slideshare

Website of the day: Slideshare

What is this?

Slideshare provides users the platform to share PowerPoint, keynote and PDF files presentations. Users can upload  the slides publicly or privately only sharing with their target viewers and download slides for free and get better ideas of the teaching materials.

Design your own webquest by QuestGarden

Website of the day: a useful website to design your own webquest --- QuestGarden

What is this?

 As mentioned in its official website mentioned, "QuestGarden is an online authoring tool, community and hosting service that is designed to make it easier and quicker to create a high quality WebQuest."  (http://questgarden.com/author/overview.php ) QuestGarden is a brilliant tool for teachers to create and share their own webquests because it offers clear guides on how to make a webquest.

A interesting webquest- movie review

Website of the day : An great example of webquest ---                                                           Movie Presentation 

What is this?

It is a brilliant webquest suitable for pre-intermediate students to advanced students. The task is to have students present their favorite movie to the whole class in a catchy way, persuading other students to vote for it.

webquest-Willywonka

Website of the day: an interesting example of Webquest
                                   -- Willywonka navigation

What is this?
It is a great and motivating webquest for elementary students. It exemplifies what a normal webquest will cover: introduction, task, process, evaluation, conclusion. Besides, there are two versions of the webquest page. One is for students and the other is for teachers as a teachers' guide page.

Webquest--An alternative way to learn English through a project

What is this?

According to the founder of WebQuest fromWebQuest.org, "a  WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web." Generally speaking, a webquest is composed of 6 parts: introduction, task, process, resources, evaluation, and conclusion. Teachers can either create their own webquests or adopt those available webquests shared by others. Depending on the task of each webquest, students might have to give a presentation, design a website, write a report and so on.

World Englih- online quizzes

Website of the day: world English -- online quizzes  

What is this?

It is a great website with not only quizzes but loads of learning resources. The website is particularly useful for those teachers who do not have time to make quizzes for every lesson and grammar rules.  

BBC online quizzes

Website of the day:  BBC online quizzes - a great website to learn English through interesting activities.

What is this?
It is a excellent website with much resources and various online quizzes with printable versions. It is beneficial for both teachers and learners.

A4ESL-online quizzes

Website of the day: A4ESL -  a resourceful online quiz website.

What is this?

It is a good website which provides plenty of online quizzes in different categories like vocabulary and grammar and in various levels of difficulty.

MailVU-- Making Videomail!

Website of the day:  mailVU : making and sending video emails easily.

What is this?

MailVU is a online service which allows the users to record a video email up to 10 minutes, enter an email address of the recipient with a short text message, and send the video email.

Vocaroo-- Free online recording tool

Website of the day : Vocaroo  - A free on-online voice recording service.

What is this?
It is a free on-line  voice recording service which basically functions just like Internet voicemail.  Users can  record their voice and send  the file to others through email. In addition, they can even embed in the link of their voice file to their blog, publish it to the website and downloaded.

Audioboo --Free onine recording service!

Website of the day:   http://audioboo.fm/

What is this?

It is a great website for both teachers and students to record themselves up up to 5 minutes and share the sound file to one another. Audioboo is also a application which can be downloaded free on smartphohes so that users can record themselves or the sound they hear anytime and anywhere.