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Technology and education are pretty intertwined these days and nearly every teacher has a few favorite tech tools that make doing his or her job and connecting with students a little bit easier and more fun for all involved.

These days there are lots of online resources to help you learn English at home for free. Although the best resource is always a good teacher, you might only see your teacher a few hours a week. Th...

Site designed to support teaching English as a Second Language to elementary school students. Fun and exciting resources to help keep your students motivated to learn. Introduce new vocabulary with the vocabulary viewer, play fun flash games for the classroom, and print your own customized worksheets and flashcards. Also download PowerPoint presentations and use fun teaching tools.

Voxopop is a fun, engaging and easy-to-use way to help students develop their speaking skills. Create a talkgroup for your language class today!

Online tool that offers applications and services to convert text into speech.

Blabberize is a fun, free web 2.0 tool that allows you to quickly and painlessly create talking photos. Simply upload a photo of your choice, select the photo's mouth or jaw, and record your audio. Instantly, Blabberize will compile those elements together

Very useful to expand students' vocabulary. It offers more tools like example sentences, pronunciation, word origins,etc.

It's great!

The Zimmer Twins at School is a tool to create animated stories. You only need to add actions or dialogue. Fast, takes about 5 minutes to create a clip.

Wonderful tool that helps with reading comprehension and vocabulary development by simplifying English to a lower reading level. It lets you reword a sentence or reword a paragraph. It will simplify English by reducing text complexity. It's a dictionary alternative that will improve comprehension and teach vocabulary. It's an important part of reading instruction and vocabulary instruction for ESL students, people with reading disabilities, people with a learning disability, or anyone who wants to improve reading skill.