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AnswerGarden is a new minimalistic feedback tool. Use it for real time audience participation, online brainstorming and classroom feedback.
AnswerGarden is a new minimalistic feedback tool. Use it for real time audience participation, online brainstorming and classroom feedback.
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ACADEMIC RESEARCH ENGINES (100 of them to choose from!) Apricot is a neat new free tool for teachers from Free Technology 4 Teachers. The way this works is educators sign up and create a class that students join through a code (i.e ClassDojo). Once the class is created educators can then ask a question, the students respond in real-time, and then their parents get the results emailed to them. Also, parents can join the same class as their child's w/ a unique login code. For Kapulers Pinterest board on Web 2.0 click here. Be sure to check out the latest updates!!! Answerables is one of the most unique sites to come around in awhile. It is a cross between a Learning Management System and Game Based Learning environment to deliver a innovative and fun learning experience for students. All of this takes place in a 3D virtual world (i.e. think Second Life but geared towards education) that allows educators to create lessons, scavenger hunts, collaborate w/ other educators, and much more. Best of all, all of this takes place in Answerables safe interactive environment. Also, Answerables can be used by any curriculum to teach any subject using Project Based Learning, "gamifying"a lesson, and differentiating instruction.
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Animal Alphabet is an excellent free iOS app that uses augmented reality to help young students learn their alphabet. This app is highly engaging and brings dinosaurs/ animals to life in stunning 3D when view a AR Flashcard from an iOS device. Also, a student can hear the letter and name of animal when tapping on the animal. For Kapulers Pinterest board on Augmented Reality click here. Curated by the digital learning specialists The Tech Chicks. A PC-based application that teaches students (particularly girls) programming through creating 3D animated movies. American Family Radio AV Live streaming.
Alchemy SmartBinder is an excellent tool for educators to create engaging dynamic lessons for students. SmartBinder Flip is their free "plan" that allows teachers to create these interactive lessons (that contains all embedded/downloadable material) plus generate basic reports for assessing. Recently, they just released their premium suite which consists of: SmartBinder Collaborate, SmartBinder Teams, and SmartBinder Engage. US Navy Game-Changer: Seawater Turned into Fuel ART PROGRAMS: Digital Canvas. Here are a set of tools for students of art, though any teacher striving to be creative may find these useful. Need a little ART inspiration? Like writing prompts, these art prompts can give the creative engine a kick start. A collection of apps that can be used by high school students. Curated by art educator Kelly Little. A collection of web-based tools & apps for creativity and design. Curated by Dr. Annette Kratcoski. A professionally-designed yet simple drawing app for kids. Allows artwork to be shared within a parent-approved network. Digital art doesn't only have to be visual. It can include audio as well, something this simple music maker can offer. From the Museum of Modern Art, this free app includes hands-on activities like making collages, drawings, paintings, etc.
Art teacher Lynn Horne's favorite apps to use when teaching and working with students in art. Tools to help educators and students make stuff - for the inventors, creators, builders, writers, and artists out there.
Drawp for School is an excellent free iPad app for creating digital art. This app has an easy to use interface that allows students draw, paint, color, etc to creating stunning pieces of art. Best of all is the educational portal that allows educators to create/manage student accounts as well as the ability for students to "hand-in" assignments via the cloud. This is a fantastic app to use for any subject or curriculum. [From Dave Kapuler].
Here is a site from the Delaware Art Museum that allows you pick a painting (they don't use photos, but the site is so good I decided to include it in this list anyway), write a short story about it, record it with your computer microphone, and email the URL address for posting on a student website or blog. It's extraordinarily simple, and extraordinarily accessible to any level of English Language Learner. No registration is required. Angle Asteroids is a wonderful free iOS app that helps students learn how to measure angles. This is a fun app that any Math/Geometry teacher can use that has students try to blast incoming asteroids by aligning it to the correct angle from their spaceship. Also, being a part of Sylvan's education series allows for parents/educators to track student progress. This little app includes 46+ Common Core-aligned games ranging from language arts to math skills. Offers summative assessments too. The Answer Pad is one of my favorite all-in-one mobile learning solutions for a classroom. Not only does it allow a teacher to become paperless by doing all testing/assessing on a iPad (or mobile device), it can turn a iPad into a student response clicker system. A educator can use Answer Pad in a number of different ways and push out assignments that they can grade and assess in real-time, which allows them to differentiate instruction, guide instruction, and even flip their classroom. American History Timeline is a wonderful free iPad app that focuses on American History from 1770 to Current Events. This interactive has 100s of images and tons of information that can be sorted through. Best of all their are educational games such as Scramble and Matching to help reinforce learning. Answerables is a wonderful new innovative site/game that is perfect for Game- Based Learning (or more accurate Game Based Learning meets Learning Management System). It reminds me of Second Life but geared more toward kids w/ their fantasy/SciFi environment. The game takes place in the 3D virtual world of Answerables on a planet called Proxima, where the native Ansibles (students) encounter an alien race. What makes this so great for education that is the safe/COPPA compliant environment that Answerables provides. This is an ideal place for students to collaborate w/ others to develop their social learning skills. Answerables provides windows (i.e. Second Life) to view the web, go on quests, etc. The student dashboard allows students to track their quests, notifications, events, PODS (Personal Online Development Spaces), and more. Enhance your slide decks with audio and animated drawings. Then host live questions and manage the back channel of your presentations.
The above link are my choices for The Best Collections of "The Best" Pieces Of Art Ever Created. Penolo is a very cool site from, The Educational Technology Guy! This is a great site for sketching a unique image from scratch or uploading an image (or online via URL) and drawing over it (think Skitch). These images then can be shared via Twitter w/ a click of a button. Artsonia is a great free site for art teachers allowing students to upload their art work to an online gallery. There is also a teacher section which has lesson plans for grades PreK-12th.
Disapainted may be just about the easiest tool out there to make simple "stickman" animations. Registration takes less than twenty seconds, and you are given a link to your creation. ELL's can make an animation and then share - in writing and/or verbally - a story about it. More at The Best Ways For Students To Create Online Animations. Academic Skill Builders is a wonderful site for educational games. This site is designed to help students learn by playing multiple player games. The games covers various aspects of math and language arts. Also, there is a teacher portal which allows for student tracking and customizing games. For Kapuler's top 10 sites for educational games click here! Watch this video and others at The Best Sites For Learning About Animals. At forty-five seconds into the video it really gets amazing! Flame Painter is a fun site for creating digital art. All a user does is move the cursor around the screen and watch it paint. However, a person can control the color, saturation, and opacity. There is a Mac/Windows app available as well. For Kapuler's top 10 sites for digital art click here. Quick and easy stick-figure drawing online
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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. Drips let you paint like Jackson Pollock, and you can save it online. And you don't have to register for it. Even cooler, it gives you a choice of painting it with either your mouse or your webcam and computer microphone. With your webcam, you can use your cellphone light or something else as a brush and your voice to change the color. After you save it, you're given its url address. Students can post it on a student/teacher blog or website and describe it, as well as comment on others made by their classmates. Audacity is free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds. Alaska Atheist Pilot has a few brushes with death that lead him to newness of life
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.
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).
A collection of free tools Curated by Michael Wacker for the Denver Public Schools Blended Learning Program. Enjoy these great tools for educators!
Mobile Augmented Reality Technology for mobile devices such as iPhone/iPad, Android SmartPhones, Samsung Wave/bada OS. Search through 90,000 questions from New York Regents, State Assessments, and other sources, then add them to your worksheets. The technology and the politics do not favor Amazon Prime Air, the company's futuristic delivery service that uses drones How about drawing your own animated cartoons? With this iPad app, you can! Faces iMake ABC is a wonderful iPad app by iMagine Machine for PreK-KDG/toddlers wanting to learn their letters/alphabet. There are lots of apps that do this but what makes Faces so great is how interactive it is for kids. A user has two choices either to learn the letters or find a letter. The learning part has a kid tap a letter, here it pronounced, and then try to put together a picture associated w/ that letter. The find a letter is a great way for kids to associate words w/ a letter such as D for Dog. [Written by dkapuler on Oct 01, 2013].
Apple has redesigned their education webpage as they revitalize their push towards education. It's a great site where educators can find examples of how teachers are using Apple products in their classroom (ie, lesson, guides, etc.) Also, this is a nice place for Special Ed as well as IT folk who need to deploy Mac/iPad, Active Directory, etc. With the help of leading dyslexia researchers, this iOS app helps young children learn the shapes & sounds of the alphabet. Created by a high school teacher, this educational iOS game covers algebra for students 12 and over. Teachers, as well as game designers, are also behind this iOS game of mathematical conceptual thinking skills for 5-14 year olds.
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Why you should learn the words from the Academic Word List first before you start learning less common academic words. You will need these words for context when you learn less common words. See the video for more information. US Government-sponsored English learning site. All free resources!
Source: Thriving Family Magazine: Around the World in 60 Days can take you and your family on a virtual journey. Exploring 27 countries on six continents. Free downloadable materials (designed to be used over a period of 60 days) include a world map, itinerary, and passport with stamps that you can glue into it as you "visit" each country, as well as Bible lessons and cultural activities. For example, you who are parents might appreciate an activity in the section about Latin America which explains, "In Colombia, older members of the family are greatly respected for their wisdom. They are always served first at mealtimes. At your next meal, serve the people at the table in order from oldest to youngest. Leviticus 19:32." Registration is required to access downloads. And if you like what you see, you might be interested in subscribing to their marriage and parenting magazine (also free). Learn more or sign up for Around the World in 60 Days. And thanks to Stand4Kids for the heads-up.
While researching and writing the major Stories, we sometimes come across miniStories- important in their own right. So we create a special page for each. A miniStory will show up in the related major story, but can now be directly accessed on its own. Find a sampling of MiniStories below. You can also find these on the website on the TEACHERS page, or go direct to the MiniStories page.
The Answer Pad is a free service for teachers that allows teachers to create electronic answer sheet for any test they create on any subject online. Students then take these tests via a free app on the iPad, TAPit. Teachers can access their scores, reports, and more all online.
AlphaTots is one of my favorite iOS apps I've come across for learning about the alphabet. Having a 3 yr old in Preschool and a 2 yr old daughter this is an app that is going to get quite of bit of use in our household. What makes AT so great is that it is highly interactive and lets students tap on the screen to complete different tasks involving the letter. [Written by dkapuler on Mar 16, 2013]. Acapela.tv is a really fun site for kids that I just found out about from the award winning and innovative educator, Ozge Karaoglu. This site allows student or teachers to create a animated video/cartoon using different scenes. All a user has to do is type in their text (up to 200 characters) and watch as the scenes says it for you. Best of all a finished video can be embedded into a site/blog which is ideal for educators. [Written by dkapuler on Mar 18, 2013]. Appolearning is a great site for finding educational apps. These reviews are done by experts in the educational field and are scored on a scale of a 100%. Also, these reviews contain a number of screenshots and detailed report card that covers: Educational Content, Kids Appeal, Assessment, Features and Design, Value, and Safety and Privacy. [Written by dkapuler on Apr 16, 2013]. Fun Educational Apps is an excellent site for finding detailed reviews on educational apps. These apps are rated on a 5 star scale and include photos. Best of all, these reviews breakdown the app into 3 categories such as: what I liked, suggestions, and general opinion. [Written by dkapuler on Apr 12, 2013].
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Artist Corner is a wonderful free iPad app for creating digital art. This is a very easy to use app that allows kids to create digital art through a use of a wide variety of activities such as: drawing, coloring, painting, and creating a mask. After an activity is selected a user has the ability to choose from a wide range drawing/painting tools such as: colors, markers, paint brushes, etc etc. When a work of art is completed it can then be saved in the "my gallery" folder and "shared" online w/ others. [Written by dkapuler on Feb 19, 2013].
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Mind Leap is a great site dedicated to finding/reviewing educational apps for kids grades PK-Middle School. Not only can you search for apps by grade level, but you can search though subjects as well. Each app is reviewed and rated on a 5 star scale and is linked for download. Universal Subtitles (or Amara) is a free online tool that allows you to subtitle exiting video sources (you can enter the URL of an Ogg, WebM, flv, mp4, Youtube, Vimeo or Dailymotion video) in many different languages. If you have ever tried to construct an .srt file from hand, you know how difficult and time-consuming it can be. Amara aims to be the easiest way to caption and translate any video. Subtitles make videos more powerful, more global, and more searchable. Apps in Education is a new (beta) site for finding educational apps. This is a great site that has excellent written reviews as well as video reviews too. Plus, reviews come w/ complete breakdown, screen shots, price, and links to the app. Also, APE has a nice blog too. For Kapuler's top 10 sites for finding educational apps, click here. ALCI is APU's American Language and Culture Institute, located in lovely Southern California! ESL instruction and Cross-Cultural Training.
ALT is the UK's leading membership organisation in the learning technology field.
Now you can listen to the Audio New Testament in over 500 languages on your PC! Click to hear samples (1 minute clips) of the New Testament in over 500 languages.
Airtime is a site that has been quite a bit of buzz this week on the internet. It reminds me very much of Google+ Hangout's and is a great way to "live" video chat. All a person needs to use Airtime is a FB account and then can start chatting w/ people over the web. Both people participate in the chat and can share live experiences such as watching the same YouTube video, etc. A unique feature is the ability to search for people based on similar interest and then start video chatting right away. There is some definite education potential if done in a secure way. [Written by dkapuler] Airy Labs is a company dedicated to making educational social learning games for kids. These games can be web based as well as for mobile/tablet devices. I recommend checking out their wide variety of games as well as there are community and freebies as well. PPT Palooza is a site I just found out about from David Andrade's excellent blog. This is a great site for 100's of free Powerpoints on American and European history. This is a great resource for History/SS teachers. [Written by dkapuler] I just wanted to give a quick shout out to this new (beta) site for finding online teachers. Sign up and be invited to try out this new online community for finding teachers on any number of subjects. For Kapuler's top 10 sites for online tutoring and teaching click here. ULCI is APU's American Language and Culture Institute, located in lovely Southern California! ESL instruction and Cross-Cultural Training.
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Now you can listen to the Audio New Testament in over 500 languages on your PC! Click to hear samples (1 minute clips) of the New Testament in over 500 languages. Year in Review: Best Pictures of 2011
Awesome Stories is on several of "The Best" lists - it has extremely accessible articles and multimedia on just about every topic imaginable. And it just got even better They've begun adding a "Visual Vocabulary Builder" to many of their stories to help with comprehension. Here's an example of one to support their story on the "back story" of The War Horse, the new Steven Spielberg movie. Add Awesome Stories to The Best Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced English Language Learner Sites. Education Atlas is a one stop shop for all things educational. This is a great place for lesson plans, finding online degrees, and more. A great feature is the ability to search by all grade levels (primary, middle, college), etc. For Kapuler's top 10 sites for educational resources click here.
is a site that is self explanatory. It is a great site for finding apps for the iPhone, iPod, and iPad. All apps can be browsed by age level or subject. Also, there are nice detailed reviews w/ screen shots to help users find what best meets their needs. AppAdvice is a excellent site tahat I just found out about today through Twitter (I love my PLN!!). This is a site dedicated to all mobile apps for Apple. A person will find reviews, news, guides, and more on here. Best of all I was able to find a list of free apps for today only they I think are worth mention. There is a wonderful Red Riding Hood interactive story app for kids. I downloaded this for my boys and they are loving it. They can either have the story read to them or read along w/ it while interacting w/ the book. Also, there is a nifty little note taking app (MetaNotebook) which is worth a look for taking notes and then sharing w/ others or printing. AudioLiterate is a great site for streaming or downloading free Audiobooks. A user can search for books by author genre or price. I recommend checking out Audible for another great site for downloading audiobooks. Audible is a wonderful site for finding/downloading 1000's of digital Audiobooks. This site is powered by Amazon and works on most mobile devices. Not only does this site offer books, but other types of media as well such as: speeches, radio shows, podcasts,etc. Famigo is a wonderful site for finding safe kid-friendly apps for Apple and Android. The apps are reviewed on a 5-star scale and can be searched for by age-level, category, etc. For Kapulers top 10 sites for finding educational apps click here. Android Market is a great place to find educational apps for Android devices. While I don't have any experience w/ them myself, I do know that there is a place for them in the educational institution. This site has lots of screen shots and reviews of educational apps and can be browsed by most popular and free. For a great blog on Android devices and apps I highly suggest checking out Richard Byrne's, Android 4 Schools. Animoto has just released a free app for iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, etc.). This is a very useful app that lets users do what they normally could w/ the Animoto site such as: adding/uploading photos, choosing music, and finally adding text. Apps in Education is a wonderful site/blog developed by Gregory Swanson. This is a site dedicated to finding and reviewing educational apps in a number of different categories such as: Science, English, Art, Math, etc. Also, there are some nice tips for using the iPad in the classroom. Alien Buddies is a nice inexpensive app ($1.99) for the iPad/iPhone. This app has lots to like for PreK-1 aged students. It helps teach numbers, letters, and shapes through a variety of games. The games include: matching, puzzles, connecting dot to dot, and stickers. AnMish is new (beta) site from Cliotech and is great for digital storytelling. Not only is this site super fun and easy to use but it allows users to select characters and then record their own voice to add to them. A person can then embed videos to share w/ others. This site does have cartoon celebrities, puppets, and more to choose from, while not ideal for education, it can be used by a teacher or w/ proper supervision. AmyLovesYA is a new blog dedicated to young adult literature. This is a great place to find reviews, collaborate on books, and so on. It's written by an English teacher who is going for her MLIS (Master of Library and Information Specialist).
Great site for parents to use with young children still at home, or in Pre-K or Kindergarten! Best Kids Apps is a wonderful place to find educational apps for kids. These apps are arranged by age level and category. A nice feature is how every app is rated on a A-F grading scale. Also, there are beneficial reviews to read w/ screen shots as well. APPitic: a directory of apps for education by Apple Distinguished Educators (ADEs) to help you transform teaching and learning. It has over 1,300 categorized apps, including a ton organized by Bloom's Taxonomy.
Quixey is a wonderful new (beta) site search engine for apps. What makes this so nice is the result page that shows so much useful information such as: cost, review, rating, platform, etc. Moms w/ Apps is a wonderful site for finding educational apps for families and kids. This site is primarily made up of parents who have developed kid friendly apps. For Kapuler's 10 sites for finding educational apps click here.
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ABCya is an excellent site educational games for grade K-6. These games cover all subject areas and even offer educational apps for mobile devices.
Audible is a wonderful site for finding/downloading 1000's of digital Audiobooks. This site is powered by Amazon and works on most mobile devices. Not only does this site offer books, but other types of media as well such as: speeches, radio shows, podcasts, etc.
Animaps is an innovative site for creating animated maps in Google Maps. This is done by creating a map and then adding markers (similar to custom animation in PP), text, and shapes that are all set to specific timings. I highly recommend checking out Animaps by clicking here!! For a more detailed review check out Free Technology 4 Teachers. For other cool mapping sites check out Time Maps or Wikihood.
Being a huge advocate of lists, I was pleasantly surprised when I received an email from a writer for Information for Technology Degrees. He passed a long a post he did for top 50 free IT apps. After looking at the list I was happy to see some that I have experience w/ in the past: Cacoo, Cacti, Nagios, Flow, etc. Best Applications For Annotating Websites.
Chogger lets you easily create a comic, with no registration required. What's particularly nice about it is that you have a choice of drawing it or searching the Web for images you can insert. More at The Best Ways To Make Comic Strips Online.
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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!
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, 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. Animation Movies Online: Make them free easily here!
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. Great screen capture program. Easy Conversations, Super Easy Reading, Easy Reading; Sentence Structure Writing Practice with 2,000+ ESL/EFL Conversations on Different Topics.
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.
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. Audiobooks and stories in the Public Domain The best place on the internet to learn American English. All videos have subtitles and vocabulary to help you learn real American English.
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.
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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! Adventures Kevin Hodgson has created a brilliant website where he not shows how he teaches students to write "choose your own adventure" stories (which he calls "Threaded Adventures") and provides examples of stories they have written in a "choose your own adventure" form! Find many more at The Best Places To Read & Write "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. It very vividly compares the size of Africa with the size of a number of other areas on the earth.
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.
Excellent Infographics are very accessible to English Language Learners.
World Adventure Kids! 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
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 is basically an Audio Blog. www.Utterli.com/all looks like a "micro-blog" with audio. ipadio.com looks similar.
All you have to do is put http://go.rooh.it 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 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.
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.
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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.
AUDIO BOOK COLLECTIONS ![]() 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 with MP4/Mp4 downloadable sound. 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
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Book Collection Descriptions (with TTS for visually impaired) 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 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. Make up Animated Cartoon Movies for free here!
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.
1,400 Vocabulary Links (English for Academic or Specific Purposes) TONS of great links! ANNOTATION PROGRAMS FOR WEBSITES Turn any document into a class discussion with a commenting system that appears right next to the text. NowComment makes it easy to have rich, engaging discussions of online documents no matter how large (or small) your class or collaboration group. NowComment is fast, powerful, and feature-rich: you can sort comments, skim summaries, create assignments, hide comments, reply privately, and much more. It's free, a project of public interest group Fairness.com LLC. Take 60 seconds to get an account now! If you have an Apple TV in your classroom, this iOS app lets you turn it into a gigantic yet readable web browser. The Amazing Digestive Journey is a nice iOS app for Health/Science teachers wanting to introduce the concept of digestion to students. This is interactive app lets students complete activities that start in the mouth while they try to help cure a patient of their ailments. This app focuses on the different aspects of digestion through organs such as: esophagus, stomach, liver etc as well as different enzymes. 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 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.
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.
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Use Online or buy the book. Focus on Academic Vocabulary, Pearson Education, by Norbert & Diane Schmitt (2005) LearnOutLoud.com offers many speeches and books with FREE Audio and/or Video.
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by William J. Rapaport Lots of vocab quizzes on different topics in English, French, German and Spanish. Choose an existing quiz or create your own. Second Language Vocabulary Acquistition Research. See the Vocabulary Acquisition Research Group Archive (VARGA) at the Univerity of Wales Swansea. An excellent collection of websites focusing on vocabulary acquisition.
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Use this online tool to test automaticity of word recognition, with or without priming. Reaction Time Instrument Builder (v.1.3) A European Course for Assessing and Developing Lexical Competence on the Internet NEW SITE FOR EXTENSIVE READING HEADQUARTERS! Extensive Searchable Research Reference List with Abstracts. AlphaDictionary.com offers access to 992 Online English Dictionaries at once! Plus 24 Other Language Dictionaries for possible translations. 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 Great screen capture program. 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
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Vocabulary website listing 32,000 articles for related research. ETS Vocabulary Learning Articles and Materials 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. 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:
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listed by language (over 140!). Yamada Language Center, University of Oregon. alphabetically listed.
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and all major Search Engines as well. from Doshisha University, JAPAN. Kitaos' English Library and Study Skills Practice Notes.
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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
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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. A collection of free online Machine Translation (MT) tools.
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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. A great painting site that records a picture while it's created to create a time lapse effect. An excellent site for drawing & painting w/ some beautiful examples. A fun site where users can create unique pictures w/ different shaped templates (ie, Pixie). A great site for creating animated art w/ a web 2.0 flare. A wonderful site for creating beautiful sketches w/ colored pencils. Create excellent painting/drawing w/ this cool site. Lots of different styles, effects, gradients for users to choose. One of the most popular digital art creators on the web, very similar to Photoshop. A wonderful free application that lets users create some beautiful looking designs. A great gallery of examples to view too. An excellent site for kids that is very user friendly for creating digital art. A very unique site that lets users create art w/ their voice/sound. Huge collection of art, art museums / galleries and artists. Excellent Art courses and materials for children in any learning environment. Enjoy viewing and discussing some great pictures by master artists.
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US & World Atlases. 3-D World Atlas FREE Software Just Pay Shipping. SMARTpages, "Maps, Directions, City Pages, Yellow Pages." Questia Online Library.
Explore other online atlases in Canada and around the world. AUTHORS AuthorsEBibliography included. Collection for pleasure reading. AUTHORING TOOLS 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 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.
of 40,000 Images. 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. A user-created Video-Wiki-Dictionary. A tool to create comic strips from Flickr.com photos. 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. Creating movies in Second Life. PHOTO FUN WITH YOUR STUDENTS 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. 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. 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. There is a huge selection of video clips available which can be used as prompts to discussion, listening or writing activities. 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. 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. Here you can also find out how students can access the audio for thousands of movies to help them develop their listening skills. If you are more interested in fun you can find a collection of really nicely designed word games here: Or perhaps you prefer some real communication and get your students to send each other singing telegrams
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. 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. 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.
Tips, resources and teaching materials for EFL and ESL teachers Nik Peachey Learning Technology Consultant, Writer, Trainer
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ANIMATION TOOLS 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.
Comic Master is is a site the excellent blog, iLearn Technology. This site is similar to most online comic creators such as Pixton or Toon Doo. As w/ other similar sites, CM has a nice drag-n-drop user interface w/ lots of items to choose from. A comic creation site that is one of the better ones to come around in a long time. Like most similar sites a user selects a character, background, object, and then provides the text, but what separates this from others is there is an educational portal similar to Toon Doo Spaces. This is great for teachers as there are built in filtering, content approval before posting, and private hosting. Check out Bitstrips for creating comics in the classroom!
At What Makes Me, you can create a "cube" using photos, video, and audio (you can easily grab them off the web our upload your own). Your creation is supposed to be a representation of "you." It's from the Australia Council for the Arts and, theoretically, it's supposed to just be for Australians. But they invite people to make as many cubes as they want, so won't be too concerned if non-Aussies contribute. No registration is required, other than your email to save your cube.
Explaining how to write one. Two teachers developed a simple "cloze" (fill-in-the-blank) passage that described the actual writing process. Animal Lessons
"Life Is" is just an amazing site from the BBC. It's part of television series on "the extraordinary things animals and plants do."
From The New York Times Learning Network. Answer Garden is an excellent new tool for a person's website. AG is a gadget that can be embedded into a site (similar to a poll) that people can use to answer questions that you create. These answers then get displayed in a visual brainstorming/tag cloud view with the top choices standing out as more bold and bigger font (think Wordle). Answer Garden can be used by teachers to get feedback from students, bloggers for self analysis, etc.
Japanese counterpart at: http://www.christiananswers.net/japanese/ OTHER 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!
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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.
Averil Coxheads 570. 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. 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.
Aim.com gives users free AIM WeeMee Mascot. Share a Web site or broadcast a message to folks on your Buddy List. 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 New products and running commentaries abound. The AIM team loves to blog. Make calls from AIM or your phone to 35+ countries for one low price. For low-cost publishing: 'print-on-demand' book runs. 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:
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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! Quality translation services in Albania LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain with several options for listening. 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! Authoring tool for Spanish sites in Linux or Windows. Useful to manage many materials and units. Quality translation services in Albania English Learning Re-Invented Online
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Compare Countries of Using Visual Geography.com Compare Countries of Using Visual Geography.com Compare Countries of Using Visual Geography.com 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. from Awesome Stories.com
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. A site from Graduate School of Education at George Mason University (Virginia, USA) entirely devoted to action research. Aviary is a set of online editing tools including an an audio editor, image editor, a color editor and a screen capture tool. ANNOTATION PROGRAMS 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 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 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
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'. 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.
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.
"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.
The Answer Pad is a great free iPad solution for assessing student data. This is done by registering and interacting w/ a free iPad app that allows teachers to create student accounts and answer sheets, and then assess student data. [Written by dkapuler on Dec 12, 2012] Apollo 15 astronaut James Irwin led multiple expeditions to Mt.Ararat in search of Noah's ark. If found, it would likely be the greatest archaeological discovery in history. Tragically, Irwin died of a sudden heart attack in 1991, with his quest to find the ark unfulfilled. Now his widow, Mary Irwin, is convinced she and her husband were searching on the wrong mountain. In her new book, "The Unsolved Mystery of Noah's Ark" (West Bow Press), she reveals her findings after 20 years of painstaking research following her husband's passing.
A Beginning List Of The Best Geography Sites For Learning About Africa We're going to start studying Africa in a few weeks in my Geography class, so here's the latest installment in my Geography-related "Best" series. I need to add a lot more here, and am very open to suggestions. You can see all of them at The Best Geography Sites For Beginning & Intermediate English Language Learners.
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