Life made easy

Internet ideas for the classroom

Brought to you by:

Csíky Anna & Tibor PrievaraKarinthy Frigyes Dual Language School

What do teachers of English believe about using computers

and the Internet?

Frightening Challenging Difficult Problems Needs technical

expertise

On the plus side

Great… maybe later Useful Exciting

YET: not knowing too much about it 250 people, 10 applications: 2500 answers 100 correct answers 2400 incorrect answers

Paying attention to your students

how do your students learn?

what do they like doing in their free time?

is it possible to link the two?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEFKfXiCbLw

TXT MSGS – text message converter

try to decode the text messages

type them in proper English

great way to check spelling

pronunciation practice

http://chotard.frederic.free.fr/animations/fun/txt_msgs/txt_msgs1.htm

Vozme – text-to-speech converter

enter any text in English and listen to it

male and female voice

you can save it as an mp3

http://vozme.com/index.php?lang=en

Oddcast – a more lifelike TTS

choose an avatar

watch the person’s face as they say what you typed

listen to a variety of accents

http://vhost.oddcast.com/vhost_minisite/demos/tts/tts_example.html

A.L.I.C.E. the intelligent chatbot

a safe chat partner who talks as long as you want

it takes a long time to find out you’re talking to a robot

authentic everyday spoken English

http://www.pandorabots.com/pandora/talk?botid=f5d922d97e345aa1

Slow down week

use it as a discussion starter about pace of life

ask students to reflect on their own daily routine

don’t forget about the educational benefits on students’ life

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/prof.danglais/animations/issues/slowdown/slowdownweek.htm

ToonDoo – Online comic creator

a great way to practice, recycle or even test words, grammar, or practically anything

motivating, engaging, and fun

a new way of expression for those who do not have the talent to draw

www.toondoo.com

Online calorie calculator

a fun way of expanding or revising food vocabulary

generates lively discussions

raises students’ awareness about how healthy their diet is

http://www.labpixies.com/gadget_page.php?id=31

Get out of the room

simulates the computer games students love so much

stimulates a lot of language use

students can be asked to write up their solution, i.e. how they got out

http://www.gotmail.jp/jobpico/

Newsmap

gives you the news that make the headlines

shows how important or popular a certain item is

allows you to search for certain types of news, e.g. entertainment

http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm

On cover page

create a magazine cover with your own photo

also includes a customized news caption

wide selection of different magazines

http://oncoverpage.com/

Newspaper clipping generator

looks exactly like a real news article

allows you to choose the date

makes your students proud of what they have written

http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp

Protagonize – Collaborative story writing

writers encouraged to start a story and see how others develop it

a chance to add new „branches” to existing stories

a page you can always come back to

http://www.protagonize.com/stories/post.aspx

SortFix – a friendly search engine

helps you and students find what you / they really need

finds power words in results and lets you choose what’s relevant and what’s not

more efficient, takes less time, produces better resultshttp://www.sortfix.com/index.aspx

Pagebull – the visual search engine

shows you actual screenshots of search results

helps you avoid harmful content

no sponsored results

http://www.pagebull.com

Mahalo – human-powered search

gives you organized and spam-free search results

saves you time: enjoy instead of search

takes you to linksother search engines won’t find

http://www.mahalo.com/Main_Page

Delicious –social bookmarking

a collection of favourites: yours and everyone else’s

remembers what you’ve found once

shows you what you might never have found

http://del.icio.us

iGoogle – my Google

your personalized webpage – for free

the news, gadgets, links you always need

your own design

http://www.google.hu/ig?hl=hu&source=iglk

Quizlet – the end of flashcards

the second best way to learn words after a brain injection

interactive teaching and testing, great for self-study

keeps track of your answers and goes back to problems

www.quizlet.com

NING – your own social network

keep in touch with your students outside class

upload homework, songs, grades, events etc.

be amazed by how actively they use forums and discussions

http://tizdee.ning.com

Bubbleply – Speech bubbles

add speech bubbles to any video

or insert images and add subtitles

then post it anywhere you wish – e.g. ning

http://www.bubbleply.com/Default.aspx

NetAngol – hundreds of lesson (plan)s

4000 pages of EFL material

interactive, ready-to-use materials from A1 to C2 classes

multimedia, spoken English video archives, fun and games

Nettanár: free database of ideas

www.netangol.hu

E-twinning – A day in the life of…

Argentina, Brazil, Kuwait, Romania, USA, Hungary

Shared websites

Engaging topics, real interaction

A day in the life of Budapest – a project

http://www.netangol.hu/Budapest_part1-final/engage.swf

Net Smartz Kids – Internet safety

games and activities to teach students about Internet safety

engaging and fun, but also educational

helps your students be safe outside class

http://origin.www.netsmartzkids.org/games/

Teachers’ TV

thousands of education videos on TV and online

the digital channel for everyone whoworks in schools

daily education news summary

regular specialist hour

www.teachers.tv

The End

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