Lingro Language Learner Enter any Website to make all words clickable on this site. Lingro remembers all the words you look up, so you can easily review and study them.
Top Toolbox for Learning New Words! Cobbs LexTutor Offers English / French Dictionary / Concordancer; Text-to-Speech & Word Learning Tests & Tools.
Hypertext Builder (from LexTutor) Build resource-linked texts for online reading. Wire your own texts so Language Learners can use the support of: E Audio with Text-to-Speech (TTS) sound E Concordance + Dictionary/Dictionary only (Monolingual or Bilingual for Chinese, Japanese, Spanish or French (so far) E Reading-plus: Provides resources to understand every word in any text!
Mr. B's English Learning Links: Cool links for learning English in outline form! I. Reading Links II. Writing and Essay Advice III. Speeches IV. Listening/Speaking V. Intercultural Learning Links VI. Dictionary Sites (Learner- & Other) VII. TOEFL / TOEIC VIII. Technical English & Language Learning Technology IX. Email Keypals X. More English Learning Links
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U.S. Debt Clock. Find real-time Updates on the U.S. National Debt (As it grows Exponentially, 'til hit by D.O.G.E.'s much-needed "Chainsaw Fraud & Budget-Cutting Intervention"!)
Expeditions Pioneer Program is an innovative virtual field trip program from Google that I found about from Larry Ferlazzo's excellent blog. The way this works is a teacher/school signs up and then teams from around the world will come visit them using expedition kits. These kits are the 3D cardboard glasses from Google. Right now, they are visiting schools in the US, UK, Australia, and Brazil. Expeditions are guided virtual reality tours/field trips that student's couldn't normally visit. The 3D cardboard glasses turn it into a 3D experience for students and is a great way to use mobile devices in the classroom.
EDpuzzle the excellent and free learning tool for flipping a classroom and adding questions to a video has just released a new update. This update has a new landing page making it easier for students/teachers to sign in, as well as a drag-n-drop interface to add questions to a video. It allows educators to track and monitor student assignments as well generate detailed reports.
EverySlide is a fantastic new presentation tool for educators to create or upload a presentation (i.e. Keynote, PPT) then share it w/ others via a unique access code. Being browser-based this works on any mobile device and best of all an educator can assess an audience/students level of learning by embedding a poll that they can take. Results of the poll are then displayed in a spreadsheet, which makes it easy for an educator to differentiate instruction. Everyslide - your old slides made interactive from KPicture Inc. on Vimeo.
EDpuzzle is becoming one of the premiere web/iOS tools around for learning in the classroom. This is a fantastic free tool for editing a video, cropping, adding quizzes/polls, narration, etc. then embedding into site/blog. It is being used to flip a classroom or lesson, Project Based Learning, grading/assessing, and even for differentiating instruction. The educational portal allows students to sign-up w/out needing an email account and lets educators track student progress in real-time.
ExamTime is a site covered a long time ago but thankfully reminded about from one of their emails. This is an excellent learning tool for educators or students looking to create and share resources such as: flashcards, quizzes, mind maps, and more. Also, a user can generate detailed reports to gauge their learning progress. Finally, ExamTime is browser based making it ideal to use on any mobile device.
Edueto is a great new site for educators to create homework online and then grade it once students have completed it. This is done from a easy to use interface and allows teachers to add text, images, videos and more. After the students complete the assignment teachers can then grade them in a fast organized manner. Also, educators can find other assignments already created on Edueto and customize them to meet their own needs.
Edventure Builder is an innovative new site that is perfect for sparking student's creativity by providing a online platform for creating: scavenger hunts, interactive stories, or choose your own adventures. This is a fantastic tool that educators can use to build mobile lessons, interactive tours (think Back to School night or outside activities), and more. The way this works is quite simple, from a browser a user can create an adventure (i.e., lesson, hunt, tour, etc) by adding text, images, video, and links. Then by clicking a button it gets published to any browser based mobile device. Best of all are the different features that allows a user to fully customize their adventures and edit, save, and publish them easily. [Written by dkapuler ]
Every collection on EdShelf has an accompanying widget. So once you've created a collection, here is more information on how to get the corresponding widget: https://edshelf.com/widgets
EDpuzzle the fantastically simple tool to flip a lesson or classroom has just released an update that now allows educators to grade a students "video" grade them and then export them into a CSV file. This makes a super easy to use tool for education even better as users can not only take a video and "make it their own" by editing/cropping a video, adding narration, and adding poll/quiz, a teacher can export grades w/ the click of the button. For Kapulers Pinterest board on a Flipped Classroom click here:
Join this group to extend the discussion of edchat topics! Hungry Teacher as created another great lesson!! Check out 'Mathionary'. Teaching mathematics with a Dictionary? It can be done!
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EDpuzzle is a favorite site for Flipping a Classroom. This is done by taking any digital video and "making" it your own by cropping and adding questions into the video itself. This is great for assessing learning and for students to take their learning home. Finally, Edpuzzle recently updated their innovative site by allowing users to embed an image into a video as well to further create dynamic lessons. Also, a user can now use scientific notation in their text.
Cardkarma is a neat eCard site for many occasions. Without registering, you can search Flickr for any photo and turn it into an eCard you can send and post.
Tocomail is an excellent site/iOS app for providing a safe email environment for children. The way this works is a child gets a free email account w/ safe/approved contacts from a guardian. Kids can then customize an avatar for their email account and even create drawings/paintings for email attachments. Parents can setup and approve a contact lists, receive quarantined emails waiting for approval, reject or approval any email, etc. Best of all, there is a content filter which quarantines the email it has any profanity and parents will be alerted if any bullying patterns are detected.
Edynco is a wonderful new site for creating Learning Maps. This site reminds me of Prezi in that it allows educators to create a multimedia presentation that is "zoomable". These Learning Maps can contains all types of media (i.e. audio, video, images) and are ideal for "flipping" a classroom or Guided Learning. Best of all, a finished Map can be shared via a URL or embedded into a site/blog. [Written by dkapuler on Jan 14, 2014 ].
OpenEd is a fantastic site/catalog for finding educational resources such as educational games, links, and videos. What makes OpenEd so great is that a user can search for resources by Common Standard or by keyword. Also, each resource is rated on a 5 star scale. [Written by dkapuler on Dec 11, 2013].
Edpuzzle is one of my favorite sites for "flipping" a classroom. This educational tool allows educators to edit/crop a video and record their own audio to guide a lesson. This is ideal for wanting to point out specific points a video, ask a question, etc. Best of all, a teacher can embed quizzes into their video, which makes it perfect for the Flipped Classroom approach.
The Electronic Village Online is an annual event that's on The Best Places For ESL/EFL/ELL Teachers To Get Online Professional Development list, and it's that time again. For five weeks in January and February, TESOL experts and participants from around the world engage in collaborative online discussions or hands-on virtual workshops of professional and scholarly benefit.
Wanderful interactive storybooks has brought back the highly acclaimed Living Books, originally published by Broderbund Software, for iPad, iPhone and Android. Wanderful interactive storybooks help young and emerging readers build a lasting love of language, reading and learning (in English and Spanish) and will keep them entertained for days! Please check out the FREE stories.
Classmint is a site for making flashcards/study notes from Free Technology 4 Teachers. This is a great site that lets users create notes/cards that they can add images, audio, or annotate on. This is useful when wanting to study via a digital flashcard and memorize information. [Written by dkapuler on Sep 04, 2013].
Welcome to ESL Boards, the world first social network for Students, Teachers, Schools, Agents, and Recruiters living and teaching abroad. We just made the home page interactive! We hope you like it!
Infinite English has just announced a whole new way to Learn English: A SmartPhone cloud application that functions like a native English tutor and targets fluency. For the first time ever, on your smart device, you can select unlimited content from anywhere, read out loud, get immediate tutor-like feedback on fluency, pronunciation, definitions, vocabulary and translations. For educators: assign any content you like to the students from a free Infinite English web page and it will just show up on your student's device. They practice on your assigned content and you can instantly see how they are performing by assignment, as an average, or by class. Set up as many separate classes as you need. Assign and track from any webpage.
ECTACO Partner LUX 2 is the first-ever free speech electronic translator which makes it a perfect choice for anyone seeking effective ways to translate real time conversation. The ECTACO Partner LUX 2 features the following:
Connect the LUX 2 to your TV through an HDMI port and watch your favorite videos online or learn languages with built in Video Courses;
Photo Translator. Quickly snap a pic of any text you see and have it translated instantly, no internet connection required;
Free Speech Translation;
Hi-Res Screen and Wi-Fi;
Full Text Translator with voice output;
Interactive Language Teacher system with speech recognition;
Extensive Talking Dictionary and PhraseBook with human pronunciation;
Ability to add other languages on microSD cards;
Talking Picture Dictionary with pronunciation for all words;
UT183 Cross Translator for 183 languages all built-in;
EduClipper Has Potential To Be An "All In One" Tool For Teachers & Students: "Clip Anything, then Share Everything! I use Pinterest daily. However, in the vast majority of schools, it is never going to make it past Internet content filters for students. eduClipper is basically a Pinterest for schools (and I confirmed today that it is not blocked at our school Ñ if it's not blocked by our district, it's unlikely to be blocked by most others). It has the potential of sort of being an "all in one" tool for the classroom, serving the same purpose as sites on The Best Social Bookmarking Applications For English Language Learners & Other Students list and on The Best Online Virtual "Corkboards" (or "Bulletin Boards") list, as well as serving other functions. The advantage of that kind of versatility is that students only have to learn one site. The potential drawback is that sometimes this kind of versatility results in a site being overly-complex.
The JALT Extensive Reading Special Interest Group. The JALT ER SIG exists to help promote Extensive Reading (ER) in Japan and via our website, our newsletter, the ERJ Journal, and presentations throughout Japan we aim to help teachers set up and make the most of their ER programs.
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.com.
E-Maze is a new (beta) site for creating stunning presentations. This appears to be a cross between Prezi and PP as it allows users to interact w/ presentation and move around. As w/ most sites a user can add: text, images, audio, links, etc into their presentation. Best of all a finished presentation can then be embedded into a site/blog. [Written by dkapuler on May 20, 2013]. For his Pinterest board on Creating Slideshows/Presentations click here.
Energy for Life is a wonderful new iPad app by the creators of Miracle of Life and Experience Life. This beautifully designed interactive app takes students through the different systems of the body: digestive, respiratory, and circulatory. What I like about these series of apps from iDiCreative are the easy to understand explanations and interactive animations that engage students and allow them to learn in a fun way (Energy for Life does this by interacting w/ dinosaurs). This is a fantastic app for MS/HS students as well as Health/Biology/Science teachers. [Written by dkapuler on May 17, 2013].
Zeen is a new (beta) site for creating a digital story. It's a rather interesting site that is very easy to use. A user just creates a board, adds text/quotes, drag-n-drops photos/videos, and then shares their story. My only issue is the site claims to allow stories to be embedded which is ideal for education but I couldn't figure it out. [Written by dkapuler on Feb 02, 2013].
This is a German-based module which connects to the website dict.leo.org and translates the given term. It returns an array of hashes. Each hash contains a left side and a right side of the result entry.
A new breed of tools is emerging that allow faster and easier creation of infographics, enabling users without deep skills in graphic design or the software that supports it. These tools provide templates, examples, and drag-and-drop functionality that allow creators to focus their efforts on the concept rather than also having to worry about creating the graphic. The nature of these tools encourages fast prototyping, allowing students to create, assess, and revise many versions of a graphic in a short amount of time. These tools also offer the opportunity to expand visual learning and thinking into fields where visual aspects of communication are not always included.
I've recently started a regular feature where I share a few posts from around the Web related to ESL or EFL that have caught my attention: The ELL Toolbox published Lesson Planning for English Language Learners, which are some useful "cheat sheets" for ELL lesson planning. Top Ten Resources on the CCSS for ELLs comes from Colorin Colorado. I'm adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About Common Core Standards & English Language Learners. Key Principles for ELL Instruction comes from Stanford. I'm adding it to the same list. The 100 publications that most changed TEFL is by Alex Case.
Enhancing Education Through Technology is a program of the U.S. Department of Education created to improve student achievement through the use of technology in elementary and secondary schools.
E-Rate is a program of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission that assists in connecting public school classrooms and libraries to modern telecommunication networks.
Everybody Writes offers classroom teachers innovative ideas and practical resources to get primary pupils and secondary students excited about writing.
Mind Leap is a great site dedicated to finding/reviewing educational apps for kids grades PK-Middle School. Not only can you search for apps by grade level, but you can search though subjects as well. Each app is reviewed and rated on a 5 star scale and is linked for download.
EdWeb is an online networking site with communities of interest to educators. The communities each contain a full set of collaboration tools, and you can even set up your own community to use with your school, district, or with teachers all over the world!
Education World is a wonderful site for teachers for educational resources. This site is a one-stop shop for educators. There are lots of beneficial things to be found here, such as: lesson plans, research materials, links, articles, etc. Also, there are resources for professional development, technology, templates, and more. For Kapuler's top 10 sites for educational resources click here.
Chalkable is an ambitious new site that reminds me of a cross between Powerschool (for grading, attendance taking, parent/student portals, etc) and an App store. For me, the coolest feature is this App store which is a one stop shopping place for schools when needing to purchase educational apps. For more info and pics click here!! For Kapule's top 10 sites for finding educational apps click here.
Educational Origami includes tons of information about using technology to support Bloom's Taxonomy; there are tips, tricks, handouts, and information to support you as you use this in your classroom
Dave Kapuler's board for excellent sites for online educational games. Being a blogger who specializes in Ed Tech resources Pinterest is becoming an easy and viable option for sharing resources. He states "I feel it is my responsibility to share these tools w/ educators anyway I can. If that means through the use of my: mobile app, Twitter, FB, Plurk, Pinterest, etc., I'll do my best to do it." [Written by dkapuler]
Education.com is an excellent site for educational resources. This site has it all, such as: worksheets, videos, activities, etc. Also, a person can browse by subject and even find advice on raising kids and child development for all ages.
Mind Leap is a great site dedicated to finding/reviewing educational apps for kids grades PK-Middle School. Not only can you search for apps by grade level, but you can search though subjects as well. Each app is reviewed and rated on a 5 star scale and is linked for download.
Empedia is an interesting new (beta) site for interacting w/ Wikpedia. Not only can a user browse through articles, they can then add a: post, poll, or a discussion about the information. I like to think of it as Wikipedia w/ comments.
Learn English with the help of experts. Join one of the largest English learning communities on the web. Englishleap offers hundreds of free resources to learn English online.
Over 300,000 eBooks. Popular eBook formats including Adobe PDF, epub ebooks, Microsoft Reader, Mobipocket, and Palm. New eBook Readers. Publishing Center. Visit eBookMall.
Getfreeebooks.com is a free ebooks site where you can download totally free legal ebooks, available in various popular formats. Lots of categories to choose from.
Free-Ebook-Download.net is the biggest community for downloading Free Ebooks, PDF, Words Documents, Magazines, Audio Books, Free Tutorials downloads, etc.
EBOOKEE is a free ebooks search engine, the best free ebooks download library. It's an open directory for free ebooks and download links, and one of the best places to read!
While at Apple, Mike Matas helped write the user interface for the iPhone and iPad. Now with Push Pop Press, he's helping to rewrite the electronic book. Now, he's the co-founder of Push Pop Press, a digital publishing company just purchased by Facebook. "... this is one of the most elegant, fluid, immersive apps you've ever seen. It's a showpiece for the new world of touch-screen gadgets." -David Pogue's review in the NY Times.
Al Gore's Media-Rich Infomercial called 'Our Choice' will change the way we read book, and quite possibly change the world. In this interactive app, Our Choice melds his narrative with photography, interactive graphics, animations, and more than an hour of engrossing documentary footage. A new, ground-breaking multi-touch interface allows you to experience that content seamlessly. Pick up and explore anything you see in the book; zoom out to the visual table of contents and quickly browse though the chapters; reach in and explore data-rich interactive graphics. Unfortunately for them, despite its stunning graphics, increasingly rigorous and honest data do NOT support radical Climate Change enthusiastsÕ dire claims, must less their political agenda, which should be transparent by now to all informed by actual scientific evidence/post-Climate-gates.
"Free" ePublication Tools Cost at Least $25
My students have been writing feature articles. Groups of students who have similar topics may put their writing together in a magazine format. I've been searching for the best ePublishing option. ePublishing is important for many reasons, but is especially important to international students. They want to show their work to parents who frequently travel and to grandparents who live across oceans. So far, I've experimented with FlipSnack, ePub Bud, and Issuu. IÕm not sure my upper elementary students could use any of them.
Take a look at a new free service that can help authors create iPad ebooks from scratch or convert their already written books into iPad-compatible format
FlipSnack impressed me at first but disappointed me in the end. Of the three publishing tools, this was the easiest to use. My students would easily figure out the browse/upload or drag/drop/upload directions. Uploading went slowly, though. I'd want to give students other activities to engage them while pages are processing.
Expat Educator is a blog written by a teacher of 16 yrs experience in El Ed & MS setting and a very insightful read. Also, there are lots of Educational Technology (ET) resources to be found on here and how they are integrated into a classroom setting.
Essay Tagger is a wonderful site for grading essays from The Educational Technology Guy. While it does not grade the essay for you it does help assist the grading process through the creation of a drag-n-drop rubric. Check out this brief demo for more info on Give Essay Tagger or give it a try by clicking here!
E-Learning for Kids is a great place for students to find courses on any number of subjects. This site is geared towards kids ages 5-12 and the courses are broken down by subject and grade. These online courses are easy and fun for the kids to do and cover everything from math to computer skills.
eNotes is a great educational resource for teachers and students. This is an ideal place to find study guides, lesson plans, ebooks, etc. Also, this is a great learning community for educators to sign up and collaborate and share resources w/ other educators from around the world. For
Kapuler's top 10 sites for educational resources click here.
Empowering and connecting teachers, administrators, and parents with innovative solutions and resources to better education. Join the conversation today!
YouTube has unveiled a site where they are only placing educational videos and where comments will be disabled. The site - YouTube.com/education is supposed to be able to be allowed through content filters even though YouTube itself is blocked. You can read more about it at the MindShift blog. In the meantime, you might also want to check out The Best Ways To Access Educational YouTube Videos At School.
Global Scholar is a nice site designed to help all facets of education. For example, teachers can find professional development help here, while students can find online tutors. GS also offers Professional Development help and solutions for K-12 and College. For Kapuler's top 10 sites for online tutoring/teaching click here.
Embed Plus is a new and innovative way to edit YouTube videos. This allows users to cut/crop video, add chapters, annotate, slow motion, looping, and real-time reactions. It's live, having DVD controls on a YouTube video. For ways to use this great site w/ education click here!
Eduslide is a wonderful place for an educator to create, share, and learn online content. This is done through the use of modules, blogs, wikis, etc. A user can join an online course, present their own, or browse for others online.
ERIC Digests are: short reports (1,000 - 1,500 words) on topics of prime current interest in education. There are a large variety of topics covered including teaching, learning, libraries, charter schools, special education, higher education, home schooling, and many more. Targeted specifically for teachers, administrators, policymakers, and other practitioners, but generally useful to the broad educational community. Designed to provide an overview of information on a given topic, plus references to items providing more detailed information. Produced by the former 16 subject-specialized ERIC Clearing-houses, and reviewed by experts and content specialists in the field. Funded by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), of the U.S. Department of Education (ED). The full-text ERIC Digest database contains over 3000 Digests with the latest updates being added to this site in July 2005.
Explain Everything is a great paid ($2.99) app for the iPad that is wonderful for creating screen casts. This application adds a lot more features then ShowMe or Screen Chomp and allows the user more options in exporting their finished product. A movie can be uploaded to a number of different sites, such as Dropbox, Evernote, or YouTube and even emailed. Other great features are the different ways one can import a photo, type text instead of just draw, and create multiple slides (a la PowerPoint). [Written by dkapuler on Aug 24, 2011 12:33 am]
Educational Videos is a wonderful site for finding relevant videos for school. This is organized by subject and then rated on a star system. This reminds me a lot of Watch Know for those that are familiar w/ that site. Check out top 10 alternatives to You Tube by clicking here.
Educaplay is a new (beta) site that is flash based designed for creating multimedia activities for students. There are a number of different activities that can be created such as: maps, riddles, crosswords, etc.
Exploratree is a great site for educators to use for creating mind maps or brainstorming. This is an easy site to use that allows for group collaboration and comments as well. Best of all, Exploratree has a number of different templates to choose from to find the right "mind map" for you.
Click here to see top 10 sites for creating outlines (chosen by dkapuler).
Listening and Reading Free Site for Intermediate ESL Learners
For Beginners: Easy Conversations, Super Easy Reading, Easy Reading; Sentence Structure Writing Practice with 2,000+ ESL/EFL Conversations on Different Topics.
Etherpad is one of the best online collaboration tools. It's a very, very easy way to collaborate in real time. You just paste a bunch of text in a window and, without even having to register for the service, send others the url and everybody can edit it in real time. It also has a chat option. You can go back to the url address at any time to make further, adjustments, too.
ESL Flow is a searchable source of thematically-based ESL lessons in grammar, speaking, vocabulary, pronunciation, and reading. Patterned on a flowchart model, this large ESL Collection offers three levels of activities for elementary through intermediate learners. Pages include dialogue exercises, picture-based activities, resource sections and links.
Englishbanana.com - everything in there is free with no copyright restriction. Matt, the site owner, also gives frequent online classes, free, of course.
www.easyreaders.eu is a website book selector for students for six languages. Easy Readers and Teen Reader now have a new website where it is possible to actually navigate around the site and find books you want to read. It asks students to click on the appropriate level among four.
Colorin Colorado, a great organization that's on The Best Ways To Keep-Up With Current ELL/ESL/EFL News & Research list, has just created a Ning Community for teachers and parents of ELL's.The main page explains: "The ColorinColorado.org Community offers a place to discuss resources and ideas that will help English language learners succeed!"
English Central Gets Even Better
English Central was tied for the number-one ranking in The Best Websites For English Language Learner Students - 2009. Reviewed at English Central - Bringing "voice" and output to learning English. It's a free video site for English Language Learners, lets users listen to parts of the video, then lets them repeat what the characters says and compares it to the original, grading on how well you do. It has even more features, all appropriate for the classroom, unlike several other ESL video sites that have come online recently. Teachers can now register their classes and monitor their students' work - for free. See also The Best Sites That Students Can Use Independently And Let Teachers Check On Progress.
Write reports for your ESL students in minutes with this incredible ESL report writing tool - Report Wizard 2.1. Free trial available at www.languagereport.net.
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.
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.
This page represents the beginning of a website of short movies (30 to 45 seconds) designed to increase student motivation to READ! Below are a couple of samples. Click for Late Elementary BookTrailers and Adolescent BookTrailers to see those listings. There are several hundred movies created to help students get excited about reading. Also included are directions for students to add to the site,
Times Of Crisis is an extraordinary interactive timeline showing the critical events of the economic recession over the past 365 days. It's probably a bit complicated for English Language Learners. See others at The Best Sites To Learn About The Recession.
The Baltimore County Public Schools have a very nice collection of educational links for all subjects at their BCPS Curriculum Resources K-12 page. Find more at The Best Collections Of Educational Links.
Educational Networking" is the use of social networking technologies for educational purposes. Because the phrase "social networking" can carry some negative connotations for educators, the phrase "educational networking" may be a way of more objectively discussing the pedagogical value of these tools. The original URL for their site (http://socialnetworksined.wikispaces.com) still works, but http://www.EducationalNetworking.com is now the main URL.
Moodlemoots and other kind of Virtual Learning Environment Events (VLE user events, such as Sakai, Blackboard, etc) are celebrated all around the world.
Every E-learning Event that Pascual Perez-Paredes (NAU, Flagstaff) came across was listed here... You could get lots of clues for your researching here.
You will find links for Reading resources for everyone, Reading resources for English language learners, Activities and Quizzes, Stories, Songs, Poems, Interactive Fiction, Etc. See also World News Sources (John McVicker - Ohio University) - The main categories are: Today's News, News Topic Search, News Directories, Newspapers, Magazines, Radio, Television and Sports. You can find the news you want on-line. Use this source for pleasure reading or research. Download RealAudio® to hear stories read to you.
(German) telelernen und internet in der lehre. A non-commercial portal with articles, links, books, conferences as software related to online learning in tertiary contexts.
A website devoted to embedding learning materials into ELT. This is a well laid out website for learning and teaching professionals, and for developers working to promote innovation and best practice in education, where you will find a wealth of practical materials to download, designed to help you. The site is designed for ELT, but has wide applicability to other languages. Some links may no longer be live.
ESL Station from the ESL Department at San Jose City College is a language-learning site with three goals: to provide teachers and students with a variety of online sites that focus on language teaching and learning; to offer students online language practice that supports the goals of their courses; to facilitate independent language learning that includes all language skills at all levels of ability.
Here are the results (you can read descriptions of each web tool by going here.
1. Synthasite; 2. Moblyng; 3. Nile Guide; 4. Flowgram; 5. Book Goo; 6. Graspr; 7. Jog The Web; 8. Posterous; 9. Tikatok, Awesome Highlighter, and My Jugaad (three-way tie); and 10. Edublogs.TV, Digital Vaults, Quikmaps, Tokbox (four-way tie).
Randall Sadler’s ESL Web.org is dedicated to Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) for Language Teaching, TESOL, & Teaching L2 Reading and Writing. View his great PowerPoints!
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.
ENGLISH WEBSITES RECOMMENDED FOR PRACTICE AND STUDY
ESLgold.com 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. All materials on ESLgold.com are free of charge and organized by skill and level for quick and easy access. In addition to its free online resources, ESLgold provides you with recommendations for great textbooks, an online Bookstore, and even a book exchange, where you can buy and sell used books. ESLgold.com gives you the opportunity to practice your English language skills in many ways. If you're a beginner, you can start by checking out our vocabulary pages, where you can see, hear, and say new words in English. If you need some help with grammar, listening, or reading, you can look through hundreds of pages of explanations, examples, and exercises or browse through the quiz links section. If you want some conversation practice, you can find a study buddy, tutor, or teacher in our speaking partner program. Need some help with TOEFL or TOEIC*? Check their TOEFL / TOEIC section. How about pronunciation or idioms practice? Want to improve your Business English speaking and writing skills? See their extensive list of useful expressions for business encounters as well as phrases for conversation along with situations and topics for pair and group discussion.
ESL ALL and CALL4ALL.us both recommend these as ten of the very best sites related to the learning of English as a Second or Foreign language on the web. They contain a wealth of knowledge about the four language skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing) as well as pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, interactive exercises and a lot more. For those of you who have but little experience with available online resources, here's your chance to get a quick overview of many of the treasures awaiting you as you visit cyberspace.
One of the biggest and most popular EFL/ESL sites on the Internet! Study English grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation, play games, meet other students and teachers around the world, find information about language holidays to study abroad, find penfriends and keypals, get help on English grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation, test yourself, and even find copiable resources for learning and teaching English.
An excellent site put together by Kenneth Beare. Concentrates on helping the foreign speaker of English get the best out of the Internet while improving English-language skills. Features include articles on the latest English Net-slang, conversational challenges, listening strategies, help with English comprehension tests such as the TOEFL and First Certificate, and regular features on grammar and comprehension and a lot more.
Another great site for ESL students and teachers from around the world. Scroll down the page and select from a variety of cafe items. You can take an interactive quiz in the ESL Quiz Center, receive help with questions related to English in the ESL Help Center, search for something in the cafe or on the Web in the One-Stop ESL Search Page, share your experiences with others in the ESL Idea Page, read and add your own writings to the ESL Graffiti Wall, or ask Dave a question on the ESL Question Page. There are also links to other ESL information for both students and teachers, an interactive message exchange, and an ESL email connection.
Activities for ESL Students: Here's a high-quality activity project by The Internet TESL Journal. Includes grammar and vocabulary quizzes, tests, crossword puzzles and other activities to help students of English as a second language. Has thousands of contributions by many teachers.
Randall's ESL Cyber-Listening Lab: A great site that helps students improve their English listening comprehension skills through practice with self-grading listening quiz pages.
English Language Listening Lab Online: Listen to English speakers from all over the world. Over 400 free listening activities to choose from. Listening activities come with transcripts, quizzes, pictures, and audio that can be downloaded.
Lots of ESL / EFL student resources. Grammar, phrasal verbs, and vocabulary exercises, games, and quizzes. Great practice exercises for the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) too!
The institute is housed in the Bemis International Center on the beautiful campus of St. Norbert College overlooking the Fox River in De Pere, Wisconsin -- a suburb of Green Bay. The ESL Institute teaches English as a Second Language (ESL) to foreign students who want to prepare for a professional career or for an American university degree program. Some ESL students are preparing to study degree programs at St. Norbert College. Some students come for short courses in our ESL summer language and culture classes.
UsingEnglish.com provides a large collection of English as a Second Language (ESL) tools & resources for students, teachers, learners and academics. Browse our grammar glossary and references of irregular verbs, phrasal verbs and idioms, ESL forums, articles, teacher handouts and printables, and find useful links and information on English. Topics cover the spectrum of ESL, EFL, ESOL, and EAP subject areas.
Edict.com is a Virtual Language Classroom based in Hong Kong.
Web Concordancer, Unique Words Text Profiler, Word Frequency Text Profiler, Net Dictionary, Chinese - English Parallel Concordancer, Teachers' toolbox, etc.
Excellent data on an enormous range of topics! Themes include:
Arts & Crafts (Color famous paintings), Calendar Crafts, Graphic Organizers, Holidays, Little Explorers’ Picture Dictionary (Phonetically arranged!), great Kids’ Pages Links and Books to print out, Bilingual Dictionaries for Kids in European Languages and Japanese, Crafts, Monthly Activity Calendars, Printouts and Crafts. Geography topics include US State Map Quizzes, World Flag Coloring and Quizzes, Pre-School & Kindergarten Themes, Nursery & Rebus Rhymes, Writing Activities, Human Biology, History and Physical Science Topics (Botany, Earth Science, Biomes, etc), Zoom School and Zoom Dinosaurs, Math and Music Activities and more! Science pages are listed by age group and topic.
This is a great starting point. Go to this site and you are immediately given a list of areas such as grammar, collocations and multi-word verbs. Simply click on the one that interests you and you will be taken to a separate list of exercises (there are also some very good business English crosswords). Most of the exercises offer instant feedback.The site is free and easy to navigate.
This site offers supplementary material for a TV broadcast that CNN makes to schools around the world in English. It is free and students don't need to watch the programs to do, and get benefit from, the exercises here. Feedback is instant and there is plenty of material. This is organized by the dates of university terms (the site is run by Brigham Young University). Just click on Exercises or Vocabulary and then choose a date
and you will get a list of exercises. Not everything is business-based, but much of it is.
This site is also free. When you open it, you will see a list of drop-down menus, eg Reading, Grammar and Vocabulary. There are some interesting reading articles; they don't have accompanying comprehension questions as such (you could make up your own), but they do have exercises on the meanings of words within the text. Checking answers to the grammar exercises can be a little slow as you have to check each item individually.
An international site for students and teachers of English as a foreign language with exercises, worksheets, useful links and resources, reading, fun, games, etc.
Free lessons written by teachers / professional writers, audio lessons, 50 articles, list of international ESL schools (1,090), ESL Java games / quizzes, ESL discussion forum, etc. Free access to over 2,500 ESL job offers worldwide, 2,200 ESL resumes.
Peacekeeping English. Actually designed to help those involved in international peacekeeping operations. Don’t we wish that good communication skills were all that it takes to make a peaceful world? Developing good language skills sure can help, at any rate!
Relevant for workers needing higher levels of English proficiency. Interesting activities on a wide variety of topics using multimedia language learning materials. These range from giving presentations, doing effective online study and other career-related themes.
English through Songs, Stories, Poems and Word Games. Improve Your English with EFL.net, where you can listen to songs, stories and poetry while you read the texts on the screen. Here you can do cloze tests, play word games and improve your grammatical and idiomatic English. EFL.net is a Holland-based language learning site.
Educator's Reference Desk users may wish to search ERIC* at the U.S. Department of Education's ERIC website: http://www.eric.ed.gov. *The Educators Reference Desk is not affiliated with or funded by the ERIC program or the United States Department of Education. All questions concerning ERIC should be addressed directly to the ERIC program at 1-800-LET-ERIC.
US Dept of Ed’s ERIC – the world’s largest digital library of educational literature.
ERIC at the U.S. Department of Education's ERIC website. All questions concerning ERIC should be addressed directly to the ERIC program at 1-800-LET-ERIC.
Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) provides quick and easy access to over 40,000 educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit and commercial Internet sites. Enter a word or words that describe the information you are looking for in the search box on the right side of the GEM page.
Looking for a cost effective, comprehensive online learning and communication environment that aligns to major funding streams?
Futurekids online is a comprehensive, customizable web-based solution that integrates best-of-breed educationally relevant solutions for your school or district. Futurekids online will deliver a complete online learning, training and communication environment for everyone in your school or district. The platform was developed to meet the specific funding requirement for several major U.S. funding programs including No Child Left Behind.
The Futurekids solution empowers educators, students, and administrators to be proficient with technology as a learning, instruction, administrative and communication tool resulting in better learning outcomes and improved return on investment.
E-Learning Services is at the forefront of the advancement and application of new technologies in the curriculum, supporting and developing quality online learning and engaging in research to improve the educational experiences of the University community through e-learning.
This is a site for students of English to practice their language skills using movie commercials. There are over 130 trailers, each with 8 different activities, allowing students to practice reading, listening, writing, speaking and grammar. An advantage of this site is that it allows teachers to track their students' scores and forum entries. It also has printable versions of cloze, quiz and weblinks activities for homework or in-class use.
Online Tools for Teaching and Learning. Recommended Sites for Teachers. Collaborating, Social Networking Sites.
The Educational Development and Technology Centre (EDTeC) provides central support and resources for online learning and the use of educational technology throughout UNSW.
The Encyclopedia of Life is an ecosystem of websites that makes all key information about life on Earth accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world. Its stated goal is to create a constantly evolving encyclopedia that lives on the Internet, with contributions from scientists and amateurs alike. To transform the science of biology, and inspire a new generation of scientists, by aggregating all known data about every living species. And ultimately, to increase our collective understanding of life on Earth, and safeguard the richest possible spectrum of biodiversity.
Aframe Online Learning and Compliance Solutions. Online and blended learning development and delivery specialists for Corporate and vocational training programs; Compliance programs; Product knowledge training and assessments. Aframe is a leading Australian e-Learning company that provides innovative outsourced online learning, assessment and compliance management solutions. Aframe released its first e-Learning product in 1998 and has developed the e-Learning platform, Aframe OLAMS (Online Learning & Assessment Management System).
A podcast is an audio file that you download from the Internet. After you download it, you can listen to it on your computer or on an MP3/portable music player (for example, an iPod or iRiver). You can subscribe to a podcast so that it is delivered to you automatically each day, just like a newspaper.
What is the Learning Guide?
The Learning Guide is an 8 - 10 page guide for every future podcast. The Learning Guide includes all of the following:
Complete transcripts (ESL Podcast and English Café); Definitions; Sample sentences; Comprehension questions; Additional explanations; Cultural notes; and Tips on improving your English.
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.”
My Language provides access to News Sources, Search Engines and Web Directories in over 60 languages! MyLanguage is a portal providing access to Search Engines Web Directories and other online information resources in 60 community languages in Australia. MyLanguage is a partnership between the State Libraries of NSW, QLD, SA, VIC, and WA and the NT and ACT Library and Information Services. They are very useful Printer-friendly Websites, Community-based language resources, Online Email Services. Information includes Local History and Entertainment, Government Departments in Australia, Current Affairs and News, Online Directories and other Library Catalogues. World News – free full-text news and weather around the world. Top Online Email Services using GMail (free web-based Email from Google). MSN Hotmail – free web-based Email from Microsoft Network. Yahoo! Mail – free web-based Email from Yahoo!
Issues Direct is a new e-book resource website for teachers, librarians and students around the world on topical social issues such as Drug Abuse, Energy, Climate, Responsible Tourism and Poverty. A free ebook PDF can be downloaded.
NoteTab is a leading-edge text and HTML editor for Windows. Winner of software industry awards since 1998, this swift Swiss application does it all: it easily handles a stack of huge files; lets you format text to your heart's content; does system-wide searches, and multi-line global replacements. It even corrects your spelling mistakes. Build document templates, add bookmarks, convert text to HTML on-the-fly, and take charge of your code. Use a simple, power-packed scripting language to create anything from a text macro to a mini-application. The ultimate free Notepad replacement and a handy HTML editor. Handle a heap of files with a simple tabbed interface. Search files, strip HTML tags and format text quickly. Build libraries of text macros to speed up your work. Formerly called "Super NoteTab". 100% freeware -- no ads and no nags.
to improve schools by better cooperation across Europe. So far almost 1 million students, and 100,000 teachers from over 11,000 schools have been helped thru its new initiatives.
(ISTE) with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The TSI is designed to provide school districts with models for an efficient and effective technology support system based upon best practices in nationally recognized school districts. With the TSI framework and self-assessment tool, school districts can appraise the quality and efficiency of their current technology support program and learn about possible improvements they can employ.
If you have a successful practice or use of software or hardware, please share it with the rest of us in this database which, once it is populated, will provide everyone with lots of good stuff!
Check out EasyEnglish, a very simple translation of the Bible for people who are starting to learn English. There are two levels: Level A (1200 words) and Level B (2800 words) and includes a new words list at the end of each book. "EasyEnglish is a form of simple English developed by Wycliffe Associates (UK). This site contains Bible commentaries, Bible translations, Bible studies, and other materials written in simple English. They are free for you to download and use."
Translation Software, Translation Dictionary, OCR, Spell Check. Smart Link's products recognized for their advanced technology and ease of use include an extensive library of Multilingual Fonts, Keyboard Managers, Proofing Tools, Computerized Dictionaries, Optical Character Recognition tools, etc.
Creator of AceReader Speed Reading Software: Smart Link Corporation offers the most comprehensive line of multilingual software products including Translation Software, Computerized Dictionaries for English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, etc.
Hebrew and Arabic natural language processing for data retrieval and information extraction that smoothly integrates with existing systems; online computerized dictionaries , Kolan TM - automatic
Between computer programs that can identify human speech and match that up with their computerized dictionaries in order to understand our weaknesses to jokester scientists building robots.
Click on "Online Resources for English Learning" to access pages with many annotated links for... Reading Opportunities; Listening Opportunities; Vocabulary & Grammar; Test Your English; Keypals; & Chat Link Sites. These sites a) have a history of consistent service; b) offer quality materials; c) feature regularly updated materials and/or a large enough collection of materials so that students can benefit from visiting the site again and again.
Evaluate your English proficiency level using British Council’s Learn English Site. Test or Assess your English level in four areas with these free tests:
ETProfessional’s website is packed with practical tips, advice, resources, information and selected articles for discerning teachers who don’t want to waste time getting good ideas quickly. Browse articles and feel free to submit tips or even articles. UK-based.
Curriculum: English / Language Arts, Foreign Language.
In this Webquest you will find activities designed to help English language learners gain skills to read on grade level. This site was designed with the intention of helping ESOL and second language learners maximize their proficiency in reading in their L2 language. Grade(s): K-2, 3-5 Language: English; by Sharrine12/01/2006.
maintained by Todd Beuckens, is a flash-based site providing students with a new audio dialogue of native speakers each week. Each dialogue centers around a specific topic and often contains a check for listening comprehension. The site has excellent, simple navigation features and a modern, simple look to it. It’s a great place to help autonomous students focus in on improving listening to authentic English in an ungraded environment.
Enterprise 2.0 is a catch-all term expressing something foundational that is changing how organizations function. McGee presents a compilation of important articles relating to this foundation-level change.
ESL - International Studies for over a decade has been a specialist in providing language courses worldwide. The linguistic programs are offered to juniors, adults and students, as well as executives. The aim of ESL is to help the customer focus on his needs and wishes to help him find a well-adapted language program. The advice service is free of charge and enrollment is not necessary.
At ESL Services we offer proofreading, editing and curriculum development services all over the world. We have professional and experienced editors and curriculum developers to do the work for you. If you have assignments, business documents or your school needs a new English curriculum let ESL Services help you reach your full potential.
The Cyber Hymnal: Thousands of Christian hymns & Gospel songs from many denominations lyrics, MIDI files, scores, pictures, history & more. Searchable, advanced Autoplay feature, free downloads. New entries every week. User friendly. Biggest site of its kind on the Internet.
ESL Reading.org (Kieran McGovern) posts PDF versions of longer stories popular with learners (including 'The Signalman', 'The Prisoner of Zenda,' 'The Body Snatcher,' the 'The Marble Finger' etc. Also a series of 400 word quirky stories: 'Did that Really Happen?' originally published in Hong Kong’s Ming Pao paper.
Easy-to-search site with "electronic materials for both teachers and learners, such as lesson plans, maps, images, data sets, visualizations, assessment activities, curriculum, online courses, and much more" in the area of the study of the Earth.
Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information available from anywhere.
iEARN (International Education and Resource Network) is the world's largest non-profit global network that enables teachers and youth to use the Internet ...
A website devoted to embedding learning materials into ELT. This is a well laid out website for learning and teaching professionals, and for developers working to promote innovation and best practice in education, where you will find a wealth of practical materials to download, designed to help you. The site is designed for ELT, but has wide applicability to other languages. Some links may no longer be live.
Software for Social Scientists who work with Text Based Data. Tool for ethnographic research. The website has a page of very clear screen-shots, letting you see how easy the procedures are. The webpage on the demo version does not reveal the extent of the work that can be done, but asks you to fill in a form saying whether you wish to receive marketing information. Two chapters from its manual are available to download: 'Chapter 2: Overview' and 'Chapter 4:Quick Tour'.
If you teach English, and if you have a sense of humor, you must go to David Deubelbeiss' post Funniest videos about teaching / learning English and watch the videos.
Epoch Times | Breaking News, Latest News, World News: Get the latest breaking news, in-depth reporting, and insightful analysis on a wide range of topics, including politics, culture, and world events! 2 California Editions exist too-- for Norcal at:
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.
IP2Phrase IP2Phrase allows you to insert dynamic customizable welcome messages to your web page with geographical information.You can either design your own phrase or use one of their defaults.
“Get in the Sandbox & Play with Us Kids!Eby using Twiddla Co-Browsing Tool Here:
Top ESL/TESOL Programs Find top online and local ESL/TESOL programs and request free info. Learn more about starting an exciting career in bilingual and ESL teaching today!
FREE ONLINE VOCAB TESTS Free Test of your vocabulary in English, Chinese, German, Japanese, Spanish or Turkish. Test Preparation free for GRE, SAT, TOEFL Tests. Speed-Reading Practice and Word Games.
Vocaboly.com offers many FREE Vocabulary Tests online.
Click on the V to check how many words you know in English.
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