Make simple cartoons
Make simple cartoons with Pixton, especially designed for education, it allows people to create fun dialogs. Interfaces in many different languages.
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Scott Thornbury Scott Thornbury will be coming to JALT in November as a keynote speaker. His ideas about language learning are really interesting. For example, this idea about teaching grammar as if it were vocabulary, in his book Natural Grammar, which has a teacher support site with all kinds of ideas about teaching grammar [...] Put the words in order to make a sentence For a quick game of word ordering to make sentences, try out Wall of Words. Danny Choo loves Japan Danny Choo loves Japan. Born in England, he has come to Japan recently, and with incredible energy, posts regularly about Japan in his blog. A great way for our students to see what foreigners think of Japan. [...] What Japan thinks I’ve always thought that talking about numbers gets short shrift (not enough attention) in most language classes. People talk about numbers a lot in normal conversation, and we hardly ever practice them in class. I’d like to do a whole class about using numbers in English. I think it would be [...] Simple English Like Wikipedia in Japanese? In English? Try it in simple English. Great for student research and other projects. http://simple.wikipedia.org/ 80 million tiny images OK, these guys from MIT wanted to see what 80 million images looked like whent they were all squashed together. But the neat thing is that they took about 74,000 vocabulary words, and created an image out of other images to show what the meaning was. This is actually a [...] M-learning is augmented MIT Press has a recet book out on Augmented Learning. With e-learning and m-learning (mobile), and alternative reality games, there is a new movement to take the learning outside the classroom. This book provides research and suggestions on how to make that work in today’s educational situation. Japan is the best [...] Make up vocabulary and reading lessons in minutes from prepared texts. Lesson Writer. Here is something from their web page. How it works Copy & paste any text you choose into LessonWriter. LessonWriter analyzes text for vocabulary, grammar and usage, pronunciation, and word roots and stems. Then, LessonWriter writes a lesson plan and a lesson [...] Start video at exactly the right place This little tool for YouTube videos is very simple. It splices your videos (hence the name splicd), so you can start and stop at exactly the right place. You can do this without a web site, by changing the URL at YouTube, but it is hard to [...] Advanced English Videos on Grammar Some of the teachers in the department think that advanced topics in grammar must be taught in English. I beg to differ. Take a look at these clear explanations of advanced grammar points in videos from Business English Pod. [...] simple wiki If you don’t know what a wiki is, try the wikipedia entry for wiki (English, Japanese). pbwiki is one of the simplest sites to set up a wiki. It is designed to be as easy to make as a peanut butter sandwich (pb). Now, if you are using Moodle, there is a [...] Share HD video YouTube is great for looking at and sharing video. But sometimes, you want more control over your distribution. With a Pro account (about $60 a year) at Vimeo, you can send out an email to people with a URL and a password. They don’t have to sign in to vimeo, or [...] Put presentations online If you use a projector in class, you probably have piles of powerpoint presentations. Why not let your students look at them at their leisure (and you can keep a copy online in case you lose the original). You can make a set of slides from a powerpoint presentation in minutes, [...] find and share spoken word programs There are a lot of spoken word programs out there. People doing interviews, talking about their deepest darkest secrets, or just explaining things that they know. Spoken Word is a brand new (came out of beta today) site dedicated to collecting all these resources together. If you ever [...] Today is Friday, and it’s the 13th. So why not try your luck? StumbleUpon is a great way to explore the web for new and interesting things. Better than browsing, you can explore what other people find interesting. Sign up for an account and start finding people that have similar interests and you can refine [...] 140 characters Twitter is the Internet’s hottets mode of communication these days. Like all good ideas, this is crushingly simple. Type in a message of less than 140 characters. You have a group of people (your followers) who’s list of messages this is added to. Your list of messages is what everyone you follow [...] Japanese emoticons Icons in your email, or SMS, or mobile mail, can indicate your emotions much more quickly than words. With programmable phones these days, you can set longer ones to memory and recall them with a few keystrokes. Here is a bunch of these emoticons, or kao-mohi (face-icons) with a quick English translation. [...] Amazon just came out with a new version of their eBook reader, the Kindle. It looks very nice. I wish they were available here in Japan (my guess, they will be here by the end of the year. But another service, Google Mobile, allows you to get electronic versions of books on your cell phone. [...] Lisa is bilingual Lisa Katayama is a successful young writer for tech magazines like Wired. In her blog she shows interesting sides of Japan with unusual products. If I ever need something interesting to discuss in class, I can usually find it here in a matter of seconds. She also has a book out. [...] |
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