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There are now over 900 "Best of" lists categorized and regularly updated by Larry Ferlazzo and they are all here at this link. 
"The British Council has just unveiled a new site called Learn English Teens. It’s targeting English Language Learners who are….teenagers. Learn English Teens has some particularly good games and vocabulary activities." Larry Ferlazzo Text to Audio (speech) is a brilliant technology that can be used in a lot of different ways. Ever since Windows‘ Microsoft Sam, text to speech has been pretty accessible to your desktop commoner... Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa) 
A steady murmur of voices emanated from the Cedar Creek High School library. But as librarian Christine Finn walked toward a table of students, it wasn’t to quiet them down, but to assist in their history project creating a wiki on the Great Plains.
This is a great article in the mainstream media articulating the positive impact of school libraries and teacher librarians on student learning, particularly within the digital information/learning environment. Via lyn_hay 
TED’s videos are displayed on lesson pages that include multiple-choice quizzes, open-ended questions, and links to more information about the material. [Teachers] who don’t want to rely on the premade content can press a button to flip the videos and customize some of the questions. With each flipped video, [teachers] receive a unique Web link that they can use to distribute the lesson to students and track their answers. ( source : The Chronicle ) 
Free K-12 educational videos … organized. Tens of thousands of excellent, educational videos in a huge, intuitive directory. Organized, reviewed, rated, and described by teachers. Ideal as a supplement to a curriculum or for independent study. Embed Plus is a free service for clipping and annotating YouTube videos. It also provides a nice service for learning how to pronounce words and watch some examples of those words being used in a real-world context. Embed Plus Dictionary allows you to search for a word, hear a pronunciation, and watch a video clip in which that word is used in a real-world context. In an excerpt from his book with fellow teacher Katie Hull Sypnieski, blogger Larry Ferlazzo looks at a few basic ways to reach students who are learning English as well as the subject at hand. 
Easily combine your voice, pictures, videos and more into a beautiful, interactive experience describing anything. English Central turns popular web videos into language learning experiences. Teachers can sign up students, select a video curriculum, assign goals, and track students. 
This is a great site to help you with prepositions and sentence structure. Just type in the beginning of the sentence and it will offer you options for the next word in the sentence. Via Nik Peachey |
Furnishes information on federal grants, EL data and demographics, professional development, promising practices in EL education, along with a full suite of NCELA resources. 
Online resources for teachers from Michigan State University include a quiz maker, writing tools, audiocast tools, interactive worksheets, and more. 
This is a beginning collection of resources on using TPR Storytelling in an ESL classroom. 
Animated stories that help improve reading & language learning skills of children, subconsciously through a scientifically tested concept. 
A fun way to practice and master grammar & writing skills! This page provides resources for ESL instructors and students from the Purdue Online Writing Lab. Each exercises has 10 questions to test your command of the English language. Once you attempt the questions and submit your answers, you will know how many you have answered correctly. Via David Mainwood 
Simply type the speech for each slide, instead of recording it, and HelloSlide automagically generates the audio. It gives more exposure to your presentations, making them searchable, editable, and available in 20 different languages. 
- revise the past simple - listen to a video about the Beatles and do a matching exercise - read a text about the Beatles and do a gap-fill exercise - do a quiz based on the information in the lesson Via David Mainwood |
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