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list of different podcasts for teaching ESL

This is an amazingly thorough look into podcasting and best practices. It really does cover everything!

Anchor is an free podcast creation site. I use it to make podcasts for my students. It is free and easy to use.

Public Domain books and podcasts

Maybe you don?t have time to sit down and sift through the latest education blogs for ideas and inspiration. If the thought of trying to carve out more h

Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner was a New York Times bestseller in the early 2000's. Here is the description of Stephen Dubner's Radio Show: "Freakonomics Radio is an award-winning weekly podcast (subscribe here!) with 8 million downloads per month. It can also be heard on public radio stations across the country, on SiriusXM, on several major airlines, and elsewhere. Host Stephen J. Dubner has surprising conversations that explore the riddles of everyday life and the weird wrinkles of human nature - from cheating and crime to parenting and sports. Dubner talks with Nobel laureates and provocateurs, social scientists and entrepreneurs - and his Freakonomics co-author Steve Levitt. Freakonomics Radio is produced by Dubner Productions and WNYC Studios."

An approach for podcast integration into online classes

Tips on creating a podcast easily. May be a helpful way to provide information outside of textbooks and online readings!

Check out this sound bite

Check out this sound bite

This is the latest episode of our new podcast series on the future of higher education. You can subscribe in iTunes, Overcast, or Stitcher. Perhaps you've stood in the front of a classroom, looked out on the room full of students distractedly checking email or Facebook, and thought: They're just not that into this.

Free University Courses I recommend SIMS 141 - Search Engines - Fall 2005 to learn more about discovering quality open content in the deep web.

Includes Voki

This is an interesting read for anyone who teaches Second Language Speakers. :)

TED video from 2007 about next 5000 days of web.

tools and constructivism

Love that the "practical descriptions of constructivist learning" listed in the article "[C]onstructivist learning should engage students in meaningful learning and ... the critical features are that the learning should be ... * Active and manipulative, engaging students in interactions and explorations with learning materials and provid[ing] opportunities for them to observe the results of their manipulations * Constructive and reflective, enabling students to integrate new ideas with prior knowledge to make meaning and enable learning through reflection * Intentional, providing opportunities for students to articulate their learning goals and monitor their progress in achieving them * Authentic, challenging and real-world (or simulated), facilitating better understanding and transfer of learning to new situations * Cooperative, collaborative, and conversational, providing students with opportunities to interact with each other to clarify and share ideas, to seek assistance, to negotiate problems, and discuss solutions."