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Google has Flipped Out! A lonely EFL Teachers lifeline…

Saturday, October 10, 2009

I remember “years” ago when I got out of teacher’s college and first began teaching overseas in the Czech Rep. There was no internet back then (92) nor satellite TV or even English TV. And only once a week did one copy of the European (do you remember that wonderful creation of the eccentric Robert [...]

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English Central – Bringing “voice” and output to learning English.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

English Central is a new video site bringing “Voice” to learners. I’ve long written and promoted the use of both speech recognition and text to speech for language learners. English Central is at the forefront of this movement harnessing the power of new technology to facilitate language acquisition. It takes video language learning sites like [...]

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What the Wordle Part 2 – using Picasa!

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

I tried to do something different with this presentation of wordles. Simply GO HERE and see them. Play What the Wordle. It is in my Picasa web album – something teachers might use!
You can get a lot more Wordle games on EFL Classroom’s wordle page!

The powerpoint will be forthcoming so you can print [...]

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ClassTools.net – A great place to make games/presentations.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

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I’ve been back again to Russel Tarr’s marvellous ClassTools site. On the site, you can very easily make all sorts of presentations and games. Just click and check out the games on the side of the site. The one above I made in 2 minutes! Just get an embed code. [...]

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