Multimedia Wordsearch

This is a genuinely prissy tool that I convey precisely discovered. It's called PhotoSoup together with it generates wordsearch activities based on whatever theme inwards precisely seconds.

It's real unproblematic together with plant on images from flickr. You merely type inwards your theme together with the site automatically generates a give-and-take grid together with icon clues. You hence convey ninety seconds to detect all the words. You tin laissez passer on notice acquire hints together with fifty-fifty acquire it to exhibit y'all the answers.

Watch a brusk video to run into how it's done. (499k swf)

How to run it amongst students

• This is corking for vocabulary revision, peculiarly amongst higher levels. Students could fifty-fifty larn some novel vocabulary from it.
• It would await corking on an interactive whiteboard (IWB) or y'all could laissez passer on students a collection of vocabulary themes together with acquire them to piece of occupation on their own.
• Good to run every bit a filler for students who complete early
  

What I similar nigh it

• It's free
• Each wordsearch it generates is pretty much unique
  
• The timing adds an chemical component of motivation together with contest to it
• It's precisely hence simple
• I tried a random alternative of real unsuitable words that students powerfulness seat inwards together with it seems that those words are censored, hence y'all don't convey to worry hence much nigh badly behaved students looking at unsuitable images
• It's genuinely quite tricky

What I'm non hence certain about

• Because it's based on the tags that images are given the words tin laissez passer on notice sometimes seem a flake tangential
• It's genuinely quite tricky
• You can't relieve your wordsearches (Actually I've precisely discovered that y'all can. If y'all await at the peak of the page y'all tin laissez passer on notice click 'embed puzzle' together with this volition generate a code that volition enable y'all to embed the wordsearch into a webpage or blog)
  

This is the sort of site that powerfulness convey been custom made for linguistic communication teaching.
Hope y'all detect it useful together with your students savor it.

Best

Nik

Animating Vocabulary

I've only been looking at a useful websites called my previous tutorial to uncovering out how to embed images as well as video into webpages on your desktop)

How to operate this alongside students
Collect upward gifs related to whatever vocabulary expanse yous desire to learn or revise. Embed them inwards an html page on your desk pinnacle as well as starting fourth dimension a collection. Each fourth dimension yous add together novel ones mail the html page to your students. (They volition demand to accept a alive connection on their calculator to last able to persuasion the gifs)
Ask them to brand notes of whatever words they relate to the images they see.

What I liked most it

• It's quick as well as tardily as well as at that topographic point are lots of images available
• There are some actually prissy images
• It's smashing that yous tin flame embed the gifs into your materials

What I wasn't as well as thus certain about

• There are also some images which may last unsuitable for your students, as well as thus this is a resources for teachers to practise materials rather than 1 to allow students unloose on
• I'm non certain what the copyright organization is alongside the images they are using
• Be careful most the speed that yous onrush your gifs, faster ones tin flame last unsafe if anyone inwards your degree is epileptic

On the whole Gifup isn't going to revolutionise your teaching, but it is a useful lilliputian tool that yous tin flame operate to heighten thee instruction process. Please exit a comment if yous accept whatever other suggestions for how to operate this.

Hope yous bask it.

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Nik

Your Big Carbon Feet

I’ve merely seen this novel website called the Carbon Account. It’s assort of an ecology 2.0 social network. Once you lot register you lot fill upwards inwards details close your solid in addition to your travels, the meter readings for your bills in addition to the sum of miles you lot go inwards your automobile etc in addition to it volition in addition to then calculate your carbon emissions for you.

You tin hand notice run into what the carbon emissions of other users are besides in addition to operate at reducing your carbon emissions. You also conduct maintain the pick to network alongside other site users to offering back upwards in addition to encouragement, thus the site is a fleck similar a weight watchers for the environmentally sound!

If you lot desire to run into how it industrial plant in addition to then conduct maintain a await at the video on the site at:

• http://www.thecarbonaccount.com/

The site also has or thus good written information on what carbon emissions are and how they are calculated. The site owners tin hand notice also assistance ready exceptional accounts for groups in addition to hand tips on reducing emissions.

This is a actually expert site to base of operations a bird projection on.

• Collecting in addition to inputting the relevant information provides a lot of rich vocabulary operate for linguistic communication learners every bit good every bit having a meaningful outcome, in addition to edifice awareness of the surroundings in addition to our behaviour on on it.
  
• Students could monitor their carbon emissions over the course of written report of a few months in addition to run into who tin hand notice cut back them the most.

The solely matter that does bother me close the site, is that it involves parting alongside quite a lot of detailed personal information, but they create appear to conduct maintain a audio a really reassuring privacy policy. So why non hand it a attempt alongside your students.

Hope it goes well

Best

Nik

Games Amongst A Role As Well As A Social Network

Well who would believe it? Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 social network built around playing give-and-take games amongst online partners! This may non good similar a swell idea, only I direct maintain to tell that I'm impressed! Gwap (Games With a Purpose) is a collection of 5 basic give-and-take games which you lot tin play inwards collaboration amongst an online partner (The website automatically finds you lot one).

The site has a pick of v rather addictive games:

• The ESP game. You as well as your partner both encounter an paradigm as well as you lot direct maintain to type inwards equally many words equally you lot tin that you lot associate amongst the image, until you lot as well as your partner come upwardly up amongst the same give-and-take ( that's the ESP bit). This is swell vocabulary practise as well as pretty addictive too. You play to a fourth dimension boundary ( nearly three mins) as well as acquire a marking at the end.
• Tag a Tune. This is a fantastic idea. You as well as your online partner both hear a melody as well as you lot both direct maintain to type a description of the tune. You as well as thus direct maintain to determine if you lot were both listening to the same melody or a dissimilar tune. Great writing practise as well as over again done against a fourth dimension boundary amongst points awarded.
• Verbosity ( a variation on the classroom 'Hot Seat' game). You as well as your partner accept it inwards turns to encounter as well as depict a word. The partner who can't encounter the give-and-take has to approximate it. When you lot are describing the give-and-take you lot direct maintain specific sentences that you lot consummate equally clues. This non entirely helps to develop vocabulary skills, only also helps develop students abilities to explicate novel words which they don't understand.
• Squigl. This is an paradigm based game. You encounter an paradigm as well as a give-and-take as well as you lot direct maintain to concur downwardly your mouse as well as outline the identify on the paradigm where you lot encounter the object of the word. Great for vocabulary building.
• Matchin. This is the to the lowest degree useful game inwards damage of developing vocabulary, only is withal quite interesting. You as well as your partner encounter ii images as well as you lot both click on the i you lot similar the most. If you lot click on the same one, you lot acquire points.

All of these games are played against a fourth dimension boundary as well as you lot are awarded points, though you lot piece of occupation collaboratively amongst your online partner.

Where's the social part?Well you lot direct maintain the alternative to start chatting amongst them at the halt of each game as well as you lot tin also ready a profile amongst moving painting as well as demographic information, which the site uses to assistance choose a similar playing partner for you lot (though this is optional).

I was genuinely to a greater extent than interested inwards the games than the chatting, though amongst the final game, especially if you lot are choosing similar pictures a lot, it powerfulness hold out interesting to chat as well as discovery out how similar the individual you lot are working amongst is. It's also a proficient flake of linguistic communication practise for your students if they do, though equally always they should hold out careful to protect their privacy as well as identity.

How to utilisation this amongst students

• Just acquire them online as well as acquire them playing the games.
• They could produce it from dwelling menage equally homework as well as you lot could laid them a marking to reach, or encounter who tin acquire the highest score.
• You could utilisation them equally warmers at the commencement of class, especially if you lot direct maintain an IWB or information projector, or equally fillers for early on finishers inwards a multimedia room.

What I liked nearly it

• It's free, though you lot produce direct maintain to register, slow to utilisation as well as fun.
• Students piece of occupation collaboratively rather than competitively
• The games are genuinely nicely designed, visually really attractive as well as direct maintain proficient utilisation of multimedia
• They are 'authentic' rather than beingness made for linguistic communication learners, though they are genuinely good suited to the ELT / EFL classroom.
• The site was ready yesteryear Carnegie Mellon University so you lot tin hold out reasonably certain at that topographic point isn't some large nighttime venture doing unspeakable things amongst your personal data
• The site is genuinely beingness used equally a means of tagging images as well as audio, thus your fourth dimension is beingness seat to proficient utilisation as well as helping the Blue Planet croak a amend identify ( find out more)

What I wasn't thus certain about

• There's non much I don't similar nearly the site. It's shame that you lot 'have to' register to play the games, especially equally you lot are supposed to hold out thirteen or over to register, only this is due to the chat functionality.
• Also, equally amongst whatever site that contains images, at that topographic point is the potential for some of these images to hold out offensive to your students, only at that topographic point is a small-scale push for them to click to flag offensive content, as well as that inwards itself is a proficient shape of training.

Well promise your students taste the site as well as that you lot don't acquire also addicted to programme a lesson.

Best

Nik

Using Discussion Clouds Inwards Efl Esl

I've only discovered Prompting reading speeds

Animating vocabulary

Interactive multiple selection activities

Picture phrases

Activities for students:

• Learn Some Cliches
• Using Word Clouds to Remember Words
• Improve Your Vocabulary too Make Friends

Best

Nik Peachey

Exploiting Icon Sequences

I convey to acknowledge that when I get-go saw Make Your EFL ESL Yearbook

Make you lot ain animated movies

Picture phrases

Personalised flashcards

Animating vocabulary

A Picture's worth

Manga images for EFL ESL

Best

Nik Peachey

A Tool For Comparison Words

I've exactly establish this really useful tool that allows you lot to compare words as well as phrases as well as how they are used online. It industrial plant really exactly past times taking the ii words or phrases that you lot type inwards as well as searching through Google to laissez passer you lot the results for each word. It tells you lot which is the well-nigh pop as well as how many pages each ane appears in.
Creating Word Lists

List Your Favourite Words

Learn Some Cliches

Interactive multiple selection activities

Video Dictionary 2.0

Using Word Clouds inwards EFL ESL

Picture phrases

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Nik Peachey

A River Of Images

I honey the might of images in addition to their adaptability for teaching, in addition to thence I can't enjoin that I'm upset to endure most overwhelmed amongst actually nifty tools for exploiting Flickr at the moment. The latest of these is Create Image Books

Create a Flickr Montage

Great Time Line Tool

Create a YouTube Carousel

Interactive presentations

A Picture's worth

Picture phrases

Make Your EFL ESL Yearbook

Personalised flashcards

Animating vocabulary

Exploiting Image Sequences

Best

Nik Peachey

Online Video: For Linguistic Communication Development

There are forthwith a release of online video sharing communities that are specifically designed to back upwards the evolution of linguistic communication in addition to communication skills. These websites don't only supply us alongside video content, but also the tools to assist us brand authentic video accessible to learners.

Dotsub
Authentic video tin hold upwards real challenging for linguistic communication learners thus at times it is useful to bring translation inward subtitles or a transcription of the text. Subtitling your video clips

LangoLab
Language Learning through Communal Video

Yappr
Transcribed Videos for EFL ESL

Yolango
Ready Made Authentic Video materials For ESL EFL

Wordia
Video Dictionary 2.0

Well I promise this gives you lot around insight into around of the sites that are helping to create the operate for us. If you lot know of whatever more, yesteryear all agency create travel out a comment.

Related links:

• Find out close costless video editing software
• YouTube for IWBs alongside PicLens
• Free Educational TV Channels
• Open origin video animation
• News Videos for EFL ESL Materials Design
• Things You Can Do With Your WebCam 1
• Exploiting a Video Viral
• Lesson computer program Top 10 Cartoons for Children’s Rights
• Create a YouTube Carousel
• Videos for Global Issues Lessons
• Update on the Education Clip Library

Best

Nik Peachey