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!

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!

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/