Thanks to the Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Interest Section at TESOL 2011, I now have pages of ideas that I will be blogging about over the next few months. I have not had time to review them all and blog about them yet, but here is a quick list of some of my favorite finds from this year’s conference in New Orleans.
Listening & Speaking
Talk to the Robot – Do you need someone to practice your English with? Talk to Ron Lee’s Robot. Ask it anything. Have it ask you questions. It’s kind of addicting. It could also be turned into a fun interactive writing assignment where students are asked to interact with it and describe its strengths and weaknesses as a communicator.
Reading & Vocabulary
Study Your Vocabulary – Looking to have your students study the K1 & K2 high frequency vocabulary lists? Check out Marsha Chan’s Vocabulary Quiz Home. On this site students can learn English words in context – as words are really used! There are 200 corpus based quizzes covering the first 2000 most frequently used words of English.
gFlash Mobile – If you are looking for a free and easy way for you or your students to make and share flashcards, the gFlash mobile applications might be what you are looking for. Click on the link to go to a blog post with a YouTube video showing how it works.
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Eye Web Speed Reader – If you have an iPhone, iPod, or iPad, and you like to read, you will enjoy this free application (search for eye web). The app allows you to surf the web and speed read the pages. The average adult reader can read at about 200 to 250 words per minute (wpm). The free version of this application allows you to read at 350 wpm. The pay version allows you to train your brain to read up to 1000 wpm.
Writing & Creativitiy
Storybird.com – Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print. According to the site, you can read them like books, play them like games, and send them like greeting cards. Might make for some fun paired writing assignments.
iBrainstorm – For those of you using iPhones, iPod Touches, and iPads, iBrainstorm is a multi-device collaboration tool from Universal Mind. Move your ideas from your iPhone to iPad with just a flick of the finger; have students work in groups and then share their ideas. Drag your notes on the iPad into any ordered hierarchy you want. Assign colors to give additional meaning or priority. Also, draw, erase or zoom in for tighter control and know that everything is captured for later.