John Allan
Author's details
Date registered: December 18, 2010
URL: http://www.socialesl.com
Biography
Education Technology Specialist working with in the areas of adult, corporate, non-profit online, blended and TESOL.
Latest posts
- More grammar support with Grammar Quizzes — May 21, 2013
- A Memorial Day lesson for Memorial Day — May 20, 2013
- 365 ESL Short Stories — May 16, 2013
- ManyThings.org has many interesting and useful activities for ESL learners — May 14, 2013
- Try Wikimedia Commons for millions of free files — May 13, 2013
Most commented posts
- Add the BBC Learning English widget to your site or blog — 3 comments
- Twurdy “readability rated search” — 1 comment
- Electronic Village Online (EVO) 2011 sessions — 1 comment
- Free Moodle Hosting — 1 comment
- Pixlr – Photoshop feel, but free and online! — 1 comment
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May 21, 2013
by John Allan
May 21, 2013
Grammar-Quizzes.com is a free educational resource created to promote the understanding, learning and practicing English grammar through the use of current event stories, pictures, sentence diagrams, and self-assessing-quizzes. Most of the content is written for intermediate non-native speakers. This site is available to instructors and their students without charge.
Permanent link to this article: http://edtechisus.com/?p=4130
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May 20, 2013
by John Allan
May 20, 2013
In the United States of American today is Memorial Day. Breaking News English has a complete lesson set for your to explain this day of observance to your students.
Permanent link to this article: http://edtechisus.com/?p=4127
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May 16, 2013
by John Allan
May 16, 2013
How could I have missed this one? This is a great set of interactive learning resources for ESL learners. Each story, geared towards lower-intermediate learners, has the written text, an audio reading, a set of yes/no questions, cloze practice, a crossword puzzle, single term dictation practice and a vocabulary list with links to definitions. This …
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Permanent link to this article: http://edtechisus.com/?p=4123
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May 14, 2013
by John Allan
May 14, 2013
Interesting things for ESL students is for students of English as a Second Language (ESL) or (EFL). included are quizzes, word games, word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams, a random-sentence generator and other CALL activities. This is a non-commercial for TESL teachers to use with their students.
Permanent link to this article: http://edtechisus.com/?p=4119
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May 13, 2013
by John Allan
May 13, 2013
Wikimedia Commons permits the use of over 10 million media files. This media file (images, sounds, and video clips) repository allows accessibility to public domain and freely-licensed educational media content. Great for budget challenged teachers across the globe. Locate media by topic, location, type, author, license and by source.
Permanent link to this article: http://edtechisus.com/?p=4114
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May 12, 2013
by John Allan
May 12, 2013
Permanent link to this article: http://edtechisus.com/?p=4110
My daughter is now in high school and sometimes forgets to bring her math book and calculator (not to mention an eraser and pencil) home. No longer is forgetting the scientific calculator an excuse for not doing homework! It covers all of the following functions: Complex Numbers Equations Graphs Linear Algebra Percent Standard Functions Statistics …
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Permanent link to this article: http://edtechisus.com/?p=4099
For many ESL students Wikipedia is a frustrating experience. Teachers often spend a lot of time providing explanations of vocabulary and cultural issues. Simple Wikipedia is an option for a place to take your students at the intermediate levels.
Permanent link to this article: http://edtechisus.com/?p=4094
FlickrCC, Flickr Creative Commons, is a tool that searches Creative Commons images from the Flickr site itself. This means that you can bypass the Flickr advanced search option. The display is very appealing to the eye. It displays image thumbnails, attribution information and a text definition. A full image editor that can be instantly accessed …
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Permanent link to this article: http://edtechisus.com/?p=4091
Learn the nuances of words through word relationship diagrams you can quickly create at Visuwords. Word associations such as synonyms, homonyms, part of speech, derivation, and much more can be found by simply typing the term or phrase in the text box and pressing search icon. Visuwords draws its data from Princeton University’s open source …
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Permanent link to this article: http://edtechisus.com/?p=4087
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