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My New Favourite YouTube Tool
This is something that I spotted on Twitter a couple of days ago and have been playing with ever since. It's not actually a piece of software an app or even a site, it's a simple piece of code that you can use to change the URL of a YouTube video tha...
Using Movie Soundtracks in the EFL ESL Classroom
Using films and movies in class is a great way to encourage students to learn more language, so if you use them a lot then this site will be handy for you.It's called MoMupl and it searches a database of movie sound tracks to help you find all the so...
Crazy Comparatives & Superlatives
I have to say that I used to dread teaching comparatives and superlatives and always found it really hard to think of something original to get my students interested, so when I saw this site I was really delighted. It's not only quite funny, but has...
Animated Music Videos for EFL
I came across these videos today while I was trawling through YouTube and was instantly struck by what great materials they would be for EFL ESL students.I found two sets the first produced by musicANDmuffins and the second SereneRhapsody. There are ...
Multimedia Travel Activities
What'sOnWhen is really useful travel site that allows students to find out about cultural events and places all around the world. You can either search by city or country, enter keywords and search or browse destination or the collection of videos re...
Create an ESL EFL Video Quiz
ESL Video is a great free site that enables you to create your own quizzes based on video clips from popular sharing sites like YouTube or BlipTV.You have to register and log in and then you just grab embed codes for the video you want to build you q...
Writing Around a Video Clip
My Movie Moment is a tool designed for Father's day, though I'm not sure I would want one of these clips for a Father's Day gift! It enable you to put yourself into one of six famous film clips, simply by uploading an image of yourself. Here's one of...
Multiple Media Search
I have to say that I think Spezify has just become my favourite new search engine. I think this is a really great search engine to use in class with students or to get them to use. It's really simple. It displays all results as images and it searches...
Using Advertisements for EFL ESL
I've always found advertisements to be really effective and stimulating input for language classes. They are usually just the right length, easy to understand visually as well as linguistically and are often very imaginative and creative.So I was del...
A Complete EFL Teacher Training Course Online
Shaping the Way We Teach English is a fantastic resource that I came across recently. It's free and accessible through The Online Language Center of the University of Oregon and it is a pretty complete teacher training course that has videos , viewin...
Video for Dealing with Sensitive Issues
I've just been checking out TrueTube, which is an impressive UK based site aimed at teens + and which deals with a wide range of sensitive social issues.The site allows users to upload and edit their own videos which tell their own stories.The site d...
Interview with David Crystal
Whilst in Cardiff at the IATEFL 2009 Conference I was lucky enough to meet once again and interview one of the UK's most esteemed linguists and genuinely very interesting man David Crystal.One of the things that for me makes David's work so interesti...
The Role of Computer Games in Formal and Informal Education
I've just been listening to this interview on Edutopia with James Paul Gee talking about reform in US state schools. He also has a lot of really good points to make about the role of computer and video games in education and the role that they alrea...
Great Collection of Short Films
I was first attracted to The Hyde Tube because of it's fantastically simple interface, but once I started looking at the content I was really knocked out by its huge collection or really great short movies.They have been divided into 3 simple categor...
3 Views on The Future of English Language Teaching
Just been looking through the various guest writers that have appeared on the British Council | BBC TeachingEnglish website and comparing some of the very different views on the future of English language teaching.There's an interesting cross section...
Understanding Irony
Understanding humour and irony in a foreign language can be incredibly challenging, but is also very important. I think this is especially true of British humour which can be very dry. That's why I think one of the new features on BigThink is so usef...
Great Source of Animated Movies
I've just been enjoying some great animated movies on the Aniboom.com site. The site is like a YouTube for aspiring animators. they can upload their videos and interact on the Aniboom communities. The site pushes the quality videos to the front page...
Image and Video Search
Tag Bulb is a great tool to make images and videos accessible within the classroom. It's also incredibly simple to use. Just type in your keyword and click. It searches through a range of video and image sharing sites and displays the results as thum...
Subtitle Movie Fun
We often forget just how much communicative meaning comes from visual clues rather than linguistic information. This site is a great one for reminding students of just how much of the communicative message they can pick up just by using their eyes. I...
Resources for Continuing Professional Development
It's great to see that Teachers TV has released a series of video and support materials for for CPD leaders | Teacher Trainers. There's a good collection of quite varied material for the development of both primary and secondary teachers.Some of the ...
Monty Python on YouTube
This is great news. Monty Python team at last have their own Monty Python channel on YouTube. For as long as video has been used in the ELT classroom, I'm sure that Monty Python videos have been part of that and they can now be found at legitimate an...
Create a YouTube Carousel
YouEmbedTube is another great little tool from the makers of Flickrin and it does a similar thing, but it uses videos from YouTube instead of images from Flickr.I created the one above using the tag words 'teaching English' and if you click on any of...
Video Clips for Teaching English
I've just been looking over a really useful site called TeflClips which has a collection of lesson plans for using YouTube video clips to teach English. The creator of the site, Jamie Keddie, includes step by step procedure instructions as well as do...
Bubble Joy for Thanks Giving
This is a real treat for anyone who wants to send a Thanks Giving message to any Friends from the US. It's from Bubble Joy and they have a selection of humorous frames that you can add your own short video message to.All you need is a WebCam and a mi...
Great WebCam Software
One of the things that I love about my MAC is Photo Booth and its ability to add different backgrounds and effects when you are using a WebCam. It's a great tool to use with students to create motivating and personalised materials for a whole range o...
Language Learning through Communal Video
LangoLAB is a great new slant on language learning through social networks. It combines the power of YouTube type video sharing with social networking and adds a few great tools that enable users to create their own vocabulary flashcards, comprehen...
