CALL_IS_VSL

Over 1,000 recordings to learn English (and other languages) with accompanying exercises, downloadable audio, etc. R. Stannard calls it one of the most useful language learning sites online: http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/elllo/index.html.

"4Teachers.org works to help you integrate technology into your classroom by offering online tools and resources. This site helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use."

You may use the sound effects on this web site free of charge in your video, film, audio and multimedia productions (but do not re-sell them or post on a web site for download).

"This wiki is a collaborative learning space. If you want to contribute to this e-portfolio or digital portfolio page, please join the wiki and then add your thoughts, your notes or describe how you created digital portfolios for your students." This wiki has everything about wikis and much more: using blogs, words clouds, comics, Vacebook HTML, online collaboration, etc., etc. Join and contribute

A huge list of materials online related to listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar, and general study skills. Teachers need to review and select from sites to use them effectively in an academic program. Prepared by Christine Bauer-Ramazani for her Academic Skills courses.

A set of corpora and concordancer links compiled by ElizabethA of Grenoble, with discussion of their attributes.

If YouTube is blocked at your school or the streaming sucks, here are 12 ways to download/convert YT for classroom use. From Jeff Thomas, whos ed tech blog is sensational (and looks good, too.)

"This group began in 2002 as an event convened under the auspices of TESOL EVOnline (Electronic Village) but has carried on as a community of practice or a distributed learning network ever since. Participants meet informally throughout the year and regularly each Sunday noon GMT at http://www.tappedin.org to help each other learn about forming and maintaining robust online communities through hands-on practice with synchronous and non-synchronous text and multimedia CMC (computer mediated communication) tools."

A Clever Word Game Online Game. Offers clues (simple words) and suggests clues to pick using the mystery word in a compound. Short video on how to use it by Russel Stannard .

"Resource Repository www.CALL4ALL.us is here to help you communicate more effectively between any two languages or cultures in the world. CALL and computer-mediated communication curriculum exchange page CALL4ALL Language Products Page - effective software for Language Learning CALL-IS Software Summary Best Online Collaboration Tools: MindMap by Robin Good A-Z Directory of ~3,000 Online Learning Tools!" Quite an interesting compendium, but without much organization except the alpha-sort.

"A wizard for creating and managing customized Google maps of address lists * addresses come from your own Google spreadsheets * modify your address list and maps are automatically updated; done so daily, or on demand * privately be the only viewer of your maps, or publish them and show them on any website * access the address lists and maps from anywhere * download KML of your maps / export them to Google earth"

"Search through 158,138 icons or browse 820 icon sets E.g. arrow, twitter or facebook" Might be useful for student projects.

A useful tool for projects.

Another place to create an ejournal or online magazine. Allows you to display ezine at their homepage, free.

"In this video, made while I was Tech Liaison for the Alaska State Writing Consortium, I share some ideas about teaching with Twitter and reflect on using Twitter with both local and distance students at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. "This video was created as part of an online presentation I did with, David Wicks, Seattle Pacific University, and Jason Rhode, Northern Illinois University. It was presented online for the Northwest eLearning Community January 27, 2011. We have posted more materials and links to additional videos at their Google site: Twitter in Edu." From Jacquie Cyrus, Guam.

Good summary of how to ask for student questions on their own papers. An old technique that goes back to Peter Elbow.

This is a little complex, but students will catch on fast. One use, pointed out in the QR tutorial, is to create an electronic portfolio where all docs, references, video, photos, etc. can be collected and shared in one place with drag-and-drop. Connects to Twitter and Facebook, of course. Brief video tutorial on the front page, and lots of fun backgrounds and colors to play with.

"A fun method to learn and improve your foreign languages like English through music and typing in song lyrics" This is an activity that many of us like to use in the EFL/ESL classroom, and here it is online. There are at least six languages and a fairly wide set of choices in songs.

"Using Moodle - Teaching with the Popular Open Source Course Management System by Jason Cole and Helen Foster is published by O'Reilly as part of the Community Press series. "The first edition of the book, written by Jason Cole and released in July 2005, is based on Moodle 1.4. The second edition, released in November 2007, has been updated to cover all the features in Moodle 1.8, such as the new roles and permissions system, blogs, messaging and the database module. " This is a free download!

"The purpose of the ADL Mobile Learning (mLearning) Guide is to provide a universal resource on all topics pertinent to mobile learning. This resource is intended to provide you with an introduction and will explore the following topics about mobile learning: the basics, planning, learning content, development options, and design considerations. This app was developed by the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative's Mobile Learning Team. ADL is sponsored by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (OUSD P&R). This is an official app of the U.S. Government ADL Initiative."