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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! 

"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.

Patrick's website for maths

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

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.

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.

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.  

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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.

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.

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

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.

Great activity for the start of a course

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!