{"id":553,"date":"2010-08-18T15:56:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T15:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/?p=553"},"modified":"2010-08-18T15:56:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T15:56:12","slug":"sample-online-development-exercises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2010\/08\/18\/sample-online-development-exercises\/","title":{"rendered":"Sample online development exercises"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_552\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-552\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/guthanexercise.wordpress.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-552   \" title=\"Homepage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/ivengexfrontpage.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/ivengexfrontpage.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/ivengexfrontpage-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/ivengexfrontpage-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WordPress is used as the platform for the exercises. This gives the creator lots of choices of appearance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Project developer Gordon Wells has been working over the summer on creating some sample English online exercises based on source material from Guthan nan Eilean\/Island Voices. Using a combination of free &#8220;off the shelf&#8221; WordPress, Dropbox, and Hot Potatoes software he constructed an &#8220;Island Voices: English Exercises&#8221; platform, including linkage to the Wordlink and Multidict programs developed under the Leonardo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.languages.dk\">POOLS-T<\/a> project.<\/p>\n<p>What can a language teacher do, using this approach?<\/p>\n<p>1. Create a stock of separate online pages with different sets of teaching units on each.<br \/>\n2. Create individual teaching units that include embedded video (or audio), transcripts with optional linkage to online dictionaries, interactive self-test language exercises, and suggestions for writing or further discussion in class or online.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_551\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-551\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/guthanexercise.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/10\/writer-norman-maclean\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-551    \" title=\"Norman Maclean\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/wordlinkage.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/wordlinkage.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/wordlinkage-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/wordlinkage-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-551\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wordlink takes you straight to an online dictionary for translation of an unknown word.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A sample unit for advanced students can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/guthanexercise.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/10\/writer-norman-maclean\/\">here<\/a>, based on the Am P\u00e0ipear interview with Norman Maclean for the Series Two Enterprise collection. (Some older units previously produced for Cothrom are also included for illustrative purposes on the Series One Page &#8211; though POOLS-T has seen significant development of the online dictionary access tool since their creation.)<\/p>\n<p>This is developmental &#8220;work in progress&#8221;, and not an integral part of the current project, though it may point a way forward for more work in English and\/or Gaelic that will add further educational value to the materials produced here.<\/p>\n<p>As always, comments from language teachers and language learners are most welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project developer Gordon Wells has been working over the summer on creating some sample English online exercises based on source material from Guthan nan Eilean\/Island Voices. Using a combination of free &#8220;off the shelf&#8221; WordPress, Dropbox, and Hot Potatoes software he constructed an &#8220;Island Voices: English Exercises&#8221; platform, including linkage to the Wordlink and Multidict &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2010\/08\/18\/sample-online-development-exercises\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sample online development exercises<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-call"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}