I know it as a cloze exercise, but it may very well go by more than one name.

Neat webpages. I tried out both the multiple choice identify the missing word and the hangman game. Fun stuff, and I agree they are for more advanced level students of Old Norse.

Good stuff to know about.

Rob

--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "Wulf, Tom (wulft)" <wulft@...> wrote:
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> You know I've been lurking on the list for a long time and pop in now and then.
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> That's called (I believe) a closure exercise in language instruction. I wrote some software to generate closure quiz questions from XML representations of a saga text.
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> Here is a link to one for Volsung Saga:
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> http://homepages.uc.edu/~wulft/Norse/Match/index.html
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> It's kind of premature, but I'm in the process of revising the Old Norse Software that I have on my site to HTML5:
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> http://homepages.uc.edu/~wulft/Norse/default.htm
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> The first revision of the Norse Vocab Flash Cards is available. In revising I realized I had inadvertently truncated the vocabulary set to about 300 words. It is now restored to about 1200. It also will use a new HTML5 technique called Application caching: if your device/browser supports it. It will prompt you to download all the files for the page the first time you visit and afterwards, the app will work on your device without an internet connection. That's pretty handy for language learning tools!
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> Finally here is an unposted link to the latest extreme alpha version of my e-saga book which now uses the 3-line format of the Barnes Grammar.
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> Thanks and Regards,
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> Tom Wulf
> Assoc Prof of Information Technology
> University of Cincinnati, CECH
> Tom.Wulf@...
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> From: norse_course@yahoogroups.com [norse_course@yahoogroups.com] on behalf of rob13567 [nielsenjava@...]
> Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2013 11:31 AM
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> Subject: [norse_course] Recycling Laxdaela Material
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> One learning technique is to recycle older material, and one way to do that is to remove words from the original, which you try to guess. In this case, I have removed the verbs from an earlier translation exercise.
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> Note: It's harder than it looks, but you can do the same exercise more than once (= more recycling):
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> Nú __________að __________ frá Bolla Bollasyni.
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> Þorkell __________hverrar konu hann vildi biðja.
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> Bolli __________: "Kona __________Þórdís.
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> Hún __________dóttir Snorra goða.
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> Snorri __________vel við þeim og blíðlega.
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> Þórdís Snorradóttir __________heima með föður sínum.
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> Hún __________væn kona og merkileg.
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