http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Sun, 19 May 2013 19:42:34 PDT Sun, 19 May 2013 19:42:34 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=83269 The French National Audio-visual institute, L'INA, grants free online access to its audio and visual archive so that material may be used for educational purposes. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=385396 Helps students understand the elements of a citation, regardless of format. Includes interactive elements, where students must "click" the right answer to move forward with the module. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=312001 The Eternal Egypt web site includes an unprecedented experience of high-resolution images, three-dimensional reconstructions of Egyptian monuments and antiquities, as well as virtually-reconstructed environments, panoramic images, and panoramic views of present-day Egypt captured by robotic cameras located from the top of Karnak Temple to the streets of Old Cairo. An innovative, interactive map and timeline will guide Eternal Egypt visitors through Egypt's cultural heritage, while a "context navigator" presents the complex relationships between objects, places and personalities of Egypt's past in a unique, web-like display. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=245042 eWriting: ESL Writing SuccesseWriting, a fully online ESL writing lab program in six levels, increases students’ writing competence, preparing them to pass the writing section of exams such as the College Placement Test, to write successfully, and to compete for grades with native speakers of the language in college-level classes. The final eWriting product is a six-level, multimedia, modularized, content-rich, competency-based,  interactive, online ESL writing lab program with over 250 one-hour lessons. It was developed at Miami Dade College (MDC), and is currently used by approximately 10,000 students per year. The content of the online materials encompass the six levels of writing objectives that have been developed and refined over the past 30 years at MDC. Course materials have been designed and developed by MDC faculty with help from graphic designers and technology experts. -----------------------------------------------------eWriting was developed at the Kendall Campus of Miami Dade College (MDC) in Florida.  The overall goal of eWriting is to significantly improve the writing skills of ESL students by creating a fully online writing lab program in six levels. The Learning Objects cover ESL writing competencies as well as grammar, sentence skills, and paragraph development.  The flexibility of the eWriting program design will permit instructors to create and customize a writing curriculum by selecting the objectives that meet their students’ needs. They can opt to deliver the material over the Web, in a lab setting, or in the classroom using the materials as a full course or just course support.  Each ESL lesson, or Learning Object (LO), is a one-hour, self-contained unit of on-line instruction that teaches one discreet learning objective. An LO does not link out to other lessons, nor does it depend on other LOs for instructional purposes. Each LO presents the students with up to three segments of instruction. Each segment consists of a movie, followed by a print lecture, self-tests, interactive activities (including cloze, crossword, multiple choice, fill-ins, drag/drop) and a final writing task. Targeted prescriptive feedback is provided to ESL students for each incorrect guess they make on activities throughout the lesson. The material is designed to appeal to all learning styles. The upper four levels of eWriting are appropriate for both native and non-native English-speaking high schools students as well as College Prep students.  Contact person: Judith Garcia, Chairperson of ESL & Foreign Languagesjgarcia@mdc.edu305 237-2434eWriting: ESL Writing Success was Funded by the US Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), US Department of Education http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=338293 Project MERLIN provides a link between Alliance Française language classes and media libraries. It places the Library as a central factor in the language-learning process. It promotes usage of the library by students and members. It will help librarians/staff build a Centre de Ressources FLE for students. It encourages librarians to be a part of the language learning process as coach, cultural agent and teacher in their own right It unites the library and the school for the service of students and teachers As a result, this website provides access to bibligraphies, online activities, pedagogical contents and other information about French language learning. One access targets learners of French while the other caters to librarians, teachers and educational directors needs. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=565210 This website uses games to teach basic content in Chinese, German, French and Spanish, and challenges to practice higher level language ability. Audio files are included, and users can register and gain points as they complete tasks. It includes language basics, such as colors and dates/times, and also more difficult language challenges. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=395237 After reading "A Sound of Thunder," students will further investigate the impact of the "butterfly effect" as it pertains to a nonfiction piece (a news story from China) about the dwindling bee population and its effects on the pear industry. The US bee population has dwindled in the last few years, too, and a second video documentary on Colony Collapse Disorder allows students to make inferences and predictions about the impacts of bee loss on the US economy, too.Students will then be able to investigate environmental issues of their own choices and research them using a variety of print and digital research tools. For more specifics, please contact me at connie_young@kernhigh.org or the email address listed here. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=338558 This module is designed to help students understand a) why we cite b) where to look on their sources to find the information they need for their citations http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=330705 The Digital Assets Repository (DAR) is a system developed by ISIS to create and maintain the Bibliotheca Alexandrina's digital collections. DAR acts as a repository for all types of digital material, preserving and archiving digital media, and providing public access to digitized collections. Over 50,000 books and 35,000 images are now available at http://dar.bibalex.org. All out-of-copyright books are available in full for Internet users. For books that are in copyright, Internet users can browse only 5% of the book, but are available from within BA. The DAR system stimulates the like of a library, where you can browse through the books by Dewey Decimal classification, see books that are related to each other by topic or author, and open the book with the book viewer to take a look and explore using its different navigating tools. An interesting feature that can only be accessible in the digital world is a full morphological search of all the books and within their content, with the search results highlighted http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=346740 Shows how to put a citation together in MLA format and covers both the format used through 2008 and the new format starting in January 2009. It is also a sequel to The Citation Puzzle, included previously in Merlot.