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Developers' Showcase

Friday, March 30, 2018

10:30am-12:20pm

ExhibitionHall, Booth 540

Recording: https://youtu.be/xIQkKRRXAJ4

Presenter	Title	Summary	Links
Claire Bradin Siskin, Edvista, USA	Audio Tutorial for LiveCode	LiveCode is well suited for playing and recording audio files - important capabilities in creating materials for learning and teaching languages. The tutorial, created in LiveCode itself, includes instructions as well as real-time demonstrations for each function. This tool is available as a free download.
Thomas Robb, Kyoto Sangyo University (Emeritus), Japan	Two Free Apps for Language Enhancement: PeerEval and MReader	The presenter will demonstrate two free apps, 1) PeerEval allows students to rate their peer's presentations in real-time and presents them with a summary of the evaluations of their presentation on their own device and 2) MReader.org, a browser-based app that serves short 10-item randomized quizzes to your students so that they can prove to you and to themselves that they have read and basically understood their ER books.
James Hunter, Gonzaga University, USA	Managing IEP Data and Tracking Learner Output	University-based IEPs and other language programs struggle to track student data efficiently for the purposes of reporting, trend analysis, and accreditation. Existing solutions such as Banner are extremely expensive to implement and to adapt to the needs of individual programs. I will demonstrate an online, mobile-ready platform currently under development.
Ana Pacheco, Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela, Venezuela Evelyn Urbina, Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela, Venezuela	Maryce: English Learning Software For Students With Mld	Based on the recognition of the difficulties present into the process of teaching English, particularly for learners with Mild Learning disabilities (MLD), the software called MARYCE was design. Presenters will describe the program, which is accessible from the web and complies with the psychological and educational requirements of the users.
Daniel Castillo, Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela Nancy Torres, Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela Raquel Perdomo, Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela	Screnglish: A Scratch-Based Software for Learning English	This presentation showcases the interface and use of Scratch based software for learning English. The presentation will highlight the advantages of using and Scratch for developing resources as screnglish and how teachers and developers can create their own software based on the necessities of their teaching contexts.
Gary Ross, Kanazawa University, Japan	Online Speech: Further Developments in Speech Recognition as a Learning Tool	This talk will demonstrate an online system, open to anyone to use, developed by the presenter where students can role-play and drill using different voices with the computer grading and playing other roles. The talk will also look at future possibilities with mobile devices and open-ended conversations.
Teresa Nguyen, Golden West College, USA	ESL Garage: Where Everything Starts	What do Apple, Amazon, and Harley-Davidson have in common? They started from a garage! This bilingual YouTube channel helps English learners, specifically Vietnamese learners, build their English skills. It includes videos about everyday vocabulary, accent reduction, and American culture. Come see how these videos can be incorporated into the curriculum.
Goran Markovic, Defense Language Institute, USA Sandy Wagner, Defense Language Institute, USA	Focustique	Focustique is a web app for activities based on unscripted audio or video. Learners follow their own activity sequence, which promotes learner independence, while the versatile tasks varying from transcription to data collection about culture, dialect(s) and register(s) make it suitable for both blended classroom and autonomous work.

Presenter Biographies

Name	Biography
Claire Bradin Siskin, Edvista, USA (csiskin@edvista.com)
Thomas Robb, Kyoto Sangyo University (Emeritus), Japan (tomrobb@gmail.com)
James Hunter, Gonzaga University, USA (Hunter@gonzaga.edu)
Ana Pacheco, Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela, Venezuela (pachecomillananacarolina@gmail.com)
Evelyn Urbina, Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela, Venezuela (evelyn3324@gmail.com)
Daniel Castillo, Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela (d.castillo@ula.ve)
Nancy Torres, Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela (alesig23_12@hotmail.com)
Raquel Perdomo, Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela (raquelperdomo87@gmail.com)
Gary Ross, Kanazawa University, Japan (gary@p.kanazawa-u.ac.jp)
Teresa Nguyen, Golden West College, USA (teresaxn@ymail.com)
Goran Markovic, Defense Language Institute, USA (gormark@comcast.net)
Sandy Wagner, Defense Language Institute, USA (sandra.wagner@dliflc.edu)

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