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"Now if you visit my PD site you will find a series of activities that you can use to introduce teachers and students to various Google tools including Google Sites, Blogger, Advanced Search, Google Maps, Books, Bookmarks, Google Docs, and Google Groups. Feel free to use and adapt the activities I've outlined the next time you're introducing teachers or students to these helpful Google tools." The site referred to has an amazing number of lesson ideas and links to tutorials on using Google applications for education.

This is the Scribd version of the text of Nik Peachey's talk on Web 2.0 Tools (see related bookmark about his blog). He gives links to the tool and examples of its use, examples of how to get started, and practical advise on ways to use the tools with students.

Demonstrates how a wikitospeech.org app can be used pdagogically for show-and-tell, mcq, and linked responses. (See also the bookmark for Wiki-to-Speeach for the free download.) An instructional video is found at http://bit.ly/openallure.

"Here is how it looks when you are using outliner to organize bookmarks, annotations and notes." A short video and an actual outliner to show how this feature of Diigo works.

For very advanced students only. Gives sample thesis statements and sample discussion questions, but the site is not interactive at all, and not reading based.

Simultaneous real-time collaborative writing tool. Here is a list of ways teachers have suggested using the tool with ELLs. http://worldlanguagelab.wikispaces.com/EtherPad Am trying this tool out with a group of Russian English teachers this week and will see what new ideas come out of it.

Thanx, Michael--you can add a comment right here to the bookmark! --Elizabeth

Another writing task/essay from the IELTS Advantage series.

"The key to IELTS Writing Task 2 success is to give the examiner exactly what they want and nothing else. "Below you will find everything you need to achieve a high score in IELTS Writing Task 2. "It includes: 5 Step Approach Video Writing Task 2 Tips Essential Skills Sentence-by-Sentence Structures Common Topics Full Lessons On All Question Types. Grammar Sample Answers Correction Service Easy to Understand Infographic" This lesson is oriented toward passing the IELTS Writing Exam, but it is a useful set of exercises and activities, including a video, for anyone learning how to write an academic essay