Video and audio resources

Video and audio resources

Video resources

1. TED

Ted is a collection of video talks / lectures from the world’s greatest thinkers and doers.

http://www.ted.com/

2.

5min Life Videopedia is a place to find short video solutions for every practical question.

http://www.5min.com/

3.

Commoncraft make presentations about products and services in plain English using short, unique and understandable videos in a format they call Paperworks.

4.

TeacherTube. Name says it all: like YouTube but for educational purposes.

5.  

Science shack Science videos

7. Dotsub

http://dotsub.com/


Audio resources

Listen to a movie

http://listentoamovie.com/

Other listening sites

If you want to watch or listen to the news try these web sites

The BBC news page

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

Euronews has the latest video news in English

http://www.euronews.net/

On-line news hour.  Hourly news from P.B.S in the USA.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/newshour_index.html

World Radio Network.  Find and listen to radio stations form across the world online or download the podcasts.

http://www.wrn.org/

National Public Radio is an American news service that has news stories from around the world with written summaries available.  It also has podcasts.

http://www.npr.org/

Listen to and watch famous speeches from the History Channel

http://www.history.com/media.do

Top 100 Speeches is a site that has famous American speeches available for listeners

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html

Voice of America radio has news for learners of English with scripts

http://www.voanews.com/english/index.cfm

A moment of science has lots listenings and scripts on a range of scientific subjects.  Find out if Chimps are nice or why cigarette smoke is blue!

http://amos.indiana.edu/library/audio.html

The BBC World Service Learning English Watch and listen site has lots of listening with activities and some typescripts

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/multimedia/

Voices from the Archives is part of the BBC Audio Archives.  There are hundreds of interviews with famous people. Examples range from an interview with Crick and Watson recalling the discovery of DNA's molecular structure and UEA’s own Andrew Motion, the poet laureate, talking about his early life and influences.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/

News stories with exercises from the USA divided into categories.

http://literacynet.org/cnnsf/archives.html

BBC Radio 4 has an archive of many old and new radio programmes that can be listened to online or downloaded

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/atoz/

The Reith Lectures are available from the BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith/historic_audio/reith_historic.shtml

StoryCorps from the USA has lots of authentic listenings from ordinary people recounting extraordinary stories.  Perhaps more suitable for teachers.

http://www.storycorps.net/listen/

Authorizing tools for EFL

Open source e-learning software

Here we look at a few pieces of free open source e-learning

software. They are generally suites, meaning that they have a number of different activity types for teachers to use. The aim is to provide an overview of each one and give you the necessary skills to make your own activities to use with your students.

1. Xerte

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/

The Xerte Wiki

http://wiki.xerte.net/index.php5?title=Main_Page

The Xerte Wiki

2. Hot Potatoes

http://hotpot.uvic.ca/

3. Eclipse crossword

This crossword is a free download.

http://www.eclipsecrossword.com/

4. Exe

Produced by a group of universities in New Zealand

http://exelearning.org/wiki

5. Jclic


This is from the Ministry of Education of the Government of Catalonia

http://clic.xtec.cat/en/jclic/index.htm

A manual is available in German in pdf format from the addresss below.

http://clic.xtec.cat/docs/Handbuch_JClic.pdf

Interactive story reading

 

Dust Echoes is a series of twelve beautifully animated dreamtime stories from Central Arnhem Land, telling stories of love, loyalty, duty to country and aboriginal custom and law.

" Dust Echoes is one way that we are bringing everyone back to the same campfire - black and white. We are telling our stories to you in a way you can understand, to help you see, hear and know. And we are telling these stories to ourselves, so that we will always remember, with pride, who we are. "

Tom Lewis, actor, musician, Indigenous consultant

http://www.abc.net.au/dustechoes/

Links to students' avtivities

Here are some very useful links for English teachers that provide endless possibilities for student activities:

a. Nik Peachey

Nik Peachey’s blog is quite simply the best. I have found lots of ideas from this site.

http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/

 

b. Larry Ferrlazzo

Well worth checking out. The blog is up dated several times every day. To stay you should sign up to his RSS feed.
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/

c. Freetech4teachers

Again it is updated on a regular basis so you might want to consider subscribing through RSS.

http://freetech4teachers.blogspot.com/

d. The English Blog by Jeffrey Hill

Specifically for English language teachers.

http://jeffreyhill.typepad.com/english/

e. Paul Hullock`s blog

A very good example of the pitfalls and dangers of blogging!

http://hullock.blogspot.com/

Technology blogs

f. Jane Knight

   

This is not a blog specifically for ELT teachers but is nevertheless really useful.  Again, the author updates at least once a day so it might be worth subscribing to the RSS feed.

http://janeknight.typepad.com/

g. Technology and Education box of tricks

A general education blog, not specifically for English language learning, but again highly recommended.

http://www.boxoftricks.net/

“The content is well written, informative and goes into some depth, so well worth reading.”

Nik Peacheyhttp://blogs.learnnc.org/instructify

 h. Instructify

Lots of content consisting of links to educational sites and information on new web tools and software.