Technology news
Both web page design and video production dominated the technology side of ELI life in 1999. A revamped ELI home page and new class web pages were launched into cyberspace, and several student-produced videos were shared at graduation ceremonies.
The new ELI web page -- located at <www.udel.edu/eli> -- has an updated look and structure, making it easier to navigate.
Application forms for all ELI programs are now online, and alumni can keep in touch by reading news from their former classmates and posting their own message in the Alumni section. If alumni have their own web page, they should let teacher and webmaster Lowell Riethmuller know at <lowell@udel.edu>, and a link can be made to it from the Alumni section.
The ELI home page offers links to new class web pages, including Leslie Criston's Level III Reading/Writing class, which produced a newsletter for students at Vanderbilt University, and Barbara Morris' Level III Listening/Speaking class, which created a Virtual Tour of Historic Newark, complete with photos and audio commentary.
Students in Lowell's Reading/Writing IV class have been using the class home page in several new ways. One is a series of "minute mysteries" that students read and solve through e-mail. They also have written team chain stories. Some of the results are available at <www.udel.edu/eli/rw4>.
With the Self Access Learning Center (SALC), located in Rodney Hall, continuing to be a popular online study site for ELI students, seven new computers were purchased this year to replace older systems. The site is now managed by Lowell Riethmuller and Preston Becker.
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Students
in the Level One reading lab enjoyed new web-based reading lessons
in the Self Access Learning Center
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The Level One Reading Lab, held once a week in the SALC, has been completely redesigned this year. Kathy Vodvarka and Lowell Riethmuller have written a series of web-based reading lessons based on the Level One reading curriculum and containing multiple-choice questions and completion questions. They have also added a large number of lessons to the integrative Double Up, Sequitur and Rhubarb computer games which reinforce the instruction in the classroom reading and grammar texts. Students work in pairs in the SALC in order to help each other develop strategies for solving the tasks.
Finally, several listening/speaking classes used camcorders and video editing equipment to produce videos shown at graduation. Barbara Morris's Level III class did a takeoff on Mission Impossible, incorporating PowerPoint animation into the April show. A Level IV class taught by Grant Wolf produced a commercial for cellular phones called Energy Light Intercommunications in June, and Ruth Jackson's Film class acted out scenes from their favorite movies in The Best Moments of Our Lives in August.
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