Title: About CELIA
Author: 
Publication Date: 94-02-14           Publication Status: Draft
Enquiries: jburston@arts.cc.monash.edu.au
Copyright: N.A.
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COMPUTER ENHANCED LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION ARCHIVE (CELIA)

CELIA is an archive or storage space (like a library) of software for
Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). The software is either shareware
or freeware. Except for demos, commercially sold software cannot be archived
in CELIA. The software comes from you the users and developers of CALL
materials.

CELIA can be accessed by gopher-server at USA/michigan/Merit software archive
or by FTP at archive.umich.edu. Further detailed instructions on how to use
CELIA appear in the long document headed: HOW TO USE CELIA. The archive is
organized in a tree so that the first major choice is language, the next the
language learning activity (e.g. vocabulary, grammar, etc.), and last the
operating system under which the software runs. Software running under any
operating system, (MS-Dos, Windows, OS/2, Mac, Unix, Amiga, etc.) is accepted
for archiving. At present there are files for only MS-Dos and Mac in the
archive. The files may also be executable binary files OR text only ascii
files.

It is hoped that teachers will use CELIA to exchange software on an
international co-operative basis by uploading it to CELIA in order to cut
down development time and create more choices in CALL courses for language
learners. There are many software packages that allow teachers to author CALL
"exercises." These authored files are the teacher's copyright property (even
if the program needed to run them is a commercial product), and can be shared
free of charge with other teachers who also own the same authoring software.
Typically such files are often ascii files. Such "authored exercises," the
instructions to use such exercises, files to be printed as handouts to
students, etc., can all form part of material uploaded to CELIA.