TESOL CALL-IS's Public Library

"This is a tutorial on how to create a presentation with voice-over on MS PowerPoint, and then converting it into a Flash file using AuthorPoint Lite add-on. Next, you can upload the presentation to WiZiQ. You can share and embed it on any website. You can also use it for your WizIQ virtual classes. "

This is a nice little tutorial for a free app -- thanks for the tip from Hanaa Khamis, Webhead.

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Jane Hart's blog on various aspects of technology and social networking.

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"Stunning Flash Websites for free. 1,823,517 sites built with Wix."

Might be an interesting way for high schools to get into Web design. Easy to follow help with a drag and drop editor, no technical skills required. You can add Flash-y photos and moving buttons, art and music, etc.

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"Online programs for recording, uploading, mixing, and interacting. Free!"

Teachers can record audio with their computer, create mashups including uploaded photos, embed conversations on Webpages (wiki, blog, or homepage), podcast on your own channel, and make or use interactive worksheets, practice process writing and handwriting, upload video and add subtitles, etc. Lots of great apps.

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"Vaestro is audio forum software that you can use on your web site for free. Talk to your friends, host interactive podcasts, or use it like an audio blog. Use it anytime you need to communicate with groups of people small or large. With Vaestro, everyone has a chance to speak and be heard."

The teacher can create channels with the different master tracks (recording them yourself directly on the channel or uploading an MP3 file) for students to listen to and then record their versions, which they can edit as many times as they want.

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Download a small app and record videos of your screen for training others. (See Jing.)

I haven't tried this one, but it seems to have a helpful series of Help videos.

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"Turn your photos & videos into pure amazing.

Animoto automatically produces beautifully orchestrated, completely unique video pieces from your photos, video clips and music. Fast, free and shockingly easy.

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"IMAGINE a world in which teachers and students all across the planet are able to work collaboratively on projects that make a difference in the world. Among the tens of thousands of schools worldwide that participate in iEARN, there is no shortage of success stories to demonstrate the power of iEARN's vision, not only to make a difference in the world, but to deepen the learning that takes place in these connected classrooms. "

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"From Shore to Shore, or "De Orilla a Orilla" (in Spanish), is an international teacher-researcher project that has focused on documenting promising classroom practices for intercultural learning over global learning networks. Since 1985, Orillas has employed modern telecommunications to promote and extend an educational networking model first developed by the French educators Cèlestin and Elise Freinet in 1924.

Use the menu bar on the left to find out more about De Orilla a Orilla history and projects, get to know some of the teachers and students involved in the network, and join a project if you are interested."

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Study online with friends, or teacher sets up study or project groups. Looks like a neat application in the social networking area.

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This teacher blog has lots of interesting articles, but this particular one relates to the virtual world of Dogme. The author conveys some methodological guidelines for using the world, and some of the pedagogical background inspiring the use of VR in learning and teaching.

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A podcast series of original music and lyrics played and sung by Tim Murphey for English language learners.

Soft, gentle music with lots of repetitions and useful phrases and expressions, e.g. "raining cats and dogs."

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This blog has links to recordings of the presentations from the AVEALMEC conference of November 2009. Some really good ones on social networking, etc.

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"Building bridges for the future through collaborative projects"

This site is a huge collection of inter-related blogs, videos of collaborative student projects, likes to wikis, Twitter and Skype pals, etc., etc.--open the box and start devouring the candy! Based on Tom Friedman's concept, "the world is flat," this is the place to find help with teaching, display your students' work, discuss issues and projects, et al.

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This is a great collection of videos made by students about real world problems. Includes curriculum kits to help other schools start similar projects.

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MERLOT is creating a center on YouTube with educational videos for teacher professional development. The selections so far include ePortfolios, Case Stories of technology installations, information about MERLOT, and a demonstration of MERLOT's campus in Second Life.

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"This wikibook article discusses Second Life, a virtual environment. The first part of this article, Introduction, gives a brief introduction to virtual environments and to the features of Second Life. The second part of this article, Characteristics of Second Life, discusses the theoretical features of virtual environments. The third part, Uses of Second Life & Projects in Second Life, focuses on uses of Second Life for social activism, education, and language teaching and learning. The final part of this article, Criticisms, Problems, and Limitations, includes a discussion of the most serious social problems occurring in Second Life and the constraints that individuals face when using Second Life."

This is a very straightforward analysis of Second Life and even considers ethical issues in virtual worlds.

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Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) has started its own YouTube site to collect resources for teachers. Recent films include Second Life and ePortfolios. This spot should develop into a very useful place on the Web.

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Slideshow showing uses of SL for a Spanish Course. Students take a bus, check into a hotel, etc.

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This blog has embedded videos showing sessions in Second Life in Dafne Gonzalez's ELT classes.

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