Useful+websites

=**These are websites that are useful for all teachers:**=

HOW TO USE YOUR COMPUTER
===This award winning website literally shows you how to do everything you ever wanted to do with your computer, whether it is to create a wiki, make a blog, find out about twitter, find the best podcasts and website, etc:[| www.teachertrainingvideos.com]===

TEACHING AND LEARNING RESOURCES
=LISTENING=

Look for video materials for your subject or topic at http://www.teachertube.com
===Breaking News English: Select from current and past news items and download numerous ready-made worksheets to use with learners, using the themes index to find items that will interest your learners: http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/===

===SONG LYRICS: This website provides gap-fill texts of song lyrics at different levels of difficulty. The song continues when learners type in the correct word. Use the search buttons to find the song you want: http://lyricstraining.com/===

===ENGLISHCENTRAL: This website has 10,000 video clips for learning English. Choose a topic and a level, watch the video with subtitles, learn the key words, watch again and fill in the gaps in the text, speak the lines and get feedback on your pronunciation. It is free to start, then you pay: http://www.englishcentral.com/videos#/anonymous-player===

===ESLVIDEO: This website has ready-made quizzes/comprehension questions on video extracts. You and your learners can also create your own comprehension questions to go with video clips including ones you and your learners make after uploading them to youtube: http://www.eslvideo.com/===

===TED Ideas worth spreading is a website with over 1,000 talks each lasting 15 minutes on all subjects, plus translations of the talks and English subtitles - great for listening practice: [] Here are some interesting examples:===

Learn English by watching TV series, documentaries and films, all with English subtitles: http://ororo.tv/en
===This free website adapts to the individual learner to provide perfect reading passages and questions at their level! Watch the introductory video to see how it works and what it enables teachers and learners to do: http://www.readtheory.org/===

= = =VOCABULARY= ===This website provides numerous Graphic Organizers to help learners brainstorm, group, categorise and remember key vocabulary items, as well as structure writing projects and plan their studies: http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/===

===WORDCLOUDS: Find ready-made wordclouds or create your own for a topic you want learners to explore. You can choose the shape, colour and font. Learners can also create them for their own presentations. Go to http://www.wordclouds.com/ or http://www.wordle.net/===

This website allows you to download a free programme for making crossword puzzles on your computer:[| www.eclipsecrossword.com]
===Puzzlemaker allows you to make crossword puzzles, word search boxes, jumbled letters, and other puzzles, including 12 maths quizzes: [|http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com]===

Here you can create free crossword puzzles which your learners can solve online:https://crosswordlabs.com/
===EDUCAPLAY is a multimedia platform to create multimedia teaching activties. It does not need any software and can be used on any device. You can create your own activities for learning with attractive professional results. It can be integrated with other learning platforms: http://en.educaplay.com/===

This website offers ready-made bingo cards and allows you to create bingo cards for your own topic: []
===Study Flashcards for all subjects, as well as interactive matching activities, crosswords, hangman and other study/revision games. Sign in and create your own games for your learners: []===

Make and share flashcards with definitions for science and other subjects: []
===More than 14 million vocabulary learning activities for all topics and school subject areas created by teachers, so it is probable someone has created exercises for your school textbook: http://quizlet.com/===

===Jeopardy: JeopardyLabs allows you to create a customised jeopardy template to play the game online from anywhere in the world. It is easy to build and fun to play with learners - you provide the answer and they have to think of the question: https://jeopardylabs.com/===

Use, create and adapt a range of interactive learning materials. Watch the introduction and look at the examples: http://learningapps.org/
===Socrative allows you to devise educational exercises, games and tests for your learners so they can use them on their smartphones, laptops and tablets, and the results are sent to you: http://www.socrative.com. Watch the Introductory video.===

To make the game "Who wants to be a millionaire", as well as other games, you can download the materials at: http://www.superteachertools.com/
=READING=

Breaking News English provides you with up-to-date news texts for both reading and listening at different levels with ready-made exercises: http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/
===This website turns texts into gap-fill texts automatically - you specify which type of words you want to delete - or you can make cloze texts with gaps every 5th or 7th word etc: http://l.georges.online.fr/tools/cloze.html===

This is a great website resource for teachers and learners. It contains fascinating stories on all topics for learners to explore by listening and reading:http://www.awesomestories.com/
=SPEAKING=

Learners can record spoken homework tasks and send them to you by email: http://mailvu.com/
===VOKI This website allows you to create and customise your own speaking character to express yourself and communicate and interact with others: [] For example: [] Here is a tutorial on how to create a voki: [] Here is an introduction to creating and using a voki classroom: []===

===VOXOPOP is a voice-based e-learning tool used by educators all over the word. Create talkgroups that are a fun and easy-to-use way to help learners develop their speaking skills and have conversations. They are a like message boards but they use their voice rather than text. Teachers and students can intereact from even or even from other sides of the planet: http://www.voxopop.com/===

===VOCAROO is an online voice recorder allows you to record your spoken messages, save and download them, as well send them to someone or embed them in other media: http://vocaroo.com/. For a simple and clear demonstration of how to use it watch the youtube demonstration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBUsOrAXcLw===

=WRITING= ===Correcting written work: JING allows you to give 4-5 minutes of audio-visual feedback (free) on your learners' written work. Research has shown that learners prefer this kind of feedback to just written feedback are are prepared to watch and listen for up to about 10 minutes. Excellent for giving feedback on exam-type writing tasks. You upload your feedback then send the link to your learner in an email. The learner opens the link and listens to and sees you doing the feedback. There is also a Russell Stannard video on how to go about it (see the top of this page for the link to his website). You can upgrade (i.e. pay) for more storage space and time for the feedback if you need it: http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html===

BBC TEACHING AND LEARNING RESOURCES
===This is the BBC schools website which has materials for all school subjects: [|www.bbc.co.uk/schools]===

===The BBC website also has a revision page containing activities and materials for school subjects called Bitesize: [|www.bbc.co.uk/schools/bitesize]===

MORE RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS AND LEARNERS
===The TES website of teacher resources is the largest network of teachers in the world where you can download lesson plans and resources for all levels and types of learners: http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resources/===

Website of lesson plans and resources for teachers of English, Maths, Science and Arts subjects: []
===The Guardian Teacher Network has over 70,000 pages of free teaching resources for all age groups and all major subjects, including interactive whiteboard activities, lesson plans, and worksheets: []===

This is a must website for all language teachers - worth joining to access the 1000's of materials: http://www.onestopenglish.com/
===Khan Academy: a free library of over 3,200 videos of 12 minute lectures on everything from maths and physics to history and economics, to help you learn whatever you want to learn, plus there are lesson worksheets and learners can do tests online and you can see their results: http://www.khanacademy.org===

===Pearltrees is a visual tool that allows you to cultivate your interests by collecting, organising and sharing with others all the URLs, texts and pictures you find connected to a topic: http://www.pearltrees.com===

===Use Learnist to share what you know and learn new things. Create Learn Boards on topics you understand and add learnings by pointing to videos, blogs, images and documents on the web: http://learni.st/===

HOW TO DO ANYTHING
===To find out how to do //anything//, get instructions on it and maybe watch a video on how to do it, go to these two websites and type in what you want to know: first there is wikihow at [] and also there is ehow at: []===

Online language dictionaries: []This can also be downloaded as an App on your smartphone.
===Immediate definitions of words in a text in any language: load a website text address into the lingro website and it will recognise and define words in the text in any language you want just by moving the cursor onto the word - great for reading stories online: http://lingro.com/===

This website translates words in context using real-life sentences:http://reverso.com
===This website gives access to The British National Corpus and allows you to investigate how words are used:=== ===[|http://sara.natcorp.ox.ac.uk]===

===This website is useful if you want to see which of two words or phrases is more frequently used: [|www.googlefight.com]===

Website that reads text with different accents: http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php
=== This website allows you to create and customise your own speaking character to express yourself and communicate and interact with others: [] For example: [] Here is a tutorial on how to create a voki: [] Here is an introduction to creating and using a voki classroom: []===

ELTPICs is a collection of thousands of copyright free photographs created by language teachers: http://www.eltpics.com/indexeltpics.html
===Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.This includes pictures, sound and videos: http://creativecommons.org/about===

This is Discovery School Clip Art: http://school.discoveryeducation.com/clipart/
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Use this website to make your own powerpoint slides more interesting, memorable and inteactive: http://prezi.com/
===Here is an example of how a Swiss teacher used it to do a presentation on remarkable similarities between the assassination of President Lincoln and President Kennedy: []===

Here you can find ready-made presentations on all subjects with clear explanations, or you can use their tools to make your own: []
===This website allows free facilities for learners to make booklets/presentation slides about themselves and topics, and for teachers to create lesson presentation slides: []===

VOICETHREAD
===Use voicethread to record comments on pictures, tell a story, explain a process, give a tutorial, have a group discussion. You and your learners can also choose to record yourself with the video camera while speaking: []===

WOLFRAM ALPHA
===WOLFRAM ALPHA is an engine for computing answers and providing knowledge. It works by using its vast store of expert-level knowledge and algorithms to answer questions automatically, do analysis, and generate reports. The long term aim is to make all systematic knowledge computable and broadly accessible: [|http://www.wolframalpha.com]. It can be used to ask questions and produce reports on every subject.===

Watch the demonstrations: http://www.demonstrations.wolfram.com/
===Times Educational Supplement. Check out the teacher forums too – free sign-up: [|www.tes.co.uk/resourcehub.aspx?navcode=70]===