German

Language Media Center

Instructional technology and multimedia have recently emerged as a vital component of language teaching and learning. To put it most succinctly: some texts are too hard, so traditional tasks based on them are too difficult. Familiar course management systems (CMS's) such as Blackboard and WebCT offer only a partial solution. Because the interaction types implemented in such systems severely limit the creativity of instructors, complex content areas and fascinating web sites frequently evanesce into a vapid series of true/false or multiple-choice questions. 

We propose to create a flexible authoring tool, ObjectMover. This tool will allow instructors to create visually stimulating interactions that learners can use to capture essential components of a web-based text or a streaming video.