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"Over the course of this event we will be looking at a small range of web based tools that will enable you to create motivating online language learning activities for your students. These can be used either in class or set as homework. You will have the chance to understand how these tools work, find out how to use them with students and be able to try your hand at creating and sharing activities with other teachers. By the end of the event you should have a small 'toolkit' of resources and ideas that will enable you to enhance your lessons though the effective and pedagogically sound use of technology."

Over the course of this event we will be looking at a small range of web based tools that will enable you to create motivating online language learning activities for your students. These can be used either in class or set as homework. You will have the chance to understand how these tools work, find out how to use them with students and be able to try your hand at creating and sharing activities with other teachers. By the end of the event you should have a small 'toolkit' of resources and ideas that will enable you to enhance your lessons though the effective and pedagogically sound use of technology.

Any internet search will show that there are a huge number of online tools available for the creation on polls and surveys. The ones included here are some of the best I have used and show some of the variety of polling tools available.

Beautiful and appealing images and graphics can liven up any document, report, presentation, lesson or book. Graphics, photos, charts and other imagery are important not only because of their aesthetic aspect, but also because they help us convey our message more clearly, learn and grasp new concepts more easily quickly, and easily understand business and financial data better.

Have you noticed that some of the most "POPULAR" language programs and methods are suddenly getting on board the 21st century train and offering live online learning? Learning a language online in the comfort of your own home with the assistance of a teacher is a truly genius concept. The only problem is, developing a curriculum, finding great teachers and integrating a fully functional eLearning program with progressive technological tools doesn't happen overnight.

I've just been trying out a great new tool called Wetoku. Wetoku is a video conferencing tool which enables one to one live communication which can easily be recorded and then saved for comment or embedded into blogs or websites.

This online translator allows the translation of words, texts, phrases, idioms, expressions in French, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian, Portuguese, Hebrew, Japanese. Translation tools include: translation memory like Across, Trados, SDL, Dejà Vu, but also instant translation systems, machine translation like Reverso, BabelFish, Systran. Online dictionaries: Collins, Merriam-Webster, Larousse, LEO, Oxford, langenscheidt.

Even through he mentions religious stuff, he has useful tools for japanese

Pretty extensive list of online storytelling tools.

Tool to create online oral assignments or exams with videos and images.

The complete two hour session was recorded and can be viewed online (warts and all), so if you would like to hear me talking and displaying some of these tools then you can go to: Nik Peachey on Web 2.0 in the EFL Classroom

Good tool! Search words for similar sound, meaning or related

Plan the time to have your meeting or event by co-ordinating availability with all the particpants using this fuss-free online tool.

Keep Calm and Carry On poster generator > use screenshot to copy result

Lookup is a publicly available interactive searching program Jeffrey wrote primarily to allow him to access edict and kanjidic quickly and concisely, though it should be quite useful for searching any line-based text file (it's been used to quickly search huge C programs, English word-lists, and even e-mail archives). It features a rich and powerful flavor of regular expression search with support for Japanese text. If you would like to learn more about regular expressions, the powerful tool used to help you in your dictionary queries, see Mastering Regular Expressions and its successor, Mastering Regular Expressions Second Edition.

This tool allows you to find dictionary words and expand your vocabulary in many different languages including Bulgarian, Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Ido, Indonesian, Italian, Kurdish, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Vietnamese and many others.

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