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Voki text-to-speech - Created by Russell Stanard for www.teachertrainingvideos.com - 4 views

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    This avatar based text-to-speech gives students a chance to making talking characters for their website, and give themselves practice in listening and speaking. Fun, too.
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Micrsoft Office Game Templates by Dr. Jeff Ertzberger UNC Wilmington - 3 views

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    Games using PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and various utilities. Insert your word list, and the game template creates the game. Nice way to review vocabulary or content concepts.
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R. Stannard on Facebook: teachertrainingvideos.com - Wall - 3 views

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    Russell Stannard now has a Facebook fan page with links to sites beyond those he has made training videos for. Like and follow.
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What to do with Wikis - an ELT perspective « teflgeek - 3 views

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    "This article provides an overview of the background and evolution of the wiki and examines some of the affordances generally associated with wikis. It situates wikis in a clear educational context, linking wikis to social constructivist views of learning. It examines how the implementation of integrated wiki use might best be approached and looks at how motivation of learners to fully engage in integrated wiki use might be maintained. It clarifies three modes of integrated wiki use, administrative, referential and developmental, and provides specific suggestions for these. "
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Nik's Learning Technology Blog: 10 Tools for Increasing Engagement in Online Courses - 3 views

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    As usual, a good combination of interesting tech tools and suggestions for pedagogical uses.
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writefix.com | Argument essays, graphs, other writing, and speaking for IELTS, PET, and... - 3 views

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    The targeted audience of this website is high intermediate and advanced ESL learners, and in particular TOEFL test takers. This website focuses on teaching how to write an argumentative and opinion essay. It provides information on argumentative essay structure, teaches about two different essay layouts and supports them with examples, explicitly describes steps of argumentative essay writing process, gives a number of model argumentative essays, demonstrates two sides of an argument, and has 70 argumentative essay topics, and 155 TOEFL writing topics. -- From Lena Shvidko
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The Structure of a Paragraph Unit - 3 views

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    This web resource is for teachers of high beginning and intermediate writing courses and intermediate ESL learners. The resource provides 8 units that 1) teach about paragraph structure and paragraph elements: topic sentence, supporting sentences, and concluding sentence 2) introduce transition words and coherence in a paragraph 3) provide the opportunity to learn about and practice basic writing skills such as making an outline and staying on topic. Clear explanations are supported by examples; therefore, teacher can use this resource for class preparation, and ESL learners can use it as additional material to learn about paragraph writing. Practice activities provided by the website are not interactive; however, most of the assessment tasks have answer keys. In addition, each unit provides lesson in a PDF format that can be used by a teacher as a handout. -- From Lena Shvidko For ESL K-12 learners, but would be useful for adults as well. Focuses on the paragraph, rather than the essay, so makes a good beginning set of lessons.
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Flash cards, vocabulary memorization, and study games | Quizlet - 4 views

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    A great tool for developing quickly memorized vocabulary. The teacher (or students) can add pictures. The tool creates quizzes of various types--type in the answer, drag and drop, etc., after you have had a learning period. Many different uses and offers so much variety the student is dragged more practice than he expects!
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Best of Breed Tools 2011 - 3 views

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    The Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies has made this useful list of educational tools. However there is no info or notes or suggestions for use. Most are already in our Diigo.
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Educreations - 3 views

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    "Create and share great video lessons with your iPad or browser." This is a great tool for getting students talking, or for creating a lively presentation. You can upload a picture, or draw from scratch, as on a blackboard or whiteboard. Easy to use, free download, and available from the App Store for smart phone or iPad.
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10 Great Tools for Language Teachers - Russell Stannard - 3 views

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    This is a presentation given by Stannard in Luxembourg. He briefly describes each tool (it actually turns out to be about 13-14 tools, as some are "doubles"), suggests a use for it with students, and provides a link to his training video. Tools are mainly useful for adult learners.
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MakeBeliefsComix.com Printables - 4 views

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    " The printables encourage writing and thinking in a quick and fun way. A student's efforts to complete the printable can then become the first step in writing longer essays, poems or stories on the same subject. The printables also can be used with students enrolled in literacy and English-As-Second Language (ESL, ESOL) programs and provide an educational resource for teaching language arts." Over 250 printables that can be used for writing prompts.
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25 Ways To Use iPads In The Classroom by Degree of Difficulty | Edudemic - 3 views

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    Although this is just a lead-in to the Edudemic Magazine iPad app (free to subscribers), this blog article has the short list in its graphic. Take a look for some ideas on how to use the iPad to "consume, collaborate, and produce."
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Wink - [Homepage] - 3 views

  • 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. Click the green arrow button to start viewing it. --------> (More tutorials created by Wink users and companies can be found at the User Forums.) This is a good example of how you can create tutorials in Wink, by capturing screenshots, mouse movements and specifying your own explanations with them. And all this in a standard Windows-based UI with drag-and-drop editing makes it very easy to create high quality tutorials/documentation. It is estimated that Macromedia Flash Player is installed in more than 90% of the PCs. Using Wink you can create content viewable across the web in all these users' desktops. Similar applications sell for hundreds of dollars, while Wink is free with unrivaled features. So spread the word about Wink to your friends.
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    "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 "
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100 Ways To Use Twitter In Education, By Degree Of Difficulty | Education Technology, A... - 3 views

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    Some excellent tips for getting started with Twitter and using it effectively.
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Basic Computer Literacy: Social Networking - 3 views

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    Vance Stevens' course for the Petroleum Institute is filled with useful graphics and how-to information. Designed for EFL students, this is a great way to get your own course going, or it can be used as supplemental material.
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Basic Computer Literacy - 3 views

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    Vance Stevens' course for the Petroleum Institute on the basics of computers: how they work and what you need to know. Great for the foundation of your own course for EFL students, or use as a resource material.
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Amara - Universal subtitling: caption, translate, subtitle and transcribe video. - 3 views

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    This looks to be a great tool: Simply put in the YouTube, Vimeo, or other video site address, then add the subtitles. You can embed the result anywhere. This would be great for making videos for hearing impaired students who need closed captioning, or for English practice with your students as listening/writing practice. (Thanks to Bee Dieu)
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Google Apps Marketplace - Free Gradebook and Lesson Plan Software - 3 views

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    "LearnBoost empowers teachers and schools with a free all-in-one classroom tool. You can manage your classroom, track student grades, create lesson plans, mark attendance, view reports and more!" Very similar to Engrade. Offered in a dozen languages as well. Nice tutorials. Links to other Google apps, such as Calendar and Docs and Spreadsheets. Mobile able.
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Create Your Own Knowledge Games For Free! - 3 views

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    Professional-looking site with some great activities already made. Register and create a game in 5 minutes, and it's free.
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