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Site features• Hundreds of links• Blogs and comments• Graded Reader tracking and review area• Online Graded Text Editor• Information for researchers• ER and EL Videos• Apps…….
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Site features
• So what’s new?????– Revised interface– Massive number of bugs fixed– On-the-fly Japanese and Korean interface– HUGELY updated database– Added several hundred texts (500-600 still to put up)– Move to Amazon Cloud (faster expandable service)– Revised Online Graded Text Editor (OGTE)– Lots of back-end stuff – registration, text upload system– Apps…..
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EFLTechnologies.com
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New App suite coming soon (Fall)
• iOS and Android• GSL, AWL, NGSL, NAWL in one app• Learner Management System• Bulk registration for teachers• Monitor, download data for all registered
students• Additional lists later -TOEIC, Business, Eiken etc.• Yes, it’ll all be free… (maybe a paid ‘pro’ version)
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READ Magazine (soon)
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ER videos, texts, tools and more…
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What is the Online Graded Text Editor?
A FREE editing tool for teachers and authorsIt allows users to analyze the vocabulary in a text by pre-set levelsAllows you to write something to a specific levelYou can add your own wordlists (if you ask nicely)
www.er-central.com/ogte
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Black – in levelRed out of listRed underline – out of levelGreen – ignored words
www.er-central.com/ogte
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Exported data: • Excel format• can be manipulated as
you wish
www.er-central.com/ogte
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Student resources
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ER-Central.com Quick and dirty
Reading Level Assessment
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Reading RoomText Share
• Searchable library of hundreds (soon thousands) of texts – mostly crowd sourced under Creative Commons pro bono
• Comprehension questions• Wide range of genres – fiction; non-fiction• Can bookmark items • Timed speed reading area• Right-click words to learn them
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Library contains thousands of texts
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Bookmarks
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Clicking shows more information
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Adaptive text and learner levels
Texts are assigned an initial level on publicationUsers rate the texts on three scales which adjusts the level for their L1 peersTheir ratings of texts adjusts their own reading level
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Speed Reading Panel
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Listening Room
• Over 1200 texts• Mostly dialogs• Read while listening, or listen only• Quizzes• Each text rated• Track the time listened
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Listening Library
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Listening Text
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ER-Central Vocabulary110,000 meanings, 86,000 types, 100,000 proper nouns88,000 English definitions now, more soonTranslations in Japanese (Arabic, Chinese, Korean.)Tracks individual meaning senses
bank – river ; bank – row ; bank – moneyRight-click any word in a text to learn itWordlist management (add and delete words)Flashcards with spaced repetition practice
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Once added, word can then be learned via games & flashcards
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All flashcards & games teach words in list via spaced repetition…
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All flashcards & games teach words in list via spaced repetition…
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All flashcards & games teach words in list via spaced repetition…
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All flashcards & games teach words in list via spaced repetition…
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All flashcards & games teach words in list via spaced repetition…
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All flashcards & games teach words in list via spaced repetition…
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All flashcards & games teach words in list via spaced repetition…
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All vocabulary
learning tracked in a
simple LMS…
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Wordlist management
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All flashcards & games teach words in list via spaced repetition…
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Bulk Student Registration
• Users can register individually and send their data to the teacher on request (from their Progress window)
• Teachers create an Institution account and bulk upload (excel spreadsheet) students
• You can enter their username and password. Option for real names and student numbers (privacy concerns).
• Users enter their own data once they first login.• Available very soon (end Sept.)
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ER-Central needs texts
ER-Central is for the ER communityAnyone can add materialsUpload using ER-Central’s Text Creation Editor• make an account• easy and quick text enter• add images if you wish• add comprehension questions (optional)• you decide the level
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Price …
Totally FreeNo advertisingNo grantsNo sponsorship
All we ask is your help … …… give us texts…… spread the word…... get your students using it
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Look for these extensive reading tools and many others at our free er-central.com site
TELL EVERYONE!!!
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