Jane says:I don't think anyone has mentioned ESL Blues yet, It was created by a teacher at my college who has now retired and is chock full of grammar exercises. Students can take a diagnostic test to find out which grammar points they are weak in, or the
Personas "uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one's aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you."
This site contains resources for those who are just beginning and those who wish to explore in greater depth three important topics in higher education today, particularly as they are related to teacher preparation.
The three topics of this website are:
Multimedia Records of Practice to enable faculty to make public their typically invisible practice of teaching and to support their scholarship of teaching activities;
Electronic Portfolios to enable faculty and students to reflect upon their learning or professional development or to support program or institutional assessment; and
Digital Storytelling to enable faculty, students, and others to easily create digital stories with which they may share their reflections on their experiences in learning.
Created by a teacher, the toolbar can make crosswords, bingo cards, jumbles, word search puzzles, flashcards, cloze tests, pair-matching puzzles and much more.
Create and format a document in Word as before, choose File -> Save As and select MediaWiki* under file types. Word will now convert and save the document in Wiki style markup. It is supported on Microsoft Office Word 2007 and Office 2010.
Reviewed by Amit Agwaral at Digital Inspiration
This could be useful when we want students to try wiki writing... Has anyone tried it? Would love to know how well it works for Pbwiki, Wetpaint and Moodle wikis...
Transform is an easy to use authoring tool that helps K-12 educators create and share dynamic, interactive educational content that is relevant to their curriculum and exciting for their students.
A project by the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been created to help teachers provide accurate informations about the laws concerning digital rights & the concepts of copyright and piracy.
Aviary, the company behind
a suite of collaborative web-based image editing
software, has released a Firefox plug-in that's a must-have. Create an account at Aviary, download the
plug-in called Talon, and within minutes you'll be joyfully clipping full and partial screenshots into the very full-featured Aviary web editor. It's so easy, but at the same time so full-featured, that's a real pleasure to use.