Category: Language

  • Tool #94: Myngle: Live long-distance language learning

    Students and Teachers meet online
    Students and Teachers meet online

    Teaching is no longer tethered to geography. If I want to learn German, I can get a German teacher from Germany, living IN Germany right now. If I want to teach English to someone in Argentina, I put up my rate and other details at Myngle. Students find me and I teach using Skype, with up to 4 other students. The simple interface and ease of matching students with teachers made this a recent winner at a teachers conference in Europe.

  • Tool #93: Doing Interviews: Tips

    Interviews for Podcasts
    Interviews for Podcasts

    Doing interviews is an essential part of many podcasts. Podcast Academy explains in text or in audio how to make your interview interesting and successful. Then read James Fallows write in the Atlantic about how to give a good interview. He’s famous for it.

  • Tool #92: Learning Grammar with Movies

    Learn Grammar with Movies
    Learn Grammar with Movies

    Great little site MSTAGG with short clips from recent movies used to teach grammar points. This is definitely upper intermediate though, but he has gone through the material and done a good job of presenting examples. The clips are sometimes too long, but you can further filter them if you want to spend time preparing.

  • Tool #91: WeboWord: Vocabulary with drawings

    WeboWord
    WeboWord

    Learn a new vocabulary item each day with an illustrative drawing, examples, explanations and lots of information about that word. Lots of fun at WeboWord.

  • Tool #90: Building a Personal Learning Network: PLN

    Personal Learning Network
    Personal Learning Network

    This site is not for students, it is for teachers. Every teacher nowadays needs a network of resources to keep pace with the advances in teaching and technology. Here they show you how to do it. Creating a Personal Learning Network involves finding and keeping track of valuable resources that you can go back to when you need them. That is what I am doing here with the 100 Tools, in a way, building my own PLN.