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Life made easy
Internet ideas for the classroom
Brought to you by:
Csíky Anna & Tibor PrievaraKarinthy Frigyes Dual Language School
What do teachers of English believe about using computers
and the Internet?
Frightening Challenging Difficult Problems Needs technical
expertise
On the plus side
Great… maybe later Useful Exciting
YET: not knowing too much about it 250 people, 10 applications: 2500 answers 100 correct answers 2400 incorrect answers
Paying attention to your students
how do your students learn?
what do they like doing in their free time?
is it possible to link the two?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEFKfXiCbLw
TXT MSGS – text message converter
try to decode the text messages
type them in proper English
great way to check spelling
pronunciation practice
http://chotard.frederic.free.fr/animations/fun/txt_msgs/txt_msgs1.htm
Vozme – text-to-speech converter
enter any text in English and listen to it
male and female voice
you can save it as an mp3
http://vozme.com/index.php?lang=en
Oddcast – a more lifelike TTS
choose an avatar
watch the person’s face as they say what you typed
listen to a variety of accents
http://vhost.oddcast.com/vhost_minisite/demos/tts/tts_example.html
A.L.I.C.E. the intelligent chatbot
a safe chat partner who talks as long as you want
it takes a long time to find out you’re talking to a robot
authentic everyday spoken English
http://www.pandorabots.com/pandora/talk?botid=f5d922d97e345aa1
Slow down week
use it as a discussion starter about pace of life
ask students to reflect on their own daily routine
don’t forget about the educational benefits on students’ life
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/prof.danglais/animations/issues/slowdown/slowdownweek.htm
ToonDoo – Online comic creator
a great way to practice, recycle or even test words, grammar, or practically anything
motivating, engaging, and fun
a new way of expression for those who do not have the talent to draw
www.toondoo.com
Online calorie calculator
a fun way of expanding or revising food vocabulary
generates lively discussions
raises students’ awareness about how healthy their diet is
http://www.labpixies.com/gadget_page.php?id=31
Get out of the room
simulates the computer games students love so much
stimulates a lot of language use
students can be asked to write up their solution, i.e. how they got out
http://www.gotmail.jp/jobpico/
Newsmap
gives you the news that make the headlines
shows how important or popular a certain item is
allows you to search for certain types of news, e.g. entertainment
http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm
On cover page
create a magazine cover with your own photo
also includes a customized news caption
wide selection of different magazines
http://oncoverpage.com/
Newspaper clipping generator
looks exactly like a real news article
allows you to choose the date
makes your students proud of what they have written
http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp
Protagonize – Collaborative story writing
writers encouraged to start a story and see how others develop it
a chance to add new „branches” to existing stories
a page you can always come back to
http://www.protagonize.com/stories/post.aspx
SortFix – a friendly search engine
helps you and students find what you / they really need
finds power words in results and lets you choose what’s relevant and what’s not
more efficient, takes less time, produces better resultshttp://www.sortfix.com/index.aspx
Pagebull – the visual search engine
shows you actual screenshots of search results
helps you avoid harmful content
no sponsored results
http://www.pagebull.com
Mahalo – human-powered search
gives you organized and spam-free search results
saves you time: enjoy instead of search
takes you to linksother search engines won’t find
http://www.mahalo.com/Main_Page
Delicious –social bookmarking
a collection of favourites: yours and everyone else’s
remembers what you’ve found once
shows you what you might never have found
http://del.icio.us
iGoogle – my Google
your personalized webpage – for free
the news, gadgets, links you always need
your own design
http://www.google.hu/ig?hl=hu&source=iglk
Quizlet – the end of flashcards
the second best way to learn words after a brain injection
interactive teaching and testing, great for self-study
keeps track of your answers and goes back to problems
www.quizlet.com
NING – your own social network
keep in touch with your students outside class
upload homework, songs, grades, events etc.
be amazed by how actively they use forums and discussions
http://tizdee.ning.com
Bubbleply – Speech bubbles
add speech bubbles to any video
or insert images and add subtitles
then post it anywhere you wish – e.g. ning
http://www.bubbleply.com/Default.aspx
NetAngol – hundreds of lesson (plan)s
4000 pages of EFL material
interactive, ready-to-use materials from A1 to C2 classes
multimedia, spoken English video archives, fun and games
Nettanár: free database of ideas
www.netangol.hu
E-twinning – A day in the life of…
Argentina, Brazil, Kuwait, Romania, USA, Hungary
Shared websites
Engaging topics, real interaction
A day in the life of Budapest – a project
http://www.netangol.hu/Budapest_part1-final/engage.swf
Net Smartz Kids – Internet safety
games and activities to teach students about Internet safety
engaging and fun, but also educational
helps your students be safe outside class
http://origin.www.netsmartzkids.org/games/
Teachers’ TV
thousands of education videos on TV and online
the digital channel for everyone whoworks in schools
daily education news summary
regular specialist hour
www.teachers.tv
The End
Frightening? Needs technical expertise?
Useful? Exciting?
Later?
Thank you for your attention!
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