Optional CALL

Week#7

Sacramento Survival Guide


Photo Uploading: Guide    Picasaweb.google.com



Another Option: Facebook 

PUFS TTP Facebook Group

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Skype
Register for an account at http://www.skype.com/go/join?intcmp=join
If you don't have Skype on your computer, download it here: http://www.skype.com/intl/en/get-skype/on-your-computer/windows/
Start the program and login.
Skype Guide

Google+ Hangouts
Guide to creating and joining a Google+ Hangout

Video Email
Register here: http://eyejot.com/join
Click 'Compose New Message'

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Week#6

Electronic Village Online

January 8~February 12, 2012

Launch Webcast here

EVO Call for Participation

Sessions

Becoming a Webhead 2012	Multiliteracies for Social Networking and Collaborative Learning Environments	TESOL-Drama Workshop: Implementing and Evaluating the Facilitation of English Language learning through Drama
Digital Storytelling for Young Learners	Digital Tools with Purpose in the Classroom	PLEs and PLNs for Lifelong Learning
Teaching and Language Learning Through Gamification	MachinEVO  Video Productions of Language Learning Conversations	Teaching English to Young Learners and Teens
Developing our Mentoring Skills	MOODLE for Teachers	Podcasting for the EFL/ESL Classroom
Social Networking: Making it Work for You and Your Students!		Tutoring with Web 2.0 Tools - Designing for Social Presence

Pages of Note
BaW 2011 Favorite Tools
Multiliteracy Tutorials
Digital Tools Group Favorite Tools



Digital Tools Participant Map


View EVO2012 DigitalTools Participants in a larger map

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Week#5 - Activities Revisited

New Activity Sites

• Grammar-Quizzes: Practice on Points of English Grammar (ESL/EFL)
• Interactive English Exercises
• Tiny TEFL Teacher Home
• Quia - Quia Web

Favorites

• Englishpage.com
• FreeESLMaterials.com
• AgendaWeb - Free English Exercises
• StarFall.com  (young learners)
• elllo.org - English Listening Language Lab Online
• 5 Minute English- Hundreds of Short Self-Study English Lessons
• A4ESL.org - Activities for ESL/EFL Students (English Study)

Others

• English Online France
• SpellingCity
• Exercises for Beginners
• Manythings.org
• Jezarka's Interactive Exercises
• ESL Blues
• Real-English.com - ESL Videos ESL Lessons.
• Business English Grammar Lessons
• English Exercises Online
• English Works! Exercises Main Index
• ESLBears: ESL Activities and Exercises
• English Language Centre Study Zone
• Teaching ESL
• Rong-Chang.com
• Adult Learning Activities | California Distance Learning Project
• Breaking News English Lessons
• Learn English Online at Open English World
• English Learing Activities List (Emily Chen)
• ITESLJ's links to Games & Quizzes

Sites designed specifically to provide test taking peparation

• http://www.english-test.net/
• http://www.gettoefl.com/practice.htm
• http://www.easyenglish.com/
• http://www.eslgold.com/
• http://www.selfaccess.com/ (click 'free samples')
• http://www.examenglish.com/
• http://toefl.practice-tests.learnhub.com/

Online Activity Generators

• ProProfs Quiz School
• Quizlet (Flash Cards)
• Script-O! (not free)
• PuzzleMaker.com
• Charles Kelly's Online Quiz Generator
• EclipseCrossword Puzzle Maker

Proprofs examples

COUNTABLE & UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS IN ENGLISH » Online exam software

Life Events Vocabulary Quiz » create exams

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Week#4 

Mobile Tools

• Google Translate - Android iPhone
• Conversation English
• iVocabulary
• English Phrasebook m(Idioms)
• 15,000 Useful Phrases
• AccelaStudy

Make your own comics and animations

• Makebeliefscomix.com/Comix
• Comicmaster.org.uk
• Stripcreator.com/make.php
• Wittycomics.com
• Blank Cards
• Videos 
• Goanimate.com
• XtraNormal

Personality Tests and Your Virtual Fortune

(good for vocabulary)

• Right Brain/Left Brain
• MBTIStatements
• Word Choice
• Descriptions of MBTI Types
• More Descriptions
• Lots of tests at: Similarminds.com/personality_tests.html

Easier Stuff

• Astrological Profile
• Tarot Card
• Chinese Readings
• Chinese Zodiac Compatibility
• How Romantic Are You?
• Coworker Zodiac Comparability
• Children's Horoscopes
• Love Horoscope Profile

Odds & Ends

• Graphic Organizer Links & Gliffy.com (mind mapping and chart building) 
• Barry Fun English Tools
• Online Clocks & Stopwatches

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Week#3

Video capturing and editing
   Sites that can be used to download video from YouTube

• KeepVid.com - online download tool - paste in the video URL, choose your format, can convert
• Tubget.com - similar to Keepvid
• Video2mp3.net - Convert Youtube videos to mp3 files
• Downloadhelper.net - Firefox extension allows downloading and converting
• Other Download Tools: Vixy.net, Videogetting.com,  Zamzar.com,  KeepTube.com

  Window Live Movie Maker Guides 

• Teacher Training WMM Screencasts
• 7tutorials.con Guide 
• Make a slideshow with pictures

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Screencapturing & Screensharing

• Live Desktop Sharing
• Quickscreenshare.com
• Mikogo
• Yugma 
• Vyew 
• WizIQ


• Screen Capture (image & video)
  
  • Screencast-o-Matic
  • Screenr
  • Jing Project - easy screencast publishing
  • Camstudio - free screencast software
  • Camtasia - Media Recording (commercial)

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• Edublog Awards

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Week#2

Go to this Google Doc and add your Skype ID and Gmail Address

Skype
Register for an account at http://www.skype.com/go/join?intcmp=join
If you don't have Skype on your computer, download it here: http://www.skype.com/intl/en/get-skype/on-your-computer/windows/
Start the program and login.
Skype Guide

Google+ Hangouts
Guide to creating and joining a Google+ Hangout

Video Email
Register here: http://eyejot.com/join
Click 'Compose New Message'

Interactive Presentation Environments
Blackboard Collaborate
Video example - Collaborate Recording
Webhead Recordings    Classroom20 Recordings

Try joining a Collaborate room at Webheads http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=273662
Click Join. Then Login and click 'Enter Now'
Save the 'meeting.php' file and open it.  Click Run

Classroom2.0 Site  &  Upcoming Events
WebheadsinAction  EVO2012 Workshops

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Week#1

• Discuss your CALL Learning Passions & Preferences
• Experiment with building a course website
  Google Sites   Weebly   
• Check out a few new sites on the Website Buffet page