Resources for Teachers and Students
Lucy Pollard Guide to Teaching English
This downloadable ebook will help new teachers deal with their first two years in teaching. It gives tips and ideas for the situations they’ll encounter. It will help new teachers and serve as a reminder for those who have followed a course. It describes the main teaching methods and contains practical tips that can be instantly put to use in the classroom.
A flashcard service that allows anyone to create and share flashcards about any topic. Free registration required to create flashcards but to use only publicly shared flashcards does not require registration.
Brain Flips is unique because it offers three ways to review flashcards. In the introduction mode, the flashcard's question and answer appear side by side. In traditional mode, the flashcards display the question on one side and the answer on the other side when clicked. In response mode, the user is prompted to put in an answer before the correct one is displayed.
Ian James blog focuses on television / internet news and a video listening activity, conversation questions, and a speaking activity which requires students to record a short news bulletin.
The Top 21 of 100 Tools for Learning 2009
This list is compiled from the worldwide contributions of 278 learning professionals – from education and workplace learning.
1. Twitter (micro-blogging tool)
2. Delicious (social bookmarking tool)
3. YouTube (video sharing tool)
4. Google Reader (RSS reader)
5. Google Docs (create, store, share documents+presentations online)
6. WordPress (free easy-to-use blogging platform)
7. Slideshare (presentation sharing site)
8. Google Search (web search tool)
9. Audacity (audio/podcasting tool: sound recorder and editor suitable for podcasting)
10. Firefox (web browser)
11 Jing (captures screenshots and videos you can share)
12 Wordle (word cloud generator: you copy in text and generate a visual cloud of the most frequently used words – useful for text analysis)
13 Edublogs (blogging tool for educators)
14 Glogster (poster tool to make interactive posters)
15 FreeMind (mindmapping tool)
16 Moodle (course management system)
17 Evernote (note-taking tool: capture websites, photos, screenshots you can tag and store)
18 Xtranormal (moviemaking software)
19 Facebook (social networking site with some applications for education)
20 Dimdim (web conferencing tool for audio and video conferencing)
21 TeacherTube (video sharing site: a place to share instructional videos)
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