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Mulitimedia Phonetics Tool

This is a very useful interactive, online and free tool for assisting students or even peers with pronunciation of American English. It breaks down each sound of American English and provides detailed description, animation, video and audio to model the standard means of pronouncing phones.

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Have fun with Graffiti Creator!

Have fun with your students.  Let them create graffiti without paint at  Graffiti Creator!      Students just select a style and type their message.

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Quickly order word lists with The Alphabetizer and more….

Paste a list of any sort into the “Enter Terms”  box and the list can be sorted. A list can be comma delimited using this tool.  This is very useful when creating “CSV” files for course glossaries, quiz questions and student records to automate data entry.  A huge time-saver!  Among other features is a strip  …

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Record-a-Poem Group Opens on Soundcloud

The Poetry Foundation has opened a Record-a-Poem Group on SoundCloud.  This is an opportunity for your students to write, read and share poems online.  The guidelines for this group are displayed below: 1. Poems only without music. 2. Please tag your poems with the keyword “poem” and “poetry” and name your files TITLE by POET, …

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Incorporate contemporary music appreciation into your ESL/EFL classes

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Music English is a real option for teachers of ESL or EFL wishing to generate discussion based on music appreciation.  Level appropriate worksheets are available for some of the songs.  As a teacher however, you might consider creating discussion a sheet of prompts/questions for your classes.  It might even be a good idea to forward …

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Coursera adds 29 additional universities and colleges

Coursera’s invitation  says it all. Use the Coursera widget below to explore the participating universities. We offer high quality courses from the top universities, for free to everyone. We are changing the face of education globally, and we invite you to join us. More institutions means more opportunities in across a wider range of disciplines, …

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ScreenCast-O-Matic

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ScreenCastOMatic is a web based,  free one-click screen capture recording on Windows or Mac computers.  Yes, no installation required.    A recently published  5 minute video providing you with clear instructions on how to use ScreenCast-O-Matic is now available on YouTube. I’ve been using it for a year or so and it has been reliable and …

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A Great World History app at TimeMaps

TimeMaps is an online app/resource  that allows students to explore visually history through maps and a timeline.    See the features highlighted in the image below.

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A bundle of Language arts activities at Interactive Sites for Education

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Our first course migrated to the Moodle MOOCH

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