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50 ways to tell a story using web tools

In BETA but looks like a very compelling Web2.0 for collaborative storytelling.

Create stories online - students can also collaborate on a story. Nice graphics, very intuitive.

Some very good quality free flashcards you can download.

Check out all the new words beginning with 'cyber' here! 

Patrick's website for maths

Search across different media for copyright safe audio, images, video and text

This is our main resourceall links to the blogs, Moodle site etc will be kept here. -

Resource aimed at children in the American school system, but culd be adapted for EFL or ESL purposes. The interactive graphic organizer is a great tool to help students organize their ideas coherently.

Copy paste the URL of the YouTube video into the box and click the 'purify' button.  This gets rid of all the distractions on the normal YouTube page.  

As a teacher you can apply for an educator's account in DIIGO. You can set up classes and DIIGO automatically creates private groups for each class. And ads are limited to education-related sponsors.

"Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. You can: * Download the files to your Mp3 player and listen on the go, * Listen to the Mp3 files on your computer, * View the text on a webpage and read along as you listen, * Print out the stories and poems to make your own book." An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along or as supplemental reading material for your classroom.

If you're looking for free audiobooks, this is a good site. You can subscribe to it via iTunes if you want, or simply donwload the podcasts (and print version in PDF) manually.

Lots of neat activites on the British Council LearnEnglish series. This one is a storymaker for kids.

A quirky site - a range of story scenarios are presented, and you fill in some information. The site then creates a story based on your information. Can be a fun activity to generate a story which could then be used for other language practice.

From the cyberblurb: This book is about activity sequencing in Foreign Language Teaching. It is divided into two parts. Part I includes the operationalisation of the construct of activity sequencing, definition and analysis of the P-P-P (?Presentation-Practice-Production model of activity sequencing?), application of cognitive psychology to teaching sequencing and a critical review of the CPM (?Communicative Processes-based model of activity sequencing?) and other contemporary sequencing models from pedagogic and cognitive perspectives. Part II describes the quasi-experimental study implemented to determine the influence on learning of the CPM in contrast to the P-P-P. Key findings confirm the importance of activity sequencing in TEFL and draw our attention to the fact that, in order to be effective, activity sequencing should go hand in hand with the sequence(s) of cognitive processes. This book will be valuable to researchers in foreign language teaching methodology and graduate students in applied linguistics, particularly for those who believe in the need of developing empirical studies in real-life classrooms and of applying Cognitive Psychology to foreign language teaching research.

Another timeline that has obvious application in stortelling.

An interesting medium, allowing you to combine various graphical elements and text, and then create a 'path' that leads the viewer from one element to another. Possible applications in storytelling.

A multimedia timeline that can be used in collaborative mode to tell a narrative.

Web site provides a link to download a free (for non-commerical use) program that lets young learners compose a 'non-linear' story. Also, if more than one USB mouse is connected to the same computer, children can work on the same 'non-linear' story together. I imagine that to be a noisy albeit enjoyable experience. Let me know if it works for you!

The 2010 conference wiki