Tag Archives: web

Online Bulletin Boards

Several online bulletin board websites offer ways to for users to communicate by leaving sticky notes. 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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Plagiarism To Go

A teacher noticed some interesting phrases that did not sound like they would have come from the student who turned in the paper. So, used Google to find the web page that contained much of the writing assignment that the student had turned in. What’s so strange about this particular case? The student copied the text in record time. Continue reading

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Walking Through Caves

Games present an interesting environment in which students can learn and practice a language. The Cave requires the user to find the way out of a collapsed mine. An accompanying walkthrough provides additional reading and help solving the game. Continue reading

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Blank or Blank: a Concordancer Game

A 10-minute demo of a concordancer game I’ve been developing. Continue reading

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Top 5 Technologies I Should Be Using

Google Wave, Zorap, Ning, Screenr, Prezi, and Sikuli. For me, this is what’s next. Continue reading

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Vorbeo: Easy Web Polls

Vorbeo makes polls for blogs, moodle, and websites with terrific live preview function. Continue reading

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Twurdy: Readability-Based Search

Find easy-to-read web pages for low-level readers. Continue reading

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Crowdsourcing Meta-Resources

Can lists of audio resources for ESL be crowdsourced and mashed up? I’m ready to find out. Continue reading

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