With the massive uptake of web 2.0 technologies, the concept of portfolios has migrated to the cloud giving rise to what is now termed electronic portfolios or ePortfolios for short. An ePortfolio is similar in essence to the ...
"Discover the ways of incorporating technology into your classrooms, creating a hybrid approach, doing a course completely online or creating a demonstration video. Explore the benefits to you and your ..."
This is a great tool which matches up YouTube music videos to lyrics. Just enter the name of a singer you like then select a song. You'll see the lyrics appear beside the song. Great way to improve your language skills.
The Resource for Education Technology Leaders focusing on K-12 educators.
Shona Whyte:
Michael Gorman has a nice list of teaching resources, from familiar sites such as the BBC or PBS teachers to more specifically targeted science resources, for example. A short introduction to each will help you decide which to explore and which to leave for another time.
There is nothing exclusively for language teaching, but these are English resources and many are aimed at under 18s, so much of what you see can be exploited in the EFL classroom under the "authentic materials" umbrella.
Welcome "Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along or as supplemental reading material for your classroom."
Shona Whyte: Mostly American out-of-copyright classics aimed at native-speakers, but well put together for teachers (transcript, reading level, word count) so usable for intermediate-plus teen or adult learners.
If you think that iPods are used just for listening to music, you obviously haven't been keeping up with the latest technology. To find out about the many different ways you can transform your iPod into a learning device, check out our list below.
Shona Whyte:
A very comprehensive range of downloads and resource sites for the iPod in learning: study guides, learning support, applications and downloads, podcasts and iTunesU and miscellaneous links and advice. Mostly free, all indubitably educational.
Shakespeare Unlocked is a season exploring how one man captured so much about what it means to be human.The BBC has teamed up with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the British Museum and the World Shakespeare Festival to celebrate Shakespeare's life...
This new EFL resource site by Chris Lea (?) at present offers only one lesson plan, but it's tagged to suggest many more are planned.
'Flying Rhinos' is a B1-level listening lesson on the topic of wildlife conservation, using web-based resources (Vimeo, the National Geographic website, and others) for pre- and post-listening activities, and including a 7-item multiple choice handout for the class.
For those who like this idea, Jamie Keddie's lessonstream.org has more video-based lessons.
Moodle activities provides a number of powerful-collaborative activity modules & tools which enable you to link or add almost any sort of file to your course. There are many different types of activities that are available: several types-of assignments; activities for communication & collaboration between you & your students; surveys, quizzes and polls; tools to help in managing the students; & formats for delivering-interactive content.
An activity is the general term that is used to refer to a group-of features in the Moodle course. Basically an activity is some thing which a student does which interacts with the other students or/and the teacher
"Make the English you speak sound more natural with The English We Speak from bbclearningenglish.com. Every week, we look at a different everyday English phrase or piece of slang in this fun three-minute programme."
"This site contains hundreds of visual aids (illustrations) that can be used to support instructional tasks such as describing objects and people (i.e., teaching vocabulary) or describing entire events and situations (i.e., teaching grammar)."
Over 400 line drawings, searchable and browsable, free to use for educational purposes, spotted by Larry Ferlazzo.
"MindSnacks makes mobile learning games available for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Our Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese language learning apps are available in the app store today."
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