Video Mail in a Blink!
It's fun, it's easy and there's nothing to install
Flash-based so no download and for Mac and PC.
Free account allows for one-minute messages.
Message receivers don't have to sign up to watch the message it seems. That's good.
Teachers can send message to students and encourage them to continue and reply. This is especially nice for online learners and teachers. Students can send each other messages to practise speaking and listening. Speaking for a minute is probably not that scary :)
This is an experimental automatic collocations dictionary, based on the Sketch Engine technology. Methods are described in
Kilgarriff et al 2008: GDEX: Automatically finding good dictionary examples in a corpus. Proc EURALEX, Barcelona, Spain.
[Davies/BYU] 400+ million word corpus of American English, 1990-2009. Compare to the BNC and ANC. Large, balanced, up-to-date, and freely-available online.
Free: Express Scribe Transcription Playback Software
Digital Transcription Audio Player Software
Express Scribe is free professional audio player software for PC, Mac or Linux designed to assist the transcription of audio recordings.
Aim
The aim of the activity is to inform and educate practitioners in the FE and HE sectors in the UK some of the key issues about using copyrighted material in a digital online environment and the role of JISC Collections (and the JISC Model licence) in the provision of solutions to these issues.
Audience
The activity is targeted at teachers and lecturers in FE and HE. It will also be useful for curriculum managers, learning technologists, learning resources staff and any staff who deal with digital resources.
I'm an English language instructor. I have taught general, business and technical English in Germany, Brazil, the UK, and online. Currently, I work at the Bursa Technical University School of Languages.