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Scholastic BookFlix is a new interactive online literacy resource for Grades PreK-3 that pairs fictional video storybooks from Weston Woods with classics. [Scholastic Corporation].
BEST EASY CREATIVE APPS FOR KIDS: A professional online website creator enabling web & graphic designers to create and publish websites code-free. Create your FREE website today. The site's Guides tab features pointers on everything from using blogs in the classroom, to maximizing the use of social networking and personal learning networks. Helpful teaching resources aim to create a collaborative environment for helping teachers engage students. At Technology Tidbits David Kapuler reviews and recommends tons of online tools and sites for educational use! Buncee is a fantastic free site for creating online stunning presentations, posters, signs, eCards and more. Educators can use this super user-friendly site to create interactive digital lesson containing all forms of digital media and built-in clip art. Best of all there is an educational portal that allows educators to create student accounts and track and assess their work. Also, there are lots of educational resources and lessons for teachers to browse through to see how others are using Buncee. Finally, users are able to embed a finished project (or "Buncee") into a site/blog. This is a fantastic site for Guided and Blended Learning and even Flipping a classroom. [Written by dkapuler on Jan 22, 2014 04]. Book Writer is a fantastic iPad app ideal for digital storytelling. This app allows students to create a stunning digital story by dragging-dropping images and video. Combine that w/ the ability to add any text or links and even record their own audio, and it makes for the creation of the perfect digital story. A finished story can then be shared w/ others via link, published to iBooks, or exported into a PDF. [Written by dkapuler on Jan 31, 2014]. Book Recommendation engines. Social surfacing algorithms. Crowd-sourced bookshelves. All just fancy terms for the internet version of "hey, I read this great book the other day... " Whether you're interested in exploring online book forums, sharing thoughts about your favorite author via a social-reading platform, or even analyzing intertextual connections - these 10 sites will help you wade through a sea of titles to find the one that's right for you. And as a bonus, some of these sites also provide ways for independent authors to boost their own books' "discoverability." A list of online book recommendation tools: For more information about the growth of "social" reading and the popularity of online book-recommendation sites, check out this article from Liz Wassmann. Curriculet is an innovative new site that reminds me of EDpuzzle but for books. This site allows educators to purchase any digital book and turn it into a lesson. The way this works is an educator selects a book and then adds different types of media (i.e. questions, quiz, video) to create a lesson for students. Once the lesson is completed a teacher gets instant real-time feedback to assess student's learning. This is also a great way for educators to track Common Core Literacy Standards and "flip" their classroom. [Written by dkapuler on Jan 14, 2014]. Written by dkapuler on Jan 03, 2014 10:41 am Biteslide is an excellent site for creating beautiful looking "slideshows"/ presentations. This is a very user friendly drag-n-drop site that has students creating: presentations, slideshows, posters, and more by adding any type of media. There is even a useful browser plugin that can be installed to easily save and access images from across the web. Finally, Biteslide has an educational portal which allows educators to add, track, and monitor students.
After Babylon: Analysis of the current linguistic situation in the world is a very impressive interactive infographic
Online, on your computer, mobile- There are multiple ways to use Babbel so you can learn on-the-go or in your in-between time. First, Babbel.com is a multimedia website that can be accessed from any computer with internet. Then with Babbel Mobile, you can learn anywhere on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. Do something productive with time that would have otherwise been wasted: Learn a language. Biteslide is one of my all-time favorite Web 2.0 sites for creating beautiful presentations in a safe environment. What makes Biteslide so great for education is that it's CIPA compliant and that teachers can create student accounts. Also, a digital presentation can contain all types of media such as: video, images, text, etc etc, and best of all can be embedded into a site. This is a great way to incorporate technology into a curriculum and works for any subject and grade level. Damage Analysis of Bridges Affected by Tsunami due to Great East Japan Earthquake (Kenji Kosa; Development of Tsunami Design Criteria for Oregon).
BoomWriter is proud to announce that the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston are using their cutting edge innovative web-based program to create collaborative stories. This is being done in conjunction w/ BW's Technology Heroes Program. The program brings together enthusiastic educators, local celebrities and corporate sponsors to promote literacy and inspire kids to become master storytellers through collaborative writing projects. The Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston will offer the Technology Heroes Program to members of their Clubs in Boston and Chelsea. BoomWriter inspires children to bring their stories to life online and in print. The creative process starts with the first part of a story written by a professional writer. Students then are encouraged to write what they think should happen next in the story. After submitting their work online, students read the chapters of their peers and then vote for the most appealing chapter. Once the winning chapter is selected, it is added to the story and the process continues until a book is completed. Using the generous support of corporate partners, BoomWriter will convert these stories into published books. Each participating club member will receive a free copy and the thrill of their name in print with their peers. [Written by dkapuler on Feb 12, 2013]. Middlebury.edu's Bread Loaf/BreadNet The Bread Loaf Teacher Network is a network of teachers connected to the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College and supported by BreadNet, one of the first electronic teacher networks in the nation.
Easy-to-use and engaging to both young-er and beginner learners or for someone new to computers. They all have audio support for text and, with only one exception, they also have visual support. Only a couple re-quire registration (though the top-ranked site lets you do so if you want to keep track of what exercises you've done (and registration takes seconds). Of course, they all are free-of-charge. Here are my ranked picks for The Best Sites For K-12 Beginning English Language Learners.
Foboko is a new site where you can easily write and publish books online. It similar in most ways to a number of other sites that are on The Best Places Where Students Can Write Online list. The big place where it does differ, though, is that it actually takes you through a step-by-step planning process for your story/book. That could be particularly useful for some students.
Presents emerging ideas and implementations in computer-assisted language learning (CALL), second language reading and writing aids and machine translation (MT). FREE E-BOOK! The e-book has undergone significant updates since its initial release (version 0.09 in April 2010). Almost every part has significant new developments, so I suggest existing readers take it anew. Perhaps nothing can explain this ebook better than its own Overview and Table of Contents, which are attached below. View or download it (free) above. Offered free from: Ziyuan Yao [his personal site is here: https://sites.google.com/site/yaoziyuan/] Never Burn Out is a great book dealing with finding a higher identity by D.H. Park. (E-Book is under $10!) BULK Orders at: usaresource@xpmedia.com or resource@xpmedia.com. BacciZ is a company dedicated to creating educational iOS apps. They have a lot of apps that are great for interactive storytelling such as: Rapunzel 3D, Old Macdonald had a Farm, etc. Also, this company has apps for other subjects such as educational games, writing, etc. See sample here of http://bacciz.com/portfolio/goldilocks-3d/ [Written by dkapuler]
Social bookmarking basically means being able to easily save the url addresses of specific sites you're looking at and want to revisit, and then being able to share those with others, such as del.icio.us [April 16, 2008 by Larry Ferlazzo] Bigmarker is an easy-to-use, no-cost, Web conferencing system - one where teachers can offer entire classes, supplementary lessons, tutor sessions or office hours.
Prezi presentation with suggestions for Web 2.0 tools at each level of Bloom's Digital Taxonomy. BEST SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES FOR EDUCATORS: Friends with Brainefits is a nice free Facebook application for studying. Once a user adds the application, FWB will post a term and definition on their wall. Then FWB allows the users friends to post need-to-know terms on their wall. This is a fun way to study and help facilitate learning! Book and a Hug is a wonderful site for young readers of all ages. One of the best features of this site is the ability to search by age, reading level, category, etc. Once a book is found a user can read the reviews or even rate and review the book on their own. Think of this a kind of like an Amazon for kids. For a more detailed review check out Free Technology 4 Teachers. For other great sites on reading check out: BookFlavor.com, Booktagger.com, and BookLamp.com. Big Marker is a free web conferencing community ideal for educators and students. This is a great place to create a private room to collaborate by: chatting, sharing documents, etc. There are three categories of attendees: participant, presenter, and moderator. Holding a web conference is very easy to do and is a great way to facilitate online learning.
Many Books is a nice site that is a great search engine for over 29,000 free E-books, similar to Neotake but not as visual.
A couple of days I ago I asked readers to help me out by suggesting video clips from movies and television that would demonstrate the importance of being bilingual. I'm creating a lesson plan (which I'll share in this blog sometime in the future) where I'll use videos, along with information from The Best Resources For Learning The Advantages To Being Bilingual. Here are my choices for The Best Videos Showing The Importance Of Being Bilingual - Part One. Anne is the one who got me looking on YouTube with her suggestion of "The importance of being bilingual" BEST BEGINNER SITES FOR ENGLISH LEARNERS: The Best Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced English Language Learner Sites. They're both for Beginners: One is ABC Phonics. I've written, both in this blog and in my books, how I teach phonics inductively to students as well as teach it through a focus on their reading high-interest books of their own choosing. However, a little fun online practice now and then also can't hurt. The other is Spelling City, specifically their "Free Activities and Games." BROWSERS LINUX BROWSERS THAT PRIORITIZE SAFETY AND PRIVACY INCLUDE THESE 5: (THESE BROWSERS PROVIDE VARIOUS LEVELS OF SECURITY AND PRIVACY, SO CHOOSE ONE THAT BEST FITS YOUR NEEDS.) 1. Ungoogled Chromium: This is a de-Googled version of Chromium, which is the open-source version of Google Chrome. It removes all Google web services and replaces them with open-source alternatives, providing a more secure browsing experience. 2. LibreWolf: A fork of Firefox, LibreWolf focuses on privacy and security by removing all telemetry and Mozilla-dependent services. It comes pre-configured with many privacy and security settings. 3. Brave Browser: Known for its strong privacy features, Brave blocks ads and trackers by default and offers built-in Tor integration for anonymous browsing. 4. Mullvad Browser: Developed in collaboration with the Mullvad VPN team, this browser is designed to minimize tracking and fingerprinting. 5. Falkon: Lightweight browser for Linux with a good balance of performance and privacy. BILINGUAL SITES
Basic ENGLISH and Business English Learning Sites; Books; Biographies Bing is Microsoft's new search engine that finds and organizes the answers you need to work faster.
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to help you teach ELL, ESL and EFL! (From larryferlazzo.edublogs.org page, Websites of the Year, which is actually a better place to access the lists.
Arranged Topically from A-Z by Larry Ferlazzo. 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, by 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. exercises. 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.
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Reading Writing and Learner's Site TOP ESL BUSINESS SITES What is Business English? Business English is English especially used in national or international trade with English-speaking countries as well as countries where English is not a native language but is used as a shared second language. Business English touches on a variety of fields. For some it means vocabulary related to business topics. For others it is more closely linked to the communication skills required in the workplace. ESL All selected these top ten resources covering both business vocabulary and business skills in addition to material aimed at developing the four language skills (speaking, writing, listening, and reading).
By far the most widely developed British business website on the Internet. A great place to visit to learn and improve your English through business related topics. Top-quality materials only. A favourite general and business English website of ours. Provides over a thousand pages of free information and resources for both teachers and students. All materials are organized by skill and level for quick and easy access. The business section contains: Useful Expressions (with audio files in American English), Textbook Recommendations, Quick Links, Learning Strategies, Teaching Business English resources, and a lot more.
Your guide to English as a 2nd language (ESL / EFL) including an interesting section devoted to Business English. Contains resources related to Business English Lessons, Business Reading, Business English Vocabulary, Business Speaking Skills, Business English Writing and a lot more.
Business English for EFL, ESL students. Resources for learning business English, including varied sections: business correspondence, business presentations and public speaking, business vocabulary, business news and business and money. CHAT ROBOTS, CHATBOTS OR CHATTERBOTS, ALSO SIMPLY KNOWN AS "BOTS" These are computer programs on online sites that simulate human communication patterns. They can mimic human conversation or chatting by using artificial intelligence (AI). Eliza was the first chatbot, made in 1966 by Weizenbaum. Modern CMS Talking The fabulous Ektoras created a tool called Loudbot to combine the general power of some well-known content management systems with the ease of use on handling media files that LoudBlog is providing to its users. If you are working with Mambo, Joomla, Drupal, Serendipity, Geeklog or WordPress, you can install LoudBlog additionally to your existing setup- it will help you with uploading, organizing and tagging your media files, and after that Loudbot transfers those files to your main CMS. It's that easy! BOOK-MARKING PROGRAMS: Skloog is a fun site for bookmarking that I just found out about from Zarco English, one of my favorite blogs. I like to compare Skloog to SpeedyMarks which organizes bookmarks via nice visual thumbnail of the site. This is very similar to how the start-up page for Safari or Chrome works for a user's history. (Dave Kapuler)a2 Best English Education Blogs
Bookr is a document reader for the Play Station Portable (PSP) that currently supports plain text (.txt) PDF, and new for this release; text only basic HTML files. http://www.jogtheweb.com/run/kLNfFgf9DEz6 Bookr is a tool to share and create and share images in your Photobook as Flickr Images. Bookr is a simple, fun, web-based program that lets users search Flickr photo program. Bookr is a great resource for beginning readers and writers. More of the world's best English language learning links chosen by ESL All Adapted with permission from ESL All September 2006 Issue, Blogs, Vol. 2, No. 7. Welcome to this selection of the BEST ESL (English as a Second Language), EFL (English as a Foreign language) and Business English Blogs! A weblog, or blog for short, is a type of website where entries are made (like a journal or diary) and displayed in reverse chronological order. These ten blogs provide news, comments and information on English learning and teaching. A typical blog contains mostly text, but can also contain images, and links to other resources and blogs, web pages, and other media related to the topic under discussion. These blogsites cover a wide range of topics dealing with general and business English, topics that can be useful to both English learners and teachers. The last suggested link provides a collection of close to 100 other English learning blogsites available for free on the web. Happy blogging! A high-quality English-learning related blog for teachers and students managed by Jeffrey Hill. Valuable comments and resources for English learning. Archives. Links to other blog sites. A place where English instructors and students meet to discuss and learn. Covers the field of English as a whole. Great links and resources for English as a Second language, and other related disciplines such as composition, literature, rhetoric and linguistics. Also features ESL Coffeetalk, ESL Forum Buzz, and Scattergories. Edited by Lee Hobbs. Lesson plans, teaching locales, tips, tricks and budgeting advice mostly for novice and veteran ESL instructors, but also contains very interesting material for ESL students. Features Recent Entries, ESL Jobs, Hot Discussion Topics, and Cool Links. Edited by Carol Rueckert.
Te4Be.com: Ideas and observations about the day-to-day teaching of Business English as well as site visitors comments and experiences. Includes the following sections: Teachers, Technology, Web Links, Students, and FAQ. Edited by Barney Barrett and Pete Sharma.
Business English Blogs: A list of high-quality blogsites for those who are interested in Business English. Ideas, reflections and conversation about language learning and teaching, business and communication, entrepreneurship and technology. AskDoctorEnglish.Blogspot.com: Ask Doctor English your ESL and English language learning specialist. Ask whatever you like about the English language. Doctor English is an ESL Teacher, based in Vancouver, BC, Canada. UsingEnglish.com: ESL learners and teachers online blog. Ideas, thoughts, uses of English and other language-learning related issues. Features many discusion categories, ESL archives and links to other blogs. Very useful material for language learners. A very interesting blogsite for ESL learners. Contains general thoughts and ideas on language learning as well as great language links. Featured sections are: Dictionaries and References, ESL Learners, ESL Teachers, Quizzes and Exercises, Links to other Blogs on the web, and a lot more.
For those of you who would like to explore more blogsites not listed in this newsletter, here's an interesting collection of blog-related links of interest to teachers and students of English as a Second Language.
(with Slideshows). THIS IS A BLOG RELATED TO THE ICT4LT WEBSITE AT HTTP://WWW.ICT4LT.ORG IT AIMS TO ENCOURAGE FEEDBACK ON THE ICT4LT SITE IN PARTICULAR AND THE USE OF ICT IN LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING IN GENERAL. Blogs' Search Engine: Technorati is the major search engine for blogs, which you can interrogate with an advanced query form by keyword (try Academic or Language learning or browse via their blog index. Run by students at Sweden's Ume University's humanities lab, a place where the humanities, cultural studies and modern information and media technology can meet and work together, both in real and virtual terms・
discusses her research on virtuality and conversational multi-tasking.
focused on intercultural exchanges. BLOGS FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS AND STUDENTS
LoudBlog is a sleek and easy-to-use Content Management System (CMS) for publishing media content on the web. It automatically generates a skinnable website and an RSS-Feed for Podcasting. Just upload your audio/video files, add some notes and links, and you're done! E-LEARNING BLOGS This list represents some of the more active e-learning blogs Gabe Anderson has found or read regularly. As he says: each of these is great in its own way -- be it the in-depth analysis, the industry headlines, the technical prowess -- but all will get you thinking about learning and technology in new ways. From learning theories to content design, metadata to LMSes, survey data to industry trends, these blogs have it all.・ Information and resources for teachers of English as a Foreign Language. Includes a forum, job vacancies, flashcards, and activities. LexioPhiles recently published "The Top 100 language Blogs" here.
BLACKBOARD offers free 1 month trial to set up any online course. BLOGGING & FILE-EXCHANGE PROGRAMS Find a Language Partner to practice with for 113 Languages in over 170 Countries! Free! Lang-8.com is a great place for free Language Exchange! Allows you to start your own Japanese Language Blog, which natives speakers will help correct for free! Corrections will be highlighted so you can easily learn from your own mistakes. Sample recommended Language Blogs include: Edmodo is a site that is "a private micro-blogging platform that teachers and students can use to send notes, links, files, alerts, assignments, and events to each other;" students do not need an email address, just a code obtained from the teacher. Gliffy is a Graphic Organizer program BIBLIOGRAPHIES
by William J. Rapaport NEW SITE FOR EXTENSIVE READING HEADQUARTERS! Extensive Searchable Research Reference List with Abstracts. BOOKS (available via Amazon.com) Books (and software) listed on this page have been selected by EFL / ESL teachers of the English Specialist Group on the purpose of helping language teachers and students with finding good resources for their work. Cheapest prices online or off for inspiring faith-building books, music, and software. Atlases. World's largest online marketplace for books. Huge travel selection! BRITISH COUNCIL from the British Council Includes practical lesson plans, articles, books, downloads, etc. to keep your teaching fresh. Network with over 10,000 teachers via this English Language Teaching Contacts Scheme (ELTeCS).
Hornby Educational Trust runs regional workshops to benefit language teachers・development.
Use this powerful search engine to help build up your links with others in the CALL and Language Teaching Community worldwide. Regularly updated links, materials and tips to help improve your language assistance and teaching. Essential data for career development in language education. Find suitable language programs and qualifications for your future success here (EU-related). Having offices in 110 countries, the British Council has many local webpages to assist area teachers. They work with education ministries, and provide support to teacher associations such as electronic newsletters. BIOGRAPHIES
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, 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 one of them.
There are 20 people in each of these five sections: Arts, Business, Politics, Science and Society.
(All Males here)
Search by field of activity or categories. Famous person anagram or quiz. Famous Peoples' Quotations. Can be searched by category and author. to compare with your own. guide for writing about famous or infamous people. Current celebrities site Older Famous People, famous people now deceased, writers, politicians, scientists, etc may be found under Yahoo! Sections. BIBLE-RELATED RESOURCES
Bamboo is an online Christian Bookstore with this stated aim:
This is a parallel corpus of the entire Gospel of Luke in 30 languages, which allows full-text searching and side-by-side comparison of up to seven languages. Bible Resources makes the Bible freely available online in multiple languages (20 major ones at this time) and translations with Bible Answers, Free Online Concordance Keyword and Passage Searches, Bible Tools, Bible Aids, Bible Studies, Bible Stories, Bible Devotionals, Bible Reading Plans, Bible Memorization Techniques. Most versatile free site on the subject known. The Blue Letter Bible now has over 4,000,000 links onsite to over 165,000 pages of concordances, lexicons, dictionaries, commentaries, images, and Bible versions! A program devised by Mark-Jason Dominus from Pennsylvania University, and applied to King James Authorised Version of the Bible. The program includes other corpora such as: Topical Bible (Nave), Bible Dictionary (Easton), New Topical Textbook (Torrey), Thematic Subject Guide, Dictionary of New Testament Words (Vine) and Bible Names Dictionary (Hitchcock). Here you can look for any quote/word from the Bible. The program also provides information about the different senses of a word and the corresponding concordances for each sense. for searching English Bible versions online. Offers free Bible commentaries and Bible helps in 21 languages: Afrikaans, Arabic, Bengali, Mandarin, French, Hindi, Magyar (Hungarian), Bahasa Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Tagalog, Telegu, Thadou (India), Turkisn, Urdu, Vietnamese, and of course, English. BIBLE LEXICONS AND FREE SOFTWARE This site offers free lexica and dictionaries that can be used in any SWORD API based Bible program. To download, simply click on the links given for free Chinese, German, English, Greek and Hebrew support. FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING BOOKSELLERS A London foreign language-learning bookstore for all living languages from Afrikaans to Zulu (they say), with a particularly deep range in French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. (enquiries@grantandcutler) OTHER
Give it a listen in your native or Target Language! BBC Website for learning English via news, entertainment, music, sport.
・allows students to study using current news articles. He paraphrases current news into a one-page Word or PDF along with various activities for teachers to create a lesson with. Maintained by Sean Banville, who also supplies an audio file of him reading the article allowing each lesson to be made into either a listening or reading focus.
(Online Interactive Links to Conversation Games) Loucky, J. P. (2004). Gaining Speaking Confidence by Mastering Basic English Questions: Using Enjoyable Games within a Simple Framework. Mankind always needed a common language to exchange and share ideas. Today, it is a certain form of English, with a sentence building that is not too demanding, no trouble with accents, and a small set of useful words (1 ,500). This language is so different from formal English, and more limited that it must given a different name ・Globish. English is spoken in England, and Globish can be spoken in the global village, everywhere by everyone. They can be called Globiphones. Native English speakers have great difficulties when they want to reduce their words down to the 1, 500 key ones. As a simple globiphone, you are satisfied as soon as language is just understandable. Globiphones are at least seven times more numerous than Native English speakers . We should accept the evidence that a new language has appeared!
These are 225 book reports written by Doshisha University students to help you decide what books you would like to read. Choose either Low or High Intermediate Levels
Blogging posts from the foreign language category at Gadling.com. Multiple links to other blog topics. Probably the best brief, one page site and set of definitions.
Try listening to their online Video News! BBC's World Challenge helps support innovative self-help economic development projects in developing countries. in association with Shell, is a global competition that seeks out projects and businesses that not only make a profit, but also put something back into the community. World Challenge 2007, brought to you by BBC World and Newsweek, in association with Shell is all about rewarding individuals or groups that truly make a difference through enterprise and innovation at a grass roots level.
Robin Good's VERY GOOD Online Collaboration Blog
BrainHoney is a free online personalized learning platform that allows teachers to track student progress against state standards, supplement instruction with online resources, or even teach online.
25 Old and New Testament Stories (Macmillan L.H.) BIRTH PROCESS: "In the Womb": Amazing 4-D Footage of Growing Baby The two-hour National Geographic documentary "In the Womb" is now available on YouTube in 9 parts. Originally aired in 2005, the documentary used revolutionary techniques in computer imaging and 4-D ultrasounds to present stunning images of the developing embryo, taking viewers through the amazing journey of the unborn baby from conception to birth. The video presents a remarkable visual apologetic for the pro-life message that human life begins with fertilization. Showing the continuous development of the unborn child from conception to birth, it shatters all attempts to pinpoint any other time as the beginning of life. Skill Series (Longman-Pearson) BASIC ENGLISH
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by Prof. Yoshiko Aizawa in his new book on BASIC, published in Japan in 2007. Blogs for English Learning BlogAbroad.com chronicles the adventures of four students as they study abroad in different countries. You can interact with the students and give them advice or learn from their journeys. Blog with Interesting Stories & Pictures Bookgoo allows you to highlight and annotate your documents in the same way you would mark up a piece of paper with a highlighter and pen!
from Nik Peachey's Learning Technology Teacher Development Blog. Basic ENGLISH and Business English Learning Sites; Books; Biographies
With Chuala, teachers or speech language pathologists record pronunciation examples and create lessons for their students or clients. Learners can practice wherever there is internet and as often as they want. Pronunciation examples can be recorded in any of the world's 7,589 languages and translations can be added if this will help the learner. J@M offers great video dialogues covering 14 language situations Books for Beginning Readers Tar Heel Reader is a great collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible E-Books on a wide range of topics. Each book can be speech-enabled and accessed using multiple interfaces (i.e. switches, alternative keyboards, touch screens, and dedicated AAC devices). The books may be downloaded as slide shows in PowerPoint, Impress, or Flash format. You may even write your own books using pictures from the huge collection at Flickr or from pictures you upload yourself.
Literature Classics Section
to help you teach ELL, ESL and EFL! (From larryferlazzo.edublogs.org page, Websites of the Year, which is actually a better place to access the lists.
Arranged Topically from A-Z by Larry Ferlazzo. 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, by 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. exercises. One of the Best・ for slideshows, that's so easy to use, used effectively for writing is Bookr, another great tool for anybody, including Beginning English Language Learners. You just type in a tag to search Flickr for images, drag them into a book and write about them. 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 tool to create comic strips from Flickr.com photos.
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Type or paste your text and click the SUBMIT window button. VocabProfile will tell you how many words the text contains from 20 frequency bands of roughly 1,000 word families in size from the 100 million word British National Corpus. BASIC ENGLISH WORDLIST AND STORIES USING IT (only an 850 word vocabulary) (850 words: Click on WordList or go to page 4) Basic English is an attempt to give to everyone a second, or international language, which will take as little of the learner's time as possible. It is a system in which everything may be said for all the purposes of everyday existence: the common interests of men and women, general talk, news, trade, and science. (Using Basic English's 850 word vocabulary only)
written using only 850 words of Basic English Created by Indiana educators and leaders, "Buddy2 develops and facilitates leading edge learning projects in K-12 school communities to increase student achievement using technology in anytime, anywhere settings." BASIC ENGLISH AND BUSINESS ENGLISH LEARNING SITES Sites for Students; Business and Company English; English for Specific / Academic / Technical Purposes for English Vocabulary and Language Learning Many Great Activities for ESL / EFL Students Vocabulary Development Practice Lessons at various levels to choose from An 850 word Simplified English to make learning and reading easier.
News in Easier English for students and teachers
Talk about company logos, image and philosophy. Create new or imaginary company letterheads or Websites. Ogden's Basic English List of 850 most essential words and website. Reading Writing and Learner's Site
Open English World provides free activities to help you learn English. The Weekly Idiom will help to improve your spoken English. Business Jargon will improve your business English conversation. Talk English will help you speak English fluently in daily life. The Forum is a place to meet students, ask questions, and discuss activities. TOP ESL BUSINESS SITES More of the world's best English language learning links chosen by ESL All Adapted with permission from ESL All March-April 2006 Issue - Vol. 2, no. 3 What is Business English? Business English is English especially used in national or international trade with English-speaking countries as well as countries where English is not a native language but is used as a shared second language. Business English touches on a variety of fields. For some it means vocabulary related to business topics. For others it is more closely linked to the communication skills required in the workplace. ESL All selected these top ten resources covering both business vocabulary and business skills in addition to material aimed at developing the four language skills (speaking, writing, listening, and reading).
By far the most widely developed British business website on the Internet. A great place to visit to learn and improve your English through business related topics. Top-quality materials only. A favourite general and business English website of ours. Provides over a thousand pages of free information and resources for both teachers and students. All materials are organized by skill and level for quick and easy access. The business section contains: Useful Expressions (with audio files in American English), Textbook Recommendations, Quick Links, Learning Strategies, Teaching Business English resources, and a lot more.
Your guide to English as a 2nd language (ESL / EFL) including an interesting section devoted to Business English. Contains resources related to Business English Lessons, Business Reading, Business English Vocabulary, Business Speaking Skills, Business English Writing and a lot more.
Business English for EFL, ESL students. Resources for learning business English, including varied sections: business correspondence, business presentations and public speaking, business vocabulary, business news and business and money. A self-study magazine for learners of English published by the Linguarama website. Each issue has a theme on which many of the exercises are based, for example: Sales, Personnel, Cross Culture, Finance, Marketing, Business Communication, Insurance, Quality, Legal English, Technology, Banking, Management, and Retailing. There are also exercises with answer keys on reading, writing, grammar, pronunciation, style, vocabulary and usage. Business English Lessons: Better English Pearson Brown, ESL teacher and author, offers free interactive exercises for many business-related topics. Some of these topics are: Business Idioms Hangman, Business Idioms of Time, Business as War Idioms, Business Adjective Intensifiers, Phrasal Verbs, Business Presentations, Survival Expressions, Signposting, and more. An interesting collection of online Business English resources put together by the Internet TESL Journal. For those of you looking for additional business resources.
An impressive list of additional resources for those interested in learning or teaching Business English. Covers Vocabulary, Business Exercises and Quizzes, Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening, Telephone English, Public Speaking, Debate, Famous Speeches, Multilingual Sites, and a lot more. An interesting collection of business resources. Includes vocabulary quizzes, tests, ESL Business lessons, T.O.E.I.C ( Test Of English in International Communication).
Hundred of free business revision exercises touching on topics such as: Company (law), Joint-Stock Company, Partnership, Supply and Demand, Letter Writing, and a lot more. Site is maintained by Dr Michael A. Riccioli, the University of Paris-Dauphine. BUSINESS ENGLISH VOCABULARY AND TEXTS From Mike Nelson's Business English Lexis Site Talking English text and multimedia from PearsonLongman.com BUSINESS MAGAZINES ONLINE Top Economic News; Asia and Asia Tech Blog; Economics Innovation Investing; Europe; Investing and Newsletters; Technology; Innovation & Design; Autos; Energy Product Reviews. WORLD'S BEST ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING LINKS CHOSEN BY ESL ALL Subscribe here to get ESL All's great free monthly updates. More of the world's best English language learning links chosen by ESL All Adapted with permission from ESL All March-April 2006 Issue - Vol. 2, no. 3 More of the world's best English language learning links chosen by ESL All Adapted with permission from ESL All June 2006 Issue - Vol. 2, no. 5 More of the world's best English language learning links chosen by ESL All Adapted with permission from ESL All May 2006 Issue -Vol. 2, no. 4 More of the world's best English language learning links chosen by ESL All Adapted with permission from ESL All January 2006 Issue - Vol. 2, no. 1 More of the world's best English language learning links chosen by ESL All Adapted with permission from ESL All October 2005 Issue -Vol. 1, no. 2
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More of the world's best English language learning links chosen by ESL All Adapted with permission from ESL All February 2006 Issue -Vol. 2, no. 2 More of the world's best English language learning links chosen by ESL All Adapted with permission from ESL All December 2005 Issue - Vol. 1, no. 4 More of the world's best English language learning links chosen by ESL All Adapted with permission from ESL All November 2005 Issue - Vol. 1, no. 3 BASIC LANGUAGE PROGRAMS Free Demos for learning the Basics of 64 languages. Get started! CHAT ROBOTS, CHATBOTS OR CHATTERBOTS, ALSO SIMPLY KNOWN AS "BOTS" These are computer programs on online sites that simulate human communication patterns. They can mimic human conversation or chatting by using artificial intelligence (AI). Eliza was the first chatbot, made in 1966 by Weizenbaum. Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity Great list of Chatterbots from Google's Directory. Chatterbots waiting to simulate chatting with you at Geocities.com.
BEST ENGLISH EDUCATION BLOGS More of the world's best English language learning links chosen by ESL All Adapted with permission from ESL All September 2006 Issue, Blogs, Vol. 2, No. 7. Welcome to this selection of the BEST ESL (English as a Second Language), EFL (English as a Foreign language) and Business English Blogs! A weblog, or blog for short, is a type of website where entries are made (like a journal or diary) and displayed in reverse chronological order. These ten blogs provide news, comments and information on English learning and teaching. A typical blog contains mostly text, but can also contain images, and links to other resources and blogs, web pages, and other media related to the topic under discussion. These blogsites cover a wide range of topics dealing with general and business English, topics that can be useful to both English learners and teachers. The last suggested link provides a collection of close to 100 other English learning blogsites available for free on the web. Happy blogging! A high-quality English-learning related blog for teachers and students managed by Jeffrey Hill. Valuable comments and resources for English learning. Archives. Links to other blog sites. A place where English instructors and students meet to discuss and learn. Covers the field of English as a whole. Great links and resources for English as a Second language, and other related disciplines such as composition, literature, rhetoric and linguistics. Also features ESL Coffeetalk, ESL Forum Buzz, and Scattergories. Edited by Lee Hobbs. Lesson plans, teaching locales, tips, tricks and budgeting advice mostly for novice and veteran ESL instructors, but also contains very interesting material for ESL students. Features Recent Entries, ESL Jobs, Hot Discussion Topics, and Cool Links. Edited by Carol Rueckert.
Te4Be.com: Ideas and observations about the day-to-day teaching of Business English as well as site visitors comments and experiences. Includes the following sections: Teachers, Technology, Web Links, Students, and FAQ. Edited by Barney Barrett and Pete Sharma.
Business English Blogs: A list of high-quality blogsites for those who are interested in Business English. Ideas, reflections and conversation about language learning and teaching, business and communication, entrepreneurship and technology. AskDoctorEnglish.Blogspot.com: Ask Doctor English your ESL and English language learning specialist. Ask whatever you like about the English language. Doctor English is an ESL Teacher, based in Vancouver, BC, Canada. UsingEnglish.com: ESL learners and teachers online blog. Ideas, thoughts, uses of English and other language-learning related issues. Features many discusion categories, ESL archives and links to other blogs. Very useful material for language learners. A very interesting blogsite for ESL learners. Contains general thoughts and ideas on language learning as well as great language links. Featured sections are: Dictionaries and References, ESL Learners, ESL Teachers, Quizzes and Exercises, Links to other Blogs on the web, and a lot more.
For those of you who would like to explore more blogsites not listed in this newsletter, here's an interesting collection of blog-related links of interest to teachers and students of English as a Second Language.
(with Slideshows). THIS IS A BLOG RELATED TO THE ICT4LT WEBSITE AT HTTP://WWW.ICT4LT.ORG IT AIMS TO ENCOURAGE FEEDBACK ON THE ICT4LT SITE IN PARTICULAR AND THE USE OF ICT IN LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING IN GENERAL. Blogs' Search Engine: Technorati is the major search engine for blogs, which you can interrogate with an advanced query form by keyword (try academic or language learning or browse via their blog index. Run by students at Sweden's Ume・University's humanities lab, a place where the humanities, cultural studies and modern information and media technology can meet and work together, both in real and virtual terms・
discusses her research on virtuality and conversational multi-tasking.
focused on intercultural exchanges. BLOGS FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS AND STUDENTS
LoudBlog is a sleek and easy-to-use Content Management System (CMS) for publishing media content on the web. It automatically generates a skinnable website and an RSS-Feed for Podcasting. Just upload your audio/video files, add some notes and links, and you're done! E-LEARNING BLOGS This list represents some of the more active e-learning blogs Gabe Anderson has found or read regularly. As he says: each of these is great in its own way -- be it the in-depth analysis, the industry headlines, the technical prowess -- but all will get you thinking about learning and technology in new ways. From learning theories to content design, metadata to LMSes, survey data to industry trends, these blogs have it all.・ Information and resources for teachers of English as a Foreign Language. Includes a forum, job vacancies, flashcards, and activities. LexioPhiles recently published "The Top 100 language Blogs" here.
BLACKBOARD offers free 1 month trial to set up any online course. BLOGGING & FILE-EXCHANGE PROGRAMS Find a Language Partner to practice with for 113 Languages in over 170 Countries! Free! Lang-8.com is a great place for free Language Exchange! Allows you to start your own Japanese Language Blog, which natives speakers will help correct for free! Corrections will be highlighted so you can easily learn from your own mistakes. Sample recommended Language Blogs include: Edmodo is a site that is "a private micro-blogging platform that teachers and students can use to send notes, links, files, alerts, assignments, and events to each other;" students do not need an email address, just a code obtained from the teacher. Gliffy is a Graphic Organizer program BIBLIOGRAPHIES
by William J. Rapaport NEW SITE FOR EXTENSIVE READING HEADQUARTERS! Extensive Searchable Research Reference List with Abstracts. BOOKS (available via Amazon.com) Books (and software) listed on this page have been selected by EFL / ESL teachers of the English Specialist Group on the purpose of helping language teachers and students with finding good resources for their work. Cheapest prices online or off for inspiring faith-building books, music, and software. Atlases. World's largest online marketplace for books. Huge travel selection! BRITISH COUNCIL from the British Council Includes practical lesson plans, articles, books, downloads, etc. to keep your teaching fresh. Network with over 10,000 teachers via this English Language Teaching Contacts Scheme (ELTeCS).
Hornby Educational Trust runs regional workshops to benefit language teachers・development.
Use this powerful search engine to help build up your links with others in the CALL and Language Teaching Community worldwide. Regularly updated links, materials and tips to help improve your language assistance and teaching. Essential data for career development in language education. Find suitable language programs and qualifications for your future success here (EU-related). Having offices in 110 countries, the British Council has many local webpages to assist area teachers. They work with education ministries, and provide support to teacher associations such as electronic newsletters. BIOGRAPHIES
There are 20 people in each of these five sections: Arts, Business, Politics, Science and Society.
(All Males here)
Search by field of activity or categories. Famous person anagram or quiz. Famous Peoples' Quotations. Can be searched by category and author. to compare with your own. guide for writing about famous or infamous people. Current celebrities site Older Famous People, famous people now deceased, writers, politicians, scientists, etc may be found under Yahoo! Sections. BIBLE-RELATED RESOURCES
Bamboo is an online Christian Bookstore with this stated aim:
This is a parallel corpus of the entire Gospel of Luke in 30 languages, which allows full-text searching and side-by-side comparison of up to seven languages. Bible Resources makes the Bible freely available online in multiple languages (20 major ones at this time) and translations with Bible Answers, Free Online Concordance Keyword and Passage Searches, Bible Tools, Bible Aids, Bible Studies, Bible Stories, Bible Devotionals, Bible Reading Plans, Bible Memorization Techniques. Most versatile free site on the subject known. The Blue Letter Bible now has over 4,000,000 links onsite to over 165,000 pages of concordances, lexicons, dictionaries, commentaries, images, and Bible versions! A program devised by Mark-Jason Dominus from Pennsylvania University, and applied to King James Authorised Version of the Bible. The program includes other corpora such as: Topical Bible (Nave), Bible Dictionary (Easton), New Topical Textbook (Torrey), Thematic Subject Guide, Dictionary of New Testament Words (Vine) and Bible Names Dictionary (Hitchcock). Here you can look for any quote/word from the Bible. The program also provides information about the different senses of a word and the corresponding concordances for each sense. for searching English Bible versions online. BIBLE LEXICONS AND FREE SOFTWARE This site offers free lexica and dictionaries that can be used in any SWORD API based Bible program. To download, simply click on the links given for free Chinese, German, English, Greek and Hebrew support. FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING BOOKSELLERS A London foreign language-learning bookstore for all living languages from Afrikaans to Zulu (they say), with a particularly deep range in French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. (enquiries@grantandcutler) OTHER
Give it a listen in your native or Target Language! BBC Website for learning English via news, entertainment, music, sport.
・allows students to study using current news articles. He paraphrases current news into a one-page Word or PDF along with various activities for teachers to create a lesson with. Maintained by Sean Banville, who also supplies an audio file of him reading the article allowing each lesson to be made into either a listening or reading focus.
(Online Interactive Links to Conversation Games) Loucky, J. P. (2004). Gaining Speaking Confidence by Mastering Basic English Questions: Using Enjoyable Games within a Simple Framework. Mankind always needed a common language to exchange and share ideas. Today, it is a certain form of English, with a sentence building that is not too demanding, no trouble with accents, and a small set of useful words (1 ,500). This language is so different from formal English, and more limited that it must given a different name ・Globish. English is spoken in England, and Globish can be spoken in the global village, everywhere by everyone. They can be called Globiphones. Native English speakers have great difficulties when they want to reduce their words down to the 1, 500 key ones. As a simple globiphone, you are satisfied as soon as language is just understandable. Globiphones are at least seven times more numerous than Native English speakers . We should accept the evidence that a new language has appeared!
These are 225 book reports written by Doshisha University students to help you decide what books you would like to read. Choose either Low or High Intermediate Levels
Blogging posts from the foreign language category at Gadling.com. Multiple links to other blog topics. Probably the best brief, one page site and set of definitions.
Try listening to their online Video News! BBC's World Challenge helps support innovative self-help economic development projects in developing countries. in association with Shell, is a global competition that seeks out projects and businesses that not only make a profit, but also put something back into the community. World Challenge 2007, brought to you by BBC World and Newsweek, in association with Shell is all about rewarding individuals or groups that truly make a difference through enterprise and innovation at a grass roots level.
Robin Good's VERY GOOD Online Collaboration Blog
BrainHoney is a free online personalized learning platform that allows teachers to track student progress against state standards, supplement instruction with online resources, or even teach online.
25 Old and New Testament Stories (Macmillan L.H.) BIRTH PROCESS: "In the Womb": Amazing 4-D Footage of Growing Baby The two-hour National Geographic documentary "In the Womb" is now available on YouTube in 9 parts. Originally aired in 2005, the documentary used revolutionary techniques in computer imaging and 4-D ultrasounds to present stunning images of the developing embryo, taking viewers through the amazing journey of the unborn baby from conception to birth. The video presents a remarkable visual apologetic for the pro-life message that human life begins with fertilization. Showing the continuous development of the unborn child from conception to birth, it shatters all attempts to pinpoint any other time as the beginning of life. Skill Series (Longman-Pearson) BASIC ENGLISH
(Ogden's)
by Prof. Yoshiko Aizawa in his new book on BASIC, published in Japan in 2007. Blogs for English Learning
Bookr is a document reader for the Play Station Portable (PSP) that currently supports plain text (.txt) PDF, and new for this release; text only basic HTML files. http://www.jogtheweb.com/run/kLNfFgf9DEz6 Bookr is a tool to share and create and share images in your Photobook as Flickr Images. Bookr is a simple, fun, web-based program that lets users search Flickr photo program. Bookr is a great resource for beginning readers and writers. B & W PAGES
Web 2.0 bookmarks made using the social bookmarking tool, Diigo. They are categorized by type of tool, especially those really good for educators! Also Visit previous Sites of School Days: BlogAbroad.com BlogAbroad.com chronicles the adventures of four students as they study abroad in different countries. You can interact with the students and give them advice or learn from their journeys. Blog with Interesting Stories & Pictures Bookgoo allows you to highlight and annotate your documents in the same way you would mark up a piece of paper with a highlighter and pen!
from Nik Peachey's Learning Technology Teacher Development Blog. BLENDED LEARNING PROGRAMS TO TRY OUT BookLikes is a cool new (beta) site that is a social network for book lovers. This is a place where people can search for books by author, title, category, etc and then review them. www.dyned.com/products/tt/ Multimedia Teacher Training Program designed specifically for teachers who need to blend technology into their teaching Sean Banville, the man behind a zillion sites used by ESL teachers around the world everyday, has compiled a very big list of ESL blogs - and it's growing. See more listed in The Best ESL/EFL Blogs.
Another useful list of Ed Tech Blogs: Use a newsreader (like Google Reader, Netvibes, Pageflakes) and add some of these blogs to enhance your personal learning network.
Business English: 260 free exercises covering various aspects of modern Business English (arranged by topic), including both audio and video-based listening comprehension sections. Boolify is a site which "makes it easier for students to understand their Web search by illustrating the logic of their search, and by showing them how each change to their search instantly changes their results." MacMillan McGraw Hill Publishers have quite a few simple biographies of famous figures in U.S., California, and World History. The same site also has similar biographies of people who fit into other categories. Each biography also provides links to additional accessible resources on the people described. These biographies are good just as stand-alone reading or being adapted as cloze (fill-in-the-gap) exercises. See The Best Resources For Researching & Writing Biographies. Bundle is a new application that easily lets you identify how much people - similar to you demographically - spend in different categories. It's location-specific, at least by county. If you create opportunities for students to learn about budgeting and have them develop their own, Bundle would be a good tool for them to get a realistic idea about how much they might have to spend. See others at The Best Sites For Students To Create Budgets.
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