NAU CALL

Lots of free explanations and exercises to help you perfect your English grammar.

Students can go to this website for extra practice with reading. First, they should click "register" then they will create an account and should click "continue reading" which will send them to a quiz to place them. The quiz is very advanced and students may need to use a dictionary to take the quiz. After the quiz is done, students are placed and can begin reading!

A complete website for learning and learning about English words. You can test your vocabulary level, then work on the words at the level where you are weak. Use wordlists, online concordancer and dictionary, texts, and a database to store your work and view the work of others.

Teaching spelling and vocabulary is easy with VocabularySpellingCity! Students can study and learn their word lists using vocabulary and spelling learning activities and games. Students can take final or practice spelling and vocabulary tests right on this engaging site. Premium games and automated student record keeping are available to Premium Members.

I stumbled upon this resource while researching the tools and techniques used by a school that I'm applying to teach for.The Reading Assistant is based on speech recognition technology that helps students practice reading aloud (pronunciation) and answer comprehension questions (reading and critical thinking skills). From what I can tell, this paid software is available online, for maximum student convenience. After students complete assignments, teachers receive reports on students' performances. The program claims to have 300 graded readers that align with  US Common Core standards from elementary to high school. To me, the capability of this program to "listen" to students' pronunciation and provide help and individualized feedback is its greatest advantage. The inclusion of a variety of resources for developing vocabulary and work knowledge are also important points for me. Overall, this looks like a useful resource for K-12 schools that want to supplement classroom reading instruction.

This blog post describes how to set up Google Voice for students to use in classroom assignments or homework. It's a very low tech demand on students; all they need is a phone. The teacher would have easy, computer access to a virtual voicemail archive of all the student messages. It's probably easier than using VoxoPop and seems like it would be pretty easy to make spoken homework assignments a reality, plus there are probably some neat in-class applications as well.

The British Council has an island for learners and teachers in the Second Life virtual environment! So you can virtually visit the UK for free :) Interactive activities and quests are available for all registered Second Life residents.

BBC's website was previously bookmarked but I especially like this 'Games' section they have. There are many games to improve vocabulary and grammar and they can be fun/helpful for all ages and levels.

This website is a good source for teachers and a guide for learners. It has basic/travel/interview speaking lessons along with pronunciation lessons.

It seems not easy to find a well-design English online community on Facebook. I feel this one is good. And I definitely need more recommendations.

I found this website is used by College of Education and many other institutes. It is like Bblearn, but different in the structure.

This is a free concordancing program that you can use for your own work or with students. Other paid concordancers include MonoConc (http://www.athel.com/mono.html) and Wordsmith (http://www.lexically.net/wordsmith/)

The tags to use w/ the BYU corpora can be found here: http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/claws7tags.html

This is an intersting website as it offfers Ss opportunities to learn new vocabulary using their L1

Lots of graphic organizer templates

This is a good resource Kerry! Here are few other ones: http://freeology.com/graphicorgs/ http://www.carla.umn.edu/cobaltt/modules/strategies/gorganizers/index.html http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/graphic_org/ The site below is created by a professor at WVA who co-wrote a number of published articles about using graphic organizers. There are a number of good resources related to using graphic organizers and training teachers to use them. http://community.wvu.edu/~xj002/Graphicorganizers.html

This article discusses the different ways that you might use QR codes in the classroom. There is also a tutorial video explaining how to create qr code stickers that students scan to recall what homework they are assigned.

This is another digital storytelling website where you can make your own movie. You get to pick the scene, the characters, and the music, and then once you have a scene, you can write dialogue for the characters. It's easy to be really silly or really funny with this, so it would be a fun activity for students to practice writing.

Is there a way to get the characters to speak aloud, or do they just mouth the words silently when their speech bubbles appear?

Not that I could find, so it's a better writing/reading activity than listening/speaking. It's kind of hilarious, though.

It looks like the site busyteacher has lots of resources and links for...busy teachers. There are articles, worksheets, and links to seasonal activities. I'm posting this particular list of photo activities because (a) I think a lot of our students take pictures anyway and we could include them in the photo-gathering aspect of these projects, and (b) I think a lot of these activities can be adapted and incorporated into digital stories or grockit videos (or other CALL activities). Photo activities can provide context for teaching grammar or situational uses of language.

If you were in listening/speaking last spring, you may remember this website I shared. It has lots of videos for learning American English pronunciation. I used it all the time while I was teaching pronunciation classes in Nebraska. At the time I didn't have any background in phonetics and was trying to teach myself. I found this site to be helpful for students as well as for novice teachers like myself. I used the videos to supplement our textbook (Clear Speech or Pronunciation Pairs). Students who had access to the internet could practice at home too. The videos show some close-ups of her mouth while making the sounds, so I brought small mirrors to class for students to use and watch their own mouths (not all students were comfortable doing this though). The site is well organized and you can easily find the sound/topic/skill you're looking for. You could also use the videos to create Grockit activities.