Digital+resources

** Whether you are a digital native or a digital immigrant there's bound to be something useful for you and your learners here: **
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 * Some online resources for grammar and related terminology: **
 * [|English Grammar on Wikipedia]
 * [|A Guide to Grammar and Writing] - contains an extensive list of grammar terms explained
 * [|The BBC Skillwise Grammar Section] - will help you revise some basic concepts and has a lot of interactive games and activities which will make your revision less tedious
 * [|EnglishClub.com English Grammar] - has some terminology explained and some quizzes to test your knowledge.
 * [|Englishplus.com Grammar Slammer] - has a long glossary og grammar terms with examples and explanations
 * [|The Grammar Aquarium] contains notes and exercises (online or in print) for all the major grammar areas.
 * Verb Tenses & Modals Mindmap summarises all the forms in one giant diagram very neatly; contains examples.
 * English Page - Verb Tenses - useful timelines
 * Parts of speech game
 * Grammar overview
 * Visit [|Jo Gakonga's site for webinars here.]

Please visit our podcasts page here. Some of the content would be useful for your assignments.
 * Podcasts**

**Sources for making exercises**

 * Nvu (A very good free html editor)
 * Kompozer (A more up-to-date version of Nvu)
 * Audacity (A good free sound editor)
 * Creative Education Resources (//TexToys// for //WebSequitur// & //WebRhubarb//)
 * Flash Audio Wizard (used for making Flash audio for the listening exercises.
 * Flash Video (used for making the Flash videos in the listening exercises).
 * Half-Baked Software (//Hot Potatoes// - excellent program - used for most of my exercises)
 * Java Boutique (Some useful programs - I got the Word Search exercise from here)
 * Peachpit Press (I like their //HTML 4 for the world wide web,// //JavaScript for the world wide web//, and //DHTML and CSS for the world wide web.//)
 * RealApplets (The applet for the java multiple choice exercises is from here.)
 * Teaching Tools (Extensions for Hot Potatoes and more, including Hangman.)
 * The Applet Depot (The applet for the jumbled word exercises is from here.)
 * The Javascript Source (More scripts available online)
 * Unicode Resources (Alan Wood's Unicode resources)
 * Web Developers Journal (Useful help for developing web-sites)
 * WebQuiz (A small useful program from Mike Scott)

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 * IWB/Digital resources:**
 * Create a word cloud with a shape of your choice at: []
 * Record yourself/your students onlilne: http://www.voki.com/pickup.php?scid=10686668&height=267&width=200
 * Rolling dice: http://www.teacherled.com/resources/dice/diceload.html
 * General tools:http://www.teacherled.com/
 * Make your own newspaper article:http://newspaper.jaguarpaw.co.uk/
 * A stopwatch/countdown timer:http://www.online-stopwatch.com/countdown-timer/
 * Create your own interactive jigsaw:http://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=createpuzzle&ret=%2F
 * QR question code generator:http://www.classtools.net/QR/
 * Google maps: https://maps.google.it/maps?q=online+teaching+tools&oe=utf-8&aq=t&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF-8&hl=en
 * A fantastic blog which provides film snippets with lesson ideas: http://moviesegmentstoassessgrammargoals.blogspot.it/search/label/comparatives%20with%20adjectives%20and%20nouns
 * You need to register for this site and eventually pay but for IWB ideas it might be worth your while as Russell Stannard is an award winning author for online content: http://www.interactive-resources.co.uk/
 * Song sheets: http://www.musicalenglishlessons.org/music-index.htm, http://busyteacher.org/classroom_activities-listening/songs_and_lyrics/
 * A range of Digital resources from the ELT Ireland homepage: http://www.elt-ireland.com/#!elt-ireland---reasources/c1oqg
 * This site should help you with your LA tasks. Stanford Parser for Langauge analysis: http://nlp.stanford.edu:8080/parser/index.jsp
 * Key to tags:[[file:Key to Parser tags Tag-set.pdf]]

...please contact us with details of any useful digital resources that you find here: t.training@ihromamz.it