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How to use Twitter for your classroom. Another great video by Russell Stannard. that shows you all the ins and outs of this social networking device as it would be used for educational purposes.

Collaborative storytelling beginning with excellent pictures from which children can develop stories. Share, read, and print.

TimeToast is a way to create historical timelines. Could be used for project- or content-based learning, or for personal autobiographies. Also has several good content examples, such as Moon Landings, The Great Gatsby, and Western Civilization. You place points on the timeline and then add text and pictures to go along with the dates.

"Philologus is designed by teachers for teachers and allows them to create customised interactive versions of popular games suitable for use during lessons."

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.

This would be a great project base for students. They take photos, upload them and then record a voice description. Has connect to Facebook option also.

Karenne Sylvester's blog for teachers of Business English is a huge respository of good Web. Articles are also attractively laid out and easy to access.

Audiobook is a mobile and web platform that lets you or your students create podcasts with computer or iPhone/Android. Stannard's video shows how to use it.

Put in lists of words and Website creates sound files for them. You can also put in a description or translation of your words to practice them. Also creates tests on them. Uses several major languages.

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.

Create activities, matching games, crosswords, and quizzes. Save these resources online with your free teacher account and analyze results of quizzes and games.

Claims to have "All the words in the world pronounced by native speakers." If you ask for a word to be pronounced, another user will pronounce it for you. You are asked to help by recording your own native speaker pronunciation. Looks like an interesting use of social media.

"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

Create Great-Looking Interactive Quizzes (in minutes) embed in any website / blog!