*Click here to watch a video of Andrew Finch visually outlining what the audience can expect from his workshop.

This workshop looks at some educational software available on the Internet and gives participants the opportunity to try them out and to make teaching materials with them. These softwares will include the courseware Moodle (www.moodle.com), the song-captioning software Karafun (www.karafun.com), Hot Potatoes (http://hotpot.uvic.ca/), and Quandary (http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/quandary.php). People who would like to participate can save themselves some time by downloading Karafun, Hot Potatoes and Quandary and bringing the .exe files to the computer room (Woodang Building, Room 211). PLEASE also bring a mp3 file and the lyrics (txt or doc file) of a song which you would like to use in Karafun. Otherwise, you will have to put up with Andrew's choice of songs!

Andrew Finch is Professor of English Education in the School of Education at Kyungpook National University, in the Republic of Korea, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate pre-service and in-service Korean teachers of English. Courses include Teaching Practice, Using Drama to Teach English, and MALL. His research interests include bilingualism, heritage language learning, language teaching as education of the whole person, the non-threatening learning environment, and task-based supplementation of textbooks. Andrew was visiting research fellow at the Graduate School of Education (TESOL), Bristol University, UK, during his sabbatical year (2008), when he visited bilingual and immersion schools in Europe. His Ph.D. was with Manchester University, UK (2000) and was on the design and evaluation of a task-based language program in Korea. Andrew has worked in Korea and in Hong Kong (testing consultant) and has authored a number of ELT course books, some of which can be downloaded (free) from www.finchpark.com/books. <[email protected]>