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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.

Wizer is a fantastic free tool for creating simple digital worksheets that enable learners and teachers to do some pretty complex things. When I first discovered the tool a few months back I was really impressed by how easy it was to create really engaging blended learning content for class or homework, so it's great to be able to publish this Q & A with Nira Mayorchik Sheleg the Co-founder & CEO.

With the AJAX Language API, you can translate and detect the language of blocks of text within a webpage using only Javascript. In addition, you can enable transliteration on any textfield or textarea in your web page. For example, if you were transliterating to Hindi, this API will allow users to phonetically spell out Hindi words using English and have them appear in the Hindi script. The language API is designed to be simple and easy to use to translate and detect languages on the fly when offline translations are not available. We plan on adding more exciting capabilities to the AJAX Language API in the future, so stay tuned. So what is the difference between Translation and Transliteration? Transliteration is the process of phonetically converting a word written in one script into another. Transliteration should not be confused with translation, which involves a change in language while preserving meaning. With transliteration, it is the sound of the words that are converted from one alphabet to the other.

ESL Video is a great free site that enables you to create your own quizzes based on video clips from popular sharing sites like YouTube or BlipTV. You have to register and log in and then you just grab embed codes for the video you want to build you quiz around. The site is multilingual so it doesn't just have to be an English language video.

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.

GoingOn provides a fast and cost effective way to build vibrant online communities. Leveraging the best of today's social web, GoingOn Community Platform enables academic institutions to deliver new, more engaging models of knowledge management and social collaboration across their campuses, and to their broad network of constitu ents. The results include increased student engagement, improved faculty productivity, enhanced online learning and broader marketing outreach.

Web-based Chinese Input Service (WebIME) is a webpage that enables users to input Chinese characters on Internet anytime, anywhere. It provides five conventional Chinese input methods (Cangjie (倉頡), simplified Cangjie(簡易), Hanyu pinyin(漢語拼音), Cantonese Pronunciation(粵語拼音)[#1] and Chinese dictionary-like method (Radical/Number of Strokes(部首/筆劃))) augmented with two special features, homophone and candidate characters filtering. WebIME aims to bring more ease and convenience for users to input Chinese characters when surfing the Internet.

enables file upload capability within google forms!

This is a great site tha enables you to create 3D animated cartoons. It's like a cross between Dvolver and Xtranormal.Fantastic. Select different motions for the characters chose backgrounds and add their dialogue.

Voki is an animation website . It is “ a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profiles and in email messages”. This web2.0 tool is very important in education as It enables teachers and students to express themselves on the web in their own voice , using a talking character.

Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute, and Google's top rated Futurist Speaker. Unlike most speakers, Thomas works closely with his Board of Visionaries to develop original research studies. This enables him to speak on unusual topics and translate trends into unique business opportunities.

You can also set up a profile so that others can see what you're doing with your account. Once you have everything set up, all you need to do is start promoting your account. You can do this by sharing your link with friends and family or by posting it on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. When people click on your link and sign up for an account, they'll be able to use your referral code when they make their first purchase. And that's it! You'll earn cash back every time someone uses your referral code when they buy something from CashApp.