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Improve your listening skills and hear about the news. Listen-and-write.com is free listening practice. Comes with a listening test to determine your level.

"Knowble stimulates text understanding and vocabulary training by using authentic and recent news articles published on the web, based on the learners' level and preferences. Knowble automatically selects relevant news articles."

"Create Lessons Worth Sharing around YouTube videos"

Educreations is a global community where anyone can teach what they know and learn what they don't. We're on a mission to democratize learning by extending the reach of great teaching.

AcademicHelp.net is a free writing guide with tutoring material on practically any type of academic or non-academic writing task. Our writing guides and samples cover a variety of life's spheres where you might face the challenge of having to write a document, a paper, or a reference. All our guides, along with their related samples, are logically organized in sections and subsections. AcademicHelp.net is a free resource aimed at nothing but helping us all become better writers.

"The KKCL ELT podcast is for anyone interested in English Language Teaching and Teacher Training. We discuss a different topic each episode and have regular interviews with English teachers, teacher trainers and writers from around the world."

Ipiccy is like free Photoshop, but less complicated. It has intuitive editing control panels that allow for the simple things like filters, effects, cropping and resizing. It's also easy to undo anything that didn't turn out as imagined. But if the project requires a more sophisticated treatment, Ipiccy has layers that like Photoshop allow a user to make very professional final products. Best of all, it's easy to upload projects to Facebook, Twitter and other social networks that a class might be using to house finished work.

Textivate is an online facility for creating and sharing interactive browser-based activities. Text re-ordering, gap-fills, text re-construction, anagrams, matching, memory, hangman, flashcards, millionaire and lots more - all automatically generated based on any text and/or list of matching items that you put into the textivate text box. Much of the site is free to use, and subscribers can upload resources to share with their students or embed activities on a blog or website. It is browser-based, so it works on desktops, laptops, ipads etc. The activities are ideal for whole-class work with any interactive whiteboard. You can see video tutorials here: http://textivate.posthaven.com/video-tutorials To help you get started, browse the hundreds of public resources on the site, or click on "textivate now" to see the range of activities available.

"Easy English news can help everybody who wants to understand better. We have been teaching English for many years. After many years of teaching we started to do a new thing. We knew that many students wanted to read news on the internet. They wanted to read something easy. We were looking for short news in easy English on the internet. We found many news sites but we did not find a lot of news with easy reading and listening."

"Your voice is unique and personal…just like your stories. Use Yodio to add your stories to your photos or presentations, and share these narrated photos with your friends and colleagues."

Looking for high resolution stock photos for your illustration, comp or design needs? Search Morgue File for free reference images. Yes, they're all completely free. whether you're an illustrator, art director, instructor or looking to add a defining visual to a presentation.

Fun Educational Apps is an excellent site for finding detailed reviews on educational apps. These apps are rated on a 5 star scale and include photos. Best of all, these reviews breakdown the app into 3 categories such as: what I liked, suggestions, and general opinion.

Some call them 'connected educators' while other use the phrase 'digital teacher' and many prefer the term '21st century teacher.' Whatever terms you use to describe modern teachers, it's important to know what the terms actually mean. There's a fabulous wiki devoted to just this topic here which houses some incredible bits of information. It's by Andrew Churches who has curated quite a treasure trove of useful information for any teacher looking to outline what he or she actually does as a modern educator.

The easiest way to takes notes from videos, everything synchronized!

Vialogues is a website that is designed to enable users to host conversations around a video. Users can upload videos to Vialogues or use YouTube videos as the centerpieces of their conversations. After you have selected a video from YouTube or uploaded a video of your own, you can post poll questions and add comments that are tied to points in the video. Your Vialogue can be made public or private. Public Vialogue's can be embedded into your blog or website.

Simply put, Vizlingo is a messaging tool that translates your words into video. It's easy! Just type, see and send. Type any message into Vizlingo to see each word illustrated by a 1-2 second video clip. Send your messages anywhere - directly to Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. For use across the web, copy a link. It's as simple as sending a text or tweet!

If your students like doing Word Searches, then The Ultimate Word Search Maker could be just the thing for you. It enables you to quickly and easily create your own Word Search Puzzles and embed them into your blog. The puzzles are very easy to make.  This is a really simple tool to use for those of you keen on Word Searches.