DIGITAL BOOK AND COMIC CREATORS  Kaizena: Give your students fast feedback directly on their work with voice comments.
Pixton: Create comics by clicking and dragging pictures around.
Storybird: Put together picture books that you can sell digitally or in print.
TikTok: Digital and print book creator from Pearson.
Adobe Spark: Craft visual multimedia stories of images, text, and videos.
DIGITAL STORYTELLING PROGRAMS: Digital Storytelling Tools
Digital Storytelling.Collection of 100+ tools for presenting stories! Curated by teacher librarian Dr. Joyce Valenza. Digital Storytelling - more
A list of technology resource teacher Nick Purdue's favorite digital storytelling apps and websites. CLASSDOJO SCHOOL-WIDE
The news has been making its away around the internet as the wonderful behavior management/positive reinforcement site/app ClassDojo, has announced that it is now school-wide. What does this mean? It means that educators will be able to connect w/ other teachers in their school so that they can teach together. Also, it means that they will be able to share student rosters, track students behavior/progress, and more, across their mutual classes. This is great for collaborative teaching or for those teachers that are new to using ClassDojo and can have a "mentor" help them out. Duolingo For Schools Opened Today - Here's How It Works
Larry Ferlazzo posted earlier this week (see Duolingo Takes Next Step To Conquer Language Learning World & Lets Teachers Create Virtual Classrooms), the super-popular Duolingo language-learning app unveiled its free Duolingo For Schools feature today. It looks impressive. Its very easy to register as a teacher and create a class. Try it, youll love it! BOOK WRITER
Book Writer is one of my favorite mobile apps for digital storytelling. This is a beautifully designed app that allows students to easily create digital stories by uploading, photos, videos, links, and more. Best of all, a user can record their audio right onto the page of a book. A finished product can then be printed out as a PDF or exported into iBooks. DOJO Classes
ClassDojo the world famous behavior/positive reinforcement manage system for schools has just released their new "group" feature. This highly requested feature will allow teachers to award points to not only an individual but a group as well. This is ideal for educators who like to put their class into groups or teams to spark collaborative learning. Download Shadow Puppet today!
Simple digital storytelling tool for iPad. Students create narrated slideshows to demonstrate learnings, practice speaking, share classroom happenings with parents. DegreeStory
DegreeStory is an interesting site that helps people make informed decisions about what career or degree to go into. The way this works is they get people in the profession or educators to submit stories about their experiences in their field so that people searching will get idea of what it is REALLY like "behind the scenes". Walter Rivera Santos webinar where I go over the whole process of setting up SLACK.com
David Kapuler's Digital BLOG
Kapuler's PInterest Collection!
Mobile Apps Collection from Dave Kapuler
Twitter to Dave Kapuler
Doodle GROUP DATE-Planner
Planning a team meeting? This handy tool lets individuals with busy schedules select the most optimal date and time for everyone. DuoLingo.com
One of the best easy language learning sites with sound! Spanish Placement Test @ DuoLingo
DIMENSIONU
DimensionU is an innovative company that specializes in educational games for Math & Literacy. These games are multiplayer and take place in a 3D virtual world (i.e. Second Life). What makes DU games so great is that they are aligned to Common Core Standards, have a high replay, and help students work cooperatively for a common goal. Also, these games are designed for both Primary/Secondary Level and reinforce a wide range of skills. [Written by dkapuler on Jan 09, 2014]. Door 24
Door 24 is a fantastic new iPadApp for Math grades 4th-8th. This app is aligned to Common Core Standards and focuses on basic Math facts, number sense, and logical/algebraic thinking. It uses fun interactive animated problems to help fix Victor Robot's circuits and find out the mystery of Door 24. Dictations Are Fun!
From TEFL Reflections Dinosaurs: Mysteries Solved?
DiscoverEd
DiscoverEd: is a search prototype developed by Creative Commons dedicated to providing open educational resources on the Web. While most search engines rely solely on algorithmic analyses of resources, DiscoverEd can incorporate data provided by the resource publisher or curator. Digital Legacys
Safe Content for Kids/Secure SEARCH ENGINES: SIMPLER & BETTER THAN EVER! The web is enormous and full of resources. Many of those resources are untrustworthy or inappropriate. Fortunately, there are tools that exist to help teachers find classroom-safe content. Here are some of the best of them: DuckDuckGo
Search the web safely using this privacy-minded search engine. DinoSearch
Search the web with this search engine's keyword and key phrase filtering system. Kiddle
Search through only sites that satisfy this service's family-friendly requirements. Web for Classrooms
Search through age-appropriate content that has been hand-checked by teachers for relevance and trustworthiness. Photos For Class
Look for classroom-safe photos and images that include author citations and image license terms. For more: Check out these shelves of tools created by members like you: Internet Safety
Curated by digital literacy instructional specialist Christine Schein. Internet Safety
Curated by coordinator of information & technology literacy Jennifer Cirino. Enjoy these great tools for educators and students! Looking for previous issues of the edshelf Weekly? All Previous EdShelf Issues are available online here at: https://edshelf.tumblr.com/tagged/edshelf-weekly
Plotagon
Plotagon is a excellent new (beta) PC/Mac app that is ideal for digital storytelling and free for download (it's robust 950 MB). This app reminds me a lot of the now defunct Xtranormal, in that all a user has to do to create a digital story is type out a scene. A lot of educators like to have students write out their storyboard before starting a digital story process and this is where Plotagon is perfect. All a student has to do is type out that story and watch their animations come to life. A user can also choose from different actions, sound effects, and music that they want to include into their story. A finished story can then be shared on Plotagon's site or YouTube. Hopefully, being able to embed a story into site/blog is soon to follow. [Written by dkapuler on Jan 15, 2014]. Digital Storytelling
Curated by high school district librarian Shonda Brisco. BOOK WRITER
Book Writer is a fantastic iOS app for digital storytelling that lets users create interactive digital books, PDFs, and more. Educators are using this to Flip their classroom, create tutorials, photo books, presentations, and Project Based Learning. It's a simple app to use that has a drag-n-drop interface and lets users upload images, videos, audio, text, etc. For more info on Book Writer check out EDshelf. For Kapuler's Pinterest board on Digital Storytelling click here. Rory's Story Cubes
Shake nine virtual cubes for story prompts. Try using all nine prompts for a fun challenge! Shadow Puppet Edu
A kid-friendly project-based learning and digital storytelling app with Common Core activity ideas too. 30hands
This slide-based storytelling app also works as a presentation creator and allows images, videos, and audio.
DIGITAL STORYTELLING APPS 50 Sites and Apps for Digital Storytelling
Digital Storytelling is the process of telling a story through the use of digital means. Also, it happens to be one the easiest ways to integrate technology into the classroom. Educators can use digital storytelling w/ almost any subject and can even "flip" their classroom by using mobile apps. Below is Kapuler's comprehensive list of sites/apps that can be used for digital storytelling...[*This list is in alphabetical order.] 50 Digital Storytelling Apps are: 1. 30 Hands - A fantastic user-friendly iOS app for creating a story by adding a narrations to photos. Also, 30hands has an excellent video tutorial to help users create a story. 2. Animation Desk - A innovative iPad app that allows a user to create a custom drawing and then animate it, as well as adding sounds. 3. AnMish - A fun site to create a puppet, record audio, and then embed into a site to tell a story. 4. Art Maker - A wonderful iPad app for kids to create a digital story by selecting a background, adding characters, and then recording audio. 5. Bitstrips for Schools - A great site for creating digital comics in the classroom, with lots of resources and an educational portal. 6. BoomWriter - A fantastic safe site for students (teachers create accounts - not student email required) to create digital stories/books through a collaborative process. Once a story is completed, it gets published online and an actual book can then be ordered. 7. Bunsella Bedtimes Story - A great iOS app that allows a person to record narration to a book to tell a story. 8. Comic Life - Probably the most popular digital comic iOS app for creating comics. This is a very fun and easy to use app for telling the story by creating a customized comic. 9. Comic Master - One of my favorite sites for creating a digital comic by selecting a template, adding characters/props, and then adding text to tell a story. 10. Digital Films - A nice site for creating a digital animated story and then embedded into a site/blog to share it with others. 11. Five Card Flickr - A fun way to create a story through the use of five random Flickr photos. 12. i Tell a Story - Users of Garageband will feel right at home with this great iOS app for creating a digital story. 13. Inklewriter - A unique site that allows students to collaborate with others to build a story by branching off of other paths. 14. Little Bird Tales - One of the most popular sites for digital storytelling that allows students to create their own art and record their voice. Also, there is a excellent iOS app available for mobile learning. 15. Make Beliefs Comix - A nice site for creating digital comics in a number of different languages as well of lots of educational resources. 16. Meograph - An innovative site for four dimensional storytelling that has an educational portal. 17. Moo-O - A fantastic site that has students use their own photo inside of a digital story. 18. My Story - A wonderful iPad app for creating a digital book/story. All a user has to do is draw or upload a picture, add some text, and then record audio to tell a story. 19. my StoryMaker - A very fun site for creating a digital story by adding lots of elements such as: characters, objects, backgrounds, and more. 20. myCreate - An excellent iPad app for easily creating stop motion animations. 21. Myths & Legends - A great site for digital storytelling where users create a story by adding characters, scenes, and text. There is an educational portal. 22. Pixntell - A simple-to-use iOS app for organizing iPhotos into a story, then recording audio. 23. Pixton for Schools - A nice site with educational portal for creating digital comics. 24. Primary Access - An interesting site for creating a digital story with historical stock footage. 25. Qwiki - A simple to use iOS app for creating a story. Qwiki automatically groups pictures and videos to create a presentation. A user can then customize this by drag-n-dropping into any order they want or selecting specific music. 26. Scribble Press - A terrific iPad app for creating a digital book/story through drawing and object tools. Users can also order a print copy of their book. 27. SonicPics - A great iOS app for creating digital story by recording narrations to a user's photos. 28. Speech Journal - A nice iPad app for pairing recorded audio with a digital picture from one's iPhoto library to create a story. 29. Stage'D - A cool site for creating a visually stunning CGI rendered story. 30. Sock Puppets - A very fun iOS app that allows users to lip-sync audio to a sock puppet. One of my kids' favorites! 31. Story Creator - One of my favorite iOS apps for creating a digital story by syncing audio and photos together. Also, an option allows for highlighting of text during narration to help a student with reading. 32. Story Patch - A excellent site for creating a story. Teaches a student the step-by-step process of story creation. 33. Storybird - A great site with educational portal where students create art-inspired stories and then embed into a site/blog. 34. StoryJumper - A fantastic site for creating a digital story by building a story from scratch or choosing one of the story starters. A student can add objects, text, and even upload their own art too. 35. StoryKit - A simple-to-use iOS app for telling a story by adding text, photos, and audio. 36. Storyplanet - A very innovative site for creating a digital story or video mashup. Users select a theme or template (or create their own), add video, photos, text, effects, etc. and then share with others. 37. StorySmith - A fun iPad app for telling a digital story with either a fantasy- or pirate-based theme. 38. Storytelling Alice - A wonderful free PC app that allows users to create a digital story. Helps build programming skills. 39. Strip Designer - A iOS app similar to Comic Life for creating a digital comic. 40. Toontastic - One of the most popular and fun iPad apps for digital storytelling by adding characters/objects to a background and recording your audio while moving the pieces around. 41. Tell a Tale - A interesting iPad app that has a user verbally tell a story based on the first and last sentence of a story and three images. 42. Tellagami - A nice way to tell a short story by creating an avatar and then recording audio, similar to Voki. 43. Tumblecloud - A unique site that allows users to collaborate on a digital story through a drag-n-drop interface. 44. UtellStory - A nice place to tell a story through audio, images, and video, as well as collaborating with others. 45. VoiceThread - One of the most popular educational sites/apps for creating a interactive digital storytelling by uploading multimedia content and recording an audio narration. A finished VoiceThread can then be embedded into a site/blog. 46. Web of Stories - A community where users tell their story through the use of video. 47. WriteComics - A simple to use site for creating a digital comic to tell a story. 48. Xtranormal - A very popular site for creating stunning animated videos, with educational portal. 49. Zeen - Create a story by adding text, images, music, videos and more, then embed into a site to share. 50. ZooBurst - An innovative site and iPad app for creating 3D digital popup books. iPresent Online
David Kapuler's EdShelf BLogspot with great Digital Storytelling recommendations
30hands30hands is a wonderful iOS app for digital storytelling. It's a perfect mobile learning tool that can be used in any curriculum for all grade levels. It has a very easy to use drag-n-drop interface and allows students record their audio on top of images to create a digital story. Once a story is created, it can then be exported to a camera roll or published to 30hands educational website for sharing. Brickflow
Brickflow is an innovative new (private beta) program for digital storytelling that is similar to Prezi and Storyplanet. It has the zooming capabilities of Prezi w/ a similar style of block building process for story creation via Storyplanet. Brickflow is a very user friendly site that allows users to upload all types of media (videos, images, links, text) via hashtags and more. Once media is uploaded it can be rearranged by moving blocks around. Finally, a finished story can then be embedded into a site or blog which is ideal for education. I highly recommend checking out Brickflow by clicking here! Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero
StorySmith
StorySmith is a fun inexpensive iPad app for digital storytelling. This app is dear to my heart as it focuses on a fantasy setting and students can select: backgrounds, characters, props, and add text. A pirate theme will be coming soon. [Written by dkapuler on Jan 31, 201]. For his Pinterest board on Digital Storytelling click here. For his Edshelf collection on Digital Storytelling click here. 31 of My Favorite Digital Storytelling Sites
Creator is working on starting a virtual classroom- 'actually when it is all said and done, it will look more like a virtual club. I have opened up my virtual classroom to students in 3rd-8th grade. My first offering is going to be digital storytelling. In honor of that, I thought I would share the sites I am going to use with the students, as well as some other favorites for digital storytelling.' Story Kit: Create an Electronic Storybook
Make use of short gaps of time in your life to communicate and make something creative together with your kids or class! TOP 10 APPS FOR DIGITAL STORYTELLING
Digital Storytelling is a new skill being taught in school districts all around the world, and its a key for developing technology literacy. With the recent wave of mobile devices and technologies, a giant step has been taken in how students develop these skills (via touch screen) in a brand new way. TOONTASTIC
Toontastic - Toontastic is a wonderful free iPad app for digital storytelling. This app is ideal for teaching the skill of storytelling through the use of creating a digital comic. It allows children to create animated cartoon stories. They can choose from stock characters or draw their own while animating them and recording their voice for narration. Also, Toontastic's built -in story arc takes students step by step up in how to create a story. Then they can animate it by tapping a limb and moving it around. Also, a person can record their own voice to tell the story and add background music. [Written by dkapuler]
1. i Tell a Story - A excellent free iPad that works very similarly to how Garageband creates a podcast. A user uploads a photo and then can record their voice for narration while adding stock sound effects.
2. Voice Thread App - A great free iPad/iPhone app that compliments the Voice Thread very nicely for storytelling. A user can manage their Voice Thread account as well as make digital stories by uploading photos and drawing/recording their voice.
3. Story Patch - Is a iPad app ($2.99) that is ideal for digital storytelling. A person can create a story from scratch or use one of their well designed templates to complete all the parts of a story.
4. Sock Puppets - A free iPad/iPhone app that is a lot of fun for kids to create animated stories. This is done by selecting your sock, background, and props and then recording your voice as the socks talk.
5. Art Maker - A wonderful free iPad app that allows children to create a digital story from scratch. A user selects their background, characters, and props and then moves them around the screen while recording.
6. Puppet Pals - A excellent free iPad app that lets users create a story by adding characters or their own photos to a selected background. Once the scene is a setup a person can move the characters around while recording their voice.
7. Storyrobe - A fun little iPad/iPod/iPhone app ($.99) that allows a user to upload a photo and then record their voice for narration.
8. Strip Designer - An app ($2.99) similar to Comic Life for the iPad/iPhone/iPod. A user can create a digital comic by selecting a layout, adding pics, and then stickers and speech bubbles to enhance their digital story.
9. Comic Book - Another digital comic creator app ($1.99) for the iPad/iPhone/iPod that is similar to Strip Designer. A person selects their layout, adds their photos, select some effects/stickers/speech bubbles for their finished product. For others see: StoryKit, Cartoon Studio, Comic Life
10. 31 Other Digital Storytelling Programs here: http://ilearntechnology.com/?p=3190
Digital Video Revisted: "EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, DIGITAL VIDEO REVISITED: STORYTELLING, CONFERENCING, REMIXING." (LLT article)
DOODLETOO
DoodleToo is a fun site for creating, drawing, or just having fun. It is a combination of a drawing tool meets a chat room. A person enters a room and then can draw and chat at the same time. These rooms can be shared via a URL or embedded into a site. Diigo.com
Diigo is much more than a simple bookmarking tool! Compared with other bookmarking tools, Diigo enables you to do so much more. So if you read a lot digitally, Diigo is for you! Compared with other information management tools, Diigo is differentiated by its focus on e-reading. Featured Tools include: Diigo for iPad Your all-purpose digital library on iPad! Diigo Power Note for Android Your memory booster on the go! Diigo offline reader for iPhone Read bookmarks offline on iPhone Tools for desktop browsers Bookmark
Discovery Education.com: Web 2.0 Training
Discovery Ed Schrockguide for each year
DearReader.com
Tell me what type of books you like to read and each day I'll email you a short 5-minute excerpt from a book that I've hand-picked for you. You can enjoy my daily excerpts with your morning cup of coffee and before long I'll have you hooked on a book. Read US Future in the Demography Tea Leaves! Pat Buchanan's Analysis makes sense.
Digital Storytelling Projects, Directors Guild and Sites
Resources for Digital Movie Projects Digital Storytelling: 60 Tools and Counting...
50 Digital Tools used to tell the same Dominoe Dog Story!
Digital Storytelling: Tools for Educators (Silvia Rosenthal-Tolisano's book)
dkapuler created a simple course for Digital Storytelling, based on the inspiration from Shelly Terrell, Naomi Harm, and the Merton School District. This is designed specifically for all sorts of grade levels and can be used as a nice way to introduce this concept. All about English Communication
Tessellation Creator
A wonderful new site from Karen Ogen's excellent blog. You can make them using Appleworks 5.0, or online with Tessellation Creator. Doc Translator
Doc Translator says it "Instantly translates and preserves the layout of Office documents using the Google Translate." ESL students can put their energy into writing a document in English, make it into a nice flier, use Doc Translator to translate it (and maybe tidy it up a bit), and then upload it to the web using Crocodoc (as well as printing it out).a2 EasyDefine
EasyDefine is a site I just found out about from the amazing educator/presenter/app designer, Ozge Karaoglu. This is a terrific site for uploading a list of words to get their definition. However, what makes EasyDefine so great are various formats in where you can get your results such as: definitions, synonyms, flash cards, and quizzes. All which are ideal for learning your words. For another great site for learning Vocabulary check out SpellingCity. Digital. Mobile. Language. Learning: JALT CALL Personal Learning Network.
Digital Storytelling Rubric for Teacher's Evaluation
Did You Know?/Shift Happens Presentation Wiki
The Did You Know?/Shift Happens Presentation wiki gives background about the Did You Know? presentation and provides resources addressing the shifts that are occurring in education, K-12 and higher. Digital Arts Alliance, Pearson Foundation
The Digital Arts Alliance of the Pearson Foundation delivers educational experiences by providing fully funded and fully equipped digital arts programs to middle schools, high schools, and community centers across the United States. Digital Citizenship
Digital Citizenship is a teaching tool that helps teachers, technology leaders, and parents to understand what students, children, and technology users should know to use technology appropriately. DigiTales: The Art of Writing Digital Stories
DigiTales provides ideas, resources, and inspiration for families, individuals, schools, organizations, corporations, and churches to merge the art of storytelling with the skills of using digital tools. Digital Ethnography Blog
This is group blog led by Dr. Michael Wesch dedicated to exploring and extending the possibilities of digital ethnography. Digital Writing Wiki
The Digital Writing Wild is designed to support the book Teaching Writing Using Blogs, Wikis, and Other Digital Tools. Digital Writing Workshop Wiki
The Digital Writing Workshop wiki is a companion site to the book The Digital Writing Workshop. Digital Youth Network
The Digital Youth Network is a hybrid digital literacy programconnecting classroom, after-school, and home activitiesthat creates opportunities for youth to engage in learning environments that span both school and out-of-school contexts. Digital Youth Project
The Digital Youth Project is a study carried out by researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) and University of California, Berkeley, that explores how kids use digital media in their everyday lives.
Language learners' preferences for online dictionaries: Arabic and Italian learners tend to use Google Translate and www.Wordreference.com(Online Language Dictionaries). Japanese tend to use www.excite.com, www.Babelfish.com, www.Jisho.org, and others such as ALC.com, etc. Chinese cited using www.Mdbg.net and www.nciku.com . German learners cited www.Dict.leo.org. Spanish learners most often cited using www.Spandict.com . French learners like to use www.Lexilogos.com . Italian learners also use SDL Free Translator found at http://www.freetranslation.com/default_ver1.htm . Russian learners cited using www.Wordreference.com, www.Dictionary.com , and www.Dict.leo.org . Deaf Bible App: from Faith Comes By Hearing.org
The Deaf Bible.is app is free of charge. Faith Comes By Hearing has been in ministry for 40 years and remains committed to bringing God's Word to the world. It currently has audio Scripture recordings in 692 languages.
LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TRANSLATION SITES AND PROGRAMS DUOLINGO
Duolingo is a wonderful new (private beta) for learning a foreign language. This is done by having users translate the web/text at their learning place. Sentences are given to users at their own learning pace and if they don't know a word DL helps by supplying correct words w/ images. For another great foreign language learning site using more multimedia materials check out Study Stream. Diigo.com
Annotate, Archive, Organize any online data to share. Best Social-Bookmarking program! DIGITAL CLASSROOM
Recently, I received an email from one of my readers sharing a wonderful infographic that shares a "digital classroom". This graphic focuses on textbooks vs ebooks, tablets, and more. [Written by dkapuler on Feb 13, 2012 04:12 pm] DLLNetLanguageLab.com
Web-Based Language Lab (commercial) Iciba.com
Oxford Collocation Dictionary Online
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
25 FREE RESOURCES FROM DISCOVERY EDUCATION
David Andrade's on his wonderful tech blog, just posted about 25 excellent resources from Discovery Education. These resources run the gambit on all sorts of great things such as: free clip art, teacher guides, web 2.0, etc. Dolch Project
Dolch Word Practice is a very good site for sight words. The recording quality could be better, but it seems to be the best place out there that's free and covers most of the words. Digital Infra-Red Pens
COLLABORATIVE PICTURE-DRAWING: DRAW IT LIVE
Draw it Live is a site for creating a collaborative drawing by naming your interactive whiteboard for drawing and then sharing a unique URL. DONORS CHOOSE
Donors Choose is a nice site I just came across which I proud to say, I personally know some teachers who have partaken in this. This is a site where teachers post a project request and then donors donate to them. When the project is finished, classrooms/kids then share what they've done through photos and thank you notes. (Written by dkapuler) D-DotSub: Aims to make "Any Video Available in Any Language"
Websters-online-dictionary
drop.io
Create a drop box on the fly and share items with others, up to 100 MB in size, which can also be pass-worded. Dynamic English or E-Journals in PDF format
E-Ediscio+ Collaborative Flashcard Creator
Flashcards online - Create, learn, and share - Ediscio Learn flashcards online - free. Create cards on your own or cooperatively, and prepare for tests systematically. Edublogs
DIGITAL DEVICES TO REPLACE TEXTBOOKS; BUT WHEN?
DRAGON DICTATION
Dragon Dictation is a free iPad/iPhone app that reminds me of the app that was used in the beginning of the movie, Body of Lies (when Russel Crowe is wearing a head piece and talking and is dictating an email and his computer is typing what he says). Basically, this app is an excellent time saver for taking notes or for use in special ed/ESL. I can see this being used as a facilitator to help students in the area of speech or reading/writing. [Written by dkapuler on Aug 27, 2011 10:48 am] Daily Activities Language Activity
Daily Activities Language Activity: How Do You Spend Your Day? is a neat Wall Street Journal interactive that's similar to previous ones you'll find at The Best Infographics - 2010. It's based on Bureau of Labor Statistics data showing how the average American spends his/her day. The difference in this one is first you put your own data in saying how you spend your day. After you submit it, you're compared with the average info. Tsoni
Tsoni.com is about the best quick Translator into many languages! Tsoni is another nice re-packaging of the Google Translate program very similar to Tradukka. Tradukka
Translate instantly between languages, including foreign Emails! Dictionaries from Rong Chang.com
DICTIONARY DOWNLOADS FREE HERE FOR:
1. TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus - View an English dictionary and thesaurus on your computer without accessing the Internet. 2. Vocabulary Builder Simple - Increase your vocabulary and practice for the SAT, GRE, or any vocabulary-intensive examination. 3. A1 HangWord - Study English vocabulary, words, and spelling by playing games. 4. Talking Dictionary - Learn and improve your English vocabulary by listening to spoken words. 5. Oxford Dictionary of English (Second Edition) - Move your cursor over a word and read its definition in Oxford Dictionary of English instantly. U.S. Government Starts Digital Literacy Site
Last week, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke unveiled DigitalLiteracy.Gov, "a new website that provides libraries, community colleges, schools and workforce training centers a variety of resources and tools for teaching computer and Internet skills, which are increasingly necessary for success in today's economy." Find the "learn the basics" list interesting. There are other sections, too, and people can contribute resources to them. More at The Best Websites For Students To Learn About Computers. Digsby
Digsby.com offers great Email and Social Networking Integration! Digitizing ELT Textbooks: 36 Tools for doing so.
Dance that Word!
Dating Rocks and Civilizations
Foreign Languages for Travelers
A great place to find words for about 30 different languages from Travlang Dictionaries and Translators
Can be slow to load, but has MANY foreign language dictionaries. Softissimo Translations
A super way to translate languagestry it! Word2Word Dictionary
English-English Dictionary Sites (Learner & Native Speaker Dictionaries - many with audio pronunciation) Oxford for learners, British and American English
Cambridge Dictionary for learners, British & American English
Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary with pronunciation using Flash
Newbury-House Dictionary for learners; American English
Pronouncing Dictionary & Thesaurus (dictionary of synonyms = similar words; British & American English)
Thesaurus for Native Speakers to find synonyms
Multiple dictionaries referenced - mainly native speaker ones
Digital Storytelling
DIGITAL VIDEO REVISITED-Godwin-Jones Pearsonlongman.com
Nice Translator
Nice Translator is the newest addition to The Best Reference Websites For English Language Learners 2008. One way it stands out is by translating into your chosen language as you write it. Most other similar sites require you to input everything and click enter before it begins to translate. Shahi Dictionary
Shahi Dictionary is a dictionary that combines simple definitions with quite a few Flickr photos. The combination of the two makes it pretty accessible to English Language Learners. Dimdim Video-Conference for free
(for up to 20 participants) Dimdim allows you to create your own video conference and online meeting classroom for free! There are no complicated downloads for the meeting participants and no expensive hosting packages for the teacher or school. Dimdim also includes all sorts of useful features for online language teachers like a whiteboard, one to one chat and group chat as well as other handy features like a shared desktop, PowerPoint and PDF file sharing. The First Pronunciation Dictionary
with unique features for searching and pronouncing words in 12 Languages! 8 in 1 English Dictionary will teach you all the English words you will ever need. You can search by Sound, Letter, Text, Nouns/Verbs, and by 39 Themes. Then you get a list of Search Results, Details on each Chosen Word and a choice of 12 languages for translations. This dictionary will help you improve your pronunciation, reading comprehension, vocabulary and spelling abilities. It's many features include: Over 2000 pictures and graphics to help you learn; Listening to and recording over 7000 words including plurals of the nouns and conjugations of the verbs; Unique to 8 in 1 English Dictionary - 10 different ways to search for words: Choose from 39 themes (animals, colors, clothing etc.); Practice a sound in the beginning, middle or end of words; Search by alphabet letter or letter combinations; Choose only verbs or nouns. *Translations in Arabic, Chinese (traditional and simplified), French, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese 8 in 1 English Dictionary comes with pronunciation features not found in any other product. Dicts Info
www.dicts.infos index page shows Flags and Links to free Web Dictionaries in about 80 languages.
DICTIONARIES ONLINE
Use good online Monolingual or Bilingual Dictionaries to look words up whenever needed as fast as you can. Check if you guessed their meaning correctly! (Monlingual are listed lst here.) A great variety of online dictionaries exists, even talking dictionaries that you can use for free. Here are some of the best resources online: Oxford English Dictionary
OneLook.Com
Meta-search dictionary tapping hundreds of general and highly specialized reference sources. A comprehensive index of over 6,096,987 words in 970 dictionaries indexed. Contains a database search that allows you to find a word contained in any of the dictionaries. If you cant find a word here, odds are it doesnt exist! Answers.com
An English answer engine, with quick accurate talking dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, bios, tech terms, news, sports, weather, and much more. AllWord.com
Search words, hear pronunciation, and see English meanings and translations. DictionaryLink.com
Free online dictionaries. Thesaurus, language translators, encyclopedias, crossword solvers, quotes and other language resources. Dictionary.Reference.com
Free online English dictionary, thesaurus and reference guide, crossword puzzles and other word games and online translator. ESLall.com
Directory of over 300 online dictionary resources. Types of listed dictionaries (in alphabetical order): abbreviations, acronyms, business, French-English, general, glossaries, heteronyms, homonyms, multilingual dictionaries, picture (visual) dictionaries, Spanish-English, and thesauri (synonyms). LookWAYup: Multilingual Dictionary for French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Portuguese
Corrects spelling, shows definitions, synonyms, related terms, translations. Look up any word on any web page. Google Translate Toolbar
Google Translate Toolbar, also found on The Best Reference Websites For English Language Learners 2008 list, has just gotten better by adding a text-to-speech ability. Unfortunately, though, it doesn't seem to function for lengthy passages. Read more about their improvements at Richard Byrne's Free Technology for Teachers blog. To learn more view http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/11/google-translate-adds-speech-and.html . Google Translate now offers you the opportunity to hear translations read to you. The translation service now translates text as you type it rather than waiting for you to finish typing. If you want to translate an entire website, Google Translate now lets you do that by simply typing the url of the site you wish to translate into the translation text box. Click translate, and the entire site will be shown in the language of your choice. Google Translate has now made it easier to handle non-Roman texts. Multi-Lingual or Universal Dictionaries 30 Assorted Dictionaries
List of Assorted Dictionaries
HyperDictionary.com
English, Computer, Dream and Medical dictionaries. Contains also a Thesaurus. HyperDictionary.com is a continuation of an educational project to provide free dictionary services to any user on the web. Dabbleboard
Dabbleboard is a synchronous, online whiteboard tool that allows the creation of multiple pages and integrates text and video chat. You can create one on-the-fly for brainstorming or a summarizing activity. Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
DigitalStorytelling.coe.uh.edu's purpose is to serve as a resource for teachers and students who are interested in how multimedia can be integrated into a variety of educational activities. Zeen: Digital Storytelling Program
Dispostable.com
Dispostable.com is like it sounds, a site for Disposable Email addresses that you can use with classes to create instant emails viewable online anywhere. Great when traveling too! Downloadpedia
Downloadpedia is a nice collection of freeware, shareware and commercial tools for Windows, Linux, and Mac. It also includes template links. Dictionaries recommended at Language Learning.net
Multilingual Dictionaries Recommended
Dict.org: Dictionary Development Group
Dictionary Research/Search Engine CAPL: the Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon
CAPL, the Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon is a free, online, non-commercial visual glossary comprised of authentic photos for language and cultural instruction. Created at Washington & Jefferson College, CAPL seeks to provide teachers and learners with high-quality authentic images for their classrooms and teaching materials. Currently, CAPL has a large German and ESL database of photos that is constantly expanding. The following languages are being developed and should be online in 2009: Arabic, Chinese, ESL (North American); French; German; Italian; Japanese; Portuguese (Brazil); Portuguese (Portugal); Russian; Spanish (Central America & Caribbean); and Spanish (Mexico); Spanish (Southern Cone); Spanish (Spain). Usage policy is simple: The pictures in this database may be viewed, downloaded, linked, manipulated, copied, displayed, and redistributed free of charge for educational, non-commercial purposes as specified by the Creative Commons license. Simple Diagrams
Simple Diagrams is a site from Free Technology 4 Teachers. This is a site that offers a tool (Adobe Air install) for creating simple easy to use diagrams. This is ideal for brainstorming or mind- mapping and can be a real asset for educators. There are lots of nice features such as adding photos, drag-n-drop interface, and ability to change background. Keep in mind there is a paid and free version. Click here for Kapuler's top 10 on brainstorming. eEtiquette
eEtiquette is a site proclaimed to have 101 guidelines for the digital world. This is a great site for tips on emailing, networking, etc. Arabia E-Learning Conference 2011 (Free Downloads!)
Declaration of Independence: How it may have been composed today?
DESMOS
Desmos is a cool new site for creating interactive content/lessons for education. This is done all through a browser and is collaborative by nature which makes it ideal for education (web 2.0). Declaration of Independence: How it may have been composed today?
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http://CALL4ALLUS.en101.com
Internet-based, interactive audio-visual English learning center with instructions in 21 languages.
Free Demo and great online Business Opportunity!
Click on a flag to choose a language.
online electronic translation tools
ESL Lounge
Free ESL Lesson Materials for teachers. Grammar, worksheets, song lyrics, board games, pronunciation and more. All free and printable.
Online Conference/Classroom
Nellies English Projects is an educational website for students and teachers whose aim is to motivate students for lifelong learning. It provides resources for teachers on how to integrate technology into the classroom by means of project based and experiential learning using WebQuests. The site provides many educational resources, articles, lesson plans, evaluation rubrics, reading practice and collaborative writing ideas.
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FoxLingo The Ultimate Language Tool!
(works only with Firefox)
Web Page Translation, Translated Search, Auto Translation, Text Translation, Language Resources, Learning Languages, etc.
Main Features
- Page Translation - Translates full web pages (over 1,000 different language pairs)
- Translated Search - Searches foreign pages using terms written in your language
- Auto Translation - Automatically translates websites by recognizing their domain
- Text Translation - Translates text entered in the search box or selected on any web page
- Language Resources - Over 90 language services (encyclopedias, text-to-speech, etc.)
- Ixquick - Metasearch engine with unique features, language search and complete privacy
- Learning Languages - Over 100 links to language learning sites for a variety of languages
- Freeware - FoxLingo is completely free and contains no adware or spyware
- Complete Privacy - FoxLingo does not take any information from its users
Supports 45 languages & over 1,000 different language pairs
Afrikaans, Arabic, Aranese, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Malay, Norwegian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese Brazilian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Spanish Latin American, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Welsh
Uses 35 free online web page translator services
Worldlingo.com,
Tranexp.com,
Google.com,
Abacho.co.uk,
Altavista.com,
Apertium.org,
Eigo-navi.com,
Elmundo.es,
Excite.co.jp,
Freetranslation.com,
Gencat.cat,
Gts-translation.com,
Ibm.com,
Imtranslator.com,
Internostrum.com,
Interpret.co.za,
Linguamatix.com,
Lingro.com/,
Lingvo.org,
Nazgol.co.il,
Nifty.amikai.com
Ocn.ne.jp,
Oesi.cervantes.es,
Online-Translator.com,
Opentrad.org,
Sli.uvigo.es,
Solvingmaze.com,
Toggletext.com,
Tr.voila.fr,
Translatica.pwn.pl,
Translator.live.com,
Translendium.es,
Vil-net.dyndns.org
Yahoo.com,
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