Title: About CELIA Author: Publication Date: 94-02-14 Publication Status: Draft Enquiries: jburston@arts.cc.monash.edu.au Copyright: N.A. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.