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This newsreader creates a newspaper-like collection of news from your favorite sources. You select a layout (one or two columns) and insert links to the newspapers or blogs that you want to have fed in. Good step-by-step directions. Might be very useful for more advanced students as a daily reading activity, or with writing students to capture each other's blogs and a reader-friendly format.
Free! ESL Video uses video from around the Web (e.g. The Daily English Show), and attaches short quizes on the content, pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary. You can choose videos by level (beginning to high-intermediate), and track results of student quizzes. You can also make your own quizzes with video you select from the Web!
Video clips are sorted by level (primary or secondary) and subject, and include Chinese and some European languages, as well as science, maths, biology, etc. Clips can are all very short and can be sorted additionally by topics. Could be useful for content-based learning as well as language study.
VoiceThread allows the creation of digital media-based stories. The Library linked here gives a good idea of the range of projects possible.\n\nThe Digital Library is a database of articles about successful VoiceThread projects. Our hope is to create a resource that offers guidance and inspiration for people undertaking new projects. Please contribute a VoiceThread to help the Digital Library grow.
So far there are 20 videos concerning British language and culture. Looks like it would have high appeal to secondary students and more advanced learners.
This is about social bookmarking with Delicious, but all the commentary applies and many of the functions are the same as here in Diigo.
The criteria to get on this list is extremely similar to its companion list [see Best Places Where Students Can Write for an Authentic Audience]:\n\n* The work required to create the learning and/or teaching object would not be that great, and could be finished in a reasonable amount of time - a few days at a maximum and preferably much, much less.\n\n* The creating and posting process is simple - accessible both to my English Language Learner students and to me.\n\n* Posting the piece does not necessarily require any kind of ongoing commitment for communication - once it's up, it might be interesting to check-back after awhile to see if there have been any reactions (if the site is set-up for that kind of involvement), but it's really just a matter of sticking it up there in a place that gets a fair amount of "traffic" and knowing that it's likely others will read it.\n\n* There seems to be some kind of enforced standards for all the content that's posted on the site. In other words, when students explore it to see models of what others have written, it's unlikely they will encounter something that is inappropriate for classroom use.
Aiden Yeh's English Advertising Class creates video TV commercials for selective (and inventive) products - advanced EFL learners.
This is an annual report on trends on the Internet, mapped over a Tokyo subway map. So a very popular company, like Google, is located this year (2009) at Shinjuku and Twitter is at Shibuya, "the station with the biggest buzz." Go figure.
Can be downloaded for classroom use.
Might have interest as a brain teaser or mind puzzle, esp. for students with some knowledge of the Tokyo train system. Or students, say, in NYC might want to create a similar statistical analogy.
On-line practice modules for such common apps as Word, Dreamweaver. WebQuest, Excel, Powerpoint, Internet Explorer; with links to other technology tutorials on the Web and tech advice for the novice.
The OpenLearn website gives free access to Open University course materials. This is the LearningSpace, where you'll find hundreds of free study units, each with a discussion forum. Study independently at your own pace or join a group and use the free learning tools to work with others.\n\nLinks to tools and discussion forums in many content areas.\n
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Combines sites for adult learners (immigrant students, high school, extension learning, etc.) and adult ed sites where teachers can learn more about how to handle adult students.
Updated on 2009-09-20
Created on 2009-04-21
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