NEIU TESL

This website provides MANY tutorials for teachers to learn about technology. A great resource to add to our Diigo group.

I'll be interested to see the book Larry Ferlazzo has co-written - The ESL/ELL Teacher's Survival Guide. This is link to an excerpt

The whole book is available through this link..it has a lot relating to CALL, machine translation, etc. I just glanced through the table of contents, so I don't have any stronger comments about the usefulness of this link.

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.

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

This site looks like a real find! You can see a range of topics, and from here, you have various options. I clicked on the text example, which has a recording of the reading. There is some kind of animation that flashes on each word as it is being read. Definitely worth further investigation.

A very inclusive website seemingly geared toward students middle school and above or adults become better readers. The site could benefit native and non-native language learners. In the "reading" portion, One can choose from colorful icons, graphics and words to start - enticing users to click and find out more. Tutorials provide information and practice on every aspect of life.

Here's some very useful information - website that will convert text to speech. Some of these are free sites. I have used Zamzar many times to convert text formats, and it works great. I've never tried the speech option. Anyway, these might be worth checking out

Here's an interesting list of topics for writing or discussion based on student opinions...so high interest. The word cloud is nice too...you can create that at the tagxedo.com website.

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.

This site certainly has potential..it links to a journal, but it also has other kinds of links..professional development, standards & assessment, etc.

This was written by Larry Ferlazzo and has some interesting points.

An interesting website about technology and education...this one seems to focus quite a bit on mobile devises. I discovered it through Nik Peachy's Scoop.It site. In particular, I was looking at a rubric for evaluating educational apps. There are SO many of them, but how good are they?

This is certainly some fascinating news! I'd like to see the research study that is the source of this article. It seems to be an MA Thesis...nothing wrong with that, but it sounds like some pretty strong claims are being made. Worth looking into...

You can subscribe to this newletter. I receive it by e-mail and find some really good things here. It isn't exactly a technology site, but it is a good resource.

You may have already heard about this response by Rep John Conyers from Michigan...There was a hearing today (8/2) on English-Only legislation. To demonstrate his strong opposition to the proposed law, Conyers presented his response in Spanish. There's also a video of him speaking.

Lots of you probably already know about the Colorin Colorado website.  I received the newsletter today and it included an updated version of their resources for pre-K ELLs.  A great resource for those of you who work with that age group. 

An interesting interview on Chicago Public Radio

this is really wild! Gloves for hearing impaired people that "speak" the signs! Not TESL related, but so interesting, I thought I'd pass it on. There are a couple of demo You Tube videos included.

I discovered this site that has tons of visuals to use for teaching ELLs (or foreign language)...some are multi-frame images which would be great for activities and assessment. Take look if you have a chance.

I found this link by becoming a member of one of the other open groups on Diigo - TechnoLanguages. You are probably familiar with the very prolific David Crystal. He about to release a new book on the history of English spelling (and where we are going with the advent of technology). This is a excerpt from the book