Website of the day: Zimmer Twins
What is this?
It is an interesting website devoted to children for making animated stories. Students can make their own animation, adding the dialogues and on-screen text.
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Sunday, 6 March 2011
Saturday, 19 February 2011
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.
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.
Labels:
activities,
autonomy,
CALL,
English learning,
group work,
Intermediate learners,
Movies,
reading,
speaking,
webquest,
writing
Friday, 18 February 2011
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.
-- 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.
Labels:
activities,
autonomy,
CALL,
Elementary level,
English learning,
listening,
reading,
speaking,
webquest,
writing
Wednesday, 16 February 2011
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.
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.
Labels:
activity,
autonomy,
English learning,
group work,
ICT,
reading,
speaking,
webquest,
writing
Sunday, 13 February 2011
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.
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.
Labels:
English learning,
ICT,
mailVU,
recording,
speaking,
speech,
video emails,
video message
Saturday, 12 February 2011
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.

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.
Labels:
CALL,
English learning,
listening,
recording,
speaking
Audioboo --Free onine recording service!
Website of the day: http://audioboo.fm/
What is this?
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.
Labels:
audio,
English learning,
listening,
Podcast,
recording,
speaking,
Syndication
Thursday, 27 January 2011
Ted: Ideas worth spreading
Today's website: TED: ideas worth spreading
What is this?
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| Source: http://www.ted.com/ |
It is an amazing website with over 700 best talks, which are subtitled in English and even in other various languages. Originally, the talks are given by great people in the field Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED). However, the website now has more topics other than the three fields. These videos are freely shared and reposted so that English teachers can use the video clips on the website to amplify the depth and width of our teaching materials.
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
BreakingNewsEnglish: Brilliant teaching resource
Website of the day: BreakingNewsEnglish
What is this?
It is a brilliant website for teachers to teach English news. The news is updated every two or three days. What the teacher have to do is to select a piece of news which will be interesting for their target students and then adopt the activities provided. There are a variety of ready-made activities and they are free of charge.
Labels:
activities,
English learning,
lesson plans,
listening,
MP3,
news,
reading,
speaking,
vocabulary,
writing
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