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Tuesday, 24 March 2015

Massively Multi-player online Role-playing Games - Learn English and play at the same time

Massively Multi-player on-line Role-playing Games An alliance battling a boss monster in Guild Wars 2 Some initial thoughts Throughout this journey of talking about different ICT tools that are capable of promoting ELT in their own unique ways, I wanted to express my thoughts on this video-game...

Monday, 23 March 2015

Wordle - Discover new words by creating Word Clouds

Wordle What is Wordle? Wordle is a free on-line tool that allows you to create word clouds, like the one in the picture above. This can be done by either copy-pasting a whole text or by copying the URL of a web page, including a blog. Depending on how frequent the same words...

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Present.me - An online presentation tool for reflecting our students' speaking tasks

Present.me What is Present.me Present.me is an online tool that enables students as well as teachers to create presentations. What makes this tool special, is the fact that its users can upload or record a video of them doing a presentation, while at the same time...

Sunday, 8 March 2015

Quizlet - A free tool for both learners and teacher who want to learn and teach vocabulary respectively

Quizlet What is quizlet? Quizlet is a free website dedicated to both learners and teachers. Students can use this learning tool to enrich their vocabulary as well as to improve their spelling by creating flashcards, study and play games such as the space race! Teachers, on...

Sunday, 1 March 2015

MoPad - Collaborative writing inside the classroom

MoPad What is MoPad? MoPad is a public pad in which users can collaboratively write a document. What is great about this technology is the fact that the text is synchronized as you type. Therefore, everyone who...