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3B Village 3D browser

Thursday, December 13, 2007 Add Comment 3D, games, virtual worlds, webquest Edit

I spotted 3B Village about a year ago and initially I was impressed, but some recent developments have, I feel, put this on the map as a re...

Create your own game

Monday, December 10, 2007 Add Comment fun, games Edit

This is something that caught my eye last week. I just couldn't resist adding a feature about it here, though I think this does come wit...

Making quizzes for i-pod

Friday, November 30, 2007 Add Comment mobile learning, questions forms, quiz, revision Edit

With the growth in interest in mobile learning and the ubiquitous nature of the i-pod among our younger (and increasingly older) students th...

Interactive multiple choice activities

Add Comment interactive, quiz, Word processor, words Edit

This is the third part in a series that I’m writing on how to use word processors to create computer-based materials. This one looks at how...

Machinima with Moviestorm

Thursday, November 29, 2007 Add Comment 3D, editing, machinima, video, virtual worlds Edit

I recently came across a very impressive piece of software for making Machinima. It’s still in Beta at the moment, and it’s free, so I’ve sp...

Exploiting two computer-based RPGs

Friday, November 9, 2007 Add Comment games, RPG Edit

In this article I’d like to look at how we could use two computer based RPGs (Role playing games) as the basis for language development. The...

Teacher Training Videos

Thursday, November 8, 2007 Add Comment review, software, video, website Edit

Over the last few weeks I’ve been exploring some of the content on Russell Stannard’s http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/ website. The ...

Creating an interactive cloze text

Wednesday, October 31, 2007 Add Comment interactive, Word, Word processor Edit

This is the second part in a series of tutorials based around using word processors to create interactive and multimedia materials. This tut...

Phonology can be fun and free

Thursday, October 18, 2007 Add Comment interactive, pronunciation Edit

Phonetics Focus is a really wonderful new free resource produced by Cambridge English Online Ltd. Basically it is a collection of interacti...

Creating a mobile phone website

Saturday, October 13, 2007 Add Comment community, mobile learning Edit

With the growth in interest in mobile and handheld learning, I thought I’d investigate one of the many new Web 2.0 type start ups that are o...

Looking at There.com

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 Add Comment 3D, games, machinima, There.com, virtual worlds Edit

For a while now I’ve been a fan of the virtual 3D world There.com . Although it isn’t as developed and hasn’t had a fraction of the publici...

MS Word tutorial 1: Adding ‘comments’

Friday, October 5, 2007 Add Comment interactive, Word, Word processor, writing skills Edit

This is the first in what I hope will become a series of tutorials on exploiting the teaching / learning potential of some of the more commo...

Interactive presentations

Monday, September 24, 2007 Add Comment audio, images, interactive Edit

I’ve just been looking at a really interesting on line tool called Voicethread . What's Voicethread? Voice thread enables users to creat...

Subtitling your video clips

Tuesday, September 18, 2007 Add Comment audio, editing, video Edit

I’ve just been looking at a really excellent Beta site called Dot Sub The site is an interesting adaptation of the Youtube model. People ca...

Voice in Second Life

Friday, July 20, 2007 Add Comment 3D, audio, second life, virtual worlds Edit

Over the last couple of weeks I've been trying out the new voice client for Second Life and despite a few remaining bugs with voice grou...

Materials design for Virtual Worlds

Tuesday, June 26, 2007 Add Comment 3D, games, machinima, second life, virtual worlds Edit

I was recently lucky enough to be invited to give a presentation on course and materials design for Second Life at the SLanguages 2007 virt...

Developing screencast tutorials

Friday, June 8, 2007 Add Comment editing, machinima, video Edit

There's a very handy web based tool called Screencast-o-matic that I've just spotted. If you go to the website and simply click on...

Creating an Online Classroom

Friday, June 1, 2007 Add Comment community, social network, VLE Edit

The Nicenet Classroom Assistant is a really useful tool which enables teachers to very quickly and simply create their own virtual learning...

Pronunciation videos

Wednesday, May 2, 2007 Add Comment pronunciation, video Edit

This is a useful site if you are teaching pronunciation. Though it could take some time to load the first time you use it. There is a phonem...

Creating audio-visual monologues

Friday, April 27, 2007 Add Comment animation, audio, fun, mobile learning Edit

Flipz TV is a really useful piece of free software for creating entertaining audio-visual materials. The software enables you to record your...

Make you own animated movies

Monday, April 23, 2007 Add Comment animation, film, fun Edit

D- film is a really useful website that has been around for a few years now. The site makes it very easy to create short animated movies w...

BBC online media training

Thursday, April 19, 2007 Add Comment audio, editing, video Edit

I’ ve just seen that the BBC has released a lot of its own internal staff training courses and made them available free online at: http://w...

Tutorial: Using Videos from YouTube

Monday, April 16, 2007 Add Comment Edit

Sites like YouTube ( http://www.youtube.com/ ) can be a really rich source of authentic video and audio. Many of the videos are great for t...

UNICEF: Top 10 Cartoons for Children’s Rights

Friday, April 13, 2007 Add Comment animation, listening skills, video Edit

This is a site I spotted a while back and was really impressed by. UNICEF are creating lots of rich media to get their message across and ...

TeacherTube

Thursday, April 12, 2007 Add Comment editing, video Edit

I've just been having a look at TeacherTube , the new video sharing website designed specifically for teachers. I think this is a poten...