Dan Willoughby, A colleague of mine, just alerted me to Runrev, a natural language programming interface. Of course there are many authoring tools, ranging from the very easy such as Hot Potatoes (very popular with language teachers), to the more advanced such as Adobe Captivate or hybrid programmes that allow both visual authoring and programming (such as Illuminatus’s Opus Pro). Runrev is certainly towards the more advanced end of this scale but stops short of requiring you to learn a full-blown programming language. I haven’t used it myself yet but intend to play with it over the summer. If you’ve used it and would like to share your experiences, I’d be very interested to hear from you - please drop me a note.
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