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Aula Virtual del Español. Cursos por Internet en colaboración con el Instituto
Cervantes.
ESTO offers students the
possibility of taking an online Spanish course, the Virtual Spanish
Classroom. A group of students might even take an e-learning course
through this system, with ESTO providing the tutor. What is this
system about?
The Spanish Virtual
Classroom of the Instituto Cervantes is a didactic environment which
offers Internet courses to learn Spanish online.
The students gets a card
with a user name and a password with which s/he can access the AVE
courses. The professors can monitor the students' progress, and
sometimes the course materials could be used by our professors in
ordinary lessons as a complement.
There are two ways to gain access to the courses:
1) Through the web site
http://ave.cervantes.es , clicking
on "direct access", and selecting your language. You will be asked
for your user name and password.
2) Through the web page
http://www.ave2.cvc.cervantes.es/.
(Macintosh users should try this option first).
In addition to the virtual
lessons, the tutor, who is a professor of Spanish, will follow and
monitor the group's progress. ESTO lends the students a headphone-microphone
set so that they can do all the multimedia exercises.
Virtual courses are
organized into four different levels, and each level into four sub-levels,
the easiest being A1, and the most difficult one D4. Each sub-level
is divided into units, and each units into thematic sub-units.
The following part in grey has been translated authomatically:
Technical requirements (important)
To access the AVE courses, the student needs to have some auxiliary
programs. Upon entering the course, the system will tell you if your
computer has the necessary programs. If not, you can download from
the Internet or a CD that will provide the center in which you
enroll. The system announces the steps required to successfully
complete the download.
Auxiliary programs occupy 25 Mb of disk space on your computer. If
done by digital connection, the download takes between 10 and 15
minutes. If done through a modem, the process takes two hours.
The computer equipment necessary to perform the online Spanish
courses at the Instituto Cervantes must have the minimum
requirements set in Minimum equipment. For faster is recommended to
use a computer with the characteristics specified in Recommended
Equipment.
MINIMUM EQUIPMENT
Processor: Celeron 300 MHz / Pentium 233 mhz
Memory: 128 MB RAM
Disk Space: 180 MB minimum free
Connection: 56k modem (not Winmodem)
Monitor: 14 inch Color 16-bit
Resolution: 800 x 600
Graphics: 8 mb memory
Sound card: 16 bit
Microphone: Standard
Speakers / Headphones: Standard
Operating System: Windows 98 SE or Me, 2000 or XP
Browser: Internet Explorer version 5.5
Netscape version 7.1
Internet connection: R.T.C. (Switched Telephone Network) analog
E-mail Client: Webmail Service
RECOMMENDED EQUIPMENT
Processor: Pentium III 800 MHz / AMD Athlon 800 MHz or higher
Memory: 256 MB RAM
Disk Space: 300 MB minimum free
Connection: Cable Modem / ADSL / ISDN
Monitor: 15 inch 24-bit Color
Resolution: 1024 x 768
Graphics Card: 32 MB of memory
Sound card: 16 bit or higher
Microphone: Standard
Speakers / Headphones: Standard
Operating System: Windows 2000 or XP
Browser: Internet Explorer version 5.5 or higher
Netscape version 7.1
Mozilla version 1.4 or higher
Internet Connection: Cable or Digital Phone
Email client: standard email client (POP3 or IMAP). Preferably
Outlook Express 5.5 or higher or Netscape Messenger 7
THE CASE OF THE MACINTOSH
Access is recommended by http://www.ave2.cvc.cervantes.es/ direction,
and have installed Mozilla Firefox 2.0.
The version that works with Macinstoh AVE is 2.0, not good when its
not official certified tutors with the operating system MAC / OS.
A SAMPLE OF THE VIRTUAL COURSES
It is possible to see an
online presentation of the courses
(in Flash).
Further information:
infoave@cervantes.es
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