How To Make Students Better Online Researchers - 1 views
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TESOL CALL-IS on 04 Oct 12Includes a list of useful links to help teach students digital literacy search skills.
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JustTheWord - 2 views
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This site combines the best of a thesaurus and a concordancer. A word search produces loads of combinations in actual usage, with a red or green bar to indicate good and bad connotations. An alternatives link shows other words that can be substituted. Should be a nice accessory to non-native more advanced writers. Also connects to Wordle, so that students can see visually what kinds of usage are most likely.
Just-the-Word - R Stannard Training Video - 1 views
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This remarkable concordancer has many quick and easy features, such as seeing visually with a graph the frequency of occurrences of a word, quick links to the word embedded in a concordance, a thesaurus of alternative vocabulary, and indications of "good" and "bad" uses of a word. Stannard doesn't talk much about the pedagogy of the tool, but it is well worth exploring, esp. with your more advanced students.
How to use Keek from R. Stannard's Teacher Training Videos - 0 views
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A video on how to use Keek to make and share short video messages. Although limited to only 36 secs, this might be a good application for beginning learners, or for a quick pronunciation quiz (you will see who is taking that quiz!) You can also embed a finished recording in your blog or wiki, as well as sending it by email. A good way to have students create a short, practiced conversation. Also has smartphone apps for mobile recordings, RSS feed to follow, and links to Facebook and Twitter.
woices.com - location based audioguides - 1 views
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Listen, create and share FREE geolocalized audioguides. Share your voice and make the world a more interesting place. -
This might be a great tool for an extended project, e.g., have your students create an infospot audio guide to their local community. Lots of examples are linked on the front page, and there is an iPhone app to scan, listen, and record wherever you happen to be. There are currently over 1300 guides created by users, and more coming.
6 Activities you can do online with songs and music | TeachingEnglish | British Council... - 1 views
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Another of Nik Peachey's excellent blog entries, this one included ideas for teaching and an example activity for students: "I've found that in class most students enjoy lessons based around songs or music. More recently I've been trying to discover and develop activities that students can do online to actively engage with the vast variety of resources that are available. "These are six things that I have discovered so far. Each one links to an example activity that I have developed for students."
Pronunciation of hype - how to pronounce hype correctly. - 2 views
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"A free online Talking Dictionary of English Pronunciation Just mouse over the pink words to hear them spoken " This tool also links to Google Translate to translate your entry, and you can select from dozens of languages.
Learning Web 2.0 Tools - 3 views
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A very extensive wiki with links to a huge number of Web2.0 tools, such as presentation programs, mindmapping, comics, image sharing and editing, search, etc.
Educational Videos | Teacher Videos for Students | SnagLearning - 1 views
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"SnagLearning is dedicated to presenting high-quality documentary films as educational tools to ignite meaningful discussion within the learning community." A great place to gather information and stimulate discussion. Also links to other respected content sites, such as PBS for Teachers and Discovery Education.
Listen to the Walls Talking / FrontPage - 1 views
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This is a great digital images project using photos of graffiti on Flickr, and a spreadsheet of questions on Google Forms. Students sign in to select images that will support the ideas they write about. Thanks to Webhead Sasa Sirk, Carla Areana, Bee Dieu, and Rita Zeinstejer!! Also included are links to posts that Sasa's students made and responses from Rita Z's student sin Argentina. Nice example of collaborative Web 2.0. (Caution, some graffiti have adult language and themes!) See also http://wallstalking.org/.
The Complete Facebook For Educators! | Tech the Plunge - 0 views
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Link to other blogs that discuss ways to use Facebook--from Kindergarten to college.
Copy of Google Apps in the Classroom - 1 views
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slideshow with links
February Newsletter EFL Classroom 2.0 - 0 views
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A monthly blog from EFL Classroom that gives you ideas, resources, and a place to set up your own online classroom. Links to video talks, new online resources, ongoing discussions and blogs, student-created content, ideas for current seasonal holidays, and their own Diigo Group, et al. EFL Classroom has developed well over the past year or so, and is well worth following.
Easy English News - 1 views
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This blog has great links to citizenship-related exercises and teacher resources, such as the US Constitution in simple English. Should be an important resource for US teachers of adult ed, as well as teachers of American culture overseas.
TodaysMeet.com Created by Russell Stannard for www.teachertrainingvideos.com - 2 views
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Create a meeting room as a backchannel, where comments by participants can be seen as a feed, put up into your own presentation, etc., so that distance participants can be interactive. Save feeds to see them later, and use them with students to make instant comments on an assigned subjectas the basis for discussion. Linked to Twitter.
Comics in the Classroom: 100 Tips, Tools, and Resources for Teachers | Teaching Degree.org - 1 views
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Wow! This has articles on how to use comics, lesson plans, and links to places on the Web where you can create comics. Excellent blog feature.
PoetryEd / FrontPage - 1 views
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A great collection of links to poetry of the ages for all ages. Divided geogrpahically by sources of poetry: Poetry of Africa, Poetry of the Americas, etc., and by specific authors, e.g., Mahmou Dariwsh, Vinicious de Morais, etc. Some bilingual.
lingro: The coolest dictionary known to hombre! - 1 views
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Put in a Web address and lingro turns all the words into clickable links to a dictionary. You can hear the word read out. Further it remembers the words and lets you review and study them. So far 11 languages, including Dutch and Chinese. A fabulous tool for students--better than a dictionary. See Russell Stannard's training video at
Edmodo | Secure Social Learning Network for Teachers and Students - 1 views
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A social blog oriented to middle-school learners. Teacher can set questions and request students to join. Free. Nice instructional video at the >Learn more about link. There are also many teacher/school district blogs to view as examples.
Project-Based Learning with Technology by Diane McGrath - 1 views
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Sponsored by the ISTE, PBL with Technology adds new links quarterly and has a nice back-log of projects on a variety of themes.