n-quips.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: stimulus-content
Objectives/skills: reading, group disc.
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 24
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard stack with quotes users can add to.

Random Sentence Generator

random-sentence-gen.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: group disc.
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 117
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Creates random sentences that can be used as inspiration for writing or grammatical analysis.

Reading the Classifieds

reading.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: language activity
Objectives/skills: reading
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 5800
Date listing updated: 03/27/97
Description: This HyperCard stack by Joy Egbert offers practice in reading the classified ads as an interactive story, where answers to different questions branch you in different directions. Uses sound and engaging graphics.

Red Badge of Courage+doc

red-badge.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: stimulus-content
Objectives/skills: reading
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: hi int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 437
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard stack with the text of The Red Badge of Courage. Hypertext, not graphical. Can be annotated.

Road Atlas

road-atlas.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: discussion
Software type: stimulus-content
Objectives/skills: group disc.
Student age: any
Proficiency level: any
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 56
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Helps plot routes between major cities, forming a basis for discussion. Needs a task set by the teacher.

Sav-o-Matic

sav-o-matic.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: teacher-utils
Software type: teacher utility
Objectives/skills: utility
Student age: teacher
Cost: Shareware-$20
Size uncompressed: 24
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Saves files automatically at the time interval you set.

Save Princeton

save-princeton.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: discussion
Software type: simulation
Objectives/skills: group disc., reading
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Shareware-$10
Size uncompressed: 432
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Text-based adventure game where learners maneuver through Princeton University to save it from a hostile takeover. Buggy on some networks.

SpeakEasy + doc

speakeasy.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: listening
Software type: tutorial-language
Objectives/skills: utility, literacy
Student age: teacher
Proficiency level: beginning
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 45
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Phonetic decoder that works with MacInTalk. Synthesized rather than digitized speech.

Stocks!

stocks.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: discussion
Software type: strategy
Objectives/skills: group disc.
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 141
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Stock market simulation.

Storyboard data files-various

storybd-data-gr.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: grammar
Software type: Storyboard data files
Objectives/skills: whole text reconstruction
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 120
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Contributed by R. Steinbrecher, D.Healey. Use with Storyboard from Wida/Eurocentres. Various grammar exercises in a whole-text deletion format.

TalkingKeys 1.5 + font

talking-keys.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: listening
Software type: tutorial-language
Objectives/skills: utility, literacy
Student age: teacher
Proficiency level: beginning
Cost: Shareware-$15
Size uncompressed: 38
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Phonetic decoder that works with MacInTalk. Synthesized rather than digitized speech.

TESOL CALL info

tesol-call-info.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: teacher-utils
Software type: reference
Objectives/skills: reference
Student age: teacher
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 338
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard stack with CALL information from Newcomers Workshop at TESOL.

Testmaster data files-various

testmstr-data-cloze.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: cloze
Software type: Testmaster data files
Objectives/skills: cloze
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 50
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Contributed by Don Friend; material from Monique LaPierre and Don Friend. Use with Testmaster from Wida/Eurocentres. Quizzes related to Gapmaster clozes.

Testmaster data files-various

testmstr-data-gr.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: grammar
Software type: Testmaster data files
Objectives/skills: grammar
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 64
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Contributed by Don Friend; material from Monique LaPierre and Don Friend. Use with Testmaster from Wida/Eurocentres. Quizzes with a grammar focus.

Testmaster data files-various

testmstr-data-voc.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: Testmaster data files
Objectives/skills: vocabulary
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 72
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Contributed by Don Friend; material from Monique LaPierre and Don Friend. Use with Testmaster from Wida/Eurocentres. Various vocabulary exercises.

TEX by ^z Ñ v. 0É

tex.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: concordance
Software type: concordancer
Objectives/skills: reference
Student age: teacher
Proficiency level: programmer
Cost: Shareware-$10-$30
Size uncompressed: 135
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard-based concordance program with a lot of extra goodies for programmers.

This Equals That

this-equals-that.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: group disc.
Student age: 5th gr+
Proficiency level: low int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 18
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Vocabulary game where you guess the phrase from clues.

Verb Professor Demo

vbprofdemo1.0.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: grammar
Software type: demo (grammar)
Objectives/skills: grammar
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int
Cost: Freeware (demo)
Size uncompressed: 2400
Date listing updated: 03/27/97
Description: Demo version of a shareware program that offers practice with regular and irregular verb tenses. The demo is a fully functional version of the program, but can only be used 25 times before it locks.

Verb Flash Cards beginning

verb-flashcards-beg.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: grammar
Software type: tutorial-language
Objectives/skills: grammar
Student age: any
Proficiency level: beg-int
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 113
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard-based flashcards for beginning-intermediate verb tense practice.

Verb Flash Cards

verb-flashcards.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: grammar
Software type: tutorial-language
Objectives/skills: grammar
Student age: any
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 85
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard-based flashcards for verb tense practice.

VersaText Demo

versatext-demo.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory:
Software type: demo (reading, authoring)
Objectives/skills: reading, authoring
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware (demo)
Size uncompressed: 2160
Date listing updated: 08/27/95
Description: A demo of a hypertext program and its accompanying authoring system, along with sample files.

VideoDictation + doc

videodictation.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: teacher-utils
Software type: authoring
Objectives/skills: authoring
Student age: teacher
Proficiency level: programmer
Cost: Shareware-$35
Size uncompressed: 748
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Authoring program to create dictations that work with laserdiscs.

VOA News Lesson + doc

voa-news-lesson.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: listening
Software type: tutorial-language
Objectives/skills: listening
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: advanced
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 1392
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Based on an excerpt from a Voice of America news broadcast, this has listening and other exercises. By Jim Duber.

Vocabulary Skills

vocabulary-skills.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: tutorial-language
Objectives/skills: reading
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 96
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: A how-to HyperCard stack with suggestions for strategies to use while reading.

VocGen

vocgen.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: vocabulary
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: advanced
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 24
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Creates random sentences that can be used as inspiration for writing or grammatical analysis.

Vowel Drills 1 and 2

vowel-drills.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: pronunciation ?
Software type: tutorial-language
Objectives/skills: pronunciation
Student age: any
Proficiency level: any
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 1300
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Contributed by Ronald Anderson. Passive practice in discriminating vowel sounds in English.

Wator + files

wator.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: discussion
Software type: tutorial-content
Objectives/skills: group disc.
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Shareware-$5
Size uncompressed: 30
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Population simulation with sharks and fish.

Wida Demos

wida-demo.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: demos
Software type: demos (reading, vocab)
Objectives/skills: reading, vocabulary
Student age: any
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 213
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Gapmaster, Storyboard, Choicemaster. These are fully functional programs, able to run the existing sample files. However, to create your own or modify existing data files, you need to buy the full programs.

WordSearch

wordsearch.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: vocabulary
Student age: any
Proficiency level: any
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 32
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Creates word search puzzles; a few are on disk already.

Wordtris Demo

wordtris-demo
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: vocabulary
Software type: demo (vocabulary)
Objectives/skills: vocabulary
Student age: any
Proficiency level: advanced
Cost: Freeware (demo)
Size uncompressed: 760
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: A demo of a word-based version of Tetris where students need to act quickly to create words with falling letters.

Word Weaver

wrdwvr2.3.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: reading
Student age: any
Proficiency level: any
Cost: Shareware
Size uncompressed: 145
Date listing updated: 02/01/97
Description: Word Weaver 2.3 is a shareware HyperCard program. It will run on any Mac with a minimum of memory. Teachers type or import a paragraph of text, then the program will create four worksheets that can then be printed out for students: Sentence Halves - students match correct pairs; Jumbled Paragraph - students rearrange sentences into the right order; Jumbled Sentences - students rearrange the words to produce the correct sentence; and Cloze - students fill in the missing words. Send queries to: Bruce Laidlaw, 18 Perry Street, Marrickville, Australia 2204. Phone: +61-2-9569-2854 or fax: +61-2-9569-8940 Email: abestuds@pip.com.au or bruce.laidlaw@tafensw.edu.au http://pip.com.au/~abestuds


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