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flOw

flOw is an “art game” which is unlike almost every game your students have seen. By having students figure out what it is and how to play, they will find lots of reasons to use English or any target language. Continue reading

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Games and Simulations

Links to resources for using games and simulations for language learning. Continue reading

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21st Century Newspapers

Paper.li is an RSS aggregator that looks like a newspaper. This can make it very accessible and easy to setup and interact with. Continue reading

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Edupunk Eye-Tracking = DIY Research

Build an eye-tracking rig for $125 and see what your students are looking at when they’re reading. And in what order. And for how long. Continue reading

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Interacting With Video

Online discussion boards / sticky notes can now be annotated directly onto YouTube videos, providing an opportunity to integrate the discussion of the video directly into the video. Continue reading

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Interactive Videos

YouTube has features that make videos interactive. These examples push interactivity to the limits. Students will enjoy watching them and may learn from making their own. Continue reading

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Poll Everywhere

Poll Everywhere creates polls accept texts, tweets, and web responses. Live results can be viewed online, in a constantly updated image, and directly into a PowerPoint slide. Continue reading

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Web Browsing in 3D

Everything else is available in 3D (movies, televisions, the real world), so why not 3D browsing? Continue reading

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Show Me The Money

Links to royalty- and copyright-free images produced by the U.S. Government. Continue reading

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Google Labs

Google Labs is the part of Google where engineers share their pet projects that may someday be woven into the fabric of Google. Even if they never make it out of the Lab, many of these experiments are interesting and can offer students some interesting language practice. Continue reading

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