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Why Japan Hides Okinawa's Dark Past: The Ryukyu DNA Secret Offence: Dealing with Offences/Offenders as our Lord Did? “Keep Your Heart Free From Offense!” Victoria Osteen's message #723-- 07/24/25 OLIVES & THEIR OIL USES! ONLINE Courses for Free! One Best Thing Priority Project: based on One-Sentence Project Daniel Pink about “one sentences” (see The Best Resources For Doing A “One-Sentence Project”). Here he is for review. Have students think twenty years ahead or further about what they want others to say about them, and then use that phrase as a helpful guide for how they live their lives for the New Year and from now on! Great New Year’s Project to help us focus our minds and time! In that resource link, you’ll find short videos from Dan, a hand-out I use, along with videos from my previous classes and ones from other schools in the United States. OnCore Education.com Oyster Oyster has been called the “Netflix of books” and the description is appropriate. Oyster offers unlimited access to over 200,000 books for just $9.95 a month, with new titles added all the time. Oyster’s mission is to connect readers with the perfect book. They’ve created an all-in-one social reading and book-recommendation experience with a strong focus on design, effortless usability, and beautiful OER Search Engines for Best Educational Content OER (Open Educational Resources) are freely accessible, usually openly licensed documents and media that are useful for teaching, learning, educational assessment and research purposes i.e. They include learning content (course materials), tools (software to create and manage open learning content) and licenses. OpenTapestry OpenTapestry: is an excellent search engine which brings open licensed educational resources from all over the Web. It has advanced search options where you can choose your content from numerous subjects. It has social networking features as well as tools to create and manage online content. OER Commons OER Commons: is a project created by ISKME (Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education). Most of the content created on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License. It brings over 48,000 OER for sharing curriculum with the world. OER Commons team designs custom tools to support OER networks. It has an efficient search options: you can discover new resources or search by using an advanced (with lot of filtering options) search option. Advice for online PhD programs Free assistance about choosing the best suited online PhD programs for professionals who wish to pursue post-graduate education and uplift professional worth. Visit Okinawa.jp What Happened To The Dead At The Battle Of Okinawa? | Watch Okinawa BATTLE of 1945 One Laptop Per Child One Laptop Per Child creates educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collab-orative, joyful, self-empowered learning. Open Study OER Commons 
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ONLINE SAFETY AND ONLINE COURSES: Online English Language Center (U. of Oregon) Outlines Outlines are used frequently in education to organize content and show relationships among items. While creating an outline is nothing new, there are websites dedicated to increasing this skill and taking it to the next level.
Top 10 Sites for Creating Outlines by David Kapuler: Knowcase Create collaborative outlines with this easy-to-use site that features a drag-n-drop interface. Thinklinkr A real-time collaborative outline creator that has a nice built-in chat feature to engage in project development. Checkvist A great collaborative online outliner that has an abundance of features such as: gmail/browser integration, mobility, and nice import/export features. Read Write & Think Outline Maker A very easy-to-use outline creator that teaches how to create outlines. Loose Stitch A nice fun site for creating collaborative outlines that can the be exported to a blog or website. Mindmeister A fun site for real-time collaboration that is ideal for creating brainstorms, mind maps, and outlines.
Online Picture Dictionary Images with Audio and Text Online Virtual Learning Environments (OLEs) Olympic Champions' Stories Oxford University Press Site Project Third Edition is another new excellent site from Oxford University Press supporting one of their textbooks. Many engaging online activities are there for Beginning through Intermediate English Language Learner students. See more at Vocabulary. Oxford University Press Site Project Third Edition is another new excellent site from Oxford University Press supporting one of their textbooks. Many engaging online activities are there for Beginning through Intermediate English Language Learner students. See more at Vocabulary.
Resources: Online Journals for Language Learning and CALL/Technology Research Any journal with an asterisk (*) means that it is searchable in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) or the Science Citation Index (SCI), which are provided by the Journal Citation Report (ISI Web of Knowledge). You may use this link to search indexed papers in the ISI Web of Science [V. 4.8] of the NCKU web domain, and can use this link to log in to the NCKU online library. (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
Comparing Online Translators See Ferlazzo's preferences for online translators in The Best Reference Websites For English Language Learners, along with sharing research from The New York Times on which ones do a better job. He lists Google as the best. Ethan Shen has just done a research project comparing Google Translate, Babelfish and Bing Translator. Here are his conclusions: The final data reveals that while Google Translate is widely preferred when translating long passages, Microsoft Bing Translator and Yahoo Babelfish often produce better translations for phrases below 140 characters.
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CROSS-CULTURAL INSIGHTS Online Readings for Loucky Courses at KyuDai
ONLINE BOOKS ON CALL Routledge Language Learning Arena (Taylor & Francis) ICT4LT European-funded online resource on CALL for teachers in secondary and higher education. Although not published as an online book, the structure of the site allows it to be used as such. Module 2.3 has a useful section: Towards Equal Discourse in Web-based Interaction. Theory and Practice of Online Learning Anderson and Elloumi's 2004 free access book is published under a Creative Commons license which allows you to read, print and share the contents freely (barring a few clearly spelt out restrictions). It is informed by the rich distance-teaching experience of Athabasca University (English-speaking Canada's Open University), and covers four areas in CMC for learning (most of it applicable to languages): ‘Role and Function of Theory in Online Education Development and Delivery'; 'Infrastructure and Support for Content Development'; 'esign and Development o Online Courses'; 'elivery, Quality Control, and Student Support Online CoursesE
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ONLINE SEARCH ENGINE TOOLS I-Tools Excellent language, internet research and search tools integrated on one page. Language Tools Dictionaries, word lookups, computer terms, (European languages) text translator, web page translator, and more language tools, such as specialized dictionaries and thesauri, crossword and scrabble solvers, more translators, etc. Webopedia Webopedia is an online computer dictionary for computer and internet terms and definitions. As such, it's the only online dictionary and search engine you need for computer and internet technology definitions.
WEBSITE REVIEW FORM to file and organize sites you find useful
What do I do when I find a good website?
Firstly, don¡t forget to bookmark the site or add it to your favorites. Then, write a short review of the site for your colleagues or students - this will help them find what they are looking for. A good review can be far more useful than an obscure entry in your favorites or bookmarks. Sample site review form:
1) Description: Add a short description of the site.
2) Content Summary: Give a brief summary of the contents of the site.
3) Information: Is the site content correct, reliable and accurate? Is the writer an expert in this subject?
4) Currency: Is the site up-to-date? When was new information last added? When were the pages last updated?
5) Content: Is the content interesting, relevant, funny, useful or entertaining? How would you describe it?
6) Presentation: Is it attractive and easy to navigate? Doesit use a lot of graphics, sound or multimedia files?
7) Functionality: Does it all work? Are there any brokenlinks or missing pages? Does it take a long time to display pages?
ONLINE TESTS Online tests to check your own English level 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: - Vocabulary Level
- Grammar Level
- Listening Level
- Reading Level
ONLINE E-LEARNING E-Learning and Ed Tools | Web 2.0 Tools Online Teaching Tools Collection of many online tools for teaching and learning. Icing on the Cake Online Tools for Teaching and Learning. Recommended Sites for Teachers. Collaborating, Social Networking Sites.
OPEN SOURCE CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (CMSS) Manhattan Virtual Classroom ATutor dotLRN LON-CAPA Moodle Online classrooms for FREE?! A Review of Free Online Learning Management Systems (LMS), Saskia E. Kameron (South Puget Sound Community College Olympia, Washington USA). From TESL-EJ, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Sept, 2003). Proprietary versus Free Open Source Systems Questions to ask yourself or your students when comparing Proprietary versus Free Open Source Systems (FOSS). WordChamp.com The most highly developed modified CMS specifically designed to help improve Vocabulary learning and teaching in 60 languages.
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ONLINE AUCTIONS AND SHOPPING Loot Advanced discussion of online shopping using classified ads. Home File UK Bushells Looking for apartments or homes in the UK (with photos) Bid 4 Assets Practice searching for cars, land and homes to buy in the USA online. Use Map Quest for US and international map searches.
OLYMPICS The Sydney 2000 Olympics Website The International Olympics Committee
KNOWLEDGE MAPPING Compendium 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.
OTHER Question Pro Online Survey Research program with free demo. Learn Out Loud LearnOutLoud.com offers many speeches and books with FREE Audio and/or Video. Give 1, Get 1 Laptop Program Open Textbooks/Textbook Revolution Textbook Revolution is the web's source for free educational materials. This is a student-run, volunteer-operated website started in response to the textbook industry's constant drive to maximize profits instead of educational value. Oracle The world's largest enterprise software company, Oracle is the only vendor to offer solutions for every tier of business -- database, middleware, applications and industries. Orkut Orkut is an Internet social network service run by Google and named after its creator, Google employee. Open Learn Visit OpenLearn - open educational resources from The Open University. Free online learning materials for all to use. OneforIsrael.org One for ISRAEL: Amazing Personal Stories for great Listening Practice! Oneplace.com From Israel to reach the whole world! Oldest Name on Earth vs. Highest Name above all Names?
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