COMPUTER ENHANCED LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION ARCHIVE (CELIA) INTRODUCTION WHAT is 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. WHO can use CELIA? Anybody who has access to Internet. It is a free service. If teachers in your local community do not have Internet access you may think of organizing local funding so that they can access CELIA. WHO runs CELIA? CELIA is run and maintained by CELIA-L a special closed list created by Anthea Tillyer as a TESL-L related activity. The co-owners of CELIA-L are Anthea Tillyer ABTHC@cunyvm.cuny.edu Lloyd Holliday L.Holliday@latrobe.edu.au In effect the archive is currently staffed and run by: Deborah Healey dhealey@oregon.uoregon.edu Macintosh Lloyd Holliday L.Holliday@latrobe.edu.au MS-Dos/CELIA sites Jeff Magoto jmagoto@oregon.uoregon.edu Macintosh Fred Swartz fred.swartz@merit.edu Gopher/CELIA sites Many other members made valuable contributions to the original discussion on CAUSLI-L about setting up CELIA. Currently, the following members of CELIA-L may also be contacted with offers of help: Tom Robb trobb@KSUICS.KYOTO-SU.AC.JP TESL-L Management/Help Jack Burston frn373b@VAXC.CC.MONASH.EDU.AU Calis/French Julie Falsetti jefhc@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU MS-DOS Janet Sutherland sutherland@VAX1.RZ.UNI-REGENSBURG.D400.DE Tim Rushing RUSHING@WSUVM1 TESL-L Management The management of CELIA cannot troubleshoot or answer questions about access as each local network setup varies. USERS HAD BEST ASK THEIR LOCAL SYSTEMS OR NETWORK MANAGERS IF THEY HAVE DIFFICULTIES. (Detailed help is provided to the best of our ability in CELIA-HOW-TO.) We need more long term committed VOLUNTEERS to take on bits of CELIA as it grows. Contact any of us if you are able to help. You need not be a computer scientist or network manager :), even some knowledge of email will be a big plus. We need VOLUNTEERS to help with keeping the index00.txt files up to date, checking that software is correctly compressed, uploading it into appropriate directories, actively soliciting software for archiving, making CELIA known at conferences, suggesting gopher links to other source material useful to language teachers, etc. And we need more storage sites. For the latter you need to be at a NETWORK SITE like a university computing service with whom you have already liaised and from whom you already have received a commitment to house a subdirectory branch of CELIA. The HISTORY of CELIA In mid-1993 a discussion about sharing CALL resources took place on TESLCA-L and Anthea Tillyer decided the time was ripe to initiate this CALL project. Anthea created the list CAUSLI-L with Lloyd Holliday as co-owner to discuss setting up the project. Sometime in September when the name CELIA was suggested CAUSLI-L became CELIA-L. This electronic committee debated many issues involved. In October and November, Lloyd Holliday met Anthea Tillyer in New York and Fred Swartz in Ann Arbor to discuss further practical issues in setting up CELIA. Some of the decisions were taken as a result of these discussions in which Fred's computer expertise was invaluable. Without his ability to set up the gopher server and fill us in on the practical issues we would not have been able to proceed. The Macintosh side of the archive was begun with files from TESOL's CALL Interest Section (CALL-IS) Macintosh Library. CELIA was a way to expand the CALL-IS's service, which has been on a mail-a-disk basis since 1988. The FUTURE of CELIA Depends largely on YOU. The discussions on CELIA-L did include representatives from LLTI-L who are interested largely in teaching languages other than English. Although CELIA has begun as a TESL/TEFL/TESOL initiative, users will see that provision has been made to include material on ALL languages. Thus it is hoped that language teachers from other organizations will offer to join CELIA-L to co-operate in creating the archive. CELIA-L is not funded at present. Various groups who work on CELIA-L may have to look to their own national and local funding bodies for funding to develop the parts of CELIA-L they are most concerned about. This may be a particular type of software, language or index of available software. Although CELIA has been set up initially to run on a gopher-server, as WWW, and other developments take place and become more universally available, it is likely that CELIA may also get various platform-lifts. Nevertheless, CELIA is probably a unique first in the world of Internet computing as it has deliberately been set up to be a distributed archive appearing as one virtual whole to the user even though not all the files are physically located in one place. We intend to spread CELIA around to more sites than currently is the case, but this depends on more folk with universities and computing network managers who will set up CELIA storage sites in co-operation with us. Eventually we hope, entry to the top level of CELIA will be accessible from at least one gopher server on each continent of the world that will lead to subdirectories that are managed and stored in many different locations around the world. CELIA is truly an effort in worldwide democratic co-operation. Without various of us at different levels: software creators, users, students, teachers, uploaders, archivists from different language groups and countries, etc., creating and managing various bits of CELIA, she doesn't exist. Please become part of this initiative to foster a multilingual and multi-cultural world through language learning Lloyd Holliday for CELIA-L Management 2 February 1994 (see also CELIA-HOW-TO) You are encouraged to post this message to any relevant LISTS or BBS. .