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Voices Across Time was created to help teachers harness the power of song as primary source to supplement any secondary American Social Studies, Language Arts, and Music curriculum. The project has three components (use the buttons at the top of this page to find out more about each): a Teacherfs Guide, the Summer Institute for Teachers, and Lesson Plans and other Teaching Resources. Also found at this site is an index of Timely Tunes; songs appropriate to enhance discussion of any major holiday or historical anniversary. Songs have a special power to express what words alone cannot: hopes, fears, dreams, love, hate, anger, pride, aspirations, and disappointments. Because songs span the breadth of human experience, they are uniquely able to communicate across time and space the beliefs and ideas held by their composers, performers and listeners. Yet textbooks are silent. MOODLES USING AV OR CALL IN LANGUAGE TEACHING
Begun by Martin Dougiamus, Moodle is an Open Source Learning Management System teachers can use to create CALL courses. Activities include quizzes, forums, chats, assignments, Hot Potatoes, surveys and wikis just to name a few. With many programmers continuing to increase the functionality of Moodle, new activities are often added. To use Moodle, one must have access to a server with PHP/MySQL capabilities. There is a somewhat steep learning curve, but for the most part it is not to hard to use once one gets the hang of it. There is also an extensive forum section to get help at. Register here. MOODLE COURSES
(Waseda and TCI, in Tokyo, Japan) MEMORY AND SYNCHRONIZATION SOFTWARE Dmailer To Bundle Its Synchronization Software With Verbatim's Portable USB Hard Drives by YAHOO Finance, Easy to use and always secure, Verbatim Sync allows the synchronization of a user's entire PC environment to any mobile storage device.
Integrates VOA, Daily Proverbs, ESL Podcasts, Quizzes, L1 & L2 Dictionaries and Search Engines. OUTPUT MODES include: 1) Plain, 2) Gaps or 3) Quiz, with 8 Corpora to choose from. MAGAZINES IN EASY ENGLISH MAPS Maporama.com can chart your course. MAPS FOR LEARNING ENGLISH Students have fun learning with maps, sometimes they even like homework. The students want to see their favourite attractions or activities or events. When you provide the information and maps the students will learn an amazing amount of English motivated by their interests. Students can go to the Ontario Ministry of Tourism for free maps. Staff are very helpful and can provide almost everything that you need. MAPS AND GPS MAPPING ONLINE en.pediax.org provides an ever-expandable map locator. Nomao.com can help you map and share your favorite places, blogs, etc. Google Directory attempts to organize the Web by topic into categories, but misses lots! Worldmapper.com provides many kinds of world maps, flags and GPS. ProgammableWeb.com links to about 1500 assorted maps. Web-based mind mapping software for Mind-Mapping Online Google Earth combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.
Scribble Maps is a neat application that lets you create maps / with markers and images that can be grabbed off the Internet / and you can draw on it, too. Plus, no registration is required. Its one of The Best Map-Making Sites On The Web, mentioned in Google Maps Mania. MASH-UPS Covers all thats new on the Web and How to Best Integrate it for Learning and Profits. Topics include News, Resources, Social Networking, Startups, Mobile, Sports, Music, Politics and Celebrities. Making Sense of New Technologies and Media by George Siemens - Sep 20 08 MEDIA LINKS English and German media links. MEDIA ART Sharewidely supports collaborative research in the area of new media art and education. An application of The Distributed Learning Project in the field of new media research, the tool enables open knowledge exchange in new media research and production. Individuals as well as groups of researchers and self-learners can create, share, edit, find, and re-use content related to Media Art. The project is for all who are engaged in media art and theory. He Knows My Name, etc. Last.fm is a favorite online music recommendation and listening service. The London-based company has added four new features: Events system (e.g. concerts), Free MP3s, Flash player radio, and a Taste-o-meter. Last.fm hopes these new features, plus the re-design, will make it easier to find and share music - as well as being turned on to the latest live music in your area.Unlike many online music networks, Last.fm connects to 30+ MP3 players Enot just iTunes and iPod. Last.fm connects to a lot of things in the online music ecosystem, which is part of its strategy to support "the iPod economy." Built as an open source platform, Last.fm is designed for support on all media players Henry JenkinsEBlog. MOBILE LEARNING Shareideas.org is a global Wiki Community sharing ideas about mobile learning for social benefits. Mobile phone to PC publishing and file-sharing. With Treemo You can: Create, view and share - videos, photos, audio and text. Publish your Treemo channel on your mobile, on the web, on your blog, on MySpace or Facebook. MOBILE PHONES AND MP3 PLAYERS Turn your phone into a MP3 player with Load2Mobile. MOBILE PHONE TELECONFERENCING PROGRAM Offers live streaming Video-Conferencing to your Mobile Phone device. (Can set to private or public.) MOVIES AwesomeStories.com provides the real stories and history behind many famous movies. ESLNotes.com gives great Movie Guides to English Learners for many movies. Each individual guide is a detailed synopsis of a popular movie that consists of the following: a summary of the plot; a list of the major characters; an extensive glossary of vocabulary and various cultural references that even advanced ESL learners would often not understand; questions for ESL class discussion. You can browse through the introductory explanations, links or other sections in the menu bar above, scan a list of our offerings in the pull-down menu below, or go straight to all the synopses. Drews Script-o-rama features film scripts for over 300 films. Teachers and students can use Hollywood.com to get movie reviews to use as pre- or post-viewing guides. the largest movie resource on the net. Use film reviews to help you plan a night at the movies, which ones to see and why. film reviews Use film reviews to help you plan a night at the movies, which ones to see and why. For free.
MOVIES, FILM AND VIDEO RESOURCES More of the worlds best English language learning links chosen by ESL All Adapted with permission from ESL All August 2006 Issue - Vol. 2, no. 7 These great visual resources will deepen your love and appreciation of films and videos and help you sharpen both your listening and reading comprehension skills. A wonderful site where you can learn English through movies. Watch narratives, documentaries, short animation films, cine-poetry, travel, homemade videos, and a lot more. Lingual Net is another video-based English study site. There are currently over 60 short movies with accompanying activities to study from. They site utilizes the "tri-view method" where students watch the movies 3 times, first without subtitles, then with subtitles, and finally with quiz questions that pop up at various points in the movie. British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC): Meet people from across the UK and hear on video clips what they have to say about their lives and the world around them. British English. No transcripts. Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC): English Bites (ABC: Australia Broadcasting Corporation). An informative and entertaining way to improve your English. Free videos with transcripts and vocabulary exercises. Australian English.
A free website that is loaded with hundreds of thousands of videos for people to watch and share worldwide through a Web experience. First-hand accounts of current events, hobbies and interests, as well as the quirky and unusual. No transcripts. The 9 is a daily broadcast on Yahoo! TV of the 9 best, weirdest, and funniest videos, photos, sites, and stories on the Web. Hosted by Maria Sansone. Features online voting and user submission. No transcripts. A non-profit, free educational site made by teachers for students studying English as a second/foreign language. This site uses movie commercials (movie clips) to help you better your English. Includes summaries, cloze tests, transcripts, talking activities, quizes and a forum. Lots of fun! Film news, trailers, featurettes, overview, multimedia, photos, reviews, a fan forum, crewnews and features. Also showtimes and tickets, and synopsis summaries for films currently in theaters and new to DVD and video. A wealth on information. Amazing everything you can find about movies for free at this site. No transcrripts. Watch the latest theatrical film trailers of new and upcoming movies, from Apple.com. Organized by production studio. Requires the QuickTime software that you can download for free at this site. No transcripts. Watch hundreds of movies for free online. Also cartoons, documentaries, old newsreels, classic commercials, and short films. No downloading or registration required. Download time is sometimes a little slow, but this site contains unique material. No transcripts. The HOPE, full 80Emovie presentation with no breaks. HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY MOVIES
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like Macs I-Movie MOO MUD Object Oriented or less commonly, Multi-User Object Oriented systems A MOO (MUD object oriented) is a type of MUD and is a text-based online virtual reality system to which multiple users are connected at the same time. More than 150 MOOs at your fingertips on the web since 1996! MOOs are listed as educational, ESL, research, RPG, social, or other.
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schMOOze U. is a small, friendly college known for its hospitality and the diversity of the student population. It was established in July, 1994 as a place where people studying English as a second or foreign language could practice English while sharing ideas and experiences with other learners and practicers of English. Students have opportunities for one-on-one and group conversations as well as access to language games such as Scrabble and Boggle, an on-line dictionary, a virtual library and a grammar maze. Although schMOOze U. was founded with ESL/EFL students in mind, it welcomes all people interested in cross-cultural communication. MUSEUMS
Museum 2.0 explores ways that web 2.0 philosophies can be applied in the design of online museums. Museum 2.0 projects incorporate user-generated content, participatory experiences, and an ethos of perpetual beta. They explore the ways that advances in the social Web can be applied in museums.
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Creative Kids Central has a number of very engaging online activities related to classical music. See its "talking" and musical story on the 1001 Arabian Nights and its online video game on the composer Brahms Both are accessible to English Language Learners. MAKING MUSIC MOVIES AND MUSIC FOR ESL
Teaches language through hip-hop and has products that are being used in thousands of schools worldwide. This music has been featured on MTV and CNN, but teachers should monitor it for inappropriate content.
A new childrens English product in China called Pingus English incorporates music into its syllabus. This helps to keep the children focused on what they are learning in a fun and interactive way. SONG LYRICS USED TO TEACH ENGLISH From Wendy Boswell source about.com. Searching for lyrics to a song can be a daunting task, but not with these Top Ten Lyric Search Engines. Find a song lyric, do a song search by lyric, and more. Find the song lyrics youre searching for on the Web quickly and easily!
Get Lyrical is an excellent lyrics search engine. You can search by song lyric, artist, song, or album. And if you still cant find the song youre looking for in their excellent (and sizable) lyrics database, you can check out the Get Lyrical Message Boards and ask the community there to help you figure out a song lyric. Fast and easy lyric search, good, relevant results - I highly recommend Get Lyrical for your lyric search needs.
The thing I like most about Lyrics Robot is their absolutely huge artist directory. Just click on any of the alphabet letters on the Lyrics Robot home page and youll retrieve a wide range of artists. Lyrics Robot claims to have E Million Entries - 500,000 Songs - 40,000 ArtistsE which is obviously a lot. The lyric search process seems a bit clunky, but I was still able to find some good answers. Sort your lyric search results by site to get a more organized lyric search results page.
Search over 100,000 songs with LyricSearch.net. I was able to find good results with my search for what the world needs now, including other songs and albums of Burt Bacharach that I didnt even know existed. All lyric search results for LyricSearch.net open in a new window;I didnt much like this but its a small issue. Good index of lyrics and easily implemented lyric search.
MetroLyrics features over 262,000 music lyrics (thats quite a few), but even better than MetroLyrics lyric search are the various music categories that they have available, such as list of artists by music genre, Top 100 Most Popular lyrics, and Christmas music, which at the time of this writing spanned over 20 jam-packed pages.
Simple and uncluttered, MLFinder delivers fast and relevant results with a few little extras: look at your lyric search results and youll see when that song was added, an opportunity to buy the song lyric (sheet music), buy posters of the artist, or send that lyric to a friend. MLFinder has E0,000+ artists - 1,000,000+ song lyrics & growing.EDont forget to check out the Billboard Hot 100; click on any of the song URLs and youll be taken to that songs lyrics.
Rock Wisdom features an immense database of song quotes-the main purpose of this collection of quotes from Rock and Roll music is to celebrate and provide a documented reference to an under appreciated form of literature.EYou can search by subject, search by artist,browser through popular artists, get a random rock quote, or look up the full lyrics (this links to outside sites). Over 70 categories of Rock Wisdom goodness; this site is an online archive of sorts for rock and roll history.
Search lyrics by artist, song, or keyphrase with Lyrical Discord. The most popular songs are featured right on the front page. heres an example of what I liked most about Lyrical Discord-I did a search for hard days night and not only did it bring up the classic Beatles song, but also other song lyrics in that album, all song lyrics by that artist and other albums by that artist. A nice touch for anyone whos not looking for song lyrics alone. A to Z Lyrics Universe features over 50,000 searchable song lyrics. You can browse by artist or band name in their alphabetical directory, or you can just type in a lyric snippet. Song lyrics results will open up in a new window. A to Z Lyrics Universe features mostly newer songs from the year 2000 and up; lots of hip-hop, Top 40 kind of stuff here.
In addition to a strong lyric search experience (over 74,000 songs indexed at the time of this writing), Songme.com also offers some unique user features such as artist birthdays displayed on the front page, DailyKeys, links to the most popular song requests by day, and a list on the far left side of the Top 20 Albums (with links to these albums lyrics) on Songme.com.
Lyrics Spot not only has a sizable database of lyrics-over 160,000 at the time of this writing-but they offer CD cover images of whatever artist youre looking for as well. Search by artist, album or song, browse the alphabetical directory, check out Lyrics Spots top songs, or check out the Billboard Top 12 albums, with links to song lyrics. MUSIC (OTHER)
Planetcdrom.com is about the cheapest source in the world for Educational Software, Movie DVDs, and Music CDs. Learn English through songs. Use to find out about various artistsEsongs. in many languages.
Music Tapes /CDs, English Resources (for better understanding International Friends), such as about traditional African, Chinese religions, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism); Jesus Videos/DVDs (available in over 1000 languages); ESL Materials (English as a Second Language); Language Learning Courses . English Hymns can be set to play automatically, giving composer information, etc.
MUSIC AND MP3 MUSIC DOWNLOADS for Music / MP3 song collections. Millions of MP3s and 1000's of audio channelspodcasts, music, and more. Listen, download, subscribe... FREE!
SONGS FOR KIDS offers original song lyrics for many areas of life. A resource for songs about: peace, justice, compassion, conflict, resolution, nonviolence, anti-bias, fear, grief, bullying, patriotic songs, the global family.
MYSTERIES AND CODES: SOLVING PUZZLES Teaches and converts secret codes. Converts names into Hieroglyphics. Secret code site More mysteries ideas. Solve online mysteries as computer detectives! MACHINE TRANSLATION SOFTWARE ENGINES OVERVIEW CHARTS
These translation programs are intended for giving a general gist of meaning, not as a substitute for human translation. However, this is the best quick view of Machine Translation options online, covering 13 online translation engines. Translation Wizard with free simultaneous access to over 265 dictionaries for 73 languages.
BUSINESS MAGAZINES ONLINE Top Economic News; Asia and Asia Tech Blog; Economics Innovation Investing; Europe; Investing and Newsletters; Technology; Innovation & Design; Autos; Energy Product Reviews. COMPARING CHRISTIAN, JEWISH AND ISLAMIC SCRIPTURES; COMPARING THE BIBLE AND KORAN RESOURCES Answering Islam may be the most thorough online source dealing with these issues. In three major series: 1) Foundational Books (FB), 2) Christianity and Islam Series (CIS), and 3) The Quran and the Bible Series (QBS). All the material here is put up with the permission of the author. The "Qur'an and the Bible Series" consists mainly of rebuttals of booklets by Deedat. The "Christianity and Islam Series" presents other important topics. MOODLE ONLINE ENGLISH COURSES DESIGNED FOR JAPANESE
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(by Paul Daniels) KNOWLEDGE MAPPING Compendium is based on many years research on the use of such tools in educational and workplace settings. We know that "seeing what you're thinking" by connecting ideas on the screen can help in a personal or group situation. We have also shown that Compendium's visual information management facilities help people manage large amounts of information in an intuitive way, in education, research, business and government. MEDICAL ENGLISH EnglishMed.com provides practice in common medical terms and their collocations using an online matching game. OTHER [Play for Valentines Day, etc!]
What this is: The Learning Center is a rich educational resource for everything you wanted to know about user-created video, audio, and other forms of citizens' media. Bilingual English-Japanese Online News Major Insights on CALL from Materials Development Class from Omer Ari at GSU.
The brain teasers and math puzzles on Syvum are interactive with immediate scoring and explanations to provide continuous learning and entertainment.
Communication has never been faster or easier than it is today, as people connect with each other across the globe in a matter of seconds. One barrier, however, remains to be overcome - and that is the language barrier. But thanks to LingvoSoft Online everything you need is right here waiting to help. All the free tools and services for your online life made available in one convenient place to aid understanding and interaction. LingvoSoft Online contains an extensive selection of ECTACO/LingvoSoft utilities and databases. LingvoSoft Online is the new web portal of Ectaco Company, a leader in the field of language-learning, translation and localization software for over 42 languages. Known for their quality, effectiveness, and use of the latest industry technologies, they have also incorporated high quality software from selected third-party developers to effectively address translation, language learning and localization issues. Phil Cookes Blog. for students and teachers. 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. Create Short Story Movies! Although not originally intended for language learning, D. Film Moviemaker is a Flash-based site which lets users create short movies. This is done by selecting the background, the sky, the characters, how the characters meet, their dialogue (which appears as text in cartoon bubbles), and finally background music. My experience with this site in the classroom has been extremely positive with students creating some original, creative short stories with this site. Excellent for task-based projects.
MACE 2007 Conference Meebo.com can integrate and give access to 7 Instant Messengers simultaneously! (So can QNext.com) Mologogo is a free service that will track you and your friends using GPS-enabled mobile phones. Mologogo LLC. Maps by Google, additional data provided by Yahoo! Web API, National Weather Service, and GeoCoder.ca. iLike is a social music discovery service that lets consumers get personalized recommendations and follow what their friends are listening to. MySpace is to take on YouTube's status as the world's leading video-sharing website by renaming and relaunching its own service as MySpaceTV. The video section of MySpace will be given its own web presence. Manage your entire community and site on a single platform. The Movable Type Community Solution (MTCS) sits on top of MT4, allowing you to create vibrant online communities. With the powerful features of MTCS you can attract a larger audience, increase engagement with your site, host forums, and improve the loyalty of your community. A perfect platform for building easy-to-maintain blog, web, and social media sites. Two powerful publishing platforms: MT Enterprise Solution - The most widely-used enterprise blogging platform, and MT Community Solution. An independent, international general medical journal supporting academic freedom and open access. Patients Like Me helps connect doctors and patients with others struggling with similar diseases. Find or share help here. A Spanish authoring tool like Hot Potatoes, but only for Spanish.
Using manga to teach English. A teacher-created list of interactive mathematics sites to use with the whole class via an interactive whiteboard or TabletPC. Macmillan English Campus is both a database of learning content as well as a learning platform in itself, doing the following: 1. MEC contains a fully-searchable database of over 3,000 highly interactive language activities, developed by Macmillan's leading ELT authors. Many of these resources are compatible with interactive whiteboards. 2. MEC is built around a content management system, allowing you to manage your users and chart online resources to your own courses and course materials. 3. Learning can be greatly enhanced by an effective blend of face-to-face teaching and online support materials, so MEC seeks to integrate both in a balanced way (as does this CALL4ALL.us site). Monterey Institute of International Studies Offers several advanced degrees and certificate programs, including a certificate program in Computer-Assisted Language Learning. Miro Free open-source TV/video platform. (Robin Goods very good on Internet Media developments) Information Design and Web/PowerPoint Presentation Tools.
Use the Magnet Maker, a free website, to create drag-and-drop interactive exercises for your language students. Learn any language online
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E-Learning Tech-tales about optimizing the use of Social Media in low resource and mobile settings. Webspiration, the useful mind-mapping tool, comes to the Web in an easy-to-use, collaborative version. My Guide is a United Kingdom-supported site that has incredibly accessible tutorials on everything computer and Internet-related. It's visual, provides audio support for the text, and it geared towards novices. It's quite an impressive site, included in The Best Eleven Websites For Students To Learn About Computers. In addition, the same site has a Taste of English game that is very well-done. It does have a decidedly UK-perspective though.
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