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"Create free educational games, quizzes, activities and diagrams in seconds! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge!" You enter data once and student can choose from 5 different types of games to play. Many templates and files already created by other teachers are accessible here. Premium membership is ad-free, and you have your own Web area to organize your favorite resources; can also be used on an interactive whiteboard.

A whole bunch of educational links that speak to reasons why students should use blogs, tips for using iPods in the classroom, PowerPoint for collaborations, etc. Many sites worth exploring.

Yet another course management system. Might be worth a try. Claims to combine social networking with learning management, and has a very nice interface. And it's free.

Karenne Sylvester's blog for teachers of Business English is a huge respository of good Web. Articles are also attractively laid out and easy to access.

You can use a number of different languages, including Mandarin. Games have points, awards, and leader boards to incourage study, and "community" for sharing.

This very informative blog specializes in information and how-tos about interesting tech tools. For the real nerd, but also a number of good tips for teachers learning how to do things for themselves.

Has an interesting business letter generator.

Free! ESL Video uses video from around the Web (e.g. The Daily English Show), and attaches short quizes on the content, pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary. You can choose videos by level (beginning to high-intermediate), and track results of student quizzes. You can also make your own quizzes with video you select from the Web!

Teacher training website with links to video content from a US Department of State funded project with the University of Oregon. All content is freely available.

"Shaping the Way We Teach English is a video-based training product for English language educators. It has 14 modules (topics). The videos showcase classroom scenes from around the world and have an accompanying training manual plus additional readings. "The University of Oregon developed and produced the materials through funding from the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Office of English Language Programs ©2007. All materials are free of charge and copyable for non-commercial educational use."

"# Create a free website & blog # Easy drag and drop interface # No technical skills required # Dozens of professional designs # Free domain hosting" This free Website maker could be used for media-rich student projects.

Free, downloadable video editor for Win PCs. Purportedly more simple than Windows Movie Maker, and has the capacity to work with Flash and mobile phone clips.

A podcast series of original music and lyrics played and sung by Tim Murphey for English language learners. Soft, gentle music with lots of repetitions and useful phrases and expressions, e.g. "raining cats and dogs."

"Online programs for recording, uploading, mixing, and interacting. Free!" Teachers can record audio with their computer, create mashups including uploaded photos, embed conversations on Webpages (wiki, blog, or homepage), podcast on your own channel, and make or use interactive worksheets, practice process writing and handwriting, upload video and add subtitles, etc. Lots of great apps.

"This is a tutorial on how to create a presentation with voice-over on MS PowerPoint, and then converting it into a Flash file using AuthorPoint Lite add-on. Next, you can upload the presentation to WiZiQ. You can share and embed it on any website. You can also use it for your WizIQ virtual classes. " This is a nice little tutorial for a free app -- thanks for the tip from Hanaa K Hamis, Webhead.

Links to tutorials for spectacular visual effects. Thanks to Webhead Joao Alves

A nice e-zine with interesting articles supported by some media. Good for intemediate learners as supplemental reading (warn them not to click on the ads, however, as they sometimes look like part of the e-zine.

Choice of text, audio, or video chat rooms.

Totally cool, downloadable, free. You can make great screencasts of your desktop activities to show students how to open a program, edit a photo, etc.

"WritingFix: For Teachers, Students & Writers interactive prompts, lessons, and resources for writing classrooms Since 2001, the Northern Nevada Writing Project has proudly sponsored this free-to-use website, which aims to "fix" those teachers who don't believe that writing instruction can be both fun to plan and easy to differentiate. If you explore our website's pages, you will find prompts, lessons, and resources that were created and shared--and then posted here--during workshops and in-service classes sponsored by the NNWP. The Nevada teachers who participate in these professional development opportunities discover ways to be passionate about teaching writing, and here we share the very best, hoping that our passion is contagious to the teachers across the globe who have discovered what we've proudly posted here. Our Mentor Text Bibliography can help you directly link to lessons and prompts based on books you might already own. "