CALL_IS_VSL

A nice collection of Google Tools and apps made by a teacher for teachers. Other bookmarks may also be of interest.

Yes! Thanks for sharing. And delicious still seems a good way of sorting links

"Week 3: Discussion activities on Audio Tools and Virtual Classrooms. From Real-time communication to podcasts, from Skype to Voice thread, from Virtual Classrooms to Streaming technology is the broad subject for week 3." This discussion is a runup to the IATEFL conference. Participants in VoiceThread offer some ideas for getting students talking.

This site has 100s of grammar quizzes, but also lots of exercises for paragraph level and essay and research level questions. Good FAQs on grammar, Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, and all kinds of links. Sponsored by the Capital Community College Foundation of Hartford, CT, USA.

"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."

A short lesson plan -- how to do a role-play in class. This is a nice model that can be revised and used for other situational learning role-plays.

This is a nice version of Alice. You can have students conduct a chat--they type, and Alice answers orally. There is also a pull-down menu of questions and replies to use. You can allow students to "get crazy," or ask them to try to make a coherent "conversation." A nice way, potentially, to practice "polite conversation" before trying it out with a real human. From EFL Classroom 2.0.

Nice blog on technology tools for teachers. Regular updates and some discussion of uses. Thanks to Jacquie Hewlett from Guam.

These content-based videos can be browsed by subject matter. Explains, e.g., graphing quadratic equations, the French Revolution's effect on the new United States, etc.

Thousands of online exercises and activities for all the language skills, constantly revised, improved, and added to by the geniuses, Charles & Lawrence Kelly.

This web site is for people studying English as a Second Language (ESL) or English as a Foreign Language (EFL). There are quizzes, word games, word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams, a random-sentence generator and other computer assisted language learning activities.

" A free online Talking Dictionary of English Pronunciation " This really looks impressive and simple to use! Would be great especially for both advanced students and beginning learners.

Scriblink is a free digital whiteboard that users can share online in real-time. Sorta like pen and paper, minus the dead trees, plastic, and the inconvenience of being at the same place at the same time. Scriblink brings you the power of free hand expression with anyone, at anytime, anywhere in the world. On the homepage you'll be immediately directed to a Scriblink board, which is free and requires no registration.

Scriblink is a free digital whiteboard that users can share online in real-time. Sorta like pen and paper, minus the dead trees, plastic, and the inconvenience of being at the same place at the same time. Scriblink brings you the power of free hand expression with anyone, at anytime, anywhere in the world. On the homepage you'll be immediately directed to a Scriblink board, which is free and requires no registration. Contributor: Sulany dos Santos on 05 Feb 10 Scriblink also has chat and video chat simultaneously.

This site allows you to practice speaking with any video (previews, ads, short clips) listed on the site. A speech recognition platform awards a score on how well your pronunciation matches that modeled in the video clip. Has quite a few categories, e.g., business, daily life, news & politics, technology, etc. So you can practice in specific subject areas.

"Most teachers are overwhelmed by the endless amount of websites they can find online to teach English. I would like to share the best websites according to my students to learn English. One key ingredient in these websites is that students have fun while learning English."

Thanks Sulany--looks like a very useful site.

This is a great digital images project using photos of graffiti on Flickr, and a spreadsheet of questions on Google Forms. Students sign in to select images that will support the ideas they write about. Thanks to Webhead Sasa! Also included are links to posts that Sasa's students made and responses from Rita Z's student sin Argentina. Nice example of collaborative Web 2.0. (Caution, some graffiti have adult language and themes!)

Book on how to use Google Wave

A very useful demonstration of how to make a good PowerPoint presentation. Might be very useful for helping students design their projects.

"The purpose of this site is to take an extensive list of websites that are considered high quality, reliable, and valuable and organize them in a way that even "non-techy" teachers can utilize them. It took around 10 years to collect these resources, but new ones are found every day. All of these websites have been recommended by other teachers and educational organizations and qualify as "the best". You'll find support for all core curriculum areas. In addition, you will find lesson plans, multimedia, and primary sources to enhance your students' learning environment." by Nadine Norris, a tech specialist for elementary schools near Chicago, IL. Has a wide variety of explanatory pages: tools to use with core content areas, project-based units, rethinking Powerpoint and classroom presentations, a blog highlighting social media, and advice about using digital literacy skills and research skills on the Internet.

Shows how you can use Jing screencasts to create mini-lessons for your own students--illustrated with vocabulary, grammar, ways to give feedback, and getting students to ttalk