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I checked out all 5 of the tools presented in this article, and I think all have potential...and they are all a little bit different. For some, you create a prompt; for others, you choose between many prompts; one of them has a prompt of the day (by maybe an archive too). Probably you'd pick out one or two that appeal to you most depending on the age/proficiency of your students. Certainly these sites are not necessarily for ELLs, but I can't see why you couldn't use the sites for this population.

BIG list of "Interesting Ways to..." to do various ed tech things...with Google Tools, Devices, Audio/Visual, Subject support, Gaming, and Online Tools. Each of these categories has many more links with ideas from teachers. I'm sure there are some great things here, but be selective. There isn't anything TESL specific here, but these are the most popular ed tech things going on right now and many are very suitable for ELLs.

This is a very clever writing tool - templates for particular genres...each template has 6 parts - the 6 sides of a cube. There is also a planning sheet available. Students can take the planning and turn it into an actual essay. Useful for gr 3-8, but also lower levels of older ELLs.

You may already have heard about this huge project from Google - the Ngram Viewer - an online tool for analyzing the history of language and culture, but there are some improvements.  The corpus is mind-boggling lare - 20 million books, and not just in English.  Plus the words have been tagged with their parts of speech.  There are some other functions that let you narrow in on particular groups of words...it seems to have some concordancer functions.  Well, you can read this article to learn more.

This looks like an excellent resource with MANY web tools...I see that it is an aware winner, so worth keeping track of this one.

Well, this is certainly an interesting article! Robot English Teachers in Korea.

Not a TESL site, but this seems like a great resource, so I'll postit here. As far as I can tell, this site if free for educators. Following is the description provided by the site: "Using Bookshare® is simple. You can search for a specific title or browse through the library and its special collections, including newspapers and magazines. With a Bookshare membership, you can download accessible titles onto your computer or read them with a variety of reading tools that give you a range of options. To enhance your web experience, you can take advantage of the site's accessibility features."

This collection, though older, provides a collection of sites to/for thinking, search engines, references for research, games, core subjects: math, science, reading, writing, arts, history, and educational activities for those who cannot travel the world.

Great list of free tech sites for ESL teachers.

You might know about this tool already "Just-the-Word" which, as it says above, is a collocation thesauras concordancer and it creates word clouds. If you haven't seen it, it is certainly worth checking out.

This site offers so much more for the technologically savvy. And for those who have time and want to 'play', may enjoy things like pasting your face onto existing 'cards' on Personalized Flashcards or creating a word collage in Using Word Clouds to Remember Words. Ten sites are provide with instructions to create activities that can augment your curriculum for all students, especially ESL.