NAU CALL

This platform allows teachers and students to link relevant information, including images and webpages, to virtual images to enhance memory and increase recall.

The peg system is a technique for memory improvement in which you associate words, phrases, really anything with already familiar items.

Soundcloud is a website where students and teachers can upload their audio files for others to listen to online. The best part is that people can leave comments at specific points in the recording that pop up as the recording is played. This way students are able to get precise feedback and encouragement at the exact moment something happens.

The list contains 570 word families which were selected according to principles. The list does not include words that are in the most frequent 2000 words of English. The AWL was primarily made so that it could be used by teachers as part of a programme preparing learners for tertiary level study or used by students working alone to learn the words most needed to study at tertiary institutions. The Academic Word List replaces the University Word List.

BITC is a system for collecting interlinear texts and is especially designed for group collaboration.

If anyone's interested, you can watch sessions from this year's IATEFL conference (which begins next week) live.

I'm not sure if anyone has posted this already (so forgive me if this is a repeat!), but basically Tumblr is like a blog hybrid that allows you post just about anything (as the site states: "Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos from your browser, phone, desktop, email or wherever you happen to be. You can customize everything, from colors to your theme's HTML."). The site is very creativity-oriented, and seems like a potentially very useful online resource for students to express themselves creatively, to write and publish for a real audience, to gain exposure to cultural dimensions of the target speech community, and to enhance their digital literacy.

This is a corpus of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). The texts come from spoken interactions between nonnative speakers of English in ELF contexts (i.e., when speakers from different L1 backgrounds must use English in order to communicate).

This is similar to Skype, but less expensive to use. You can video chat with up to 12 people at the same time for FREE. Nour

This is a great website for finding games for your ESL students! Enjoy, Nour

Hello Guys, I do not know if you remember Dr. Stoller mentioning this website in class. This is a great tool for a project-based learning. Enjoy! Nour

This website is built by a Spanish teacher at NAU. Her idea is to have many authentic video clips that show how native speakers speak.

A language learning website that has various languages, and different native language ESLs (e.g. Korean ESL or French ESL). Because it doesn't have Mandarin ESL, I tried Cantonese ESL. It worked very well. It integrated listening, speaking, and grammar in a beginner level class, and used dialogues to introduce the key content for a particular class. It is worth to try.

Language Cloud makes it easy for language schools to manage classes and engage teachers and students online, with language-learning tools built right in.

A quick overview of using three (iOS) mobile apps for recording podcasts on your phone: Cinch, ipadio, and Audioboo

Here's the Google Doc on podcasts we worked on in class; feel free to add to it as you see fit.

Podbean.com offers a place to produce and store podcasts. The basic (free) package offers 5GB of bandwidth and 50mb of starting storage space. This could be an option for creating your own listening lessons that learners could download for listening on their own.

A site for publishing podcasts

A very simple Screencasting tool. You can upload your screencasts to Youtube w/ Screencast-O-Matic Online screen recorder for one-click recording for free.

Jing is a free screencasting tool. Simple and free, Jing is the perfect way to enhance your fast-paced online conversations. Create images and videos of what you see on your computer screen, then share them instantly! Capture What You See Capture an image of what you see on your computer screen with Jing.

Live TESOL webinars are presented every Friday at 4 PM EST or New York time with Shelly Terrell. TESOL Webinars are open to the public, so feel free to invite a friend.