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This is an essential video to learn how to use Twitter effectively. If you are interested in mobile social media Twitter is needed, but TweetDeck helps you organize and use a variety of social networking tools. (This set of videos doesn't deal with the iPhone and iPad versions of TweetDeck, however.)

An interesting way to find overuse of particular words.

Check out the list of prior blog tasks and you are sure to find something wonderful to use.

"What2Learn is a national award-winning interactive learning solution which provides effective educational resources and revision games. A great tool for students with literacy and learning difficulties such as ADHD. It is also a great resource for high achieving students keen to work independently to get ahead." Teachers can also create games and activities for ESOL.

"The Google Art Project puts some of the most important art museums, and their collections, online with amazing features, including being able to create your own art collection. I've embedded a very short video from the site that shows what it can do - I can't do justice to it just with words. I'm adding it to The Best Ways For Students To Create Their Own Online Art Collections." Really neat for content-based or project-based learning.

This is one of a long series of "pocket culture" snapshots of peoples of the world. This site would be great for students, both for learning about other cultures, and for participating in a project about their own region. Places and topics are listed, as well as blogs about culture.

my.brainshark.com allows you to upload ppt's, videos, etc., and add a narration. Share and talk about a document. Russell Stannard shows you how. (See also the link to Brainshark itself in CALL_IS_VSL.

This is a great place for students to SEE visually how words and expressions relate to each other. A must for the visual learner, but wonderful for everyone. Try an expression like "go out" to see how idioms are related to the original meaning.

This is a nice version of Alice. You can have students conduct a chat--they type, and Alice answers orally. There is also a pull-down menu of questions and replies to use. You can allow students to "get crazy," or ask them to try to make a coherent "conversation." A nice way, potentially, to practice "polite conversation" before trying it out with a real human. From EFL Classroom 2.0.

10 Great ELT sites - online training videos. The nice thing that Russell Stannard does is make a Jing video of each site, so when you arrive there, you already know what it does and how to get it to work for you. You can sign up to get an email whenever Russell adds a new site.

"Learn English online with the help of this free website from the British Council with games, stories, listening activities and grammar exercises. You can search for your favourites, or have a look at the site map to find out where everything is. This is a BETA site and you will find lots of new listening activities and video content in Listen & Watch. We also have a new Grammar section and new IELTS exam practice materials. Click here to return to the 'old' LearnEnglish website. Double-click any word to see a dictionary definition. You can contact us if you have a question or want to report any problems. Become a member and you can add comments to the site and ask questions to get help with your English." This site has thematic/situationally based videos.