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Sunday, April 25, 2010

Glogster

As the creators say - Forget Blogging, Try Glogging.
Glogs are simply more powerful blogs.  Imagine an electronic poster. It's far more creative, and expressive than blogging. I suggest clicking here and having a look at some glogs.
If you need some guidance on creating a glog, click here for a Russell Stannard training video.
I think these would be excellent to use with longer teenage courses.
Here's the website:
http://www.glogster.com/
Happy Glogging!

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

22 Frames - Captioned Video

A new site that displays video content with subtitled/captioned video from a variety of sources (Youtube etc.). It is still, as the developers say, a work in progress. It has been designed for ESL students and native speakers with hearing difficulties. To have a look (hear) click here.

Each video has a list of commonly mispronounced words, slang or idiomatic language. Learners can then hear, and see, them in context, clicking on the words will take you to the approximate time the word is spoken.


Students can watch videos on a variety of topics - Politics, Comedy, Sports and much more. 


The site definitely has potential (for homework perhaps) and users can submit video suggestions and upload videos.


If you are interested in using captioned video with your students, here are two papers which provide some ideas:
http://www.nade.net/documents/SCP96/SCP96.6.pdf
http://www.linguist.org.cn/doc/su200709/su20070901.pdf



ELT Community

This newish site from Longman is a great place to share ideas, find ideas and discuss all things ELT.

http://www.eltcommunity.com

There are forums covering the teaching of young learners, exams, adults, and teenagers as well as methodology, dictionaries and teacher training. 
Once you have registered, you can comment on, respond to and start new posts. 
Well worth a look!

Sunday, April 11, 2010

IATEFL - Harrogate 2010 Online

Follow the link to find news, interviews and videos of this year's IATEFL Conference in Harrogate.

http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2010/

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Click and Learn

Fabulous online learning site. Lots of vocabulary and easy to use. Check it out and have a go!

http://clicknlearn.net/

Once again, Russell Stannard has got a tutorial that you can watch here.

ESL Video

With this site you can create online quizzes for videos from YouTube etc. It seems quite straightforward and there is a full video tutorial which can be found here. Once you have made the quiz, you can e-mail it to the students. Russell Stannard also has a video tutorial with lesson ideas - watch it here. There is already a large amount of content on the site generated by other users if you aren't feeling so adventurous.
http://www.eslvideo.com/

Classik TV - Make dialogues from Classic Films

From the people that brought you Bombay TV comes Classik TV. You can add subtitles to classic film clips., change the music, add effects and even string the clips together to make a short film. Can't wait to use this one.
http://www.grapheine.com/classiktv/index.php?lang=uk
For a video tutorial on how to use this site please click here.