This website provides free information and resources for teachers and students. Materials are organized by skill and level for quick and easy access. For teachers, there are lesson plans, handouts, and new ideas. For students, there are vocabulary pages where they can see, hear, and say words in English. There are also examples and explanations of grammar, listening, and reading.
This website provides s hort stories for ESL learners at the low intermediate level. 100 free short stories with listening grammer comprehension and dictation exercises. a great starting point for ESL learners.
Teachers can use this tool to create lesson plans. This site provides access to the standards for the state, subject, and grade level and then plugs them into you plans. It offers links to resources, a calendar, lesson planners, a test item generator, etc. It also alows teachers to share their plns with other teachers.
Learning-Focused Schools have an important place within our framework for teaching/learning. Teachers can use this free unit/lesson planner associated with best practices. REgistration is free and takes no more than a couple of minutes.
Webspiration is a FREE online visual thinking tool, which helps teachers capture ideas, organize information, diagram processes and create clear, concise written documents, which can be used individually or collaboratively. Teachers can structure work with integrated diagrams and outlined views to express ideas.
Zoom It is a screen zoom tool that allows teachers to zoom in on an area of the screen, move around while zoomed, and draw on the zoomed image. This allows teachers to customize presentations and address areas where students may need reinforcement.
Gizmoz provides a free online service that enables users to create animated, lip-synched characters. This site allows you to upload a portrait image of a person or use of a pre-made character. Once uploaded, Gizmoz digitizes the face so that the mouth, eyes, and brow are animated. Users can select the character's hair, outfit, accessories, and background.
Voki enables teachers and students to generate professionally produced videos for FREE. Teachers create videos in which they select images and music specific to individual needs. Animoto videos provide visual energy of a music video and the emotional impact of a movie trailer.
Animoto videos--music videos for your images and pictures. With high production value motion graphics synchronized to every beat of your music, Animoto videos blow the doors off traditional slideshows; it's time to move past the slideshow and embrace Animoto--free, easy, beautiful.
Zamar is a free web service, which allows teachers, to download YouTube videos from your home internet connection and bring them back to school on your laptop, flash drive, iPod, or DVD.