- Advanced
- Advanced 1
- Advanced 2
- Advanced 3
- Advanced 4
- Advanced 5
- Advanced All
- Intermediate
- Intermediate 1
- Intermediate 2
- Intermediate 3
- Intermediate 4
- Intermediate 5
- Intermediate All
FlashACE Teachers' and Developers' Guide
FlashACE is based on HyperACE (Hubbard, Rylance and Gordon, 1993). Macromedia's Flash was chosen to rewrite this software so that it could be used across platforms online. It is intended to be used as self-paced student listening comprehension exercises.
Two sets of pages are offered as stand-alone listening exercises:
- http://www.stanford.edu/dept/lc/efs/FlashACE/index.html
- http://www.stanford.edu/dept/lc/efs/FlashACE/index_random.html
The first follows the original order of HyperACE, while the second includes a randomizing function so that each user gets a different order. In order to facilitate teachers who would like to use these pages as they are, neither set of web pages has any links to this page, nor to the other set.
The following are a set of unlinked pages if teachers would like to assign specific sets without the temptation for students to try other sets:
Unlinked pages (items in original order)
- Intermediate 1
- Intermediate 2
- Intermediate 3
- Intermediate 4
- Intermediate 5
- Intermediate All
- Advanced 1
- Advanced 2
- Advanced 3
- Advanced 4
- Advanced 5
- Advanced All
Unlinked pages (items in random order)
- Intermediate 1
- Intermediate 2
- Intermediate 3
- Intermediate 4
- Intermediate 5
- Intermediate All
- Advanced 1
- Advanced 2
- Advanced 3
- Advanced 4
- Advanced 5
- Advanced All
The application was built in Flash 8 and the templates can be downloaded below. The .swf file can be used as is, and embedded into web pages. The .fla file can be opened in Flash 8 or later, modified and then published as a new .swf file. Please note that some rights surrounding this software are reserved.
The .swf file reads an XML file (items_template.xml) which can be downloaded below. Please note that while the text entries and the names of files that this XML file calls can be changed, its structure cannot be modified without also changing the code in the template .fla file. Also note that the templates will not function as they are now: the image and sound file links are not to valid addresses.
Questions on these exercises can be directed to Ken Romeo (kenro at stanford dot edu) or Phil Hubbard (efs at stanford dot edu).