CALL

A mix of applications designed to assist both teachers and students of English - mostly designed using PHP and JavaScript.

Mind the Gap
Outputs gap-filled texts with the option to print a handout.
Features Academic Word List.

Hiliter
Highlights words in a text you paste in. Option to print a handout.
Features Academic Word List.

Freq List
Outputs a list of the words in a text you paste in, along with their frequencies.

Jumbler
Outputs jumbled sentences.

Wordsearch Maker
Enter a list of words and convert to a wordsearch grid.

Crossword Maker
Enter words and definitions and print a crossword from your browser.

Cobuild Concordancer
The original collins corpus concordancer!
Overides IALF server settings that block pop-up windows.

Teacher Concordancer
Like cobuild but using a text you paste in as the corpus.
The central word is still a bit wonkey - I'm working on getting it straight.

Storybard
Implementation of the classic Storyboard created with call (features a BBC twit droning on pessimistically about Indonesia). This one features a panoramic image as advance organiser.

Hangperson
The politically correct version! Hangperson currently features academic vocabulary. If they can guess at least five words in succession students then produce a text using the words they have guessed and to send this to a teacher for comment.

LookItUp
A dictionary game designed to focus EAP students' attention on commonly occuring academic vocabulary taken from Averil Coxhead's corpus of academic English.

Report Writer
A program to help teachers get through the arduous task of report writing.

Phonemic Typewriter
Not one of mine - can't remember where it came from. Bit clunky, but effective!