WebSwami combines the latest technological breakthroughs with strong training methodology to produce a highly effective and motivating learning experience.
A Compelling & Enjoyable Learning Experience
WebSwami offers learners over 10 different activities through which to learn, practice and test themselves.What's more, with the system's powerful, yet simple and intuitive authoring tool, any teacher - even technical novices - can create their own content for all of these activities!
Click below for examples of just a few of the activities:
Teaching
Practice
Matching
Simulation
Writing
Flash
Teaching Screen
Students learn material from personal tutorials introduced and recorded by instructors.
The video can also be engaging pre-recorded videos showing language used in context, clips from movies or interactive introduction to grammar points etc...
Accent Practice
Students listen to native speakers and then record, comparing their voice to the voice graph. They can then re-record to improve stress, intonation and accent.
WebSwami is the only online system with a voice graph that measures both stress AND tone.
Video & Multimedia Matching
You've probably seen text matching activities. WebSwami brings you this amazing new activity, which lets you match any combination of video, audio, image and text!
Simulation
Greatly accelerate fluency with this activity. Students record their voice/video in real time, simulating a real conversation. Afterwards they can review their performance and re-record if they wish.
Writing
Write letters, articles, reports etc. for any given situation using common word-processing formatting tools. Using Flash's Unicode compliance, any language is accepted.
Flash Game Integration
Many of us have access to thousands of Flash games. Using this activity any one of those games can be integrated into WebSwami seamlessly so that fun and highly addictive games can appear seamlessly with your lessons.
Key Fluency Practice
WebSwami incorporates pedagogically sound activities targeting controlled practice and fluency building. This allows learners to begin sessions with the more simple listening gap-fills, sentence ordering and speech modelling, and then to move on to more sophisticated real-time simulations, instant translation and open-ended video presentations.
Unique Voice Graph
Getting the correct stress, rhythm and timing and especially the intonation is vitally important to communicate well in any spoken language (and essential in tonal languages!). WebSwami is the first online training system with an intonation graph as well as the more traditional stress graph.
WebCam Video Recording – an Industry First
Traditional language labs and training systems have failed to integrate video recording. Only WebSwami gives learners the benefit of recording live through their WebCams, which makes elearning simulations far more fun and engaging – every learner becomes a star!
VideoOne-to-One Attention & Feedback
Not only can instructors review every audio/video recording that learners make, they can also leave in reply a video, audio or text message to correct, instruct or praise a piece of work. Learners conveniently access new feedback messages in the ‘Message List’ without having to search through multiple lessons.
