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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Try Wikimedia Commons for millions of free files
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.
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Another source of legal images – FlickrCC
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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Visuwords for discovering word relationships
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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Shahi, a visual dictionary that uses Flickr images!
Shahi is this is a nice variation on the visual dictionary concept. It uses Wiktionary content with Flickr images. I would preview terms before assigning them to students just in case inappropriate images appear.
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