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Review of four free screencasting tools.
English program website from Mahidol university in Thailand. Includes some materials on digital literacy areas like Zotero
Nice overview of Moodle features and what they are and aren't good for.
To the list of reasons for academic blogging in this article, Stephen Downes adds: "- Blogging provides a narrative whereby experts document practice for the benefit of learners."
A great resource for language teachers interested in learning more about information and communications technology and their application in language teaching and learning
How writing and the teaching of writing appear to be undergoing a major change.
"That change is spelled out clearly by the National Council of Teachers of English, which last year published “new literacies” for readers and writers in the 21st century. Among those literacies are the ability to “build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally,” to “design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes,” and to “create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts.” Very little of that kind of work is possible to achieve without expanding the way we think about writing instruction in the context of online social tools."
Site that provides music videos with subtitled lyrics. The lyrics have words missing and students try to fill them in as they listen to the songs. Available for several languages. it might be fun to have students create their own and share.
For those who are worried about losing documents, here is some help in backing them up.
List of on-line resources for language learners
Good simple explanation of web-based services
"Students are no longer required to regurgitate facts and figures. Instead the emphasis is on their ability to sift through and analyse information."
Doesn't sound too bad to me.
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