This site is maintained by the VCU Foreign Language Department as part of our International Trail Guide. Suggestions and additions are welcome.

• What are Web Forms?
• Why would language teachers be interested?
• How do I use Web Forms?
• CGI Scripting
• JavaScript and client-side scripting
• Resources & Tools

The Archive consists of sample forms for language learning and the downloadable CGI scripts for processing them. Forms/Scripts are sorted by...

• Function
  • Comprehension Testing
  • Collaborative Writing
  • Clickable Graphic
• Natural Language
  • English/Generic
  • French
  • German
  • Russian
• Scripting Language
  • AppleScript
  • Perl
  • JavaScript
• Web forms at other sites

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Linking Applications to Web Pages

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• What is program linking?
• Why would I want to do this?
• How do computers need to be configured to do this?
• Configuring programs as helper applications
• Linking to programs created with authoring or scripting tools
• Using intermediary programs to bridge the gap
• Two-way interaction between Web browser and application
• Plug-ins: in-line display of external documents
• Resources & Tools

• Am I really going to be able to do this stuff?
• But how can I possibly find the time?
• It's the pedagogy not the technology
• What studies prove the effectiveness on language learning?
• Why do it yourself? An object lesson