Web Pages for Languages

• Design considerations
• What content do we include in these pages?
• Some activities

• Organization of the Page
• Text
• Colors
• Images, Sounds and Movies

• Not too long
• http://www.utexas.edu/courses/swaffar/F98389K/389KSyllabus98.html
• Not too busy
• Make navigation easy
• http://ling.ucsd.edu/ac/frenac.htm
• Use descriptive links, but not too many·
• http://rome.classics.lsa.umich.edu/welcome.html
• ·less is more
• http://www.fln.vcu.edu/cgi/intro.html

• Font Size
• Fonts
• Colors
• Organization of text
• http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/french/f98_classes.html
• Control

• Avoid red & green
• Use contrasting colors
• Avoid clashing colors
• http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/classics/
• Go easy on the eyes
• http://www.furman.edu/~pecoy/
• Beware when using backgrounds
• http://chinese.ucdavis.edu/

• Size of files
• http://sites.huji.ac.il/ivrit/
• Number of files
• http://www.utexas.edu/courses/lippmann/604.html
• Divide large files in smaller segments

• Course information
• Syllabus
• Teaching Materials

• General info, teaching philosophy, etc.
• http://hope.edu/academic/language/german102/index.html
• Course description
• http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/ealc/coursecatal.html
• Syllabus

• Original resources that you put together
• http://tuna.uchicago.edu/homes/jack/course.materials.html
• Links to current authentic materials
• Radio
• http://rcs.com.sg/933/top20frame.htm
• Voice of America: http://www.voa.gov/voahome/langlist.html
• List of on-line stations from MIT: http://wmbr.mit.edu/stations/list.html
• Newspapers
• http://www.kyoto-np.co.jp/

• Visiting sites (e.g. Virtual Tours http://basil.acr.net.au/tourism.html )
• Online exercises
• Ê Web-based scavenger hunts
• http://www.lamc.utexas.edu/fr/home.html
• Ê Interactive exercises
• http://www2.sp.utexas.edu/SP506/student.qry
• Paper-based worksheets to use with the web
•  http://www.wittenberg.de/