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Picture Puzzle Maker

This picture puzzle maker is really simple! Just go to the webpage, upload a photo and then choose how small you want the pieces to be. (I recommend choosing the largest size, that is difficult enough).

I think this might be useful for "jigsaw" type activities with text. Get the text as a picture (take a pic with your camera). I've posted up an example below. It might also be fun to do this with pictures of students. A hat tip to… Continue

Added by EFL Classroom on March 15, 2010 at 6:30am — 1 Comment

What 2 Learn -- A Great Game / Quiz Generator!

What 2 Learn is a sterling, easy to use game generator. Students need this kind of feedback and can have fun playing these games to review lesson content/vocabulary either as a whole class or individually (the school no longer has 4 walls!).

We already have our very popular Fling the Teacher game generator (scroll down) that many teachers use. Though… Continue

Added by EFL Classroom on February 7, 2010 at 6:00am — 1 Comment

Spaced Ed - a new ecourse / quiz design

SpacedEd is a really fabulous way to design a course and text/quiz students knowledge. I've tried it out and even made my own course! It's free and called, "Idioms 4 Idiots". Enroll and find out what Spaced Ed is all about (or get your students to enroll) plus read my comments below.…

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Added by EFL Classroom on February 3, 2010 at 7:00am — 3 Comments

The Speech Accent Archive

The Speech Accent Archive is for all those linguistic enthusiasts out there. A well organized site full of audio of how speakers from all over the world speak English. Ever wonder how an Uzbeki would sound like? No problem, click on the map and compare with many other regional speakers.

I like how this site is so easy to use. It would also be… Continue

Added by EFL Classroom on February 2, 2010 at 2:04am — No Comments

Site of the Day - BlinkX

I'll be reviewing a lot of our old Website of the day reviews (we are almost up to 400!) and continuing here in blog form. Easier to find and catalogue!

Blinkx is a video search engine. An excellent one at that and they advertise that there are 18 million videos available! But more than a search engine, it is a way of presenting those… Continue

Added by EFL Classroom on January 28, 2010 at 8:20am — No Comments