Multimedia Applied to ELT

One gmail account and lots of tools to create different classroom dynamics using Google products.

Ideas to use QR code in the EFL classroom

ACAPELA.TV Language Level: ALL LEVELS. Age Group: all levels. Type of skill: listening.Type of activity: creating videos with avatars, including gesters, motions, etc.Type of resource: teachers'' resource. Excellent website for TEACHERS to create movies for students!!!!

XTRANORMAL - CREATING VIDEOS WITH AVATARSLanguage Level: elementary to pre-intermediate students. Age Group: all levels.Type of skill: listening.Type of activity: creating videos with avatars, including gesters, motions, etc.Type of resource: teachers'' resource. Excellent website for TEACHERS to create movies for students!!!!

A translator of full sentences in sms language and viceversa.

A site suggested by N. L. on how to work collaboratively. It, in turn, proposes some other links.

Here there are lots of podcasts for learning/teaching communicativa functions. Some resources you'll have to pay, but there are also many which are free. The best thing is how they are organized: introduction, dialogue, exploded dialogue. I always use them with my adult learners, they love them.

Free online resources for teachers and students. There are articles, short stories, crosswords, grammar explanations, and much more. For all levels and ages.

This is a very nice activity to do with older learners since they need to know linkers, past tense and a great amount of vocabulary. They spin the wheel and different options for writing will appear. The most hilariuos combinations will be created!!It is great to help them foster their imagination. You should have a go!

Drama warm ups and improvisations that can be used by english teachers in the classroom. Group age: children, teens and adults. Skills: Listening and Reading. Resource for teachers

SCHOLASTIC - COMPUTER LAB Language Level: elementary to pre-intermediate students. Age Group: children. Type of skill: listening, speaking, writing and reading. Type of activity: teaching MATH, SOCIAL STUDIES, LANGUAGE, SCIENCE. Teaching SPANISH. Interactive whiteboard activities. Teachers and students' activities. Lesson plans. Type of resource: teachers and students' resource. Excellent website for children. :)

LINGUALNET Language Level: all levels. Age Group: all ages. Type of skill: listening (videos, scenes) and reading (scripts) Type of activity: Short videos with their scripts below them (not EVERY video) and sometimes even have some extra activities to check comprehension.  Type of resource: teachers and students' resource. VIDEOS! CELEBRITY, DOCUMENTARY, DRAMA and ANIMATION are the ones I prefer the most and I find most interesting for my students. 

USBORNE ENGLISH LEARNERS' EDITIONS Language Level: elementary to upper-Intermediate level students. Age Group: CHILDREN Type of skill: listening (audio in the website) and reading (books) Type of activity: BOOKS READ ENTIRELY. Type of resource: teachers and students' resource. WORSHEETS FOR STUDENTS ABOUT THE BOOKS, AND STORIES. BOOKS AVAILABLE AT KEL! NOT VERY EXPENSIVE BOOKS!

VAO NEWS Language Level: pre-intermediate to advanced students. Age Group: adolescents and adults. Type of skill: listening and reading. Type of activity: articles read by American native speaker and new words (voc) highlighted. Type of resource: teachers and students' resource. TEACHING ADULTS - IN COMPANIES mainly! Actitivities divided into levels. Lesson Plans for teachers as well (pdf files for students) Different topics: Economics, Science and technology, etc. I LOVE IT!!! :)

CONVERSATION EXCHANGE - FREE! Language Level: all levels. Age Group: Adolescents and adults. Children only with an adult's supervision recommended for secutiry reasons. Type of skill: speaking, listening (face to face), writing and reading (pen pal). Type of activity: the students only need to create a SKYPE ACCOUNT, MESSENGER HOTMAIL, YAHOO MESSENGER, etc.. and then they find a language partner to practise the language with conversation. Type of resource: students' resource. It's a FREE website. Students will be able to practise at home by having a pen-pal, face to face conversation (only if a native lives close to their home) and text and voice chat (the shy students who do not want to show themselves). Tandem learning is this method for learning languages and adults have the possibility to do it unless children are supervised by adults!!! Mind you!

Site of the publishing house, full of free resources for each of their books + prepared lessons for differentl ages and levels

You won't find all terms in any dictionary. Urban dictionary stores the latest coined terms. Adolescents love listening to music and checking new words.

Make a puzzle for your students for free. This is just a tool, perhaps not a resource, but which cild doesn't love making puzzles. You can use it also with adults!

Character Education for Children through Principles and Values. There are no many sites that focus on values, so I find this really valuable.

Free education sites for children adn adolescents.