martes, 5 de abril de 2011

Tools for English Teaching

PODCAST

Is a series of digital media files ( that are released episodically and often downloadedthrough web sindication.
The mode of delivery differentiates podcasting from other means of accessing media files over the internet such as direct download

The BBC Learning English website is dedicated to helping English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students learn more easily. The site provides lessons in grammar and vocabulary, short courses and quizzes in everyday informal language. The comprehensive learning program covers most situations from chatting with friends, applying for jobs, academic life and bussinnes situations.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast

http://www.ehow.com/about_6743535_bbc-learning-english-podcast-information.html


WIKI

is a website that allows the creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor

Wikis are typically powered by wiki software and are often used to create collaborative works. Examples include community websites, corporate intranets, knowledge management systems, and note services. The software can also be used for personal notetaking.

Wikis serve different purposes. Some permit control over different functions (levels of access). For example editing rights may permit changing, adding or removing material. Others may permit access without enforcing access control. Other rules can be imposed for organizing content.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY


WEBQUEST

A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web. The model was developed by Bernie Dodge at San Diego State University in February, 1995 with early input from SDSU/Pacific Bell Fellow Tom March, the Educational Technology staff at San Diego Unified School District, and waves of participants each summer at the Teach the Teachers Consortium.

Since those beginning days, tens of thousands of teachers have embraced WebQuests as a way to make good use of the internet while engaging their students in the kinds of thinking that the 21st century requires. The model has spread around the world, with special enthusiasm in Brazil, Spain, China, Australia and Holland.

http://webquest.org/index.php
http://www.slideshare.net/XimenaBonilla/web-quest-sample-presentation

YOUTUBE VIDEO

A very popular video sharing Web site that lets anyone upload short videos for private or public viewing. Founded in 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, it was acquired by Google in 2006 for $1.65 billion. YouTube is another amazing Internet phenomenon with meteoric growth like Amazon.com, Yahoo, Google, MySpace and Facebook. Within a couple years, more than 25 quadrillion bytes (petabytes) of videos were being streamed from the site each month.


http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,2542,t=YouTube&i=57119,00.asp
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/Y/YouTube.html


HOT PATATOES


The Hot Potatoes software suite includes five applications that can create exercises for the World Wide Web. The applications are JCloze, JCross, JMatch, JMix and JQuiz. There are also a sixth application called The Masher, that will compile all the Hot Potatoes exercises into one unit.

Hot Potatoes was created by the Research and Development team at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre. Commercial aspects of the software are handled by Half-Baked Software Inc. Hot Potatoes is freeware since October 2009.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Potatoes
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/hot

AUDIO BOOKS

udio book is a recording of a text being read. It is not necessarily an exact audio version of a book or magazine.
Spoken audio has been available in school and public libraries and to a lesser extent in music shops for a long time. It was not until the 1980s that the medium began to attract book retailers, and then book retailers started displaying audiobooks on bookshelves rather than in separate displays.
Audiobooks are distributed on CDs, cassette tapes, downloadable digital formats (e.g., MP3 (.mp3), Windows Media Audio (.wma), Advanced Audio Coding (.aac)) and preloaded digital in which the audio content is preloaded and sold together with a hardware device.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiobook

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/audio+book




E-BOOK

Is an electronic version of a traditional print book that can be downloaded over the Internet and read by using a personal computer or by using an eBook reader.
application for use on a computer, such as Microsoft's free Reader application, or a book-sized computer that is used solely as a reading device, such as Nuvomedia's Rocket eBook.) Users can purchase an eBook on diskette or CD, but the most popular method of getting an eBook is to purchase a downloadable file of the eBook.

http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/definition/eBook
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/e-book




FORUMS

the marketplace or public square of an ancient Roman city, the center of judicial and business affairs and a place of assembly for the people.
Forums can be a useful for anyone doing business online, both in terms of reading the content and actively participating in the discussions.

Reading a forum's archives can be a good way to obtain a basic knowledge about a topic, and it also provides a historical perspective on trends and opinions.

Participation, whether as a member, moderator, or owner, can help one achieve recognition within a business community, and may even generate highly-qualified business leads. Forums differ, however, in their treatment of self-promotion; some disallow any hint of self-promotion, some are geared specifically towards self-promotion,


http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/forum
http://www.marketingterms.com/dictionary/forum/


ONLINE NEWSPAPER- MAGAZINES

Is an online newspaper, also known as a web newspaper, is a newspaper that exists on the World Wide Web or Internet.
An electronic newspaper is a self-contained, reusable, and refreshable version of a traditional newspaper that acquires and holds information electronically. (The electronic newspaper should not be confused with newspapers that offer an online version at a Web site.) The near-future technology - researchers expect to have the product available as soon as 2003 - will use e-paper (electronic paper) as the major component. Information to be displayed will be downloaded through a wireless Internet connection. A number of versions of the future technology are in development

http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/definition/electronic-newspaper
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/newspape


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