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Find Out What People Think. Urtak lets you make smart, sticky polls where participants can ask and answer questions.With Urtak you can: *Make unlimited free polls. *Embed polls everywhere. *Analyze results in real time.

Find Out What People Think.Urtak lets you make smart, sticky polls where participants can ask and answer questions.With Urtak you can: *Make unlimited free polls. *Embed polls everywhere. *Analyze results in real time.

Very short videos--36 sec--may be good for low level students to practice initial speaking/listening. Also has apps for various smart phones. Might be good for a quite pronunciation quiz, for example. The teacher can then send back a short video message with corrections, modeling, etc.

"What do you think? If you train teachers to use IWB… how do you make the difference in how the board is used for learning apparent for them? What activities are truly interactive and contribute to learning in a new way while others are merely"fun" to use your fingers with?" A thoughtful article on how to use a Smart Whiteboard effectively--and interactively

Conversation English is an iPhone/iTunes app where people can view a short video of a dialogue and do exercises. If your students are crazy about their smart phones, this would be a good way to get them to practice.

"Plays on most smart phones. Video mails up to 10 minutes. Video stored up to 365 days. No account or downloads." This would e fun for students to use to practice speaking and presentations. Especially good because there is no sign-in. See Russell Stannard's training video at