If you are a teacher, trainer, an ELT decision maker or studying for an MA or PhD we can help to keep you informed about the latest ELT and educational technology news and research with a new collection of links every week.
Extranormal is a real time movie making site featuring drag and drop animations, automatic lip synching and international voices. It allows you and your students to make movies in minutes by simply typing in your scripts.
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"Practical English Grammar by Correspondence" -- a 1973 tome published by the Soviet Union -- sits atop a pile of books on the librarian's desk in Macedonia's Grigor Prlichev elementary school. Down the corridor in a room protected by a locked door and metal gate are rows of unopened boxes of computers.
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When Anthropology Lecturer Cathy Stanton proposed that students could “tweet” their first paper assignment, she wasn’t talking about ornithology. Twitter.com, blogs and wikis are all forms of new media that no longer pertain solely to the realm of social networking.
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A Sci-fI future is upon us - a new generation has been born and bred in a world of accelerated technological innovation. As the age at which children start to become familiar with computers gets ever lower, there grows a technological divide between parents and their digital-native children.
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Can ICT truly preserve and protect distinct identities and culture? Does ICT by its very intervention introduce an element of westernization amidst the indigenous culture that it purports to preserve and protect?
Read more http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/11/17/impact-of-ict-on-indigenous-cultures-rejuvenation-or-colonization/
There is, perhaps, no better way to learn a language than through immersion. While many curricula include supplemental materials allowing students to hear languages spoken by a variety of voices, the ability to access free, current materials is a real boon to language instruction.
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How effective are Flip cameras and other mini-camcorders as learning tools? Where are video-in-the-classroom assignments taking education? I asked three intrepid instructors, who have been experimenting with mini-camcorders in their curricula, how they are using the technology and what their students are learning.
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Despite the effectiveness of e-learning, online learners remain notorious for losing focus, getting bored, checking email, chatting, texting, sorting through piles of neglected mail, or tuning out altogether. It's not their fault.
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Google is special among search engines in that it has become a starting point for enquiries and data searches of all forms. As most of this data is linguistic, it deserves special attention from language teachers, but until now, search has been largely ignored by most course writers.
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From November 5-8, 2009, ARCALL and AVEALMEC will be running the Social Networking 2009 Conference. This open-knowledge event will be completely online and free and it is aimed at encouraging ELT practitioners to grow in the use of social networks as learning development tools.
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