Monday, March 8, 2010

Reflection on practical considerarions on multimedia courseware development: a EFL IVD experience

According to the intensive reading from this article, we can see the deep research has been carried on the theme of IVD and EFL in the English learning classroom. With the awarding of equipments from Ministry of Education to Tsing Hua University, the research of IVD( Interative VideoDisk) project of courseware development in EFL classroom has been launched. The purpose of the research is to use IVD to enhance learners' EFL skills. The four objectives were adopted in the project that original scripts was analyzed in the form of function analysis. The three objectives are including the linguistic and paralinguistic features, the training of learning strategies and the negotiated model in language learning. The research is still going on that the effectiveness of courseware will be accomplished in coming years.
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  1. misswong.aliceMarch 29, 2010 at 6:48 PM

    Hi Phyllis. This blog post is a brief summary of the reading indeed. What do you think about the effectiveness of using IVD in classrooms? Would you consider using that in your own teaching?

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  2. KiatApril 14, 2010 at 8:41 PM

    Back in the days when Liou's article was written, any teacher who was using tailor-made Interactive Video Discs in their classrooms to enhance his or her students language skills must have been truly one of a kind, devoting much of their precious time learning about and working with cutting-edge technology. There seemed to be quite a steep learning curve in order to master the use of IconAuthor (and two months, by the way, seems to me to be a very long time to learn to use a web-authoring package!) As Christoph commented earlier in my blog, a lot has changed over the past sixteen years, and with all these new tools that are currently available to all of us, courseware authoring has gotten a lot easier (although we are still waiting for somebody to develop a Web 2.0 quiz generation tool). Really, is there any case for NOT developing courseware for our students?

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