[NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:2783] recommended - websequitur shareware software for windows

From: Phil Shapiro (pshapiro@his.com)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2003 - 11:06:21 EST 

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hi everyone -

     i recently came across a very useful shareware program for 
windows, websequitur, that lets you create reading exercises on the 
web where students have to figure out which phrase comes first and 
next in a reading passage. these language exercises teach both 
reading and writing skills as students figure out how to read in 
context.

        to help others learn what websequitur can do, i've set up a 
web page at http://www.his.com/pshapiro/websequiturs/   this page 
includes some children's stories, some nonfiction reading passages 
and some satire that i wrote.

      the html files that websequitur creates can also be used with a 
browser on a computer that is not connected to the internet. so these 
kinds of reading passages could be copied onto donated computers -- 
or handed out to students on floppy disks.

       thanks for sharing info about websequitur with literacy 
activists you know.  this software was created by the same person who 
is the co-creator of the excellent free "hot potatoes" software for 
creating language learning activities on the web. 
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/    while i like "hot potatoes" a 
lot, i adore websequitur.  it's a very easy to use program, too.

          - phil shapiro
            arlington, virginia

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http://www.mp3.com/philshapiro/ (guitar fingerpicking)
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