Using Wolfram Alpha to Teach ESL

Here's a video with lots of ideas on how you can use Wolfram Alpha in the classroom.

Animoto Now Allows Videos

Animoto used to be a great resource for making slide shows with music. It now also allows you to incorporate videos.

To demonstrate Animoto, I made this little slideshow last Canada Day.

Book Tips

You can search, read and download over 1 million out-of-copyright or non-copyright books and magazines at Google books. That's a pretty good-sized library; lots of fodder for realia and reading exercises.

http://books.google.com/books

To limit your search to free materials, click “Advanced Book Search” to the right of the search bar, and choose “Full View Only” on the next page.

More free books:
http://feedbooks.com/

DimDim

Odd title--that I grant. But DimDim offers free, open source multimedia videoconferencing with live voice and video: in other words, a live classroom for anyone on the web.

Bricks and mortar? We don't need no stinkin' bricks and mortar!

ImToo.Com - YouTube downloader

This site offers a free YouTube downloader. By downloading videos, you can avoid the problem of slow Internet connections during class—and of using quota time. From the May, 2008 newsletter; credit Cheri MacLeod.