Hands-on

Projects at Iowa State:

• Visual Argument Unit [Lavinia Hirsu, Adrian Florea, Anya Kosterina, Fall 2004]
• Oranizational Strategies in Academic Writing [Bethany Ekle Gray, Rob Glazebrook, Fall 2004]
• The missing librarian [Marilyn Reedy, Nicole Oldenburger, Sohyoun Kim, Lisa Heitzman, Fall 2004]
• A short unit on gift giving [Bethany Ekle Gray]
• English Pronunciation [Christina Kitson, Kristen Myers, Heather Arnold, Mark Callison, Spring 2004]
• Mental verbs [Amy Mukamuri, Silke Wettergren, Ching-Hui Wang, Spring 2004]
• Drivers license help [Shannon Curran, Erin Joy, Pam Pearson, Chris Rozendaal, and Betsy Tremmel, Fall 2003]
• The stolen Mona Lisa: A tense consistency unit [Anne O'Bryan, Moises Perales, Monica Cardenas Claros, Neny Isharyanti, Fall 2003]
• Cultural Gaps: Bridging the gaps in everyday conversations [Megan Broberg, Masha Loukianenko, Maja Grgurovic, and Seth Loyd, Fall 2002]
• Basic Word and Web Skills for First-Year University Students [Dan Cramer, Jung-Ah Han, Jagdish Kaur, and Ketty Reppert, Fall 2002]
• Classroom Culture [Brenda Daisy, Jennifer DeBoest, Stacey Dent, and Malik Toms, Fall 2002]
• Media Analysis [Ko-Li Nga, Fall 2001]
• Euro Reading Unit [Faiza Derbel, Fall 2001]
• Listening and vocabulary units [Volker Hegelheimer]
• LCTL project [Volker Hegelheimer]

Other Projects:

• Jim Duber's cutting edge CALL demos
• Spanish Language Exercises by Juan Ramón de Arana
• The Apartment - by Jim Duber
• Oral Language Archive [look at the free samples; fyi: a review of the OLA by Claire Bradin]
• LEARNPLUS (Shockwave required) (used to be free) interactive language courses
• Okanagan University College (check out these samples: pronunciation examples (neat quicktime files), dictation, minimal pairs)
• Videoclips and transcript for Kiswahili (UPENN)
• French grammar exercises
• Ann Salzmann's Grammar Resource pages(UIUC)

Resources:

• TV and radio stations from around the globe http://wwitv.com/portal.htm