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"!)
Summarized by JP Loucky from “Ed Tech: The growing backlash to screens in schools,”
Safe Content for Kids/Secure SEARCH ENGINES: SIMPLER & BETTER THAN EVER!
The web is enormous and full of resources. Many of those resources are untrustworthy or inappropriate. Fortunately, there are tools that exist to help teachers find classroom-safe content. Here are some of the best of them:
Curated by coordinator of information & technology literacy Jennifer Cirino.
Enjoy these great tools for educators and students! Looking for previous issues of the edshelf Weekly? All Previous EdShelf Issues are available online here at: https://edshelf.tumblr.com/tagged/edshelf-weekly
Sex and Culture by Unwin, J. D. (Joseph Daniel), 1895-1936.; Unwin, J. D. (Joseph Daniel), 1895- 1936. Published 1934. Topics Primitive societies, Sexual ethics.
One field that education technology has made a significant impact is students with special needs. Technology offers these individuals many opportunities for communication and interaction. Here are a set of notable tools in this field.
SPRK (Schools Parents Robot Kids) program. Sphero has an excellent web page for free downloadable lesson plans (5) that can be used by teachers and students. It includes a teacher guide, student guide, as well as a worksheet. The lessons in the SPRK program focus on Math, Physics, and Computer Science and are designed for 4th-5th graders. Of course, these lessons use the Sphero robotic ball to complete a variety of educational activities that can be done in groups and are easy to integrate into any classroom.
SunRise Tracking GPS System (21 Oct 2014) Kelvin Macharia Kuria is the founder of Sunrise Tracking, a car security ... GPS tracking, CCTV and ability to turn engines off remotely via SMS.
Slated.me is the translating keyboard that can replace your keyboard in other apps, letting you converse another language. You and a friend can both type in a foreign language, even if it's foreign to you both!
Modern Chalkboard is a wonderful new free site for finding SMART board resources. This is a great place to find interactive lessons on a wide variety of subjects such as: Math, Grammar, Science, and Social Studies. Also, this is a nice place to find other resources such as links and help files. For a Pinterest board on Educational Resources click here.
Squify is a new search engine that was just released today. This is a unique engine that show page results n a 3D wheel. A user can turn the wheel to get to the page they want. It has a nice visual which helps to be able to see the page before clicking on it. However, I recommend using caution if you are going to use this in a school setting as there is no built in filter. For Pinterest board on Search Engines click here.
Little Story Creator is a wonderful new iOS app for creating digital scrapbooks or storytelling. As w/ similar apps a user can add text, images/stickers, backgrounds, and even import video into their project. Best of all, a user can record audio to narrate a story. A finished project can then be shared via email or viewed on the web. This can even be used for guided instruction or flipping a classroom.
Media Slideshow Infographic: Regional pictures that capture the stats for every country for Internet, Mobile Phone and Social Media Use - Highest quality visualizations! Social, Digital & Mobile Around the World (January 2014). by We Are Social Singapore on Jan 08, 2014 This report presents all the key statistics, data and behavioural indicators for social, digital and mobile channels around the world.
This Xposed module lets you share any image and portrait video via Snapchat, not only pictures you take with the camera from within Snapchat. When you are viewing an image and click on share, Snapshare will pop up as an option. It will load Snapchat and lets you even paint on the image as if you had just taken it with your camera inside Snapchat. Snapshare will crop your images so they fit into your display. It uses the Xposed framework to intercept launches of Snapchat from Snapshare and do the magic. Because it uses the Xposed framework, it is device and ROM independent.
Designed to work everywhere, fast. Sugarbox requires no installation and works with anything on the Web - including the most complex web apps. Instantaneously collaborate using your favorite browser. A Google Chrome app that enables screen sharing right from your browser. Includes on-screen annotations and recording too.
Using SoftChalk, Laura Lawrence and Tracey DeLillo worked to create a "course" on Intellidemia Concourse, their new e-syllabus system. With a quick turnaround time to get every faculty member in the district familiar with the tool, they were able to put together simple, engaging content that could be updated on the fly as new questions were asked or processes changed. With positive feedback received, and a new appreciation for its ease of use, SoftChalk Cloud has become a go-to tool for other initiatives as well. Your institution can also create easy, engaging faculty training materials using SoftChalk!
Streamified unifies your social streams. No need to have multiple browser tabs open to see what your friends are up to on all the different social networks. Streamified merges all of your networks into one simple stream.
With a robust interface, you can write one single status update and share it on any number of social networks or all of them at once. And thanks to a built-in image uploader, link shortener, Google Analytics integration, and campaign tracking, your updates will look great no matter what network they get pushed out to.
Help teachers increase their effectiveness with SmarterCookie, an easy video sharing and coaching platform for school PD. Conduct video observations and share best practices with video libraries of exemplar instruction.
OpenWeb for more Accessibility: Here is a free accessibility-minded web browser for iPhones & iPads that is built with a font specially designed for dyslexic readers.
Super Teacher Worksheets is one of the best sites around finding worksheets on any number of subjects. Not only can a teacher find print-ables on different subjects such as: Math, Grammar, Writing, Reading, Spelling, Science, and more a educator can even customize their worksheets for their students. For example, if a Math teacher wants to create their own equations to use for their class this is the place to go. Also, STW is a great place to find and customize different exercises such as word searches, cross words and more. BTW, a teacher can access all STW resources for $19.95 or a whole school for $300. [Written by dkapuler on Jun 10, 2013].
ClassXP is an innovative new site that will be launching soon. This site uses the "gamification" (popular term for using game-based learning) to display student's grades in an interactive digital environment. This works by engaging students and motivating them as they have a unique environment/dashboard where they can create their own avatar, monitor their grades, and gain XP. As they progress through the year they will gain XP for accomplishments and have the ability earn badges and more. [Written by dkapuler on Jun 05, 2013].
Soo Meta lets you combine segments of videos, text, tweets and images into one presentation. One nice feature is that you can easily grab those items off the Web through a simple search option (though, for me, the image search wasn't working). You can read more about it at Richard Byrne's blog and at 10,000 Words, which called it a "Storify For Video."
Free Open Source to download or develop free Open Source Software for Japanese. SourceForge.JP is a Japanese version of SourceForge.net. For developments that are not related to Japan, we recommend you to use SourceForge.net.
Web of Science is an online academic citation index provided by Thomson Reuters. It is designed for providing access to multiple databases, cross-disciplinary research, and in-depth exploration of specialized subfields within an academic or scientific discipline. As a citation index, any cited paper will lead to any other. Titles included are listed here
Top 30 Social Networks for Education - a list of educational resources posted to a board in Pinterest. Included here are all the educational networks I could find. [by dkapuler]
Learn from movies, music, TV shows, news articles, magazines, books, and more
With StudyStream, studying begins directly with learning to understand what most interests you from online videos to news articles to blogs. By studying that which interests you most, you can efficiently learn the words and expressions that are most important to you without wasting time on irrelevant concepts that are easily forgotten. It also ensures that you learn natural expressions that are commonly used by native speakers. Study without limits--Learn from online videos, news articles, blogs, and other content found online. Learn whatever interests you the most (sports, fashion, travel, etc.) without ever running out of things to study. Native Japanese speakers can go straight to the Japanese page at http://studystream.jp and Spanish learners at http://studystream.es
ShortForm lets you grab videos from YouTube, Vimeo and Hulu to create your own video "channel" that can also be embedded. In addition, you can create live events where videos can be shown to an audience. You can read more about it at TechCrunch. Find more at The Best Ways To Create Online Video Playlists.
ShareThis offers the most innovative sharing platform for today's social audience by inspiring people to do more of what we believe is the foundation of digital life - to share data with others.
SAILOn (Subject Area Interactive Lessons Online) is a wonderful site for educational resources that I found out about from, David Andrade's wonderful blog. This site has resources for Primary, Intermediate, and High School grade levels. Also, lessons can be searched for by grade level for easy navigation. (Written by dkapuler on Dec 20, 2011 06:57 pm)
Spelling City is a site I've been exploring a lot lately and must say am throughly impressed. This has to be one of, if not one of the best sites I've come across for spelling and vocabulary for a long time. Also, this is a multifaceted site that can be used by educators, parents, or students. Once an account is created the first thing a user will be able to do is create a list. These lists are custom made and can be any word the user likes. One of the coolest features of SC is how a word entered in a list is provided w/ a definition and a sentence.Again as w/ most things in Spelling City, these definitions and sentences can be customized. These lists can also be assigned groups for organization purposes.
After a list is made a user has the ability to then play and search through different games that incorporates these lists. More games and features are available for those w/ a paid premium membership. These games are interactive and divided up between Spelling and Vocabulary. Also, these games can be turned into worksheets and printed out. (Written by dkapuler on Dec 20, 2011 04:37 pm)
Students can then be created by giving them a username and password. They can then be assigned to assignments which is one of the best features of Spelling City. Assignments are created by selecting a word list and choosing what areas to add such as: games, "teach me" (an innovative way to learn a word), writings, etc. Instructions can then be left for students as well as a due date.
Some other nice features are:
-online video tutorials
-very easy to use and user friendly
-ability to share and search already existing lists by category
-broad in spectrum for varying age levels such as:
-worksheets and alphabetical for younger kids
-writing skills practice and parts of speech for older kids
-ability to create printables/worksheets
-premium membership offers lots of features such as student tracking, best activities, no ads, etc
Speak and Spell is a fun site for younger kids learning how to spell and pronounce English words. They learn through these interactive online games, stories, and sounds.
The Best Science Sites Of 2011 are the latest in Ferlazzo's end-of-the-year "The Best" lists. As usual, sites on this list must be available free-of-charge and student resources must be accessible to English Language Learners. You might also be interested in:
The Best Science Sites Of 2011 - So Far
The Best Science Websites - 2010
The Best Science & Math Sites - 2009
The Best Science & Math Websites - 2008
The Best Science Websites For Students & Teachers - 2007
Sound Jay is an excellent site for finding free audio effects. These effects are in a number of different categories such as: music tracks, transportation sounds, button sounds, etc. The only stipulation is that these sounds can't be posted for download.
The Science Leadership Academy is a partnership high school between the School District of Philadelphia and The Franklin Institute. SLA is an inquiry-driven, project-based high school focused on twenty-first-century learning.
The Student Technology Leadership Program is a Kentucky Department of Education project-based learning program that empowers students in all grade levels to use technology to learn and achieve.
Annotate any web page by highlighting some text and leaving a sticky note with your comments. All highlights and notes are saved in the cloud. Basic Plan Free! 125 MB. Richly annotate web pages in multiple colors & styles. Save web research online & access it from anywhere. Use simple keywords to search full text of saved research. Use tags to quickly and easily organize research by topic. Easily share annotated web research with others via email. This is a great website for students to research, organize, annotate, take notes, collaborate, and write research papers.
Sophia is a social learning network that I've blogged about in the past. It's been awhile since I've been here and am glad that I've revisited this wonderful site. This is a great place for any educator or student looking to find resources or learn a subject. This is all done through a very user friendly interface and filled w/ lots of video tutorials and resources to look through. Also, Sophia is a great place for a teacher looking to "flip" their classroom. For Kapuler's Pinterest board on Social Networks in Education click here.
Study Champs is an excellent site that I found out about from Free Technology 4 Teachers. This is an excellent site for online interactive quizzes for Math, English, and Science. Also, this site offers a variety of educational resources such as: tutorials, games, printables, and more. For Kapuler's Pinterest board on Educational Resources click here.
Safe, voice chat and even free English classes online. [Note: needs computers to be set up to allow javascript/ActiveX to download a & install a file and a microphone for communication]
Top 30 Social Networks for Education - a list of educational resources posted to a board in Pinterest. Included here are all the educational networks I could find. [by dkapuler]
Learn from movies, music, TV shows, news articles, magazines, books, and more
With StudyStream, studying begins directly with learning to understand what most interests you from online videos to news articles to blogs. By studying that which interests you most, you can efficiently learn the words and expressions that are most important to you without wasting time on irrelevant concepts that are easily forgotten. It also ensures that you learn natural expressions that are commonly used by native speakers. Study without limits - Learn from online videos, news articles, blogs, and other content found online. Learn whatever interests you the most (sports, fashion, travel, etc.) without ever running out of things to study. Native Japanese speakers can go straight to the Japanese page at http://studystream.jp and Spanish learners at http://studystream.es
ShortForm lets you grab videos from YouTube, Vimeo and Hulu to create your own video "channel" that can also be embedded. In addition, you can create live events where videos can be shown to an audience. You can read more about it at TechCrunch. Find more at The Best Ways To Create Online Video Playlists.
ShareThis offers the most innovative sharing platform for today's social audience by inspiring people to do more of what we believe is the foundation of digital life - to share data with others.
SAILOn (Subject Area Interactive Lessons Online) is a wonderful site for educational resources that I found out about from, David Andrade's wonderful blog. This site has resources for Primary, Intermediate, and High School grade levels. Also, lessons can be searched for by grade level for easy navigation. (Written by dkapuler on Dec 20, 2011 06:57 pm)
Spelling City is a site I've been exploring a lot lately and must say am throughly impressed. This has to be one of, if not one of the best sites I've come across for spelling and vocabulary for a long time. Also, this is a multifaceted site that can be used by educators, parents, or students. Once an account is created the first thing a user will be able to do is create a list. These lists are custom made and can be any word the user likes. One of the coolest features of SC is how a word entered in a list is provided w/ a definition and a sentence. Again as w/ most things in Spelling City, these definitions and sentences can be customized. These lists can also be assigned groups for organization purposes. After a list is made a user has the ability to then play and search through different games that incorporates these lists. More games and features are available for those w/ a paid premium membership. These games are interactive and divided up between Spelling and Vocabulary. Also, these games can be turned into worksheets and printed out. (Written by dkapuler on Dec 20, 2011 04:37 pm)
Students can then be created by giving them a username and password. They can then be assigned to assignments which is one of the best features of Spelling City. Assignments are created by selecting a word list and choosing what areas to add such as: games, "teach me" (an innovative way to learn a word), writings, etc. Instructions can then be left for students as well as a due date.
Some other nice features are: online video tutorials, very easy to use and user friendly, ability to share and search already existing lists by category, broad in spectrum for varying age levels such as worksheets and alphabetical for younger kids, writing skills practice and parts of speech for older kids, ability to create printables/worksheets, premium membership offers lots of features such as student tracking, best activities, no ads, etc, more features are always coming.
Speak and Spell is a fun site for younger kids learning how to spell and pronounce English words. They learn through these interactive online games, stories, and sounds.
I'm continuing my mid-year "The Best" lists so that it makes it a little easier for me to create end-of-the-year ones. You might also be interested in:
Sound Jay is an excellent site for finding free audio effects. These effects are in a number of different categories such as: music tracks, transportation sounds, button sounds, etc. The only stipulation is that these sounds can't be posted for download.
Storyboard That is a fantastic Web 2.0 tool for digital storytelling w/ educational portal. It allows educators to create student accounts (even batch upload) and assign them to their class via a URL and unique code (i.e. ClassDojo). Not only can an educator create, manage, adjust privacy settings, they can create storyboard templates and assignments for their class. Everything COPPA compliant and very safe to use in an educational setting. Storyboard That is a very easy tool to use w/ its drag-n-drop interface and allows students to seamlessly create a storyboards by adding images, clip art, text, record narration, etc. There is even an innovative slideshow button that turns storyboards into slideshows that easily allows students or teachers to share presentations up on a big screen. A finished product can then be downloaded as a PDF, shared via a link, exported into a PPT, or embedded into a site/blog. Best of all are new "Teacher Guides" that are aligned to Common Core standards and contain plot diagrams, Q/A, character maps, and much more. Educators are using these for project-based learning, digital storytelling in a number of different ways to assess students' learning on a project or story.
Prodigy is a fantastic free online Math game that is ideal for Game Based Learning. This super fun highly engaging game designed for grades 1st-6th and is aligned to Common Core Standards. Best of all is the teacher portal which allows for educators to assess students and get instant real-time reporting. Prodigy, even has a unique learning engine which allows the game to differentiate instruction and help students w/ areas they are struggling in. Teachers can modify the game to suit their needs and select which skills their students need to focus on too. Also, Prodigy is browser based and works on any device (i.e iPad or Chromebook).
30hands30hands is a wonderful iOS app for digital storytelling. It's a perfect mobile learning tool that can be used in any curriculum for all grade levels. It has a very easy to use drag-n-drop interface and allows students record their audio on top of images to create a digital story. Once a story is created, it can then be exported to a camera roll or published to 30hands educational website for sharing.
Story Creator is a wonderful iOS app for digital storytelling that I found out about from Sue Gorman. This app allows users to create interactive books that contain: audio, video, text, and images. One of my favorite features is that it helps students learn how to read by highlighting text as it is read.
Map Tales is an interesting site that is ideal for digital storytelling. The way this works is a user creates a story that integrates w/ a map by plotting points/locations. These "points" contain information and images that the user creates. This is a great way to share a story w/ visuals or even engage audiences w/ an exciting book report. Best of all once a Tale is created, it can then be embedded into a site and shared w/ others.
Sketch Star is a cool site for creating custom animations frame by frame. A user has lots of tools to choose from such as: puppets, objects, brushes, etc. After a frame is completed it can be arranged into order by dragging-n-dropping on the timeline (think iMovie). [Written by dkapuler on Feb 17, 2013].
Biteslide is one of my favorite educational Web 2.0 sites for teachers/students. This is a free site that allows teacher to manage/track students accounts and progress, no student email is needed. What is Biteslide? Biteslide is an innovative site for Project Based Learning that allows students to create a "slidebook" which is similar to a digital scrapbooks. These books are interactive and allow students to upload all kinds of content (ie. text, video, images, etc). Once these books are created they can be shared w/ others online in a safe environment. Right now Biteslide is offering a student competition based on a favorite historical figure.
Storybook Maker is a fun site for digital storytelling using the characters from Horton Hears a Who. This site is easy to use and allows a user to create a 3 scene story by adding characters, backgrounds, music, and text. Once a story is finished it can then be printed out or turned into a PDF if using a Mac. For my Pinterest board on Digital Storytelling click here.
Story Patch is a wonderful app ($2.99) for the iPad for digital storytelling. This app allows users to create a story from scratch or build one using their money templates. A user can add text to each page, objects, characters, backgrounds, etc. Once a story is finished, it can then be shared w/ others via email as a PDF.
Strip Designer is a wonderful comic creation app ($2.99) for the iPad that is ideal for digital storytelling. This app allows users to select their layout and theme and then add pics from either camera or draw their own. Also, a user can add speech bubbles and a variety of stickers. Best of all a person can share their story by exporting to email as a jpg or PDF or by sharing to popular social networking sites.
Story Place is a great site for watching and listening to interactive animated stories. These stories are for Pre-K and Elementary Ed. age students. The animations are done in a cartoon style (ie, Brain Pop) and let the user name their characters and click on the text to hear it speak.
There are lots of sites for online pumpkin carving, but Spookathon is one of my favorites. The reason for this is that it is simple to use, there are lots of carving tools to choose from, and a person can even paint on their pumpkin and light it up w/ a candle inside. Also, there are other fun activities to find on this site as well.
SchoolRack is a nice site for teachers to create a free website or blog. There are some nice features as creating a student or parent portal for sharing information. Also, a teacher can create a mailing list which is nice when wanting to send an email to a group of people. A teacher even has the ability post and monitor classroom assignments. For Kapuler's top 10 Website Creators click here.
Classtell is a wonderful site for educators to create an educational website. This is easy to do w/ a nice user interface. Also, a teacher can password protect any on their web pages or control who can view them for excellent privacy controls. For Kapuler's top 10 sites for website creators click here.
Spellzone is a new interactive site to learn and practice spelling. It has practice activities, games, and I especially like that the words are grouped based on spelling patterns - plus, they have audio, too! The only negative, and it's a big one, is that the words are not used in sentences. See more at The Best Spelling Sites, just updated.
Startaid is a site for social bookmarking that allows users to track and share their favorite sites. A nice feature is the home page that shows the top lists of sites bookmarked.
[Written by dkapuler on Aug 22, 2011 08:40 pm ] For my top 10 sites for social bookmarking click here.
Splicd is an excellent site for editing YouTube videos. All a user has to do is enter a URL and then select their start/stop times to grab the clip of the video that they want. Click here for top 10 YouTube goodies.
Stencyl is a site that I found out about from the innovative/award winning educator, Richard Byrne. This is a site that reminds me a lot of Alice Storytelling and Scratch, in the way that it teaches programming skills for making games. This is done in a drag-n-drop interface by snapping blocks together (ie, Scratch). Written by dkapuler.
Reel is a wonderful site for creating amazing presentations by uploading files, PPT, or PDF's. Once the presentation is completed a user can embed it into their site or share a unique URL w/ others. Also, there is thumbs up/down button for others to click to rate your slideshow. For Kapuler's top 10 sites for creating a slideshow click here.
Slime Kids is a fun new site from Free Technology 4 Teachers. SK has tons to offer elementary students such as book reviews, games, trailers etc. The games cover topics such as grammar, spelling, and typing. While the book trailers show a video about the book and might be the coolest thing on the website. They also indicate the book's reading level and genre information when you hover over the book cover picture. Hugely helpful for teachers and students!
Mypage.it is the first social network for kids, the coolest website that helps you create your own page and customize it! Play with kidgets and choose among quizzes, games, colouring, videos and tests!" Is a direct quote off their site and looks to be a great/safe place for kids to learn about 21st tools. There is a parental control system that allows parents to track their child's progress on the web, who is browsing their's, password protection, etc.
SoapBox is an excellent website that acts as a backchannel chat for audiences/students. A teacher can use this to go along w/ a lecture and get instant/real-time feedback. Best of all, there is a filter that blocks out inappropriate language.
Study Rails is a new (beta) site for helping students study and organize/manage their homework. This is done for a cheap monthly rate and allows for: scheduling of assignments, text messaging to phone for reminders, blocking other websites, etc.
Step Station is a new site that lets users create simple step-by-step directions to doÉanything. It's among The Best Places Where Students Can Write For An "Authentic Audience."
Shared Study Packs:
Utilium is a new (beta) site for organizing and sharing resources w/ students. This is done by creating "study packs". Study packs can contain: videos, podcasts, articles, etc. A user can either create a study pack from scratch or use/edit a preexisting one.
StoryToolz is a wonderful site for LA/Writing teachers that I just found out about from Free Technology 4 Teachers. This is fantastic place to find word prompts or story starters for students looking to create a composition. This can be done by choosing either: random conflicts, story idea generator, or half title generator. These buttons create a list of different ideas to create a story. If a person wants to create a new list all they can create a new list w/ a click of a button. Also, StoryToolz has a list of helpful tools for writers such as: word count meters, readability (get a Reading Level of your writing), and cliche buster (make sure your writing is unique and original). I also recommend using StoryToolz in combination w/ BoomWriter to create some dynamic writing!!! [Written by dkapuler on Jun 12, 2013].
Several published reports on the SPATS system can be found here. Research conducted with ESL classes at Indiana University has shown that recognition performance on these materials approaches that of native speakers after approximately 15-35 hours of training.
"Searching With Success" is an engaging tutorial on searching the web. It's from Acadia University, and is accessible to high Intermediate English Language Learners. Acadia also has a tutorial called Credible Sources Count. It's probably only accessible to advanced ELL's. See more at The Best Resources For Learning Research & Citation Skills.
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.
All of these are good places online where people can learn and practice Spanish for free. Many of these sites also offer lessons in other languages, including English. These sites can provide good initial exposure and be helpful for later development and practice. These are Ferlazzo's collection of Best Sites For Learning Spanish Online (not in order of preference): BBC Languages Mi Vida Loca; The BBC also has several other sites for learning Spanish; Online Spanish Help; Visual Link Spanish; Live Mocha; Busuu; Vocabulix; Lingus TV; Panfu (a virtual world for kids where they can learn Spanish); Study Spanish; and Hello World Spanish.
Story Jumper is a new site that lets kids create their own story books. Online versions are free, and you can pay for hard copies. Registration is quick and easy. You can create your books from "scratch" or use one of several templates they have. They offer lots of easy "props" to integrate into the stories, and you can upload your own photos and type your own text. Once done, you can email the link to yourself and post it on a student/teacher blog or website. Find more at The Best Places Where Students Can Write Online.
With Picture Book Maker, you can easily create a picture book (including text). It can be saved online or printed out. It's super-easy to use, plus no registration is required. The url of your creation can be posted on a student/teacher blog or website.
iSpeech converts any text on the Web into clear natural sounding audio free. Take your reading on the go with iSpeech text to speech. Make website or application talk with iSpeech TTS SaaSs.
Speakaboos provides excellent quality “talking stories” on video with closed-captioning — often read by “celebrities.” They are also going to add the ability to record stories and other online activities. You can watch the stories without registering, though you will have to sign-up (for free) to record stories.
Slideshare is an easy-to-use site that allows you to upload your presentations, share them with others, and also create a text-based "transcript" of the text on all of the slides. In addition, there are thousands of presentations to search for, preview, download, and edit for use with your classes.
The Art of Storytelling is a site from the Delaware Art Museum that allows you pick a painting, write a short story about it, record it with your computer microphone, and email the url address for posting on a student website or blog. It's extraordinarily simple and accessible to any level of English Language Learner. No registration is required. (From "The Art Of Storytelling").
Kids Vid is a source of information on telling stories with video in the classroom. These previous "The Best..." lists are also particularly helpful with digital storytelling:
The Best Ways For Students To Create Online Animations
The Best Ways To Make Comic Strips Online
The Best New Sites Students Should Use With Supervision
The Best Ways For Students To Create Online Videos (Using Someone Else's Content)
Story, Imagery, & the Art of 21st Century Presentation is a very good video of Garr Reynolds on presentation skills. I'm adding it to The Best Digital (& Non-Digital) Storytelling Resources.
With Picture Book Maker, you can easily create a…picture book (including text). It can be saved online or printed out. It's super-easy to use, plus no registration is required. The url of your creation can be posted on a student/teacher blog or website.
Snapgrades: Student Online Grader
Extremely useful free version with fewer features but option to upgrade anytime to full version.
Tafiti.com is probably the most versatile Search Engine yet designed. This great new search service - Tafiti (built with Silverlight) is built by Microsoft. Use it to quickly search not only the Web but also Halo Blogs, News, Photo Images, RSS Feeds. Then filter, save or share them with anyone, anywhere! Truly amazing! It loads quickly and adds great additional functionality/ interactivity to sites. After a few minutes with Tafiti - saving and tagging searches - all sorts of ideas/options/uses come to mind. Clicking on the tree view gives a visual representation of key areas...and the user can drag the slide bar to "seedling" or "full tree" size.
SEARCH ENGINES FOR CHILDREN AND LIMITED ENGLISH USERS
Simple Search Engines: ones that guide people to ‘sheltered’ sites are a good way to encourage children or students with limited proficiency in English to use Internet without getting lost or frustrated. As Helgesen writes: “By giving our students these URLs, we can make them more independent. They can start to seek out English language sites that they can read and understand on their own. Although the search engines are actually designed for native-speaking children, the sites they find are often suitable for adult and young adult language students. This is especially true for nonfiction topics, since they are often presented in ways that are not particularly childlike. Not only is the information found by these search engines usually presented at a vocabulary level learners can handle, the ideas are often presented more simply and slowly than on sites designed for adult native speakers.” (Helgesen in Bamford and Day’s Extensive Reading Activities for Teaching Language, Cambridge University Press, 2004, pages 40-41).
At KidsClick! Websites selected by librarians are identified by reading level. At the end of each Website description, a reading level range is given. Your students will soon find which levels they can read easily.
A great search site for ESL and English as a Second Language Programs around the world, constructed to make navigation easy and stress free - students can contact schools directly through the schools profile page. You can search the site in English the site in five new languages, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, and many more.... Search their worldwide directory database or search by school locations, including these:
Australia; Belgium; Brazil; Canada; Chile; China; Czech; Republic; France; Germany; Indonesia; Ireland; Malta; Mexico; New Zealand; Poland; Portugal; Singapore; South Africa; Spain; Switzerland; Thailand; Trinidad and Tobago; UK; USA
The ATLAS project of University College London addresses the decline in the number of students studying languages at university. It has investigated school students' attitudes towards language learning and engaged them in "tasting" languages not previously considered, or available, for study. The aim is to arouse an interest in studying these and other languages.
offers free university level religious education via distance learning in 192 countries! Arabic, Creole, English, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, and Thai.
Areas covered are Bible backgrounds, biblical exegesis, church history, comparative religion, ministry and missions, spirituality, New Testament, Old Testament, and theology.
An online language school that brings the English or Spanish language classroom to busy people who don't have the time to attend regular classroom lessons. Provides one-to-one teaching by video link, by telephone or by email.
Learn Spanish language in three different enigmatic places of the Inca Empire in the archeological capital Cusco, Urubamba - Sacred Valley of Incas - and Rainforest of Manu.
Spanish / Español Web diccionarios y diccionarios.
Free online web Dictionary and Thesaurus linking reference tool. Transforms any webpage into easy convenient links to definition and word lookups both English and Spanish.
Rebrand from “Sovereign Grace Music en Español” to “Gracia Soberana Música” has made the name more accessible to Spanish speakers and created a stronger connec-tion to our family of churches known as Iglesias Gracia Soberana.
This year we also launched a fully Spanish website identical to the Sovereign Grace music website but with all our Spanish (and Portuguese) music. As part of the website, we translated and posted a number of my blogposts from my Worship Matters blog.
In July, we released an album of 12 newly translated hymns entitled Himnos, contains 7 traditional hymns & 5 modern hymns from Sovereign Grace Music. It’s already racked up 1.5 million streams on Spotify. In an effort to serve Hispanic churches with theolo-gical training in music and worship, we started producing an AI dubbed version of the Worship Matters Video Intensive. Began a fully Spanish podcast hosted by Fabrizio and Luis Carlos Asencio, who serves with Mario Figueroa at Vine Church in Tampa, Florida. The podcast is called “Acorde a la Gracia” (In Accord with Grace) and is modeled after Sound Plus Doctrine, contextualized for Latin America. 11 writers got hosted in Louisville for 2nd Spanish Songwriters retreat.
"Anacleta's Spanish and World Language and Culture Links and Resources" is a comprehensive source of materials and activities for creatively teaching and learning about the Spanish language and its many cultures, as well as other world languages and cultures. The design and focus of the site are especially suited for children under ten and their parents and FLES and bilingual teachers.
Screencasts are audio-narrated "tours" of what you see on your computer screen (they don't have to narrated, but it works much better if they are). Screencasts that I have seen are primarily used to show how to use various computer applications. They are wonderful teaching tools, and can also be used as good speaking opportunities for English Language Learners. Here are Ferlazzo's picks for The Best Tools For Making Screencasts:
Screentoaster. It couldn't be more simple to use, and they've recently added both the ability to record audio and add subtitles. All you do after you log-in is click on a button, open up the window on your screen that you want to record, and it starts recording your screen. After that's been recorded, you can provide audio or subtitles. And it's free.
DemoGirl also has a screencast on how to use that application, but it might not include its newest features.
Screencast-O-Matic is also nice, but a bit more complicated than Screentoaster.
Two newer apps that look good are Screenr and Screenjelly. The great site Teacher Training videos has a screencast on how to use Screenjelly.
Jing is a very popular free tool available by download. Teacher Training Videos also has a screencast explaining how to use Jing. See other 350 "The Best" lists, and also The Best Sites To Practice Speaking English.
Screencasts are audio-narrated "tours" of what you see on your computer screen (they donÕt have to narrated, but it works much better if they are). Screencasts that I have seen are primarily used to show how to use various computer applications. They are wonderful teaching tools, and can also be used as good speaking opportunities for English Language Learners. Here are Ferlazzo's picks for The Best Tools For Making Screencasts: Screentoaster. It couldn't be more simple to use, and they've recently added both the ability to record audio and add subtitles. All you do after you log-in is click on a button, open up the window on your screen that you want to record, and it starts recording your screen. After that's been recorded, you can provide audio or subtitles. And it's free.
DemoGirl also has a screencast on how to use that application, but it might not include its newest features.
Screencast-O-Matic is also nice, but a bit more complicated than Screentoaster.
Two newer apps that look good are Screenr and Screenjelly. The great site Teacher Training videos has a screencast on how to use Screenjelly.
Jing is a very popular free tool available by download. Teacher Training Videos also has a screencast explaining how to use Jing. See other 350 "The Best" lists, and also The Best Sites To Practice Speaking English.
Planet Quest is a pretty amazing multimedia timeline of space exploration that begins at 500 B.C. In addition, it provides audio support for the text. See also The Best Sites For Learning About Planets & Space.
Top 10 Sites/Applications for Creating Screencasts
Creating screencasts has been one of my favorite things to do when working w/ technology. I have used this as a tool for teachers or students to help them w/ troubleshooting or even professional development. Wikipedia states, "Educators are now using screencasts as another means of integrating technology into the curriculum. Students can record video and audio as they demonstrate the proper procedure to solve a problem on an interactive whiteboard." - written by dkapuler
Has the ability to record audio and add subtitles. All you do after you log-in is click on a button, open up the window on your screen that you want to record, and it starts recording your screen. After that’s been recorded, you can provide audio or subtitles.
Automatically adapts to your spelling ability. It remembers which words you got right and wrong and quizzes you periodically on words at your spelling level that you spelled incorrectly in the past. A human voice, and not a computerized one, says the words. Plus, it shows you a diagram of similar words. It doesn’t give you a sentence example using the word.
SPEAKING AND LISTENING
VOA RADIO SITES
I suggest trying some of the VOA (Voice of America Radio & Web-Broadcast) or BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) sites. Students can listen and read at the same time and all the articles are contemporary. Not all are business-related, but most are. You need a Real Player plug-in to listen to the news articles, but they can be downloaded directly from the site. Downloading the actual audio is very quick, but will depend on your connection speed.
ESL-RELATED SITES WITH STREAMING MULTIMEDIA AND TEXT SCRIPTS
Radio Programs in simplified, specialized English. Learners can read and listen at the same time. These programs use a simplified form of English to make listening to the radio easier for you.
CONVERSE WITH A ROBOT
More of the world’s best English language learning links chosen by ESL All
Have you ever had the chance to converse with a robot? It is one of the most fun ways to improve your written English. Some online bots can even help you sharpen your listening skills since you can "hear" their answers to your comments or questions. Since one can’t always find a real human being to practice with, try befriending and chatting with these friendly artificial intelligence bots online. Each of them has a distinct personality that, thanks to their creators, evolves over time as they become more sophisticated. Bots do not always understand what you write and they do not always answer in a sensible manner. However, you will be surprised at how "artificially" intelligent and funny some of them can be! ESL All selected these ten favourite English-speaking online bots for you to meet and converse with:
A.L.I.C.E. (Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity): One of the the most popular robots online. She can tell lies, spread gossip and can even ask you to teach her some foreign phrases. She is not always on course but is sure to be lots of fun for students of intermediate and advanced levels.
ELBOT: A very nice and funny bot that likes to joke around. It is based on the German-language bot called Charlie. Push Elbot's red button and start a conversation. The English version has been online since the Spring of 2001.
ELLA: The Ella bot is the winner of the 2002 Loebner Prize Contest for "Most Human Computer". You will find her charming, humorous and witty. Her interface uses multiple images and text display boxes. Ella enjoys Atlantic City style Blackjack and spinning her slot machine. She tells I Ching fortunes and performs many other useful functions. Her lexical database contains more than 120, 000 entries (thousands of jokes, trivia, anecdotes, poems, etc.).
John Lennon (JLAIP™): More than just another chat bot, here is an attempt at recreating the personality of the late Beatle, John Lennon, by programming an Artificial Intelligence (AI) engine with Lennon's own words and thoughts and conversations people had with him.
Cybelle: Cybelle is half-robot, half-woman, and 100% virtual. She is curious, has a good sense of humour and is quite articulate on a number of subjects. Cybelle guides visitors through the AgentLand website that specializes in search agents, personal assistants, shopbots, and other web agents and bots.
The Natural Language Question Answering System is part of the MIT InfoLab Group's intelligent interactive software systems. The software system is designed to answer questions that are posed to it in natural language. It helps people access information and solve problems on human terms.
Mr. Mind: You have to prove to MRMIND that you are not a machine. MRMIND is a computer program, not a human! He requires patience as he tries to respond to you. He doesn't think or understand or feel.... but he isn't so sure that you do either. The creators of the program will be reading the logs, so mind what you say and have fun!
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.
SONGS: USING SONGS AND SONG LYRICS TO BUILD VOCABULARY
Read song lyrics and try to understand the messages contained in your favorite songs. We also encourage you to sing along, which is an excellent way to better your English pronunciation.
Large collection of lyrics of all genres and ages. It’s a place where all searches end! They have a large, every day growing universe of lyrics where stars of all genres and ages shine.
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 you’re 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 can’t find the song you’re 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 you’ll retrieve a wide range of artists. Lyrics Robot claims to have “3 Million Entries - 500,000 Songs - 40,000 Artists”, 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 didn’t even know existed. All lyric search results for LyricSearch.net open in a new window;I didn’t much like this but it’s a small issue. Good index of lyrics and easily implemented lyric search.
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.
SCIENTIFIC MAGAZINE ARTICLES FOR AUTHENTIC READING:
(Read critically. Everything you read may not be scientifically correct or true!)
Screencast.com is an easy and affordable media hosting solution for business and academic professionals who want to share multimedia content on the Web.
Great CALL4ALL recommended language learning programs at a reasonable price. All programs are hybrid CDs, for use on either Mac or Windows computers. All of these Language Learning Software Programs have been tested and approved by CALL4ALL.US for their effectiveness in helping with language learning.
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 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.
The searchCrystal Widget visualizes the overlap between the result sets of five major search engines. The Full Version of searchCrystal also supports image and text analysis techniques that can be used to detect duplicates and topical relationships. SearchCrystal lets you search and compare multiple engines in one place. It serves as a HUGE Search Visualization Tool that enables you to compare, remix and share results from the best web, image, video, blog, tagging, news engines, Flickr images or RSS feeds. You can embed searchCrystal as a Widget on your site or blog to share personalized crystals, or use it to find out what is popular on Wikipedia or use the Search Analytics Toolbox in your browser as a powerful competitive intelligence tool. A searchCrystal application is also available in Facebook.
What better way to show off your students' STEM projects than through a class blog? This UK service uses an interesting collaborative process to encourage student comments & collaboration across schools.
Lesson Planet is an excellent search engine for teachers. Educators can find and share lesson plans, worksheets, integration tips, etc. This is an excellent site to find over 400,000 teacher reviewed lesson plans and worksheets and can even correlate them to state standards. While not a free service, there is a free trial and school edition for users to try.
Finding Dulcinea is an excellent site that is like having your own librarian on the web. This site acts like an online newsletter that can be searched by category and has relevant information for education. There lots of different types of media to be found here from web guides, to videos, to news articles. Online Guides, Internet Library, Web Resources - FindingDulcinea. Online guides and suggested Web resources researched and written by real people.
Scour is a new (beta) search engine that indexes through the most popular search engines (ie, Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.). What makes Scour unique is that the results that are returned can be commented and voted on to help users select what's best for them.
Blinkx is a search engine for videos that looks a lot of Clip Blast. This is a nice site that is arranged by subject and even has a safe search filter similar to how Google works.
Topmarks is an educational search engine and one of the better ones around. Not only can you search for excellent resources, but there are great links for whiteboard sites and educational games as well. Give Topmarks a try by clicking here!
Shahi Dictionary is a dictionary that combines simple definitions with quite a few Flickr photos. The combination of the two makes it pretty accessible to English Language Learners.
Dogpile.com makes searching the Web easy, because it has all the best search engines piled into one. So you get better results from more of the web. More engines. Better Answers. Metasearch engine offering search of the general web, or images, audio, video and news. Also offers search of Yellow Pages and White Pages.
A unique web directory targeted for the education industry. A list of good educational websites; from high school to masters degree colleges and distance learning programs.
(Chinese:?? Hanyu Pinyin:Sougou) – a Chinese search engine which can search text, images, music, and maps. It is owned by Sohu, Inc., and is one of the fastest growing search engines in China.
Applications designed to protect you from outside threats, such as adware and spyware, are becoming so rigid in their default settings that they can block you from accessing useful content online...
Fourier portable data logging devices and handy science kits make learning Science exciting by taking kids out of the classroom and into the real world. Students can explore ideas and concepts relevant to their everyday life, such as effect of global warming on the climate, the dangers of pollution, how oxygen and pH levels can affect plant life in a pond ecosystem, how temperatures change with the sun's position in the sky, and a whole lot more. Tedious and time consuming data collection tasks are made easy with our data logging devices, leaving students free to focus on more engaging activities such as planning the experiment, thinking about the concepts, linking the new scientific facts they are learning about with what they already know.
With Earth's new Sky feature, you can zoom in to distant galaxies and nebulae, view constellations and the movements of the planets, learn about the lifecycle of a star and different kinds of galaxies, and create and share your own imagery, placemarks and more.
Sky in Google Earth lets you explore the heavens like never before, showing about a hundred million stars and two hundred million galaxies. You Tube Demo.
Sites that promote social interaction between people who have never met can be dangerous. Some most popular with young people to monitor very carefully are www.MySpace.com.
Papyrs lets you create a free social network site that can be private or public. It joins quite a few other sites on the Not "The Best," But "A List" Of Social Network Sites list.http://c4lpt.co.uk/Directory/Tools/social2.html
Ning allows you to create the profile questions, upload all types of media, and more. Use a private social network to create an interest inventory for the students in your class!
With a simple browser plug-in, Diigo allows you save, share, and organize your favorite site lists. This URL leads you to a collection of Web 2.0 tools.
A free open source tool that gives people a chance to access more than 210 million stars, in addition to planets and moons. Used in many planetariums the project was launched in 2001 by Fabien Chereau, formerly a research engineer at the Paris Astronomical Observatory who now works at the ESO (European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere). Like WorldWide Telescope the software allows users to record and play their own tours of the Universe.
SKWRL is a Learning Management System that Andy Johnson created. With SKWRL, teachers can create various tasks including audio- and video-based ones. There are currently over 8 different activities that can be created. Additionally, there is an advanced gradebook feature that lets teachers keep track of computer-graded activities as well as non-computer graded items such as attendance and classroom participation. While not as eloquent as Moodle, SKWRL does have some distinct advantages.
Second Life is not a Web site, but a MUVE (Multiple User Virtual Environment).
A client piece of software runs on your computer, but the rest of the time you are on one of 3000+ servers hosted by the company that runs Second Life, Linden Labs. The environment will remind you of the computer program, The Sims, but it is so much more! Working in Second Life (SL) you can collaborate with ed-tech leaders in Real Life (RL), and learn how to do some modeling and scripting with a 3-D modeling language.
www.fonetiks.org provides online pronunciation guides to 9 varieties of the English language and 9 other languages • Instant sound • Pronunciation samples by over 40 native speakers • All 1,000+ pages free • Just click on a flag to open a dictionary!
Warning Labels, Signs and Tombstone Generators also available here. Great Writing Idea: Make up your own Tombstone or Epitaph and tell what you’d like to be remembered as/for.
Storyspace is a hypertext writing environment that is especially well suited to large, complex, and challenging hypertexts. Storyspace focuses on the process of writing, making it easy and pleasant to link, revise, and reorganize.
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.
The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to develop the SeaMonkey all-in-one internet application suite. Such a software suite was previously made popular by Netscape and Mozilla, and the SeaMonkey project continues to develop and deliver high-quality updates to this concept. Containing an Internet browser, email & newsgroup client, HTML editor, IRC chat and web development tools, SeaMonkey appeals to advanced users, web developers and corporate users.
Semantic Web is about two things: 1) Common formats for integration and combination of data drawn from diverse sources, where on the original Web mainly concentrated on the interchange of documents; and about 2) Language for recording how the data relates to real world objects. That allows a person, or a machine, to start off in one database, and then move through an unending set of databases which are connected not by wires but by being about the same thing.The vision of the Semantic Web is to build a global information space consisting of linked data. ‘Mashups” combine data from a number of sources. See ProgrammableWeb for an overview about the different APIs and mashups. RDF book mashup’s goal is to show how Web 2.0 data sources can be integrated into the Semantic Web, meaning that Web 2.0 data can be browsed using generic RDF browsers like Tabulator and can be crawled and cached by Semantic Web search engines like SWSE, SWOOGLE or the Semantic Web Client Library, to eventually make it possible to query the complete Web using the SPARQL query language.
PLoS is a on-profit organization of scientists committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature freely accessible to scientists and to the public at large.
Great site, full of ideas, tips, examples, and resources for using technology to combine "photographs, memorabilia, and written narratives, poetry, quotations, stories, or other textual content into a scrapbook-style album."
Sinorama magazine (recently renamed as Taiwan Panorama) for Online Reading practice.
The Sinorama articles are mainly about issues in Taiwan in such areas as politics, economics, arts, society, culture, and ecology. An electronic corpus consisting of 10,000+ texts!
Features of Google Scholar: Learn about key papers in any area of research; Search diverse sources from one convenient place; Find papers, abstracts and citations; and Locate the complete paper through your library or on the web Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.
Sumo Paint is a browser-based drawing tool that is vector-based and does not even need a registration to use and save the creation locally Quick question: What hardware, software, Web-based tool, or other tip or trick do you use to manage information overload?
This may be the world's largest EFL / TEFL social network. Here are a few good places to start:
ESL General English Grammar Questions, Make Friends, Meet Friendly People, General, Business & Formal Letter Writing, Puzzles, Riddles, and Word ESL Games, Teaching English (TEFL), English Vocabulary and Idioms. Don't forget to join their Facebook group here!
Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English is a searchable collection of transcripts of academic speech events recorded at the University of Michigan. There are currently 152 transcripts (totaling 1,848,364 words) available at this site.
Collect websites, enter them into TrackStar, add annotations for your students, and you have an interactive, online lesson called a Track. Create your own Track or use one of the hundreds of thousands already made by other educators. Search the database by subject, grade, or theme and standard for a quick and easy activity.
Storybird is a neat new site where users can choose artwork from a specific artist and then add text to create a storybook. See others in The Best Places Where Students Can Write Online. Also check-out the new issue of Literacy Lava, "a free pdf ezine for parents, offering tips on ways to incorporate reading, writing and communicating into family life." (At http://thebookchook.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-edition-of-literacy-lava.html).
“Sarah’s Law” actually refers to two different laws, depending on the context—one in the UK and one in the United States, both named in memory of young women whose tragic deaths sparked public outcry and legal reform.
1. Sarah’s Law (UK)
This law was introduced after the 2000 murder of 8-year-old Sarah Payne by a convicted sex offender. It allows parents, guardians, or caregivers to ask police if someone who has access to their child has a history of child sexual offenses. Officially known as the Child Sex Offender Disclosure Scheme, it was rolled out across England and Wales in 2011.
2. Sarah’s Law (U.S.)
In the U.S., “Sarah’s Law” refers to legislation named after Sarah Root, a 21-year-old woman killed in 2016 by an undocumented immigrant who was driving drunk. After being released on bond, the suspect fled and remained at large for years. The proposed law would require U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain undocumented immigrants who are charged with causing death or serious injury to another person. It also mandates that victims’ families be notified of the suspect’s immigration and custody status. Both versions of Sarah’s Law aim to close legal loopholes and protect the public, especially vulnerable individuals.
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.
