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Time for grammar review? Try Road To Grammar

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This free resource offers quizzes, games and PDF download activities for students and teachers.  It is worth a quick look to see if it might be useful for your grammar sessions.  There are four sections to explore.  These sections are Quizzes, Extra Practice, Games and Downloads.  ESL and EFL instructors should also look for Road …

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Zamzar is an excellent file converter and part of the Quick Dev Toolkit

File conversion can be a complex process.  Thankfully, new on line tools have made this process less inhibiting.  Zamzar allows you to deal with images, documents, sound and movie files.   Files under 100 MB are free without membership.  Larger files such as long movies can be handled but your institution will have to purchase a …

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Quick Development Tools for educators is ready

In preparation for the workshop at TESL Ontario, the Quick Development Tools page has been updated.  This includes adding resources, revising links and adding lessons to assist teachers who require more support for these tools. Resources are free and online.   The tool box includes tools for your creativity and editing purposes in six genres: Visual …

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Slideshare, a tool for ubiquitous media access is a part of the Quick Development Toolbox

SlideShare will also be presented this Friday at TESL Ontario as a tool for instructors using technology at the Quick Development Tools workshop. The concept of hosting teaching notes, videos, audio clips and PowerPoints on SlideShare is a means of freeing the media so that it can be used in any venue with an Internet …

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Icon Maker (part of Quick Dev Tools) at TESL Ontario

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IconMaker can help you create an avatar or icon sized images to use on your blog, LMS or website.   Before you start understand that you are not creating one of these from scratch.  You will need a small picture or image to use as a starting point.   This resources allows you to create: Display Picture …

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NanoGong for including speaking activities

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NanoGong is a free applet that can be used to record, playback and save voice, in a web page. When the recording is played back the user can speed up or slow down the sound without changing it. The speeded up or slowed down version of the recorded sound can be saved to the user’s …

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Need Apps for teaching Halloween?

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Thanks to the tireless efforts of Shelly Terrell we have a concise set of 18 Halloween apps that can be used in your classes keeping to the spirit of the season. Our thanks also to Teach Hub for their spooky services.

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100 Questions for Halloween

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Sean Banville has recently provided a list of 100 questions that can be used for teaching purposes when the subject of Halloween is upon us – which is now!  the questions can be downloaded in PDF format or copied directly from his website. BloggersWordlESL has compiled a whole series of  Halloween worksheets. This image of …

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TESL Ontario presentation – Quick Dev Tools

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FAA – Quick Development Tools For Materials Developers John Allan – edtechisus The free, Quick Development Tools Block houses 18 development tools that provide functions from multimedia editing to screen capturing. This demonstration provides an overview of these resources. This resource is useful for those who simply cannot afford multimedia development tools but require a …

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TESL Ontario conference brochure is available

The annual conference brochure with the available options is now available at the TESL Ontario site. Edtechisus is presenting one session on the Quick Development Tools block.   After you have read the brochure you can register from October 2nd.

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