Using Wolfram Alpha to Teach ESL

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

SitePal

SitePal gives you a talking head to post on your web page or powerpoint slideshow, or to email, saying whatever you want it to say.

Has obvious applications for listening practice. And way too much fun to be legal.

UEFAP.com

A set of reading exercises that, taken together, cycle through the full Academic Word List, courtesy of Using English For Academic Purposes.com (UEFAP.com).

The parent site offers many other resources to do with EAP.

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/

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Tonuna

Begora! Here we have a competitor for "Ask 500 People." The difference is that it is very UK-centric, not international.