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Gadgets for learning and teaching language.

E-Learning in the Arts (and Education) Presentation

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

http://groups.drupal.org/node/15212

From the website: “It’s me at The International Designs on E-Learning Conference a few weeks ago talking about how Penn State (more specifically e-Learning Institute) is using Drupal to power our course infrastructure. This is mostly high level but has a lot of screen shots, selling point type info, links, and a detailed walk through of two of our courses / some of our projects.”

One-minute language

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

http://www.oneminutelanguages.com/

From the website: “Welcome to One Minute Languages where you can learn the basics of a language in a matter of minutes.”

USA Learns: US Fed. Gov’t ESL site

Friday, November 14th, 2008

http://www.usalearns.org/index/welcome.cfm?CFID=154337&CFTOKEN=14690078&jsessionid=2c30455a7d167d61440c464b6820c4a7a807TR

From the website: “A free site for adults to: Learn English, Improve basic reading, writing, speaking, and life skills.”

US government’s press release: http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2008/11/11072008.html

The generation raised on the internet (Economist)

Friday, November 14th, 2008

http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displayStory.cfm?story_id=12591038&subjectID=348963&fsrc=nwl

Article on large research study about the “Net generation”

Creating an Interactive PDF (TechLearning)

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

http://www.techlearning.com/showArticle.php?articleID=196604938

Article on creating an interactive PDF for use in a class

Global Grid for Learning

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

http://www.globalgridforlearning.com/

At the heart of our strategy is the Global Grid for Learning platform and library that makes it easy for educators to search and download over a million education resources in a variety of formats from thousands of content sources worldwide through common software applications.

Disclosure: The post author works for Cambridge University Press at the time of posting. The opinions expressed here are my own and are not necessarily those of my employer. This blog is not sponsored nor endorsed by my employer.

EdTech Conference Planner: T.H.E. Conferences

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

http://www.theconferencecalendar.com/default.cfm

From the website: “Our directory provides up-to-date conference information that allows you to choose conferences that best meet your needs. We will continue to include conferences with both a strong technology track and participation by those who influence the use of technology.”

EduBlogs

Monday, September 8th, 2008

http://edublogs.org/

Blog hosting service for Education.

From the website: “Edublogs hosts hundreds of thousands of blogs for teachers, students, researchers, professors, librarians, administrators and anyone and everyone else involved in education.

“Edublogs are completely free, without any advertising, and come with 100MB of free upload space (easily extended to 3 Gig) and a heap of great features”

“Further Reading on Reading” (NY Times)

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/books/reading-extra.html?ref=books

From the website: “It is impossible to write about any one piece of research at great length, so for those interested in more in-depth information [about reading, online and off], here are links to some studies, speeches, reading tests — old and new — and other resources.”

International Legal English (Online activities)

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

http://cdextras.cambridge.org/VocabTrainer/intlegalenglish/

Online activities for the practice of International Legal English

Disclosure: The post author works for Cambridge University Press at the time of posting. The opinions expressed here are my own and are not necessarily those of my employer. This blog is not sponsored nor endorsed by my employer.


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