EFL Classroom's Blog – July 2010 Archive (5)

Woices - geography based audio recordings

Woices is Wonderful! It is a fairly new site which enables teachers or students to roam and listen to authentic audio about different places. Even download it for classroom use!

Basically, you browse a google map, find a region of the world you want to know about and then listen/search the audio that has been recorded there. If you sign up, you can even make your own recording and share your travels! Here's an example I made - also see below,… Continue

Added by EFL Classroom on July 28, 2010 at 1:30am — No Comments

PB Works - Works!

I've posted about PB Works before but given their new design and features, think it is a good time again. It is a wonderful, FREE tool for educators that has amazing possibilities for building a simple wiki page to share resources with students. A perfect "class" page!

First, let me come clean. I'm not an objective reviewer! I just checked and I have 10 PB Works "Workspaces"! Also, editing privileges on 10 more! So don't expect any criticism,… Continue

Added by EFL Classroom on July 12, 2010 at 10:19am — 1 Comment

Make your own warning sign!

The Warning Sign generator might be a great way to "warn" students and a classroom management tool. Or it might be just a fun way to learn language!

You just choose a theme, an image and then input your message. Bingo! You have a jpg sign to use. Simply right click on the image produced and "save as".

Interesting and please visit… Continue

Added by EFL Classroom on July 8, 2010 at 11:32pm — No Comments

Zoom Words

Zoom Words is a pretty cool way to present vocabulary. It is super simple to use and probably even quicker to use than Wordle or Tagxedo. However, it is browser based and you'll have to have a webpage/blog to embed your creation in (or just use your page here on EFL Classroom. See my example below but let me describe what I did to make it… Continue

Added by EFL Classroom on July 6, 2010 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Mee Genius - more text to speech reading!

I really believe in the power of ebooks with audio, the power of text to speech technology, to help our students learn. Thus, my constant promotion of TTS- through English Central, the Tarheel Reader, Chatterbots and all sorts of other tools like… Continue

Added by EFL Classroom on July 5, 2010 at 10:30am — 1 Comment