Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Useful Internet Sites for Teaching

This collection of Internet sites was gathered at one of our teaching seminars at Korea University. I have my colleagues to thank for such a great list of teaching resources to escape the monotony of the traditional textbook!

Voxopop:    
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  • Use this site to create a class group to store all recorded files in one place.
  • Useful for speeches, anecdotes or speaking practice for individuals.

Wordpress:
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  • Use this site to create a class blog for social or academic purposes.
  • Can also be used to post entries on a forum.

Moodle:       
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  • Create an e-learning platform (similar to EKU or an educational portal)
  • Use for discussion forums, assignment submission, projects and chats

Wikispaces:
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  • Create an e-learning platform with a focus on writing and assessment
  • Create spaces for social writing, project submissions and grading

Check My Words:
  • A useful site for students to use with Microsoft Word
  • Users download a toolbar which explains common errors, reads the words written and links to online dictionaries.

Mark My Words:    
  • A useful site for teachers to use with Microsoft Word.
  • Using documents online, insert automatic comments onto work
  • Link essay points to suggested links for research

The Corpus of Contemporary American English:
  • A free corpus with a variety of search options
  • Shows different genres of words
  • Users can also be sent a new academic word list

FLAX Interactive Language Learning:
  • Written texts and tools to work with them
  • Contains a collection of essays written by university students in English universities from BAWE collection (British Academic Written English Collections)
  • Essays classified by subject or genre


Citation Machine:
  • Quick and easy citation generator for APA, MLA, Chicago and Turabian documentation
  • Gives properly formatted citations for references pages and in-text citations for a variety of print and virtually all non-print options
  • Fill-in-the blank and copy and paste

Google Drive for Making Surveys:
  • The YouTube video explains how to create a survey with GoogleDrive
Purpose of Class
  • To teach students to become independent learners by using online resources
  • To provide students with a method to attain primary sources

Ted Ed:
  • Use this site to create your own ready-to-use TED class lessons.
  • Can also use lessons created by other educators.

World Teacher:
  • Though primarily an ELT site, she has some great ideas for academic class projects and also gives comprehensive links to other educational aspects.

Learning English Online:
  • Extremely useful site for specific vocabulary-related and grammar-related points.
  • Has a host of cultural information useful for various aspects of teaching.
  • Can also be used as a good point of reference for students wishing to do self-study.
 
Tumblr:
  • Using a very simple blog interface to host files, use for in-class lessons, and post homework assignments

 
English Central:
  • Use this site to allow your students to learn the 570 most common Academic English words.

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