Suggested Reading
Week 1
- Hints for Learning Online Learning on-line is a new experience for all of us; however, it is a way of learning that will increase in the future, as more institutions and organizations use the Internet for distance education. Does being a student in an on-line environment require new strategies for maximizing your learning? We believe it does, and we would like to share some simple tips to help you succeed as a student on the Web.
- Uses and Potentials of Wikis in the Classroom: An article describing how teaching and learning have changed across oral, print, and secondary-oral paradigms.
- Netiquette. "Netiquette" stands for "Internet Etiquette" and refers to the set of practices created over the years to make the Internet experience pleasant for everyone.
- What makes a successful online student. Illinois Online Network (Qualities for online students).
Week 2
- Mahmoud, Salameh S. (2013).The Effect of Using English SMS on KAU Foundation Year Students’ Speaking and Writing Performance . American International journal of social science, Vol. 2, No. 2. (This study aims at investigating the effect of using English short messaging service (SMS) on the development of the foundation year students‟ speaking and writing skills at King Abdulaziz University (KAU). Written and oral tests developed by the researcher were used to measure such development.)
- Chartrand, R. (2012). Social networking for language learners: Creating meaningful output with Web 2.0 tools. Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal, Vol.4, No.1. (The Internet has the potential to provide language learners with vast resources of authentic written, audio, and video materials to supplement lessons. Educators can find a wide assortment of materials for learners to study in class or after class for independent learning and to encourage learner autonomy. More recently, however, the immense popularity of social networking websites has created new opportunities for language learners to interact in authentic ways that were previously difficult to achieve.)
- Gonzalez, D. & Esteves, L. (2006). Enhancing Collaboration Through Chat in ESP: A Conversation Analysis. IATEFL Poland Computer SIG Journal, May 2006. (Chat rooms are ideal spaces for interaction, collaboration and negotiation of meaning, crucial aspects in language learning. However, they have not been fully exploited in language teaching. This study shows the results of a conversation analysis of 30 transcriptions of chat sessions where architecture students were carrying out collaborative group work. The researchers wanted to discover the discourse patterns and conversational strategies used by the students in this online context to study their possible repercussions in English learning. The results seem to indicate that the students were building the kind of discourse that is thought to lead to language learning.)
- Peachey, N. (2012). Tech Tools for Teachers: Podcasting. (A comprehensive overview article on podcasting and how it can be used to help students develop their listening and speaking skills both inside and outside the classroom.)
- Vilà, C. A. (2010). Skype in the EFL Class. Humanising Language Teaching, Year 12, Issue 4, August 2010. (Skype has become a very popular tool for making calls on the web. In this article, Cristina Arnau Vilà briefly explains what Skype is, how it works, and gives some tips on ways to use it in the classroom.)
Week 3
Blogging basics
- Blogging for ELT
- Blogging with students
- 7 things you should know about wikis
- What to do with wikis - an ELT perspective
- The Teacher's Guide To Using YouTube in The Classroom
- Rules for using public YouTube videos in the classroom
Week 4
- Assessment for learning: Improving feedback in interactive exercises. Mar. 2011. (Based on HotPot exos.)
- Computer-based language learning with interactive web exercises (2011). (Mainly based on Hot Potatoes; presentations at an Italian Conf.: ICT for Language Learning, Oct. 2011) A short note: HotPotatoes terms of use have changed:"Hot Potatoes is now freeware. The complete version of the programs is now available for free, from the Downloads section . The free version of Hot Potatoes for Windows is version 6.3, and the Java version is 6.1.""The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is freeware, and you may use it for any purpose or project you like. It is not open-source."
- 7 ways to create and deliver online quizzes (2013) (in: Richard Byrne: Free Technology for Teachers)
- Web 2.0 teaching tools
Week 5
Resources for inspiration
- http://www.edhelper.com/vocabulary.htm
- http://elllo.org/ - Very good for listening practice.
- http://www.digibridge.net/teresadeca/school/activities.htm - Teresa's Web-based Activities
- https://ict1olomouc.wikispaces.com/ Svetlana's wiki with many examples of interactive exercises and other tools.
Tools
Aggregators
Feedly; http://feedly.com
The Old Reader; http://theoldreader.com
Archive
Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/
Blogs
Blogger: http://blogspot.com
Edublogs: http://edublogs.org
Kidblog: http://kidblog.org/home.php
Wordpress: http://www.wordpress.com
Bots
ALICE Bot: http://alice.pandorabots.com/
Santa Bot: http://www.santabot.com/
Chat embeddable tools
Cbox: http://www.cbox.ws
Xat: http://xat.com/
Chatwing http://chatwing.com/
Todaysmeet https://todaysmeet.com/
Clocks and world times
24TimesZones.com: http://24timezones.com/map.htm (find the time in "your" neck of the woods)
Clock Link: http://www.clocklink.com (free online clocks for your site)
Qlock: http://www.qlock.com/time/ (find the time in "your" neck of the woods)
The World Clock: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/full.html (find the time in "your" neck of the woods)
Comic Creators
Comic Creator: http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/comic-creator-30021.html
DVolver moviemaker: http://www.dfilm.com/live/home.html
GoAnimate: http://goanimate.com/?utm_source=embed
MakeBeliefsComix: http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/
Pixton: http://pixton.com/
ToonDoo: http://www.toondoo.com/
WriteComics: http://writecomics.com/
ZimmerTwins: http://www.zimmertwins.com
Curating
Exercise Creators
ClassMarker: http://www.classmarker.com/
Directory of Testing, Quizzing & Other Interactivity Tools: http://c4lpt.co.uk/directory-of-learning-performance-tools/instructional-tools-testing-quizzing-other-interactivity-tools/
DJordan's Self-Correcting Quizzes: http://weber.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/resources/quizzes/quizzes.html
Educaplay: http://en.educaplay.com/index.php
ESLvideo: http://www.eslvideo.com/index.php
Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher: http://www.cpr4esl.com/gerrys_vocab_teacher/index.html (no longer free, a limited demo is available).
Hot Potatoes: http://hotpot.uvic.ca/
Interactive Exercise Makers: http://languagecenter.cla.umn.edu/makers.php
JClic: http://clic.xtec.cat/en/index.htm
JClic: http://clic.xtec.cat/en/index.htm
Lingt Classroom http://lingtlanguage.com/
ProProfs: http://proprofs.com/
Quizlet: http://quizlet.com/
Rich Internet Applications for Language Learning: http://clear.msu.edu/teaching/online/ria/ (Click on Close at the bottom to get an access to the applications)
Script-O!: http://www.scriptopro.com/ (no longer free, 30-day free trial)
WordLearner: http://www.wordlearner.com/
Quiz Star: http://quizstar.4teachers.org/index.jsp
File conversion
VidToMP3 : http://www.vidtomp3.com/
Zamzar : http://www.zamzar.com
Free Images
A big list: http://copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com/
Classroom clipart http://classroomclipart.com/
Clipart Pictures: http://www.free-clipart-pictures.net/
ESL Flash Cards: http://www.eslflash cards.com/
Openclip: http://www.openclipart.org/
School Clip-art: http://www.school-clip-art.com/
UVIC Clipart: http://hcmc.uvic.ca/clipart/
Games and Game Creators
Content Generator: http://www.contentgenerator.net/
Crossword Creator: http://www.eclipsecrossword.com/ (used often and liked!)
Crossword Puzzle Games: http://www.crosswordpuzzlegames.com/create.html
Discovery Channel: http://www.discoveryeducation.com/teachers/ (click on "Teachers" in top menu. Select "puzzlemaker")
Hangman: http://www.manythings.org/hmf/
Hangman Script: http://javascript.about.com/library/blhang1.htm
Jigzone: Online jigsaw puzzle creator: http://www.jigzone.com/
Novel Games: http://www.novelgames.com/ (some knowledge of code is needed to use this tool)
Online Crossword puzzle maker: http://www.puzzle-maker.com/CW/
TeAch-nology.com's Crossword Puzzle Maker: http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/crossword/
The Hangman Game: http://www.hangman.learningtogether.net/
Graphic creators
Gliffy: http://www.gliffy.com
Toonlet: http://toonlet.com
Heavy online file delivery
TransferBigFiles: http://www.transferbigfiles.com
Mediafire: http://www.mediafire.com/ (file sharing and transfer)
Ge.tt: http://ge.tt/
Image Editors
Offline
Easy Thumbnails: http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/ (resize images)
iPiccy: http://ipiccy.com/ (easier than Photoshop)
Quick Screen Capture: http://www.etrusoft.com/ (capture and edit images)
Online
Aviary: http://aviary.com/ (for mobile)
Clipping Magic: http://clippingmagic.com/ (great for removing background)
Image Editor: http://www.imageeditor.net/
My Imager: http://www.myimager.com/
Pixrl: http://www.pixlr.com/ (edit pics)
Learning Management Systems (LMS)
Canvas (free for educators): http://www.instructure.com
Lore: http://lore.com./
Moodle: http://www.moodle.org
Nicenet: http://www.nicenet.org
Ninehub: http://ninehub.com/
OpenClass (from Pearson): http://www.openclass.com
Schoology: https://www.schoology.com/home.php
Maps
Clustrmaps: http://clustrmaps.com
Google: http://google.maps.com
Microblogging
Edmodo: http://www.edmodo.com/
Foursquare: https://foursquare.com/
FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/
Miscellaneous resources
Authoring Tools for language teachers: http://academics.smcvt.edu/cbauer-ramazani/Links/authoring_tools.htm
Directory of Learning and Performance Tools: http://c4lpt.co.uk/directory-of-learning-performance-tools/
Online Tools for Language Teaching: http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume15/ej57/ej57int/
The Amazing Web 2.0 Projects Book (Terry Freedman, ed.): http://www.terry-freedman.org.uk/web2_2010/Amazing%20Web%202%20Projects%202%20online%20version.pdf
The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators (Richard Byrne, Dec. 2010:
Online Storage (and embed)
Box.net: http://box.net/
DivShare: http://www.divshare.com/
DocStoc: http://www.docstoc.com
Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/
Livedrive: http://www.livedrive.com/ (two-week free trial)
Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/ (free month trial)
Online Virtual Offices
Google Documents: http://docs.google.com
ThinkFree: http://www.thinkfree.com
Zoho: http://www.zoho.com/
Painting tools
Aviary: http://aviary.com/
Inkscape : http://inkscape.org/
Painter: http://www.valspar.com/painter.html
Photo albums
Animoto: http://animoto.com/
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com
Mixbook (for Education): http://www.mixbook.com/
Photobucket: http://photobucket.com/
Photopeach: http://photopeach.com/
Picasa: http://picasa.google.com/
Picturetrail: http://www.picturetrail.com
Slideroll: http://www.slideroll.com/
Photo Stories
DVolver moviemaker: http://www.dfilm.com/live/home.html
PhotoPeach: http://photopeach.com/
PhotoStories3: http://microsoft-photo-story.en.softonic.com/
ZimmerTwins: http://www.zimmertwins.com
Podcasting blogs
Podbean: http://www.podbean.com
Podomatic: http://www.podomatic.com
Polls
Easy Polls; http://www.easypolls.net/
Recording
Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Callburner: http://www.callburner.com/
MP3 Skype Recorder: http://voipcallrecording.com/
Powergramo: http://www.powergramo.com/
Rubric Creators
Rubistar: http://rubistar.4teachers.org/
Screencasts - Slidecasts - Videos
Animoto: http://www.animoto.com/
Google pres: http://docs.google.com/ (click on create and select "presentation")
Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/
Stupeflix: http://www.stupeflix.com/
VoiceThread: http://www.voicethread.com (only five voicethreads with free account)
Screen captures
Irfanview: http://www.irfanview.com/
Jing: http://jingproject. com (and video)
Screencast-o-matic https://screencast-o-matic.com/home
Social Bookmarking
Blinklist: http://www.blinklist.com
Delicious: http://www.delicious.com/
Diigo: http://www.diigo.com/
Social Networks
Cloudworks: http://cloudworks.ac.uk/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/
FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/
Ning: http://www.ning.com/ (no longer free)
Google+: https://plus.google.com/
Shortening URLs
Bit.ly : http://bit.ly/
Google URL Shortener: http://goo.gl/
Tinyurl: http://www.tinyurl.com
Start Pages
Netvibes: http://www.netvibes.com
Protopage: http://www.protopage.com
Ustart; http://www.ustart.org/
Survey Creators
Polldaddy: http://polldaddy.com/
SurveyMonkey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/
Text creators
Cool Text: http://cooltext.com/
Myspace glitter text generator: http://glitter-graphics.com/myspace/text_generator.php
Text-to-Speech
ReadtheWords: http://www.readthewords.com/
Text to Speech: http://text-to-speech.imtranslator.net/
VozMe: http://vozme.com/
Voki: http://www.voki.com/
Tutorials
Second Life tutorials:
- CTER Portal: http://cterport.ed.uiuc.edu/technologies_folder/SL/
- Nichola Scher: http://nicolaescher.com/tutorials.php
- Robin Wood: http://www.robinwood.com/Catalog/Technical/SL-Tuts/SLTutSet.html
- Torley´s channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Torley
Teacher Training videos: http://teachertrainingvideos.com/ (Russel Stannard)
Voice/Audio tools
Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net (recorder - MP3 converter)
AudioPal: http://www.audiopal.com/
Aviary: http://aviary.com/
Chirbit: http://www.chirbit.com/
Evoca: http://www.evoca.com
Viewpoint: http://clear.msu.edu/viewpoint/index.php
Vocaroo: http://vocaroo.com/
VoiceThread: http://voicethread.com/ (only five voicethreads with free account)
Voxopop: http://www.voxopop.com/
Video tools
Google videos: http://video.google.com
Ourmedia: http://www.ourmedia.org
TeacherTube: http://www.teachertube.com/
Vimeo: http://vimeo.com
Yahoo videos: http://video.yahoo.com
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com
Videos with captions/subtitles
dotSub.com: http://dotsub.com
Video capture
Jing: http://jingproject.com
KeepVid: http://keepvid.com/
Video lessons
Real English: http://www.real-english.com/ (Mike Marzio)
Video: Live streaming
LiveStream: http://www.livestream.com/
Ustream: http://www.ustream.tv/
Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) or vClassrooms
BigMarker: http://www.bigmarker.com/
Blackboard Collaborate (Elluminate): http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Collaborate/Overview.aspx
Learning Times: http://www.learningtimes.org
Learning Times: http://www.learningtimes.org
Scribblar: http://scribblar.com/
Twiddla: http://www.twiddla.com/
Vyew: http://vyew. com/site/
Webhuddle: https://www.webhuddle.com/
WiZiQ: http://www.wiziq.com (no longer free)
VoIP tools (chat)
Skype: http://www.skype.com
Oovoo: http://www.oovoo.com/ (free for 2-way video )
Yahoo Messenger: http://messenger.yahoo.com
IMO: https://imo.im/
SpeakPipe: http://www.speakpipe.com/ (embeddabe tool for voice messages)
Widgets
Widgetbox: http://www.widgetbox.com/widgets/gallery/
Widgets for your wiki: http://www.scribd.com/doc/4965117/Widgets-for-Your-Wiki
Wikis
PBworks: http://pbworks.com
Wetpaint: http://www.wetpaint.com
Wikidot: http://www.wikidot.com/
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