Pilgrims

Time Cave - another way of going 'back to the future'. Has links to applications like the iPhone and is free. Does require registration.

This blog post describes several alternatives to FUTUREME.ORG for pre-dating email messages -- one is useful for OUTLOOK users and the other is a web-based alternative called "Time Cave" which, unlike FUTUREME, requires a registration.

cute modern dictionary with loasd of cyber terminology

Great activity for the start of a course

"You can download and use these free music loops in any any commercial multimedia project but you cannot: * re-sell individually or as a collection or as a ringtone * post on a website for download as we are doing here * mix into your own music and then redistribute it as your own."

A good place to start if you need some music loops or other background music or sound effects--they are free to download and us as long as you observe their terms.

"ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want. Remixers If you're into sampling, remixing and mash-ups grab the sample packs and a cappellas for download and you can upload your version back into ccMixter, for others to enjoy and re-sample. All legal."

Show only part of a YouTube video in class by entering the start and finish times of the segment you want to show,  

You can remove distracting and offensive elements of a YouTube video using SafeShare.com 

Create your own online surveys with Survey Monkey.

Check out some teacher blogs and see what's humming in the teacher blogosphere.

Share your videos with other educators on this site.

All these videos have been checked by parents and teachers and are grouped by age category. Useful for primary and secondary teachers.

A 'TWITTER' newspaper -- neat idea. A daily edition based on the TWITTER account and the followers of that account. If you haven't used TWITTER yet, it could be time to start...

If you're thinking of running a class blog this year, have a look at 21Classes. Very useful for younger learners.

Good instructions on how to use VOICETHREAD, by a professor of Spanish.

"The Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE) is a collection of nearly 1.8 million words of transcribed speech (almost 200 hours of recordings) from the University of Michigan (U-M) in Ann Arbor, created by researchers and students at the U-M English Language Institute (ELI). MICASE contains data from a wide range of speech events (including lectures, classroom discussions, lab sections, seminars, and advising sessions) and locations across the university."

In case any of you are interested in corpus-informed research/applications -- this corpus also allows you to listen to the original recordings which were transcribed. Could be useful listening material for teaching.

"BlogTalkRadio is a provider of thousands of internet talk radio shows. Our streaming and archived shows are produced by anyone that wants to be an internet radio host."

Could be an interesting tool to create a 'class radio show'.

A directory with a good list of podsafe and semi-safe sites.

Nice collection of sound effects -- a great resource for a radio play or to add a bit of variety to your podcasts.