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Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers
Here you can find a collection of recommended Web 2.0 sites for EFL ESL teachers.
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I've been aware of 280Slides for some time now, but haven't really tried to use it much as I'm a very keen user of Keynote on my MAC, but this week I was lookin
Created this video showing how to use Podomatic
Flickriver is a nice tool to get a stream of images on any topic
Really like http://www.xtranormal.com for creating text to speech animated movies. Here's how to make one.
Photoface is an interesting tool for creating speaking images
Really like http://taggalaxy.de/ Nice way to search Flickr
Create Imgae books using Bookr http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/2008/11/create-image-books.html
Collaborative writing tool to write, share, revise with your students
Text editor for free writing
Visual dictionary of Google images that presents a visualization of nouns in the English language. You can also label the images.
Speech Accent Archive is linguistics project. You will see sets of speech samples from all around the world.
send video greeting cards using Bubblejoy
Build interactive, collaborative mind maps with text, video, weblinks, synchronous and asynchronous editing. Great for advanced project work, EAP writing.
Web 2.0 for Educators at Shambles
Pandemics (inc Swine Flu) .. advice and guidance for educators and schools
Pandemics (inc Swine Flu) .. advice and guidance for educators and schools
I really like Penzu for keeping an online journal: http://www.penzu.com/features
Nice free video communication tool www.tokbox.com
Anki is a spaced repetition system (SRS). Words, phrases, video and audio can be inserted and studied. Thanks, Damien!
Have you heard about Issue? It lets you upload office or pdf documents etc and turns them into an ezine with pages that turn
Get video word definitions from www.wordia.com . Or upload your own. Find out how 'real' people use English
You can visually illustrate a sentence with Phrasr. You type a sentence and the look for a Flickr image to go with each word.
http://www.pimpampum.net/phrasr/
You can easily share files using Box.net. Very easy to use for students as well. See the example: http://tinyurl.com/d3t78v
Smilebox.A tool that lets you share photos with others or save for yourself. Nice templates, especially good for class blogs!
Podcast site by Kyle Mawer & Graham Stanley on using Digital Games in Teaching & Language Learning http://www.dgtall.net/joomla/
Overstream is a free tool that allows you to add subtitles to online videos. Gives you the url and the embed code.
Kindersite Project: Games, songs & stories plus Educational games http://www.kindersite.org
Creating Comic
Strips Online to Encourage Writing, Reading and Storytelling
http://www.jamendo.com , a good way to add some cc music to your blog, also to work with lyrics in the classroom...
Poster yourself with Glogster
SimplyBox: Capture, Organize, and Share anything you find on the web.
Comiclife is a really intuitive comic creator - free trial and a modest purchase price - lots of fun! Great for reluctant writers
Create lipsync talking heads with your own voice or TTS
http://www.alteregos.com/
WebTools4U2Use - wiki about web2.0 for school library media specialists (and others). Links, tutorials, ideas and a place 2 share.
Consider recommending http://englishcafe.com to adult ESOL learners. A fun site for facilitators to explore and contribute to, too.
I find portaportals (http://portaportal.com) useful -- guest link below to one of mine -- click on the "triangles" to expand/collapse columns...
PhotoPeach is great fun! Have students create themed stories and leave comments for each other... Thanks to EVO: Images4education to learn about this tool!
Tokbox is a fun way to get students talking via video-mail. Can also create greeting cards, and talk live.
http://www.tokbox.com
I love Quizlet - more than just flashcards and very easy to use.
http://www.wordsift.com/ great tool for analysing text and getting information about the vocabulary in it.
Love glogster.com for interactive student projects.
Just got to know this nice mashup, wordsift, which is a visual "wordle".
I really like DDtrac for collecting an using sped data. Takes some time to set-up but once you do it is fantastic.
ediscio.com - a collaborative flashcard tool with learning statistics.
Where can you post your podcast radio station: www.gcast.com
One True Media is great to do presentations with photos and sound. You can download your pics directly from Flickr
Subtitles movies with BombayTV, you can also add your voice now!
Here comes the singing telegram machine !One of my favourites!
Shidonni is a virtual world for kids. They can create their imaginary worlds, animals, play games and interact with each other!
Build video slideshows with your photos that can be embeded into your blog or downloaded as a MP4 video. Way cool effects.
using Today's Meet w/ Ss to invite backchannel to come to foregd in fully netw'd class w/ proj. Great for promoting writing questions in & out of class.
cautiously experimenting w/ using Tweetscan as a "real time" concordance to support vocab development.
Yapapaca! is like Blackboard, but it's free. Teachers can create assignments and tests, which are scored and analyzed. Share other teachers tests as well.
Very easy to use tool for collaborative problem brainstorming and solving
Great way to capture part of a webpage and embed it onto any other site, while keeping links in the image active. Add the bookmarklet to your browser bar!
Eyeplorer.com great toll for developing digital literacy
try Tizmos: it's a place to put thumbnails of sites; useful to construct if you want students to go to certain places only. Cuts down on random searches
Write long media rich postings and submit them directly into your twitter feed: http://write4.net/en
Great tool to get YLs creating animated animals they can feed and dress: http://www2.shidonni.com/
MyEnglishClub is the new social media extension of EnglishClub.com. This is a great place to find inspiration for your classes from the real world.
Huddle for online collaboration with users outside of your institution's network.
Tool for adding subtitles to YouTube videos
PikiFriends, the best online 'penpal' tool for jr/sr high schools, and it's free.
voicethread.com is a great site where pictures are uploaded and children can record their voices rather than typing.
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www.mathletics.com is great. IMy kids arrive at school wanting to go on before school.
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what impresses me the most is that WordAhead is promoting the idea of students making their own videos and uploading them to their Video section.
Diigo for social bookmarking lets you organize by tags or lists, which play URLs like a slideshow. Has groups for discussion of URLs and RSS.
http://diigo.com
Tapiokha U http://www.tapiohka.com/
is like a mini-Moodle. Even elementary kids can figure out quickly how to use it, and it's free.
This is great!!!
I LOVE THIS TOOL! I'll use it this year with my students, for sure
Word up to 557 class!!!
I wish I could have this in my future class
Lets get out of class earlier than 6:45
My favorite is EverNote...I keep my whole life organized with it.
I need help with teaching French - any ideas?
This is really neat!!!
www.toondoo.com is a great site for creating comics. Kids love it.
www.prezi.com superb for making online presentations.
www.kidblog.org great for blogging in educational environments
www.weebly.com great for creating websites/blogs in educational environments
Thanks so much for your work on help the rest of us get on the 2.0 bandwagon! :)
This one is primarily a tool for producing Photo Books. However, a small amount of text can be used and its professional look and ease of use may be of interest to some. Why not produce an illustrated book of student poems!
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aiya! so many posts!