Educational Resource List

http://businessenglishpod.com/

From the website: “Business English Pod provides free weekly MP3 podcast ESL lessons and audio / e-Book courses for intermediate and advanced business English learners. Each business English podcast lesson is focused on a particular workplace English skill (meetings, presentations, telephoning, negotiating, socializing, travel, conversation etc.) and language function (clarifying, disagreeing, questioning, expressing opinions, persuasion etc.).”

http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcaststechspecs.html#example

A collection of help pages from Apple for those who wish to create and publish podcasts.

http://chinesepod.com/

From the website: “ChinesePod is a language training service unlike anything you have ever seen before. It works by taking the best of the traditional classroom, and recreating it around the needs and lifestyle of the student, with all the improvements that technology allows. Therefore, just like a traditional classroom, ChinesePod provides a community of practice: great teachers, lively discussion with fellow students, and a shared learning experience.”

http://www.cambridge.org/elt/resources/professional/default.htm

This English for Specific Purposes website offers podcasts, blogs, activity templates, “jargon busters” and other materials for English Language teachers and students of business English.

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http://www.epnweb.org/

From the website: “The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century.”

http://www.thebobandrobshow.com/

From the website: “The Bob and Rob Show is a variety show for learning English. It’s aimed at intermediate to advanced learners of English.

“Bob and Rob live in Japan, and they both teach English at the same university.”

http://waoe.org/president/presentations/JALT2006.html

From the website: “Japan Association for Language Teaching JALT 2006 International Conference
Kitakyushu International Conference Centre, Kokura, Japan (3 November 2006)
a presentation by Steve McCarty”

http://pod-efl.wikispaces.com/Japancasting

From the website: “Podcasting, Coursecasting, & Web 2.0 Technologies for Research by Steve McCarty, Professor, Osaka Jogakuin College, Japan
President (1998-2007), World Association for Online Education (WAOE)”

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/

From the website: “All of these current events and business English lesson plans contain a news article, listening (MP3 file), podcast, communication activities, pair work, discussion, reading and vocabulary exercises. Classroom handouts are reproducible in Word and PDF. SPELLING: This site uses the American English spelling system.”

http://www.englishpod.com/

From the website: “EnglishPod is an on-demand training product that enables users to learn English on their terms - when and where is most convenient for them. LISTEN to the free daily podcasts on your media device (iPod, MP3 player, phone, computer, etc). Use the PDF transcripts to PRACTICE what you heard with a teacher, friend or colleague. Then REVIEW the key vocabulary and grammar on the EnglishPod website to reinforce what you learned.”

Guardian Article about EnglishPod: http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1766486,00.html