 Audio New Testaments
Offer free download of 400 language versions of Audio New Testaments, now translated into the Mother Tongue of over 82% of the world's population! Accessible News in Easy English
This is sort of a version of BBC News designed for younger people. The lay-out, writing, and choice of stories is very inviting.
Applied Linguistics: Major areas and associations What is Applied Linguistics? The name "applied linguistics" is known world-wide to denote analytic and empirical linguistic approaches for investigating topics related to second language acquisition and language use. Applied linguistics can denote the linguistic study of a wide range of language-in-use phenomena. The name applied linguistics is used to denote professional organizations such as the American Association of Applied Linguistics and the International Association of Applied Linguistics, a national research center and information clearinghouse called the Center for Applied Linguistics, and journals focusing on issues of second language acquisition and language use such as Applied Linguistics, Issues in Applied Linguistics, and International Review of Applied Linguistics. Apple Surpasses Microsoft as Most Valuable Technology Company
Apple, the maker of iPods, iPhones and iPads, overtook Microsoft, the computer software giant, on Wednesday to become the world's most valuable technology company, in one of the most stunning turnarounds in business history, as Apple had been given up for dead only a decade earlier. But the rapidly rising value attached to Apple by investors also heralds a cultural shift: Consumer tastes have overtaken the needs of business as the leading force shaping technology. XtraNormal.com
Animation Movies Online: Make them free easily here! Animoto for Education Digital Projects
Animoto is a dynamic video creator which takes still pictures and video clips and make professional quality videos. You can use it as a project based learning tool in much the same manner as Photo Story or Pixie. Animoto for Education - Animoto allows teachers to have full access to their features which would otherwise cost money. Registering for Animoto as a teacher also gives you a link to register student accounts. AnalogX.com
Great screen capture program. Audio-Supported ESL Short Stories: 365 Extensive Readings with full Dictionary and Listening Support! Listening and Reading Free Site for Intermediate ESL Learners and For Beginners
Easy Conversations, Super Easy Reading, Easy Reading; Sentence Structure Writing Practice with 2,000+ ESL/EFL Conversations on Different Topics. AT&T Knowledge Network Explorer
American History Through Music: Voices Across Time.org
Voices Across Time was created to help teachers harness the power of song as primary source to supplement any secondary American Social Studies, Language Arts, and Music curriculum. The project has three components (use the buttons at the top of this page to find out more about each): a Teacherfs Guide, the Summer Institute for Teachers, and Lesson Plans and other Teaching Resources. Also found at this site is an index of Timely Tunes; songs appropriate to enhance discussion of any major holiday or historical anniversary. Songs have a special power to express what words alone cannot: hopes, fears, dreams, love, hate, anger, pride, aspirations, and disappointments. Because songs span the breadth of human experience, they are uniquely able to communicate across time and space the beliefs and ideas held by their composers, performers and listeners. Yet textbooks are silent. Art Collection: Methodist Collection of Modern Art
A Way with Words: Public Radiofs Lively Language Show
Increase your linguistic understanding: What's a "snollygoster"? Where do you see "snard'? Find out on A Way with Words, public radio's zippy, peppy show about language and how we use it! A Way with Words is sponsored, in part, by Mozy. librivox.org
Audiobooks and stories in the Public Domain Cool American English
The best place on the internet to learn American English. All videos have subtitles and vocabulary to help you learn real American English. ASSOCIATIONS OF LANGUAGE TEACHERS AND RESEARCHERS ACTFL.org
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, the only national organization dedicated to the improvement and expansion of the teaching and learning of all languages at all levels of instruction throughout the U.S. ACTFL and its affiliated organizations represent the educators who are committed to building language proficiency from kindergarten students through adult learners. Asian-EFL-Journal.com
Asia News
Adjectives Study (Dr. JP Loucky)
CREATIVE VOCABULARY STORY for Learning Adjectives and Verbs All My Favorites: Educational Sites
AllMyFaves is a colorful page that presents the user with the editors' picks for the top sites for educators. Be prepared to explore for hours! Choose Your Own Adventure Stories
Here are two new additions to The Best Places To Read & Write "Choose Your Own Adventure: Stories: Man vs. The Wild is another game from the Discovery Network.
Connect With Haji Kamal is an intriguing game developed for the U.S. Army to help soldiers develop better skills at communicating across cultures. Africa in Perspective
It very vividly compares the size of Africa with the size of a number of other areas on the earth. Animal Sounds: What's That Noise?
What's That Noise? is a "talking book" from the British Council. It also provides opportunities for vocabulary development specifically about the names of animals. It's accessible to Beginning English Language Learners. Find more under Animals. Our Amazing Planet: Top To Bottom
Excellent Infographics are very accessible to English Language Learners. Asia Rooms.com: Accomodations and Sightseeing in Japan and other parts of Asia
English Raven: World Adventure Kids!: the beginnings
World Adventure Kids! Twine
Twine is a Windows freeware program for writing "choose your own adventure program" stories. Like using sticky notes, it automatically links each choice together and lets you know if there are problems. You can also add graphics and there are excellent video tutorials.
AUDIO RECORDING BY PHONE FOR SPEAKING PRACTICE
Best Sites For Students To Record Audio By Phone
There are a number of excellent sites that English Language Learners can use to practice their English, and you can find many of them at The Best Sites To Practice Speaking English. Some apps, like Google Voice, allow people to record audio by phone, but require some work by the teacher to post the audio on the web. This list of free applications allows students to use a phone to record audio directly to the web - without any intermediary. So teachers can just listen and leave comments, but do not have to post it. This serves as an "Audio Journal" for students. The Best Sites For Students To Record Audio By Phone so far are: Snapvine
Snapvine is basically an Audio Blog. www.Utterli.com/all looks like a "micro-blog" with audio. ipadio.com looks similar.
Rooh It!h is great for Notetaking Online or Webpage Annotation!
All you have to do is put groohit.com/h before any web URL address and you can start highlighting and leaving notes about it. No registration needed for it. See more such Annotation Tools at The Best Applications For Annotating Websites. Make Use of blog has written a good post describes it. Awesome Highlighter
Awesome Highlighter could be a perfect annotation tool for students Etype in a webpage, highlight key phrases, type out and position some virtual post-it notes, click on save, and then post the url address of your work on a class blog or website. Easily lets you annotate web pages - see Best Applications for Annotating Websites list. Best Applications for Annotating Websites
A-Z Directory of ~3,000 Online Learning Tools!
Choosing tools is a daunting task. No actually, its completely overwhelming! Did you know that there are over 3,000 collaboration tools online right now? And new ones are showing up almost every day! For example, check out this awesome tools list we found thats being managed by a UK research institute. Everything youll ever need to become an online collaboration tools guru is here, with many of the tools being free. But we are only interested in a tool if it fits certain human behavior patterns for getting together and collaborating. We are more interested in its ability to support interactionEthan to manage informationE(although thats important too). So, we have some principles that we abide by when choosing tools. This helps us (and you!) to narrow down the rapidly growing conglomerate of online tools. TESOL Academic.org: Aims to help link theory and practice
X=EXCELLENT ONLINE MEDIA PROGRAMS FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING
Audible Kids
Published by ILearnTechnology admin under Fun & Games, Interactive book, Language Arts, Primary Elementary, Secondary Elementary, Teacher Resources, Web2.0, Websites, iPod. The Tale of Despereaux Adventure
Make your own Digital Adventure Online Storybook! This interactive story book lets students create their own tale in the Kingdom of Dor. The students become a part of the story as they create a character version of themselves that takes part in the story adventure. Students can choose to have interactive games and puzzles included in their story. The story is a virtual pop-up book read to students who can read along with subtitles. Along the way, students have to help solve problems in the story by playing an interactive game.
My own version: The Tale of JP Luckys Adventure
AUDIO BOOK COLLECTIONS
Lit2Go
Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. You can: EDownload the files to your Mp3 player and listen on the go, EListen to the Mp3 files on your computer, EView the text on a webpage and read along as you listen, EPrint out the stories and poems to make your own book. 1. Browse by Author. You can pick your stories by the author's last name. 2. Browse by Title. You can pick your stories by title. 3. Search Database. You can search the collection by title, author, keywords or reading level. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along or as supplemental reading material. 4. Launch iTunes. If you have iTunes software installed on your computer, you can download many of the selections directly into your iTunes library. The free iTunes application for either Macintosh or Windows computers may be downloaded directly from Apple, Inc Free Classic Audio Books
with MP4/Mp4 downloadable sound. Repeat After us
Repeat After us is a great free, online library and language lab! RepeatAfterUs is an award-winning online library with the best collection of copyright-free English texts and scripted recordings. Our free audio clips provide an excellent resource for students and literature lovers of all ages. Close to 10,000 texts and 2,500 recordings, all are organized by Authors Name and graded as either Beginning, Intermediate or Advanced.E Story Online
200 Classic Audio Books on 1 DVD
(Human narrators not text to speech / MP3 Audio Format) Only $9.95 for over 250 hours of narrated Classics! Free Shipping! This collection of classic Audio Books comes on a DVD data disc. You can listen to the files directly from the disc on your PC or transfer them to your hard drive or portable mp3 player. No Digital Rights Management. You can copy these files, burn them to audio CD, load them on different mp3 players, etc. There are individual mp3 files for each book chapter. Simply Audio Books
(fee-based, but some free monthly downloads) Audible.com
(fee-based) Accessible Book Collection.org
Book Collection Descriptions (with TTS for visually impaired) Accessible Book Collection
Accessible Book Collection.orgs Assistive Technology Training Online Website Resources: talking word processors; text and screen readers; screen magnification; readers for e-books;and sources for reading material. Awesome Stories
Awesome Storieshas an incredibly impressive collection of materials Eon just about any topic imaginable Ethat are very accessible to English Language Learners. Over past few months theyve even added audio support to much of their text resources, hundreds of resources hosted by the site itself, slideshows, a much better internal search engine, and a bunch of other features. You do have to register on behalf of an entire school, or on an individual basis to use the site, but its free and easy to do so. Animator
Make up Animated Cartoon Movies for free here! America's Library: Discovery Stories of Amazing Americans
Ask Vox: Audio Search Engine
Ask Vox is a Talking Search Engine with a talking host. In addition to functioning as a typical search engine, you can also type in a question and the avatar will speakEthe answer and also show it in text form. It also allows you to send talking email messages. Its great whenever English Language Learners can type or see text along with hearing it pronounced, so it is particularly useful to English Language Learners. Athletes: Inspirational AthletesEStories
Archive.org
1,400 Vocabulary Links Arlyn Freed's ESL/EFL ESP
(English for Academic or Specific Purposes) TONS of great links!
ANNOTATION PROGRAMS FOR WEBSITES
TrackStar
Collect websites, enter them into TrackStar, add annotations for your students, and you have an interactive, online lesson called a Track. Create your own Track or use one of the hundreds of thousands already made by other educators. Search the database by subject, grade, or theme and standard for a quick and easy activity. Simply Box
Simply Box is a great tool for research on the web, basically a bookmarking program. The key difference, however, between Simply Box and everything else out there is that you can very, very easily just draw a line around anything you see on the web and save it in a virtual box.EHeres a link to a very good video explaining how to use it. Adult Ed Learning Programs Online
Annotating Programs for Online Notetaking and Sharing
TrackStar
Collect websites, enter them into TrackStar, add annotations for your students, and you have an interactive, online lesson called a Track. Create your own Track or use one of the hundreds of thousands already made by other educators. Search the database by subject, grade, or theme and standard for a quick and easy activity.
AppsWave.com
One of the best Collaboration programs available. Test it out here! Activities for ESL Students from Kelly BrothersEITESLJ Site in Japan
Bilingual Quizzes for over 40 Languages A-Z Teaching Techniques for ESL/EFL Teachers
(from The Internet TESL Journal) Audio Text-to-Speech FREE Plug-In
Academic texts using AWL word list
Use Online or buy the book. Focus on Academic Vocabulary, Pearson Education, by Norbert & Diane Schmitt (2005) Learn Out Loud
LearnOutLoud.com offers many speeches and books with FREE Audio and/or Video. Answers.com Online Encyclopedia
History, Cultural Literacy, Fine Arts, etc
ACQUISITION OF VOCABULARY: SLVA RESEARCH
Mother of all SLVA Bibliographies
by William J. Rapaport Vokabel
Lots of vocab quizzes on different topics in English, French, German and Spanish. Choose an existing quiz or create your own. SLVA / VARGA
Second Language Vocabulary Acquistition Research. See the Vocabulary Acquisition Research Group Archive (VARGA) at the Univerity of Wales Swansea. Camsoft Partners
An excellent collection of websites focusing on vocabulary acquisition. Vocabulary Acquisition Reading References
collected by Tom Cobb Vocabulary learning links and articles
(from Mark's ESL World) Vocabulary Acquisition Overview (Andy Johnsons)
Automaticity Check (From Cobbs LexTutor)
Use this online tool to test automaticity of word recognition, with or without priming. Reaction Time Instrument Builder (v.1.3) ADELEX
A European Course for Assessing and Developing Lexical Competence on the Internet Extensive Reading
NEW SITE FOR EXTENSIVE READING HEADQUARTERS! Extensive Searchable Research Reference List with Abstracts. Alpha Dictionary
AlphaDictionary.com offers access to 992 Online English Dictionaries at once! Plus 24 Other Language Dictionaries for possible translations. Asian EFL Journal Online
AuthorStream.com
Program for sharing PowerPoint and Video Podcasts with others online. Sample shows J.P. Louckys Recommended Roadmap to Successful Online SLVA Using CALL & Computerized Dictionaries to Maximize Vocabulary &Language Learning.E AnalogX.com
Great screen capture program. Autonomy and Self-Access.
Blin, F. (2005). CALL and the development of learner autonomy - an activity theoretical study. Unpublished doctoral thesis, Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, UK. Retrieved June 10th, 2007.
VOCABULARY RESEARCHERS' PERSONAL HOMEPAGES
Yavuz Akbulut's
Batia Laufer's
George Chinnery's TESOL and Vocabulary Links
and Reference Lists. Paul Meara's
Center for Applied Language Studies: Vocabulary Acquisition Research Group Paul Nation's Bibliography
Learning Vocabulary in Another Language
By ISP Nation (lst 25 pages). Waring's Second Language Vocabulary Resource Pages
Vocabulary website listing 32,000 articles for related research. EPS Books
ETS Vocabulary Learning Articles and Materials Akbulut
Akbulut, Y. (2007). Variables predicting foreign language reading comprehension and vocabulary acquisition in a linear hypermedia environment. The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology, 6 (1), 53-60. Akbulut, Y. (2007). Effects of multimedia annotations on incidental vocabulary learning and reading comprehension of advanced learners of English as a foreign language. Instructional Science. John Paul Loucky's
Vocabulary Research Articles and Book List (Order any of these from the Products Page)
AVAILABLE TEXTS
Order any for $20 including free shipping via our Order Form: - Famous Leaders Who Influenced Japan's Internationalization (J.P. Loucky, 1994).
- 335 A-4 page College Reader for upper intermediate and advanced English students.
- Biographies of important people who contributed to Japan's development.
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons between Japan and America (Perrin, 1998. English or Japanese).
- Listening to Love Songs with Cloze Exercises (J.P. Loucky, 2001).
- Listening to Lovely Childrens' Songs and Lullabies (J.P. Loucky, 2000).
- Listening for the Reasons for the Seasons (J.P. Loucky, 2002)
ALPHABETICALLY LISTED LANGUAGE STUDY AND TEACHING SITES
Alphabets and Writing Systems World-wide.
Alphabetically-Organized Study Links
listed by language (over 140!). Yamada Language Center, University of Oregon. 218 Language Links
alphabetically listed. Language Study Links for 75 Languages
all listed Alphabetically. 72 Online Dictionaries
listed by language alphabetically. Well-organized Language Study Links
and all major Search Engines as well. Academic English Study Skills
from Doshisha University, JAPAN. Kitaos' English Library and Study Skills Practice Notes. Association for Learning Technology, UK
ALT is a professional and scholarly association which seeks to bring together all those with an interest in the use of learning technology. With over 200 organisations and over 500 individuals in membership they exist to: promote good practice in the use of learning technology in education and industry; represent the members in areas of policy; facilitate collaboration between practitioners, researchers, and policy makers.
ACTIVITIES
A-Z Activities for Early Readers
These are Activities by the Letter Building Blocks to Reading. Extracted from "Building Blocks to Reading, Activities by the Letter, Book I. All material copyrighted 1995 Karen M. Potter.
ASIAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES
Asian Language Bible-related resource store
Bamboo is an online Christian Bookstore with this stated aim:
We specialise in Asian language Christian resources and offer products in Burmese, simplified and traditional Chinese, Japanese, Khmer/Cambodian, Korean, Laotian, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian and Tagalog, as well as stocking a big range of English language products. Check out our bibles, books, tracts, gifts, cards, CDs, DVDs, etc. Chinese and Asian Language Bible-related resource store
MULTI-LINGUAL TRANSLATION TOOLS
ArabicEnglishChinese Translations Online
Lingo24 offers a free online Arabic-English and English-Arabic dictionary. Lingo24's ContexTrans service is a free tool that combines both Machine Translation (MT) and Translation Memory (TM) technologies. It allows you to search for real-world translations of a word or phrase between two languages. These results are derived from high-quality human translations and allow you to see the context in which the words are used in a foreign language, helping you to choose the most appropriate translation. Lingo's system currently supports English to Arabic, Arabic to English, English to Chinese, and Chinese to English translations. More language combinations will be available in the future. Lingo24
A collection of free online Machine Translation (MT) tools. Translation Services for many languages
ENGLISH E-LEARNING ACTIVITIES
General information on websites for learning English
ESL activities & problems
Daves ESL cafe, various kinds of activities
Activities for fun-loving learners
More Activities for fun-loving learners
Even MORE Activities for fun-loving learners!
Activities for students
Top 10 Sites for Creating Digital Art "Digital art is an umbrella term for a range of artistic works and practices that utilize digital technology. Since the 1970s various names have been used to describe what is now called digital art including computer art and multimedia art but digital art is itself placed under the larger umbrella term new media art. (Wikipedia)". Technology can be integrated into art, and these are dkapuler's top 10 favorite sites for that. 1. Art Pad
A great painting site that records a picture while it's created to create a time lapse effect. 2. Slimber
An excellent site for drawing & painting w/ some beautiful examples. 3. Bomomo
A fun site where users can create unique pictures w/ different shaped templates (ie, Pixie). 4. Doink
A great site for creating animated art w/ a web 2.0 flare. 5. Odosketch
A wonderful site for creating beautiful sketches w/ colored pencils. 6. Sketchpad
Create excellent painting/drawing w/ this cool site. Lots of different styles, effects, gradients for users to choose. 7. Sumo Paint
One of the most popular digital art creators on the web, very similar to Photoshop. 8. Live Brush
A wonderful free application that lets users create some beautiful looking designs. A great gallery of examples to view too. 9. Crayola Digi-Color
An excellent site for kids that is very user friendly for creating digital art. 10. Voice Draw
A very unique site that lets users create art w/ their voice/sound. Gloria Loucky's Art Portfolio
Artsearch
Huge collection of art, art museums / galleries and artists. How Great Thou Art
Excellent Art courses and materials for children in any learning environment. MastersEArt Gallery
Enjoy viewing and discussing some great pictures by master artists. Illustration areas important in Graphic Arts
A lot.com new toolbar
delivers A LOT, including: Search: One-click access to Web Searches powered by Google. Videos Search: Search the world's largest and most advanced Video Search Engine. Video Vault: The best Internet Video Sites right at your fingertips. Live Weather: Get current Weather Conditions and Forecasts for your local area. Top Stories: Get the latest top News Stories directly from the toolbar. Camfrog: One-click access to free Webcam Chat Rooms. See and hear people live! Games: Quick access to the best Online Game Sites all in one place.
ASKING FOR ADVICE
Ask an Expert
Ehow
Find out things youve always wanted to know here! This activity may be called Its a Mystery to meEor Little Known Facts AboutE Teenadvice
Teentalk
Lucie
Teen Advice
Ask for advice about typical teenage problems. Advanced and sensitive issues, so best to check these out first teachers!
ATLASES ONLINE
Atlases
World's largest online marketplace for books. Huge travel selection! Free Map Searches
for various countries. Great for geography and travel! Free Maps
to discuss traveling in 262 countries! Map Nation
Online maps, free maps, driving directions, & map your trip in the U.S. US Local Maps
Maps & driving directions. Provides interactive maps and driving directions for U.S. cities. Instant Aerial Photos
Browse aerial and satellite photos with online image viewer. National Geographic
Maps & geography: online maps, games, information... Find almost any place with online National Geographic atlases, order maps, get information about countries & states, print maps, play geography games. Microimages
Online atlases. publish interactive atlases on your website. Online Atlases and Maps
Internet Oracle Online Atlases
US & World Atlases. 3-D World Atlas FREE Software Just Pay Shipping. SMARTpages, "Maps, Directions, City Pages, Yellow Pages." Questia Online Library. The Atlas of Canada - Other Online Atlases
Explore other online atlases in Canada and around the world.
AUTHORS
Short Stories
AuthorsEBibliography included. Classic Short Stories
Collection for pleasure reading.
AUTHORING TOOLS
Task Magic
TaskMagic is a suite of authoring tools for creating interactive lesson content. It is a really quick and easy way for teachers to create a whole range of presentation and practice activities in just a few minutes. Its currently used by a large number of secondary school Modern Languages departments in the UK as it can be used to teach and practise any roman-script language at any level. So there's no need to buy separate software packages for French, German, Spanish, Italian etc. for KS2, 3, 4, or 5 - TaskMagic can be used for all of these.
ART/CLIP ART FREE
Clip Art Collections
The Grosse Pointe Public Schools (MI) offers this site with links to clip art collections, a content-specific clip art list, and links to seasonal clip art. Free Clip Art from Microsoft
The Best Online Sources For Images
Educational Technology Clearinghouse
of 40,000 Images. Babbel
One of the few really effective vocabulary building websites that I've seen on the web. It's actually a social network and can help you to make friends for language exchange etc, but the core of the site is its interactive multimedia vocabulary building exercises. Wordia.com
A user-created Video-Wiki-Dictionary. Bubblr
A tool to create comic strips from Flickr.com photos. Images
Images can be a really powerful teaching tool, so tools like Bubbblr which enable us to combine images into sequences with text to use either offline or online can be really valuable. Second Life
Creating movies in Second Life.
PHOTO FUN WITH YOUR STUDENTS
Photo-Biography Creation Site
Creating a fictional biography seems to have been a theme the last couple of weeks, so heres another website that you can use to create a fictional biography using images. Great prompt for creative writing or speaking activities. Photo Fun with Your Students
Ideas for creating personalized flashcards for EFL ESL activities. That posting used a site called FaceinHole at , which had some nice images that you could upload you or your student's picture to. Tinyurl.com/642we9
For learning about Global issues in classrooms, there are lots of resources being developed. You can get students involved in playing text-based online simulations that help them to understand how nations are managed. Tinyurl.com video clips
There is a huge selection of video clips available which can be used as prompts to discussion, listening or writing activities. Tinyurl.com games
There are also more interactive serious games like this one which helps students to understand the challenges involved in overcoming poverty in a small Nepalese village. Tinyurl.com film scripts
If you want something less serious and your students are interested in films, then try out this activity which uses TV and film scripts to help students improve their reading speeds. Tinyurl.com audio
Here you can also find out how students can access the audio for thousands of movies to help them develop their listening skills. Tinyurl.com word games
If you are more interested in fun you can find a collection of really nicely designed word games here: Tinyurl.com singing telegrams
Or perhaps you prefer some real communication and get your students to send each other singing telegrams Tinyurl.com world languages assessment
Last but not least, there is a review of the World languages Assessment website and links to lots of useful information about testing and assessment. Tinyurl.com blogs
Over the last two weeks Ive also added an email subscription to each blog, so if you would like to receive copies of each posting as soon as it goes live on the site them please do subscribe. As ever, your feedback and comments on the blogs are very welcome so please feel free to have your say about any of these postings. Tinyurl.com fake movie
Viral Video site that enable us to use a simple photograph to generate a fake celebrity movie. This is great fun and can be exploited in a variety of ways. Learning technology teacher development blogs
Tips, resources and teaching materials for EFL and ESL teachers Nik Peachey Learning Technology Consultant, Writer, Trainer Quickshout.blogspot.com
Daily-English-activities.blogspot.com
Want a quick chat?
Chat over IM with group members.
ART MUSEUMS ONLINE
Art Museum Links (many!)
Kimbell Art Museum, Ft. Worth, Texas
Norm Rockwell Museum
Georgia Art
Japanese Art
ANIMATION TOOLS
Animation Tool
from http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/2008/10/text-to-speech-movies-for-efl-esl.html A wonderful tool that combines the power of animation with text to speech technology and enable us to create simple animated movies with our students. These are great for contextualizing language and helping our students to practice dialogues. They are also very simple to create. Animation Tools needing Supervision
OTHER
Alphalary vocabulary lists
Request one of 66 thematic topics. We have over 66 Alphalary word lists for use on a word wallEor to help make thematic dictionaries. Speech therapists and ESL- LEP EELL teachers love these lists! Association for Learning Technology, UK.
ALT is a professional and scholarly association which seeks to bring together all those with an interest in the use of learning technology. With over 200 organisations and over 500 individuals in membership they exist to promote good practice in the use of learning technology in education and industry; represent the members in areas of policy; facilitate collaboration between practitioners, researchers, and policy makers. Academic Word List by Groups
American English Teaching Materials
(from Nolls in China) Artificial Intelligence Projects
Axs pages
Ariel Sorensens English Courses at Kitakyushu University, Japan. Lingo24
Lingo24 free online Arabic-English and English-Arabic dictionary
Lingo24 Arabic language paraphrasing tool
Lingo24 English language paraphrasing tool
Lingo24 collection of free online machine translation tools
Articulate
The global leader in rapid E-Learning program development. E-ffective E-Learning at its best
Aframe Online Learning and Compliance Solutions. Online and blended learning development and delivery specialists for Corporate and vocational training programs; Compliance programs; Product knowledge training and assessments. Aframe is a leading Australian e-Learning company that provides innovative outsourced online learning, assessment and compliance management solutions. Aframe released its first e-Learning product in 1998 and has developed the e-Learning platform, Aframe OLAMS (Online Learning & Assessment Management System). ATutor
Arabic language paraphrasing tool.
Adam Kilgarriffs Homepage
on Lexicography and Computational Linguistics The Association for Computational Linguistics Hompage
Apple TV
Apple.com describes its new Apple TV. Whats that? Whats on Apple TV? Whatever you want! Apple TV puts your iTunes library Emovies, TV shows, music, and podcasts Eplus movie trailers from Apple.com on your TV. And your digital photos from iPhoto on a Mac or Adobe Photoshop Elements or Adobe Album on a Windows PC appear in high definition, so you can put on a stunning big-screen slideshow. Like all people since Adam and Eve, people keep biting. Alphabetized and Categorized Bibliography of Vocabulary Studies
Academic Word List
Averil Coxheads 570. Australia Network
This site has an excellent "Learn English" section. They have 4 different sections offering various video based learning activities including scripts, useful expressions and quizzes. The videos are all typically graded for learners of English. Gutenberg Project
There are 20,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog. Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free ebooks on the Internet. Our collection was produced by thousands of volunteers. Audio Books: Both Human- and Computer-Read
Audio Books: Human-Read
Audio Books: Computer-Read
Aim.com
Aim.com gives users free AIM WeeMee Mascot. AIM Share
Share a Web site or broadcast a message to folks on your Buddy List. AIM Pages
It's your life on a page. Create a profile today and make friends. Or just ignore everyone, whatever. AIM 6.1 Features: Grouped IMs, Buddy Icons & Offline IMs AIM BuddyBlog
New products and running commentaries abound. The AIM team loves to blog. Unlimited AIM Phoneline
Make calls from AIM or your phone to 35+ countries for one low price. Amazon's Book Surge
For low-cost publishing: 'print-on-demand' book runs. ADELEX ANALYSER (ADA)
ADELEX TEXT ANALYSER tool is part of the research carried out by the members of the ADELEX team at the University of Granada. It enables the user to analyze the lexical difficulty of written texts in English on the basis of information contained in a 7,000-word frequency list drawn from the British National Corpus, Bank of English and Longman Corpus Network databases. Its two versions (English and Spanish) attempt to provide a more accurate and updated way of analysing texts, by using frequency bands of up to 7,000 words. Once students learn how to use all of these, they should be over the Minimum Threshold LevelEneeded for fluent, independent reading. The analysis divides this list into 7 bands: - Band 1: from word no. 1 to word no. 1,000
- Band 2: from word no. 1,001 to word no. 2,000
- Band 3: from word no. 2,001 to word no. 3,000
- Band 4: from word no. 3,001 to word no. 4,000
- Band 5: from word no. 4,001 to word no. 5,000
- Band 6: from word no. 5,001 to word no. 6,000
- Band 7: from word no. 6,001 to word no. 7,000
Alive Tek
AliveTek Assessments for E-Learning Website Development, Animation, Audio/Video Samples, Narrated Presentations and Interactive Graphics. Alphabetical Index of Scientists
(of the Christian Faith) African Christian Biography Dictionary
TheBroth.com
A world of live art where users create artworks together with others from all around the world! Get recognition for your artworks in the gallery! Albanian Translation
Quality translation services in Albania Art Photos
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LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain with several options for listening. English Tests
Free English Tests for ESL/EFL, TOEFL, TOEIC, SAT, GRE, GMAT and ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery) Tests. At English-test.net I you can answer free interactive questions to increase your vocabulary for any of these tests! Atenex
Authoring tool for Spanish sites in Linux or Windows. Useful to manage many materials and units. Albanian Translation
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Anatomy taught by Winking Skull.com
Navigate through each region of the body by clicking on the list. AudioPortfolios.com
Create or listen to English Audio lesson files. AniBoom.com Animation Generator
Allows you to make Animated gifts or cartoons. AFRICA, Compare Countries of Using Visual Geography.com
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Compare Countries of Using Visual Geography.com Visual Geography
A nice site available in 5 European languages with images, information, and quizzes about 85 countries around the world. The text is accessible to Intermediate English Language Learners, and the images are obviously good for students of all levels. Good quizzes about each country, and a neat feature called Compare,Eby which you can pick any two countries and easily compare their demographic data with the click of the mouse. Visualgeography.com lets you explore the world through images, flags, money, language, maps and other information. Audio Stories Collection
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Voices.com is the online marketplace where businesses connect with voice actors and professional voice-over talents. Radio and television stations, advertising agencies, marketing professionals, casting directors and voice talent agencies rely on Voices.com to easily search for and hire narrators and professional voice-over talents by using their award-winning web service. Action Research
A site from Graduate School of Education at George Mason University (Virginia, USA) entirely devoted to action research. Aviary
Aviary is a set of online editing tools including an an audio editor, image editor, a color editor and a screen capture tool.
ART PROGRAMS
Art Glossary with Audio Support
Harcourt has an excellent Multimedia Art Glossary that provides Audio support for the text in addition to visual images. See other such programs at The Best Art Websites For Learning English, as well as under Music and Art. Excellent Clip Art Site
Free Clip Art by Phillip Martin seems to be a pretty impressive site for clip art that's free for non-profit use. The art seems a cut above many other clip art sites, and appropriate for many subject areas (that's how they are categorized). See also The Best Online Sources For Images. Teach English in Asia.net
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The Best Collections Of "The Best" Pieces Of Art Ever Created
In Ferlazzo's Theory of Knowledge class learn about the roles of emotion, language, perception and reason in art. As part of that, students are looking through pieces of art and writing a short analysis of one they choose. They are going to look through the online collections of various museums, but also a site that shared one person's view of "The Best" pieces of art ever created. This is a similar list of sites that provide images of famous pieces of art. It's an intriguing way to help English Language Learners develop a great vocabulary related to feelings and emotions, plus it creates opportunities for both art vocabulary and art content knowledge. Each site shows a number of images or links on the same page of their selected artworks, and allows the ability to click on them to get an enlarged view. Among The Best Collections of gThe Besth Pieces Of Art Ever Created are these: The Greatest Works of Art; Another site titled The Greatest Works of Art; Best Works of Art in the World; Famous Paintings; The World's 50 Best Works of Art (and how to see them); 50 Most Famous Works posters (this is from a site that sells posters, but does provides nice images of famous pieces of art). AllSharing.Ning.com: CALL Sharing Blog.
ANNOTATION PROGRAMS
Layers
Layers is a new site that lets you annotate any webpage. Two especially nice features it has are (1) you can add photos and videos to your annotation by just including the url address and (2) you can see how other people who are also registered at Layers have annotated the same page. Other programs that can easily annotate webpages are listed on Best Applications For Annotating Websites. Many are ideal for students to demonstrate reading strategies on the Web, just as they use real Post-Its in the classroom. Crocodoc
Crocodoc is a new application that lets you upload any document - Word, PowerPoint or PDF - from your computer or the Web, and then it can be "marked-up" with a virtual highlighter or sticky notes. No registration is necessary. You're given a unique url for the document, and then the people you share it with can annotate it. It's a very simple service to use. See more at Best Applications For Annotating Websites. Layerpad For Webpage Annotation
Layerpad is the newest addition to Best Applications For Annotating Websites list. After registration, you can make comments on the site, and see comments others have made. In that way, it's similar to Blerp. However, Layerpad doesn't let you position the comments in different places around the page, which limits its effectiveness as a way for students to show that they're using reading strategies. www.Abax.net Abax.net: Fiction in Action Free downloadable Whodunit Reading text in PDF at: http://www.abax.net/storage/downloads/Whodunitcc.pdf Argumentation and Critical Thinking Lesson Plans
Architectural Feats and Unusual Buildings is a slideshow of seventeen unusual buildings around the world. See more at The Best Images Of Weird, Cool & Neat-Looking Buildings (& Ways To Design Your Own).
Archive.org
Archives many old or dead links. If you are looking for one, try The Internet Archive, "a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, they provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public". Copy and paste the URL in the Wayback Machine and click on 'Take Me Back'. America Interactives
Biography of America is a very ambitious video and text U.S. History presentation. Much of it isn't accessible to English Language Learners. However, this link added to Ferlazzo's U.S. History page will lead you to a series of links to short interactive Flash exercises that should be accessible to Intermediate English Language Learners. They're each images that have a number of "hot spots" you can click on for further information. Each era in U.S. History has 1 of them. Animal Adventure Movie: Amazing four minute video showing Animals' Hunger. Fear. Love. Absolutely, positively lovely. Great for having students learn to write Story Narrations in TL.
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The AdvancedLearningInstitute.com helps meet language learning and educational needs. Prepare for exams, get term papers, register for short term and long term courses online in various universities. Web 2.0 Tool Rubrics
ASSESSMENT of Student Online Projects Guidelines/Web 2.0 Tool Rubrics These are Kathy Schrockfs Guidelines for assessing student projects completed using Web 2.0 tools. ART: Akiane Kramarikfs Inspiring Artwork (Child Prodigy)
"Appetizing Architecture"
"Appetizing Architecture" is a series of images showing buildings shaped like food. Buildings That Look Like Food, and The Best Images Of Weird, Cool & Neat-Looking Buildings (& Ways To Design Your Own) list are also cool. TESOL Arabia Online Conference
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