Experimental Ideas for Studying ESL on the Web

These are some of the things that I have experimented with.

The More Popular Ideas

• Computer Assisted Writing (JS & CGI)
  Enter some words and the computer does the rest.
• Travel Survival
  This covers some of the most important sentence patterns used by travelers.
• Sentence Singer (F)
  Students seem to have fun playing with this.

These May Not Be So Useful for Studying English, But They Are Fun

• Miranda Warning Jigsaw Puzzle (F)
  In American movies, the "Miranda Warning" is what you hear the policemen telling suspects when they are arrested.
• Slider Puzzle (J)
  Put the sentence in order.
• Shift It Slider Puzzle (JS)
  Put the letters in alphabetical order.
• Web Site Theme Song (F)
  I did this just for fun.
• Drag & Drop Puzzle (J)
  Drag the pieces into the correct position to read the message.
• Concentration (J)
  I have better "Concentration" games on the website now.

These Were Good Ideas, But Are Now Obsolete

• ESL Reading Room (Using an Online Dictionary)
  This was a good idea, but the online dictionary that I was linking to changed, so this became obsolete.
• Speaks for Itself (Speech Synthesizer)
  This is an interesting idea. However, speech synthesizers are not real native speakers. It also doesn't work on some newer computers.
• LS PHPWebQuiz (CGI)
  A couple of quizzes using Luzius Schneider's PHP script.