Base Camp

Back at base camp we drew up a Gantt chart, to monitor how the project is going, and to set key milestones. We also carried out some research on offline and online language exercises, to broaden our ideas on what to do. We looked at the following sites, at it stated on the brief that the client is looking for something like this -
www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/quiz/mquiz.asp?filename=salut
www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/match/dragflip.asp?filename=hobbies

We liked the simple style of these exercises, which suits the age range that we are aiming at - 11 year olds. These exercises had large buttons and text. It was obvious what to do, and there was good use of pictures and feedback where needed.

We also looked at www.vocabulary.co.il/ , which had an example of a hangman game exercise, and a multiple choice quiz.

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primary/french had a good menu to follow.

http://funschool.kaboose.com/arcade/language/index.html has number language games.

We also looked at the Eurotalk Interactive Learn Italian cd roms for children. This was good to see how they, for instance, do 'match them up' exercises. However, the design was not that great and the naviagtion not very simple.