A wealth of resources, materials, teaching tips, tutorials, etc., including student showcase of projects completed--you can submit your own students' work.
A wiki page where teachers can advertise proposed Skype collaborations. Looks like a good site for exchanges, exp. for project- or content-based learning
This site is going EFL/ESL in a big way, using video:
"We recently found out that 22frames.com is becoming a popular site for learning English as a second language (ESL). It turns out that watching captioned videos provides a way to not only learn formal English but also idioms and other cultural concepts. To find videos, you can browse through categories or make caption-only video searches on your interests. Even more, we have been devoting significant time and resources to developing ESL-specific features that are motivated by our users' feedback."
"Recently, we found out that many of our
users are using the site to supplement their English learning (see:
http://www.22frames.com/esl.aspx ). They also began to pitch ideas we
could implement to make the site even more useful for this activity.
With so many requests, we decided to seriously consider these ideas
and devote significant time and resources into realizing them. Now,
we are turning our site into a substantial and FREE English learning
resource. We are aware of a couple sites out there that are also
focused on using captioned videos for English learning, so we've been
focusing on the unique user-motivated features. Therefore, my goal
here is to let you know about our free resource and that we are
opening the door to requests for anyone who might desire features that
have not been implemented elsewhere. Perhaps, you can share this with
your colleagues/readers/etc as it will help us better gauge which
features to prioritize and to increase the rate with which we will
release new features. Please note that we are really serious about
considering whatever feedback we get.
I'm also pleased to announce our first feature, which we expect will
help in learning/teaching popular English idioms. Idioms are a big
deal in learning English, and it is clear that watching them used in
real situations will increase the rate with which they are learned.
We therefore processed a large group of YouTube videos in o
Terry Freedman is a British Educator who likes project-based learning, and this FREE pdf file has doezens of projects for students and adult learners of all ages. Includes a great list of Websites and resources used, that is worth the donwload in itself.
This video tutorial shows you how to make a video from your searches on Google. You can also add music. Very clever program! This would be a really fun way to enhance your students' research in a project. Try it out!
Presentation Zen: The Video is a nice video on this TESOL member's YouTube channel. Garr Reynolds is an expert in design, so his advice is reall significant, and the language and use of media is good for high intermediate or higher level.
"Philologus is designed by teachers for teachers and allows them to create customised interactive versions of popular games suitable for use during lessons."
Tutorials and guides to using common digital programs, such as adding a picture to a word-processed document, using MS Word, save to a USB drive, etc. Some info is for Green River CC students only.
Tom Cobb's online concordancer has a quick lookup and links to many different academic corpora. Also has links to articles about using concordancers, and a variety of "Text Tools." Outstanding program. --Elizabeth
Like Lextutor, this is an online concordancer. You can search for sentences, and browse various indexed corpus files, or upload your own personal corpus. Includes Chinese, Frnech, and Japanese corpora. Created at the Virtual Language Center.
Free! ESL Video uses video from around the Web (e.g. The Daily English Show), and attaches short quizes on the content, pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary. You can choose videos by level (beginning to high-intermediate), and track results of student quizzes. You can also make your own quizzes with video you select from the Web!