With Nota, mash your ideas and media together with friends in a dynamic whiteboard wiki. Using photos, videos, and other web content you can instantly create brainstorms and presentations. Easy and quick. It’s not too complex, so don’t expect amazing layouts… but it is really effective!!!
Dipity is a very good timeline creator if you want your students to work with time, tenses or describing events or someone’s life. Catchy interface that allows you to create your own timelines and add images, video, audio and Internet links.
The working area is really user-friendly, and element integration is really easy. We can later share it through our usual social network.
Time to say your thoughts instead of writing them down. AudioBoo has been created for users to create short audioclips and publish them online… brief thoughts and ideas to share with the rest of the world, or the rest of our classmates! Our Batxillerat/K12 students can register with their Tweeter accounts, and share thoughts about what they see in a given outdoors route, or what they watch on the TV/Listen to on the radio regarding some specific event, conflict or any other piece of news.
Here’s a Prezi about 2.0 tools in ELT… just some thoughts and tips. Probably we’ll be posting more ellaborate ideas… hopefully 😕
A new network community has been created:
This social NING platform is devoted to the dissemination of ideas related to the use of videogames in education. teachers can talk about their experiences and comment on others’
A good number of ELT teachers use videogames in their classrooms. You only need to register for free and sign in.
This might be the place for you!
Futurelab: A very good website for those who want to spend some time this Christmas reading some good articles on ICT and education. Many good ideas and reflection… the use of new tools, its application, and also downloadable handbooks.
If you are familiar with Facebook, here’s a nice and easy way to create your own social network: Ning :
With a few mouse clicks, you can create your network of EFL teachers, or of teachers interested in ICT, for example:
Take part in forums, upload files, images and videos, and share all your knowledge through an easy method of communication.
We’ll be probably creating an ELT Ning shortly. If you are faster, just let us know and we’ll join your network!
This is a good way to teach things! Visually, and with a very easy script. The Lefever brothers have created a series of videos with easy explanations on diverse issues, mostly ICT related. Information is easy and the pace is not too fast. Students will easily undertand it. You can find them in their own Youtube page
Why not trying to create similar presentations with our students?
Here’s a video on how podcasting works:
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This one is a very clear explanation on blogging:
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If you really think the future in ICT-based English teaching is in Web 2.0. Your website is Go2Web20.net
The most extense directory of 2.0 websites. Collaboration, creativity, sharing and learning in a nutshell. Make sure you visit it!
DefineItFast.com is the fastest dictionary on the Net. It gives you different possibilities and the search is really quick.
