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These are websites designed for younger learners (ages 5-17), though they may not be specificially for ESL/EFL students.
Updated on Mar 25, 16
Created on Apr 08, 09
Category: Computers & Internet
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TESOL CALL-IS's List: Young_Learners
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Nov 22, 13
"If your students are using images, video, or music in the final products that they are producing for your class, then it is INCREDIBLY important that you introduce them to the Creative Commons -- an organization that is helping to redefine copyright laws."
Links to teach kids about copyright and fair use. -
Nov 20, 13
Hopscotch is an iPad app that young learners can use to create their own games using templates. I think Hopscotch is ready to be tried out. Looks like fun. As gaming comes into the picture, there are lots of good tools out there for kids to try to make their own games. Project-based learning. By the makers of Daisy the Dinosaur.
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Nov 20, 13
" Finally, a presentation tool that incorporates an intuitive user interface, super cool comic graphics, is 200% less frustrating than Prezi, and offers a zillion more options than the free version of GoAnimate. I know we just met, PowToon, but I think I am in love." This from a teacher, A. Gibson, who has used the tool.
I hesitate to recommend one more presentation tool, but this looks interesting.
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Nov 20, 13
This is an online collaboration tool that let's you hangout with up to 10 people, work on a document or drawing together using Google docs. It's Hangout amplified.
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Aug 18, 13
This is a great creative app for iPhone or Android to create up 1-hr-long videos for YouTube. Your students can make shorter videos on their mobiles, then upload and splice them together.
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Aug 17, 13
This is BBC's short science videos page. You can find all kinds of topics on physicas, the brain, biology, genetics, etc. Very helpful stuff for use in classes or flipped classrooms. Thanks to R.Byrne's blog.
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Aug 13, 13
One teacher explains how to teach thinking skills with secondary students (14-18 yrs old). A nice build up, e.g., from concepts to topic sentences, observation to finding patterns and drawing conclusions. Starts with magazine advertising as a short path to larger works. Points to intersection with Common Core targets. Points out how having students talk about the subject helps them build higher level critical thinking -- and practice talking skills.
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Aug 13, 13
These how-to videos were made by 5th graders (11-12 yrs old). Shows what kids can do when inspired to creativity.
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Aug 07, 13
15 units (overview, 5 lesson plans, and additional links and resources for each) prepared by Australian Science Teachers Association for gifted and talented secondary students. But available to all. Rich resource for science and ecology for all adult learners.
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Aug 02, 13
Great links for using Google Earth for science classes, as well as for English/Language Arts (see "Lit Trips"), math, culture and history, etc. Pre-made lessons. Also links to "How to create Placemarks and Tours," "To Geography and Beyond," etc.
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Aug 02, 13
"A movie trailer is a perfect summarizing activity. It can also act as a "teaser" as an introduction to a presentation or student paper. A movie trailer can readily showcase the acquisition of knowledge of a lesson or unit."
A good description of how to use iMovie on the iPad/tablet. -
Jul 08, 13
R. Stannard shows how to use Bubblr to make picture strips or preentations with your students for writing activities that can be embedded in a blog or website and shared by email. Bubblr has a vast archive of professional-looking images to use from Flickr. Stannard suggests using Bubblr with alternate versions, where students can, for example, correct a slideshow the teacher has created, then check it against the original. Students can easily create and share their work.
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Feb 27, 13
Step-by-step guide to getting students engaged with a longer work. Readily adapted to ESL/EFL students. Reading novels or longer short stories gives students to read extensively, while re-reading can be guided so that the text is engaged on many levels.
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Feb 01, 13
A helpful guide to using Wikipedia and other resources for beginning researcher-students. Also mentions EducationWorld and the use of search engines.
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Nov 29, 12
A great example of a clearly defined lesson in guided reading and thinking in an historical context (Ghandi v. Ho Chi Minh as protest leaders). Ms. Duvoor models how to think like a historian as you read original documents.
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Nov 06, 12
This is such a fun site -- you can make Arcade-like games -- or your students can do it for each other. Has dozens of interesting activities as well, such as a QR game generator, jigsaw puzzle, animated book, timeline, fishbone chart, etc. Mouse over the list of Templates to find a visual preview of each activity. One of the most useful sites I've found.
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Jan 26, 06
Links to family/kid sites.
"Family Fun Sites offer parents an opportunity to explore the Internet with their children in a safe environment. Many of the sites have an educational focus, giving parents an opportunity to become involved in their child's learning as they guide their online activities."-
Family Fun Sites offer parents an opportunity to explore the Internet with their children in a safe environment. Many of the sites have an educational focus, giving parents an opportunity to become involved in their child's learning as they guide their online activities. Included: More than a dozen excellent sites for parents and kids to enjoy together.
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Nov 02, 12
You can put a question up on the website and then students reply with their webcam. It's a nice tool for oral language practice, digital storytelling, debates, etc. R. Stannard shows how to use the tool and suggestions for lesson plans. He notes that you will need a fairly fast internet connection. The site allows you to keep statistics on who answered.
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Jun 17, 05
tools and job, health, government links
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This site is a place for you, your friends, and other teens. It's a welcoming community for all youth and a place where all youth belong. We want you to be here. This is your place, your space. Here you can start thinking about what you want to do with the rest of your life. This Web site was built to help you plan for the future. What will you do after high school? Will you work? Go to college? Live in a place of your own? By using this Web site, you can plan for your future right now!
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Oct 04, 12
"We learn most effectively when motivated. This is a list of games your kids will have fun playing ... while also learning important skills and lessons as a by-product!"
Spotted this, via Sam Gliksman's blog. Several are social games also.
I'm eager to try The Oregon Trail. Now, if only they made a Hypercard app.
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