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After the Deadline is a free tool for checking your spelling and grammar while writing on the web. You can use After the Deadline as a stand alone tool at Polish My Writing where you can check your text for  errors before posting it to the web in a blog post or comment. But the real utility of After the Deadline is found in the Firefox and Chrome extensions they produce. Install the Firefox or Chrome extension to have After the Deadline check your writing and make correction suggestions before you publish to the web.  If you use WordPress to self-host your blog or your students' blogs, you may be interested in the After the Deadline WordPress plug-in. If you're an Open Office user, After the Deadline has an extension for you too.  Applications for Education If you have students writing on the web, After the Deadline could help them make their writings better before they hit "publish" on their next blog post or comment.

10 Best Online Rhyming Dictionaries . My first message  on wordpress ! Your comments needed ! 

Here are two links about ELT Audio Resources. The first summarises all the Podcasts available from the BBC and the second is a list of audio resource sites from Christina Rebuffet-Broadus (apologies if sb has posted this before). http://britishenglishcoach.com/25-bbc-podcasts-for-advanced-english-learners/ http://ilovetefl.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/elt-audio-resources-a-long-but-surely-incomplete-list/

"Echo is... the next generation commenting system. It's the way to share your content, and watch the live reaction. You can quickly embed Echo on WordPress, Blogger, or any website and turn your static pages into a real-time stream of diggs, tweets, comments and more."

Have you ever tried this idea?

Great collection of First Class Activities.

10 Twitter Apps for Nonprofits

Across the blogosphere this morning, tech blogs are abuzz with the news that Google has decided to dump the Microsoft Windows operating system (OS) for its internal computing. New employees are reportedly being given the choice of either a Mac or Linux-based OS. The official word from Google is that it is dumping Windows because of security concerns in the wake of the China hacking incident. A good article detailing this latest move by Google can be found by linking to ZDNet here.

jeremy Harmer's post on communicative activities

The six top free online tools were selected from available web 2.0 tools for teaching and learning using presentations, blogging, and bookmarking online resources. There are many excellent online tools available in these three categories, making the selection difficult at best. However, the selection was made based on reviewing available online resources along with other contributions and feedback from teachers.

50 Excellent Open Courses on Teaching With Technology