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ICT in ELT *Daphne*: Wordle- Learning with a Beautiful Word Cloud
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ICT in ELT *Daphne*. Friday, 9 March 2012. Wordle- Learning with a Beautiful Word Cloud. Http:/ www.wordle.net/. What is it about? Wordle is originally created for amusement. People can use Wordle to create graphics from the text they upload. The words that are used more frequently are in bigger size. Common words like "the," "of," or "and" are excluded. People can change the font, color, style, and layout. Why is it good to language learning? How can it be used? We can create a word cloud and ask studen...
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ICT in ELT *Daphne*: February 2012
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ICT in ELT *Daphne*. Friday, 10 February 2012. Bubblr and Bookr – Tell Stories with Photos. What is it about? Using key words to search for the needed Flickr images, users can create their own photo strips with words in bubbles on Bubblr, and photo books with stories on Bookr. Why is it good to language learning? Language learners can be motivated to read the English photo strips or photo books. How can it be used? By using Bubblr or Bookr to create comic strips or story books, learners can practice thei...
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ICT in ELT *Daphne*: Breaking News English- News English with Interactive Exercise
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ICT in ELT *Daphne*. Thursday, 8 March 2012. Breaking News English- News English with Interactive Exercise. Http:/ www.breakingnewsenglish.com/. What is it about? Why is it good to language learning? How can it be used? The lesson plans are very clear and designed in details. There is warm-up activities, like predicting the words used in the news, or discussing the topic. Various reading and listening activities are also available. For example, synonym/phrase match, fill-in-the-blanks, discus...For class...
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ICT in ELT *Daphne*: Bubblr and Bookr – Tell Stories with Photos
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ICT in ELT *Daphne*. Friday, 10 February 2012. Bubblr and Bookr – Tell Stories with Photos. What is it about? Using key words to search for the needed Flickr images, users can create their own photo strips with words in bubbles on Bubblr, and photo books with stories on Bookr. Why is it good to language learning? Language learners can be motivated to read the English photo strips or photo books. How can it be used? By using Bubblr or Bookr to create comic strips or story books, learners can practice thei...
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ICT in ELT *Daphne*: JING- Generate More Interactions
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ICT in ELT *Daphne*. Sunday, 4 March 2012. JING- Generate More Interactions. Http:/ www.techsmith.com/jing.html. What is it about? Jing is a scree-capture tool, which capture what you do on the screen and also can record your voice at the same time. The most important feature of Jing is that it helps us to store and share the recordings fast and easily. It provides us a chance to have a revolutionary change on the way of giving feedback. With Jing, we can give students oral feedback easily. Teachers can ...
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ICT in ELT *Daphne*: Russell's Teacher Training Website
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ICT in ELT *Daphne*. Friday, 23 March 2012. Russell's Teacher Training Website. Http:/ www.teachertrainingvideos.com/. What is it about? Why is it good to language learning? How can it be used? By watching the videos, we can learn the technology step by step. There are also videos in which Russell shares ideas or tips of using particular websites in ELT classrooms. By taking a look at TOP 20 Training Videos, we can know what other teachers around the world are interested in and use in their classrooms.
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ICT in ELT *Daphne*: LyricsTraining- Learning with Songs!
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ICT in ELT *Daphne*. Sunday, 11 March 2012. LyricsTraining- Learning with Songs! Http:/ www.lyricstraining.com/. What is it about? Why is it good to language learning? When playing the game, learners will listen to the lyrics again and again unconsciously, which can develop their listening skills. When they get the answer, they can get the reward right away, which is that they can keep the song going. It's a great self-learning resource. How can it be used? There is also a karaoke mode which students can...
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ICT in ELT *Daphne*: January 2012
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ICT in ELT *Daphne*. Tuesday, 31 January 2012. Exploring WebQuest: Off to Oz. Http:/ www.xtec.cat/cirel/02/webquests/english/3index2.html. What is it about? It’s a WebQuest introducing. There are also tasks for practicing English reading, speaking, and writing. Why is it good to language learning? With tasks relating to students’ real life, this WebQuest raises students’ learning motivation. The tasks include group work, which gives students a chance to learn through collaboration and negotiation meanings.
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ICT in ELT *Daphne*: MailVU- Speak up and Show yourself in English
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ICT in ELT *Daphne*. Friday, 23 March 2012. MailVU- Speak up and Show yourself in English. Http:/ www.mailvu.com/. What is it about? Why is it good to language learning? How can it be used? We can use mailVU to record short weekly lesson to our students, just like a video podcast. Students can both learn language knowledge and practice listening skills. We can use it to give comments to students' work or presentation if there is no time in class. With movable webcam, students can even record a short play...