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WriteBoard Writeboard is a simple wiki that allows students to collaborate on tasks, assignments and projects. The final results can be shared with the teacher, class or the whole world!
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SlideShare SlideShare is a great place for students to research topics searching and viewing slide shows (many with audio) or students can post their slide shows as the result of projects at this site.
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Dictionary.com One of the standard tools for looking up definitions for an active learning activity for students. It also has a translator, encyclopedia and a thesaurus.
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Wordnik Wordnik is an on line community that is pushing the definition of a "dictionary" to its limits! There are several options that make it a progressive and unique search resource for student activities.
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Compendium mind mapping The Compendium website for The Open University UK. Compendium is a software tool for mapping information, ideas and arguments.
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ESL Listening Lab ESL Listening lab has been going since 1996-ish. Randall offers a variety of listening activities and blogs.
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Slide to create a visual collage Slide is a great tool to create a digital visual capstone project that involves digital picture assignments.
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Lexipedia So cool in look, feel and function. Input a word (term)and you can visually see the related nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, fuzzynymns, synonyms and antonyms. This is a great way to let the students discover relationships between words!
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Answers.com Answers is a fabulous site for rewarding students for good question formation as well as question planning!
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Merriam Visual Dictionary This dictionary allows students the ability to get on line and find definitions for terms and instantly gain comprehension through imagery.
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Forvo pronunciation Listen, learn and pronounce in over 220 languages! Vocabulary and terms are also sorted by categories for ESP purposes. Regional accents are also cited as well students can upload their pronunciation clips for consideration.
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Twitter4teachers This wiki was created to easily help educators find other educators on Twitter that have the same interests as them (that teach in the same content area). Check out the list of educators on the pages linked below and add your Twitter name to the appropriate list too.
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VocabGrabber VocabGrabber analyzes any text you're interested in, generating lists of the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context. Just copy text from a document and paste it into the box, and then click on the "Grab Vocabulary!" button. VocabGrabber will automatically create a list of vocabulary from your text, which you can then sort, filter, and save.
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Blogger Blogger is a common tool used to encourage writing, expression and interaction with your students. Blogs can be motivational since the Internet provides an authentic audience.
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WordPress blogs WordPress is a great blog tool but it also may be a better place to locate, select and follow a blog for reading purposes.
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WikiHow wikiHow is a collaborative writing project to build a how-to manual. With community contributions, this resource that helps students and teachers by offering solutions to the problems of everyday life. wikiHow currently contains 60,213 articles — written, edited, and maintained primarily by volunteers.
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Google Translate Students get translation with a single click and make comprehension less intrusive. That is unless you disagree with translators then ignore this.
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Type Racer (typing) Practice typing or race fellow students on line.
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Wikipedia the world's first and largest community built encyclopedia.
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How Stuff Works A Discovery Channel offering that provides answers to many questions. The community is invited to contribute also. Video and images are well represented around the site as are quizzes and polls.
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