USEFUL LINKS

 

 

Blogs Chat tools Image software Interactive exercises Maps Voice Wikis

 

 

Blogs

 

Blended learning blogs with my students (curricular blogs)

CALL Lessons 2007-2009

CALL Lessons 2005-2007

CALL Lessons 2004-2005

CALL Lessons 2003-2004

 

Extracurricular blogs

Have Fun with English! 3

Have Fun with English! 2

Have Fun with English!

Let's Blog! (with 7th graders, 3rd year EFLers)

 

 

Other educational blogs

Teenage Life (8th grade, 4th year of English) - Etelvira Figueiredo 

MEI Level 1 (Spring 2009) - Nina Liakos

In Cyber Touch 2008 - Berta Leiva

 

 

Blogs in Plain English (a video with a simple intro to blogs) - Lee Lefever

 

 

Blog hosts

Blogger < http://www.blogger.com/ >

Edublogger < http:// www.edublogger.org/ > 

Motime < http://www.motime.com/ > 

Wordpress < http://wordpress.com/ >

 

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Chat tools

 

Skype < http://www.skype.com >

Yahoo Messenger < http://messenger.yahoo.com >

 

VIP: These chat tools include text, voice and video

 

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Image software

 

Online 

Animated movies and comics

Dvolver < http://www.dfilm.com/live/home.html >

MakeBeliefsComix < http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/ >

Witty Comics < http://www.wittycomics.com/make-comic.php >

Zimmertwins < http://www.zimmertwins.ca/ > (for younger students)

 

Photos, drawings and presentations

Bubbleshare < http://www.bubbleshare.com/ >

Flickr < http://www.flickr.com/ > (see an example used for Course work )

Picturetrail < http://www.picturetrail.com >

Tag Galaxy < http://taggalaxy.de/ >

 

 

Offline

Photostory < dowload from http://tinyurl.com/48jvat > (example of a project about Vasco da Gama Bridge in Lisbon for an Architecture and Urban Planning course in Caracas, Venezuela)

 

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Interactive exercises

 

Prepared offline and need upload to a server

Eclipse Crossword < http://www.eclipsecrossword.com/ >

Hot Potatoes < http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ > (offers a variety of different exercises)

Matching Game Maker < http://www.eduweb.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/games/Matching/index.htm > (text and sound)

Memory Game Maker < http://www.eduweb.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/games/memory/index.htm > (text, image and sound)

Spellmaster < http://www.spellmaster.com/ > (2 packs, one just for text, the other with sound)

 

 

Prepared online and have hosting service

ProProfs < http://www.proprofs.com/ >

Quizlet < http://quizlet.com/ > (see Similes by Claudia Carril)

MyStudiyo < http://www.mystudiyo.com/ > (see Idioms with colors by Claudia Carril)

Quia < http://www.quia.com/web >

 

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Maps

 

Clustrmaps < http://www.clustrmaps.com/ > (keeps count of visitors and locates them in the world)

Frapprmaps < http://www.frappr.com/ > (social map: see where your visitors come form and read their short message)

Google maps < http://maps.google.com >

World Atlas < http://go.hrw.com/atlas/norm_htm/world.htm >

 

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Voice

 

Audacity < http://audacity.sourceforge.net > (need to download; offline recorder and .mp3 converter)

• VIP: Also download Lame MP3 Encoder to allow Audacity to export MP3 files

HandyBits < http://www.handybits.com > (need to download; offline voice mail and recorder)

MyChingo Voiceboard < http://mychingo.com/signup.asp > (online recorder; not free)

Vaestro < http://www.vaestro.com/ > (online recorder) (click here for an example) 

VoiceThread < http://voicethread.com/ > (online recorder) (click here for an example)

Voxopop < http://www.voxopop.com/ > (online recorder) (click here for an example)

 

VIP: You may need to register to Vaestro, VoiceThread and Voxopop to have access to the recordings

 

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Wikis

 

Remedial work

6th Grade

 

Group presentation

TESOL Colloquium 2007

Wikis: Collaborative Learning Spaces

 

Professional development

Baw09

 

 

Wikis in Plain English (a video with a simple intro to wikis) - Lee Lefever

 

 

Wiki hosts

Pbworks < http://pbworks.com/ >

Wikispaces < http://www.wikispaces.com/ >

 

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