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If you are looking for examples for a particular topic, you can search the Google Forums to find some interesting examples - http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ There are thousands of posts in those forums and you can usually find something on just about any top

"Now you can embed a forum just like a YouTube video. * No account registration neededYour forum will be integrated with Facebook, Twitter, Google, and other services so members can skip registration." Looks like this might be a nice tool to have on a school website, where it could ensure students' privacy.

The OpenLearn website gives free access to Open University course materials. This is the LearningSpace, where you'll find hundreds of free study units, each with a discussion forum. Study independently at your own pace or join a group and use the free learning tools to work with others. Links to tools and discussion forums in many content areas.

Audio Forum that can be used as a bulletin board or audio blog. Asynchronous voice discussions can be very helpful for students' listening, speaking, and pronunciatio skills. Private channels available for $4.99/month, or free for public forums. Can include image gallery and audio guestbook.

This Website making service has so many features that it looks likely to become a pay-per-use site eventually. Very professional looking with 300 site templates, phote album capacity, blogs and forums, calendar, password protection, email list, etc.

If you try out this Website maker, please let us know!

A great follow-on by R. Stannard on how to add content and "see" Moodle from the students' point of view. Includes students' content-uploads, using chats and forums, etc.

"Free Math Help offers a variety of free tools to help students with Algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, and statistics. The site has a simple interface with color coded tabs identifying their four categories which are lessons, calculators, games, and forums." This blog post describes the website, which includes over 100 lessons, calculators, and games for younger learners.

This looks like a great project, with pages to help you design your own apps, step-by-step guides, a library for App Inventor (the tool), curriculum and resources for teachers, and a community forum to get answers. Now if only we had time . . .

The Social Media Classroom (we'll call it SMC) includes a free and open-source (Drupal-based) web service that provides teachers and learners with an integrated set of social media that each course can use for its own purposes-integrated forum, blog, comment, wiki, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets , and video commenting are the first set of tools." This may be an appropriate replacement for Ning. Looks interesting and is designed especially with educators in mind.

"HP Teacher Experience Exchange, is a free site providing teacher discussion forums, lesson plans and many other teacher resources. Learn more."

A great place to find poetry online. Search almost 800,000 poems by 78,000+ poets, songs, quotations, etc. Also has a forum for discussing various aspects of poetry. You can collect favorite poems, read a poem of the day, and browse through poetry links and contests. Great literature site.

Pronuncian is devoted solely to American English Pronunciation, with free sound drills, lessons on sound, linking, stress, and pitch. Site also includes forums and weekly podcast. Subscribers also have access to additional listening exercises and quizzes. Teacher tools are currently in beta version and available for a reduced fee. Intermediate to Advanced students.

Site devoted to American English Pronunciation with free and paid content.

"Vaestro is audio forum software that you can use on your web site for free. Talk to your friends, host interactive podcasts, or use it like an audio blog. Use it anytime you need to communicate with groups of people small or large. With Vaestro, everyone has a chance to speak and be heard." The teacher can create channels with the different master tracks (recording them yourself directly on the channel or uploading an MP3 file) for students to listen to and then record their versions, which they can edit as many times as they want.

Online version of the ETF, long a favorite of EFL teachers overseas. You can search by topic or year. Some articles are more pedagogically oriented, while others are very practical, hands-on descriptions of how to teach. PDf files.

This is a short set of R. Stannard video's on using Moodle. Deals mainly with chats and forums.

"UsingEnglish.com provides a large collection of English as a Second Language (ESL) tools & resources for students, teachers, learners and academics. Browse our grammar glossary and references of irregular verbs, phrasal verbs and idioms, ESL forums, articles, teacher handouts and printables, and find useful links and information on English. Topics cover the spectrum of ESL, EFL, ESOL, and EAP subject areas."

"Classcraft, the first online educational role-playing game that teachers and students play together for free, recently announced the launch of a fully-updated version of their product for the new academic year. This revised version boasts new features such as free iOS apps for iPhone and iPad, interactive forums, student analytics and customisable characters, all of which will be useful for both teachers and students. Also included are French, Chinese, Dutch, German, and Spanish translations, which has made the game even more accessible to classrooms worldwide. To date, more than 30,000 students in 50 countries around the world are playing the game. "In order to keep students engaged, the Quebec-based team of education professionals are keen to inject the mechanisms of popular social games into learning. Playing in teams, students can become mages, warriors and healers, each with unique powers. The more a student excels, the more they gain points and real powers, like the ability to take notes into an exam. Teams can lose points by disrupting the classroom or submitting homework late; consequences can include detention and and less time to finish assignments."

Uses a course wiki for planning lessons and presentations. Student-teachers post a version of their lessons and then discuss in workshop, later using the wiki "comment" function. Students then revise their lessons and resubmit for evaluation by the instructor.

"Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users. Here is a sample Flash tutorial created by Wink "

The new TESOL English as a Foreign Language IS website. The site includes a forum, a news section, information on sessions, and a list of proposals.