Useful+websites

=**These are websites that are useful for all teachers:**=

=HOW TO USE YOUR COMPUTER= ===This award winning website literally shows you how to do everything you ever wanted to do with your computer, whether it is to create a wiki, make a blog, find out about twitter, find the best podcasts and website, etc:[| www.teachertrainingvideos.com]===

You can also download video files here: http://www.real.com/realdownloader
=TEACHING AND LEARNING RESOURCES=

This website has some CLIL clips (click on Learner Types) with ready-made lesson plans and materials: http://lessonstream.org/
===This website provides numerous Graphic Organizers to help learners brainstorm, group, categorise and remember key vocabulary items, as well as structure writing projects and plan their studies: http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/===

===WORDCLOUDS: Find ready-made wordclouds or create your own for a topic you want learners to explore. You can choose the shape, colour and font. Learners can also create them for their own presentations. Go to http://www.wordclouds.com/ or http://www.wordle.net/===

Puzzlemaker allows you to make crossword puzzles, word search boxes, jumbled letters, and other puzzles, including 12 maths quizzes: []
===EDUCAPLAY is a multimedia platform to create multimedia teaching activties. It does not need any software and can be used on any device. You can create your own activities for learning with attractive professional results. It can be integrated with other learning platforms: http://en.educaplay.com/===

===Study Flashcards for all subjects, as well as interactive matching activities, crosswords, hangman and other study/revision games. Sign in and create your own games for your learners: []===

Make and share flashcards with definitions for science and other subjects: []
===More than 14 million vocabulary learning activities for all topics and school subject areas created by teachers, so it is probable someone has created exercises for your school textbook: http://quizlet.com/===

===This website turns texts into gap-fill texts automatically - you specify which type of words you want to delete - or you can make cloze texts with gaps every 5th or 7th word etc: http://l.georges.online.fr/tools/cloze.html===

To make the game "Who wants to be a millionaire", as well as other games, you can download the materials at: http://www.superteachertools.com/
===Socrative allows you to devise educational exercises, games and tests for your learners so they can use them on their smartphones, laptops and tablets, and the results are sent to you: http://www.socrative.com. Watch the Introductory video.===

===Pearltrees is a visual tool that allows you to cultivate your interests by collecting, organising and sharing with others all the URLs, texts and pictures you find connected to a topic: http://www.pearltrees.com===

===Use Learnist to share what you know and learn new things. Create Learn Boards on topics you understand and add learnings by pointing to videos, blogs, images and documents on the web: http://learni.st/===

This free website works like Facebook and allows you to turn your classroom into a community - watch the introductory video to see what you can do with it: []
=BBC TEACHING AND LEARNING RESOURCES=

Channel 4 Learning: school subjects at secondary level plus useful video clips: [|http://www.channel4learning.com]
=MORE RESOURCES= ===The TES website of teacher resources is the largest network of teachers in the world where you can download lesson plans and resources for all levels and types of learners: http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resources/===

Website of lesson plans and resources for teachers of English, Maths, Science and Arts subjects: []
===The Guardian Teacher Network has over 70,000 pages of free teaching resources for all age groups and all major subjects, including interactive whiteboard activities, lesson plans, and worksheets: []===

===This is a must CLIL website for science, history and geography teachers with thousands of resources - it is worth joining to access all the materials: [|www.onestopclil.com]===

===Khan Academy: a free library of over 3,200 videos of 12 minute lectures on everything from maths and physics to history and economics, to help you learn whatever you want to learn, plus there are lesson worksheets, and your learners can do tests online and their results are sent to you: http://www.khanacademy.org===

Here you can find ready-made presentations on all subjects with clear explanations, or you can use their tools to make your own: []
===TED Ideas worth spreading is a website with over 1,000 talks each lasting 15 minutes on all subjects, plus translations of the talks and English subtitles - great for listening practice: [] Here are some interesting examples:===

"What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness" by Robert Waldinger: http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_waldinger_what_makes_a_good_life_lessons_from_the_longest_study_on_happiness
===BREAKING NEWS ENGLISH: Select from current and past news items and download numerous ready-made worksheets to use with learners, using the index of environment, technology and health themes to find items that will interest your learners: http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/===

Learn English by watching TV series, films, and documentaries about science and arts, and all with English subtitles: http://ororo.tv/en
=FREE STUDY COURSES=

**TEACHER ACADEMY offers professional development opportunities for teachers through onlline and on-site courses: https://www.schooleducationgateway.eu/en/pub/teacher_academy.htm**
=HOW TO DO ANYTHING= ===To find out how to do //anything//, get instructions on it and maybe watch a video on how to do it, go to these two websites and type in what you want to know: first there is wikihow at [] and also there is ehow at: []===

INSTRUCTABLES gives you a series of pictures and text on how to construct anything: http://www.instructables.com/
=DICTIONARIES=

An online visual dictionary for subjects and topics: http://visual.merriam-webster.com/
===This website gives you translations of English words into other languages, and you can ask other people about possible translations of words: http://www.wordreference.com. This can also be downoaded as an App on your smartphone.===

===This website translates German sentences and expressions (i.e. not just single words) into English sentences, which is great for checking the use of prepositions etc. It also does the same thing for English sentences into French, Spanish and Portuguese: []===

===Immediate definitions of words in a text in any language: load a website text address into the lingro website and it will recognise and define words in the text in any language you want just by moving the cursor onto the word: http://lingro.com/===

Website that reads text with different accents: http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php
= = =PICTURES AND CLIP ART=

ELTPICs is a collection of thousands of copyright free photographs created by language teachers: http://www.eltpics.com/indexeltpics.html
===Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.This includes pictures, sound and videos: http://creativecommons.org/about===

This is Discovery School Clip Art: http://school.discoveryeducation.com/clipart/
=**Information on copyright**=

For more information on copyright and licensing go to: http://creativecommons.org/
=ORGANISING PICTURES, VIDEOS AND NOTES=

VOKI
===This website allows you to create and customise your own speaking character to express yourself and communicate and interact with others: [] For example: [] Here is a tutorial on how to create a voki: [] Here is an introduction to creating and using a voki classroom: []===

Use this website to make your own powerpoint slides more interesting, memorable and inteactive: http://prezi.com/
===Here is an example of how a Swiss teacher used it to do a presentation on remarkable similarities between the assassination of President Lincoln and President Kennedy: []===

Here you can find ready-made presentations on all subjects with clear explanations, or you can use their tools to make your own: []
===This website allows free facilities for learners to make booklets/presentation slides about themselves and topics, and for teachers to create lesson presentation slides: []===

VOICETHREAD
===Use voicethread to record comments on pictures, tell a story, explain a process, correct written and spoken homework, give a tutorial, have a group discussion. You and your learners can also choose to record yourself with the video camera while speaking: []===

This is a website where teachers and learners can design their own infographics to illustrate information visually as part of a presentation or written work: https://piktochart.com/
=VOXOPOP= ===VOXOPOP is a voice-based e-learning tool used by educators all over the word. Create talkgroups that are a fun and easy-to-use way to help learners develop their speaking skills and have conversations. They are a like message boards but they use their voice rather than text. Teachers and students can intereact from even or even from other sides of the planet: http://www.voxopop.com/===

VOCAROO
===VOCAROO is an online voice recorder allows you to record your spoken messages, save and download them, as well send them to someone or embed them in other media: http://vocaroo.com/. For a simple and clear demonstration of how to use it watch the youtube demonstration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBUsOrAXcLw===

=ANIMATED CARTOONS AND MOVIES=

This website is a tool for creating animated movies. Select characters and add dialogue: http://www.dvolver.com/moviemaker/make.html
=CORRECTING WRITTEN WORK= ===JING allows you to give 4-5 minutes of audio-visual feedback (free) on your learners' written work. Research has shown that learners prefer this kind of feedback to just written feedback are are prepared to watch and listen for up to about 10 minutes. Excellent for giving feedback on exam-type writing tasks. You upload your feedback then send the link to your learner in an email. The learner opens the link and listens to and sees you doing the feedback. There is also a Russell Stannard video on how to go about it (see the top of this page for the link to his website). You can upgrade (i.e. pay) for more storage space and time for the feedback if you need it: http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html===

This website allows your class to vote and make decisions online - watch the introductory video: http://www.tricider.com/
=WOLFRAM ALPHA= ===WOLFRAM ALPHA is an engine for computing answers and providing knowledge. It works by using its vast store of expert-level knowledge and algorithms to answer questions automatically, do analysis, and generate reports. The long term aim is to make all systematic knowledge computable and broadly accessible: [|http://www.wolframalpha.com]. It can be used to ask questions and produce reports on every subject.===

To share, access and synchronise your files you can use Dropbox at http://www.getdropbox.com or you can use http://evernote.com
=WEBQUESTS=

The purpose of this website page is to take you through the process of taking advantage of WebQuests that others have already created: http://webquest.sdsu.edu/adapting/index.html
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