Tests. Dictations are fun! Efl material. Quill. The Best Web Tools For English Language Learners (In Other Words, The Ones My Students Regularly Use) I received a comment from reader Mark, who says he loves all “The Best…” lists, but would like to hear my top recommendations sometimes.
Of course, I have posted The Best Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced English Language Learner Sites, but even that is a pretty lengthy one. So, I thought I’d begin a running list here of posts where I have described (and future additions will describe) the Web 2.0 tools that I regularly use with my English Language Learners. In addition, I’ve also included direct links to a few other great tools that my students regularly use for direct language-learning. I thought this list might “narrow” things down a bit for readers.
I also hope that readers will contribute their own suggestions! Here’s my list: Web 2.0 Content Creation Tools: Using “PixiClip” With English Language Learners Geography Students Use “Stay.com” To Create Virtual Trips English Language Learners Using Screencast-o-matic For Folktale Presentations Student Accessible Language-Learning Tools: Related. The most popular 20 TED Talks, as of now. UPDATED: To see all these talks at one click, check out our updated Playlist: The 20 Most Popular Talks of All Time.
As 2013 draws to a close, TED is deeply humbled to have posted 1600+ talks, each representing an idea worth spreading. So which ideas have had the most widespread impact? Below, a look at the 20 most-watched talks as of December 2013. These viewership numbers include all the platforms we track: TED.com, YouTube, iTunes, embed and download, Hulu and more. Improv Everywhere. Film Study Guides - SparkNotes.
Glastonbury Festival - much more than music. Glastonbury festival is one of the most vibrant, colourful and energetic events of the British summer and tickets sell out minutes after going on sale.
It also is the world’s largest open air musical festival, as 180,000 people flood (sometimes quite literally) to Worthy Farm in the heart of the Somerset countryside. Every June, thousands of tents, caravans and stages pop up over night for a weekend of brilliant live music, art and merriment. The festival covers 1300 acres of farmland and uses the same amount of electricity as the city of Bath – the Main Stage alone has over 250 speakers!
Adventure reading. Soundscapes from Soundtransit. Sound Transit is a really wonderful formulation of an idea.
It's not just a huge collection of Mp3 sound files from all over the world, but the sounds have been tagged by country and described and a visitor to the site can take a sound journey around the world. You just choose your country of origin, your destination and how many stops you want to make. You then get offered a choice of itineraries with stops at various destinations and descriptions of what you will hear there.
You choose the one you want and then the site edits together the individual sounds to create a unique sound journey for you. You can then download your mp3 sound journey, listen to it online or send it to a friend. Textivate. MentorMob - Great Minds Share Alike - MentorMob. 8 Must Have Tools for Dropbox Users. We live in an age of hyper connectedness, we do not want to miss anything and we want to have easy and unlimited access everything particularly our digital data including our documents, videos, pictures, music..etc.
This is probably why cloud services like Dropbox and Google Drive have gained such a strong foothold in file sharing and storing world. Now that I have covered most of the important features that teachers need to know about Google Drive through my Google Drive Guides, I am shifting the focus to Dropbox. As you know, there are several ways and third party tools to use with dropbox to amp up your Droboxing experience. Here are some of the important tools you need to have to tap into the potential of Dropbox : 1- Dropitto Me This a great web tool that allows users to securely upload files to Dropbox.Once registered with DropitTome, you 'll be given a password protected link you or others can use to upload files to your Dropbox account. 2- DropLink 3- Backup Box.
News in 3 levels. TEENS IN THE TIMES - The Learning Network Blog. Photo Welcome to February’s edition of Teenagers in The Times.
This month, several of the young people who made headlines did so by working for change, even when it meant taking on a tradition or institution. For example, campus activists at the University of Vermont were instrumental in getting the school to recognize a third gender — neutral. Another story highlighted the students at 135 colleges and universities who are working to present alternatives that challenge the notion that alcohol and drugs are inherent in campus life. And at Princeton University, the first woman was elected president of Tiger Inn, an eating club that has had a reputation for insensitivity to female students. Read more… We present the January edition of Teenagers in The Times, a feature that presents almost everything published in The Times about young people during that month. Learning English with Michelle.