TCP is run and administrated by one person on a 30% contract.
Updated progress reports will be available on this page every two months.

Progress report, May 2006

In April and May I have been concerned with the following tasks:

Continued development of TCP game tasks from 6 different topics (the same as for OIE):

  • Adjectives & adverbs
  • Nouns & Verbs
  • Function words
  • Vocabulary
  • English vs. Norwegian
  • Miscellaneous

Prepared article for submission to "Fleksibel lærings artikkelsamling", see Guidelines

Prepared answers to questions for "Erfaringsseminar"


Progress report, March 2006

In February and March I have been concerned with the following tasks:

Continued development of TCP game tasks from 6 different topics (the same as for OIE):

  • Adjectives & adverbs
  • Nouns & Verbs
  • Function words
  • Vocabulary
  • English vs. Norwegian
  • Miscellaneous

Added alternative rules option - Up the stakes

  • For every wrong answer a wedge of the pie is lost

Added sounds

  • Cheerful sound after each correct answer
  • Gloomy sound after each wrong answer

Cleaned up the css files

Added the play again function

Updated the corpus search hints so that it covers both OIE and TCP

Progress report, January 2006

In December and January I have been concerned with the following tasks:

Continued development of TCP game tasks from 6 different topics (the same as for OIE):

  • Adjectives & adverbs
  • Nouns & Verbs
  • Function words
  • Vocabulary
  • English vs. Norwegian
  • Miscellaneous

Updated the corpus (i.e. correction of obvious errors in the corpus files)

Altered Perl scripts (for corpus search) after new server installed at the University

Checked all exercises/tasks after updating the scripts

Published (with Hilde Hasselgård) article on Oslo Interactive English, TCP mentioned. (pdf format)

Gave talk on Oslo Interactive English at the Symposium in Gothenburg on "Corpora in Language Teaching". (TCP referred to as OIE's sister project, but not demonstrated.)

Progress report, November 2005

In October and November I have been concerned with the following tasks:

Continued development of TCP game tasks from 6 different topics (the same as for OIE):

  • Adjectives & adverbs
  • Nouns & Verbs
  • Function words
  • Vocabulary
  • English vs. Norwegian
  • Miscellaneous

Created a single text file for questions / tasks

Developed and settled for a frames page integrating TCP game and Corpus search page (see Progress Report, September 2005)

Created TCP cake images in Photoshop, including Image Ready coordinates

Developed PHP script to handle questions and answers

  • I.e. select random question from file, correct answers and put correct piece of cake in right place after submission of correct answer

Prepared talk on Oslo Interactive English for Symposium in Gothenburg on "Corpora in Language Teaching". (TCP referred to as OIE's sister project, but not demonstrated.)

Progress report, September 2005

In August and September I have been concerned with the following tasks:

Development of TCP project web page

Development of preliminary TCP game + corpus search page, including:

  • Design
  • Rules page
  • Integration of OIE corpus into a TCP frames page

Experimenting with various techniques (incl. software) for design and animation, e.g.:

  • Photoshop
  • Flash
  • JavaScript
  • Frames

Started development of TCP game tasks from 6 different topics (the same as for OIE):

  • Adjectives & adverbs
  • Nouns & Verbs
  • Function words
  • Vocabulary
  • English vs. Norwegian
  • Miscellaneous

Last updated 2nd June 2006, SOE
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