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Cutting Edge Learning: tools for the EFL classroom of the future O.Meyer & TEAM EDID Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz/Germany want to share/add to the map? please get in touch: [email protected] or follow me on Twitter: @Oliver_T_Meyer by Mind Map: Cutting Edge Learning: tools for the EFL classroom of the future   O.Meyer & TEAM EDID Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz/Germany  want to share/add to the map?  please get in touch: omeyer@uni-mainz.de or follow me on Twitter: @Oliver_T_Meyer

1. write

1.1. penzu.com

1.2. boomwriter

1.3. Create your own fun newspaper

1.4. Easybib: Guide to better writing

1.5. Create Poems Online

1.6. lexipedia - where words have meaning

1.7. 50 Free Resources that will improve your writing skills

1.8. iFakeText

1.9. tools for digital storytelling

1.10. Top 8 Apps for Teaching Creative Writing

1.11. telescopic text: make writing fun

1.12. Sentence Builder (iPad) helps students Learn to Write

1.13. Playfic: Write, remix, share and play interactive text-based games

1.14. 5 Free Tools for Creating Comics in the Classroom

2. listen

2.1. listen-and-write

2.2. Podcasting

2.2.1. Podcasting in education

2.2.2. “Education Podcast Network”

2.3. 3 places to find talking children's storybooks

3. read

3.1. Blue Ribbon Readers: The Detective's Notebook Game : PBS LearningMedia

3.2. Free online teleprompter:

3.3. Brainpickings: your mental pool of resources

3.4. SketchPad Explorer

3.5. Seton Hill University’s iPad rollout

3.6. Literature Summary / Analysis

3.6.1. Cliff Notes

3.6.2. SparkNotes

3.7. Introduction to World Literature

3.8. Shakespeare Searched

3.9. Free Reading Resources from PBS

3.9.1. Pre K-1: Violet's Music

3.9.2. Blue Ribbon Readers: The Questioning Cube Game (K-5)

3.10. 26 ways to use comics in the classroom

3.11. Rewordify: simply ANY written text

3.12. Breaking News: News in 7 Levels

3.13. Newsela: differentiated reading (non-fictional texts) online

4. dictionaries

4.1. Macmillan Dictionary

4.2. Vocabulary.com

4.3. Forvo

4.4. Visual Dictionary Online

4.5. Big Huge Thesaurus

4.6. Add an image dictionary to your Chrome browser

4.7. Ozdic - Online Collocation Dictionary

4.8. Longman Dictionaries Online

4.9. Free Online Collocations Dictionary

5. share & collaborate

5.1. VoiceThread

5.2. eduClipper

5.3. DML Central

5.3.1. A Collaborative Guide to Best Digital Learning Practices for K-12

5.4. mindmeister

5.4.1. example for mindmeister:Tools To Enhance Your Personal Learning Environment

5.5. Wallwisher

5.6. Edmodo | Sicheres Soziales Lern-Netzwerk für Lehrende und Lernende

5.7. 'Fakebook'! Create a Fake Facebook Profile Wall using this generator

5.8. Scribblar.com:

5.9. Facebook

5.9.1. 5 Reasons Why Educators Need To Embrace Internet Technologies

5.9.2. University of South Florida teacher uses Facebook in class

5.9.3. Texas Kindergarten Teacher communicating with Parents via Facebook

5.9.4. Classroom 2.0 Discussion Forum

5.9.5. Jay Dsfsu's Youtube Channel with describing videos

5.9.5.1. The Basics of a Facebook Page for Educators

5.9.5.2. Privacy on Facebook for Educators

5.9.5.3. Setting up a Facebook Group for Your Class

5.9.6. 100 Ways You Should be Using Facebook in Your Classroom

5.9.7. 25 Facebook Apps That Are Perfect for Online Education

5.9.8. How To Use Facebook Questions In The Classroom

5.9.9. Facebook Summit 2011

5.9.10. 10 Beneficial Facebook Pages For Educators To Check Out

5.10. Learning Management Systems

5.10.1. Course Sites by blackboard

5.10.2. Ecto Learning

5.10.3. MyiCourse

5.10.4. rCmpus

5.10.5. Schoology

5.10.6. SchoolRack

5.11. Edutopia

5.12. Room 21

5.13. Taking IT Global

5.14. Free Education Technology Resources eBook

5.15. Free Resources For Education Available from Apple

5.16. Free Technology for Teachers

5.17. Google Aps for Education

5.18. Microsoft Live @ edu

5.19. Google Docs

5.20. ZOHO

5.21. Dropbox

5.22. Enter the Group

5.23. Onlive Desktop

5.24. Bubbl

5.25. 4Great Twitter Apps

5.26. Emerging Ed Tech on Twitter

5.27. How to Use Twitter

5.28. Twitter - in the classroom

5.29. Blogging

5.29.1. Blogger.com

5.29.2. Edublogs

5.29.3. Teacher's blog

5.29.4. Free Technology for Teachers: 21 Map Creation Tools for Students and Teachers | ...

5.29.5. Classroom Blogs

5.29.6. Student blogs

5.29.7. How to set up a classroom blog: 10 Essential Steps

5.29.8. Administrator's Blogs

5.29.9. Educational Technologist’s Blogs

5.29.10. WordPress

5.29.11. Eric Blue’s Blog » 15 Effective Tools for Visual Knowledge Management

5.29.12. English Raven: Moodle Tutorials from English Raven

5.29.13. Magnoto: Freestyle Blogging & Website Building

5.29.14. Twitter in the Classroom

5.30. EDU 2.0

5.31. Learnist

5.31.1. 10 Ways to Use Learnist in the Classroom

5.32. 5

6. watch

6.1. 25 Awesome Virtual Learning Experiences Online (RT @russeltarr)

6.2. Khan Academy

6.3. HowStuffWorks "Learn how Everything Works!"

6.4. 100 Best YouTube Videos for Teachers

6.5. General Video Lecture Sites

6.5.1. Academic Earth

6.5.2. Apple’s “iTunes U":

6.5.3. The OpenCourseWare Consortium

6.5.4. Free Video Lectures

6.5.5. Videolectures.net

6.5.6. LearnersTV

6.5.7. Lecture Fox

6.5.8. YouTube EDU

6.6. Video Lectures Sites from Specific Universities

6.6.1. MIT OpenCourseWare

6.6.2. Open Yale Courses

6.6.3. Stanford University’s YouTube Channel

6.6.4. UCLA “BruinCast”

6.7. TED Talks

6.8. WatchKnow

6.9. TeacherTube, and other YouTube alternatives for instructional use (part 1 of 2)

6.10. Seven Online Classrooms Teachers Can Use to Augment Their Own

6.11. Explania: Instructional Videos, animated explanations:

6.12. EmergingEdTech

6.13. Simple English Videos

6.14. Vialogues : Meaningful discussions around video

6.15. ESL video

6.16. Create Flippled Classrooms from Youtube Videos: Teachem

6.17. NEWS for students: CNN Student News

6.18. A youtubefree educational video search engine

7. create

7.1. presentation

7.1.1. 280 Slides

7.1.2. wordle

7.1.3. Piktochart

7.1.4. Zoho Show - Online Presentation Tool

7.1.5. Free microsoft tools in the classroom

7.1.6. Slide Transitions

7.1.7. Custom Animations

7.1.8. Templates for PowerPoint from Microsoft

7.1.8.1. Set of dozen backgrounds

7.1.8.2. advanced set of templates

7.1.9. Audio elements

7.1.9.1. Add Audio or Music to Your PowerPoint Presentations

7.1.9.2. Slideshare Presentations Plus Audio

7.1.9.3. Audacity

7.1.10. Presentation magazine

7.1.11. Zentation: Webinar software

7.1.12. Advanced PowerPoint Tutorials

7.1.12.1. More Advanced Features in Microsoft PowerPoint

7.1.12.2. Advanced Power Point Tutorial Video search results from Bing

7.1.13. Online Presentation Tools for E-Learning

7.1.13.1. Prezi

7.1.13.2. Slideshare

7.1.14. Screencasting with JING

7.1.15. Screenpresso

7.1.16. Screenr

7.1.17. Screencast-O-Matic

7.1.18. Screencastle

7.1.19. Webinaria

7.1.20. CamStudio

7.1.21. Faculte

7.1.22. NCH Software

7.1.23. fun free presentation tools

7.1.23.1. Prezi

7.1.23.2. Glogster

7.1.23.3. Vuvox

7.1.23.4. OneTrueMedia

7.1.23.5. Voki

7.1.24. Making the Rudolph Music Video (a Web 2.0 story)

7.1.25. 5 Reasons Why I Think Camtasia Rocks

7.1.26. 8 Great Free Digital Presentation Tools For Teachers

7.1.27. Free screencasting – easy; free video editing – not so much

7.1.28. Screencasting with Debut’s Lite Version

7.1.29. Vuvox Rocks

7.1.30. creating pp games

7.1.30.1. Jeopardy game

7.1.30.1.1. pp file 1

7.1.30.1.2. pp file 2

7.1.30.2. crossword

7.1.31. Smart Exchange

7.1.32. Topmarks

7.1.33. Power Point

7.1.33.1. Jazz up your pp slides

7.1.33.2. Tipps on using pp slide animations

7.1.33.3. Free picture and text effects template

7.1.33.4. Presentation Magazine

7.1.33.5. Slide Speech

7.1.34. PowToon: Create Animated Videos and Presentations

7.2. videos, movies, quizzes, games, images

7.2.1. CLASSTOOLS

7.2.2. TokBox

7.2.3. Dvolver Moviemaker

7.2.4. Virtual worlds

7.2.4.1. Second Life

7.2.4.1.1. Art Galleries

7.2.4.1.2. System Requirements

7.2.4.2. The Future of 3D Technology

7.2.4.3. Three great YouTube videos about Educational uses of Second Life

7.2.4.4. Google's Liquid Galaxy Project

7.2.4.5. Cool insight into the future of virtual worlds & virtual reality

7.2.5. thinglink.com: Make your Images Interactive

7.2.6. Makeuseof.com: Creating Infographics

7.2.7. Holt Interactive Graphic Organizers

7.2.8. Tagxedo: Word Clouds with Styles

7.2.9. Puzzle maker

7.2.10. John's word search puzzles

7.2.11. Easy Test Maker

7.2.12. Quiz Star

7.2.13. Go Animate

7.3. Tech Tools to Support Creativity in the Classroom - LiveBinder

7.4. flubaroo: Creating multiple-choice or fill-in-blank assignments

7.5. Tasks

7.6. Templates

7.6.1. Awards Certificates

7.6.2. Bookmarks and Book Plates

7.6.3. Calendars & Classroom Organizers

7.6.4. Flash Card - study stack

7.6.5. Flash card exchange

7.6.6. Form filler

7.6.7. Holiday & Seasonal Worksheets

7.6.8. Super Teacher Worksheets

7.6.9. Newsletters

7.6.10. Monthly News

7.6.11. Free Internet Tools for Teachers

7.7. Clipart

7.7.1. DiscoveryEducation

7.7.2. School-Clipart

7.7.3. TeacherFiles

7.8. ABCteach - Interactive Activities

7.9. Rubrics

7.9.1. RubiStar

7.9.2. Rubrics 4 Teachers

7.9.3. iRubrics

7.10. Flipped Textbook

7.11. Picture, Photo, & Image Editing & Organizing

7.11.1. Aviary

7.11.2. Foto Flexer

7.11.3. Photo Funia

7.11.4. Picasa

7.11.5. Pixenate

7.11.6. Fotobabble

7.12. Random

7.13. Create your own interactive textbooks - Active Textbooks

8. assess

8.1. Digital Literacy tour

8.2. A pedagogical framework for mobile learning

8.3. ELS Video: making video quizzes

8.4. learner analytics

9. practice

9.1. Vocab

9.1.1. Vivid Vocab

9.1.2. iVerb

9.1.3. Tools for Educators - free worksheet templates, printable game templates, ...

9.1.4. Vivid Vocab Video - YouTube

9.1.5. SpellingCity.com

9.1.6. Vocabster

9.1.7. Highlighting Lexical Chunks with Diigo

9.1.8. Flashcardstash

9.2. Grammar

9.2.1. Gramster

9.2.2. English4u

9.2.3. Ego4u

9.2.4. Oxford Practice Grammar

9.2.5. Road to Grammar

9.2.6. Self-Study English Grammar

9.2.7. Check your grammar online: Grammarly

9.3. language

9.3.1. Mindsnacks I Gamification Blog

9.3.2. Super Readers Challenge : PBS LearningMedia

9.3.3. Idiom Site.com: Find out the meaning of common idioms

9.4. Writing

9.4.1. The Write-n-ator! Writing for younger students:

9.4.2. Easybib- Guides to better Writing

9.5. Spelling

9.5.1. SpellingCity.com

9.6. Speaking

9.6.1. Voxopop: A voice-based eLearning-Tool

9.7. iPhone Apps

9.7.1. ..for Educators

10. collect & reflect: ePortfolios & more

10.1. FolioHD

10.2. WordPress>Simple Portfolio

10.3. penzu.com

10.4. Padlet

10.5. ePortfolio

10.6. ePortfolio for advanced purposes

10.7. desire2learn

10.8. iPad e-Portfolio Apps

10.9. Fantastic Tackk about E-Portfolios by TechChef4U

10.10. 8 recommended iPad Apss by Teachthought

10.11. Which portfolio is the best for you?

11. organize: tools & more

11.1. Doodle

11.2. SurveyMonkey

11.3. kubbu.com

11.4. Android Apps

11.4.1. Attendance

11.4.2. Grade Book

11.4.3. Grade Rubric

11.4.4. Grade Ticker

11.5. lesson plans

11.5.1. A to Z teacher stuff

11.5.2. Discovery Education

11.5.3. Scholastic

11.5.4. Teacher.net

11.5.5. Lesson Plans Page

11.6. Evernote

11.7. Read it later

11.8. EDU 2.0

11.9. 25 killer dropbox tips and tricks

11.10. MERAKI: manage your mobile devices from the cloud (for iPAD, MAC, Android and PC)

12. gamify: interactive games & more

12.1. Games

12.1.1. Preloaded:Games with purpose

12.1.2. Crickweb

12.1.3. Funbrain

12.1.4. Discovery.com's Games

12.1.5. Shepphard Software

12.1.6. National Geographic Games

12.1.7. FunSchool

12.1.8. Primary Games

12.1.9. Educational Games on NobelPrize.org

12.1.10. Prongo

12.1.11. Childtopia

12.1.12. Knowledge Adventure

12.1.13. Learning Games for kids

12.1.14. Multiplication.com

12.1.15. Play Kids Games

12.1.16. Hooda Math

12.1.17. 4Kids.org

12.1.18. Math Playground

12.1.19. Mission US: For Crown or Colony? : PBS LearningMedia

12.2. Blogs

12.2.1. Play to Learn: Digital Games in ELT

13. learn: moocs & friends

13.1. EDU 2.0

13.2. Open Educational Resources

13.3. Online College Classes

13.4. 500 free Online Courses

14. differentiate

14.1. Using Digital Tools for Differentiation

14.2. The Differentiator

15. promote higher order thinking

15.1. Taxonomy of Socratic Questioning

15.2. Blooming Apps

15.3. Bloom's digital taxonomy wheel and knowledge dimension

15.4. practice critical thinking skills

16. visualize:

16.1. Graphic Organizers

16.2. 5 Steps to Create a Powerful Visual

16.3. Visual Storytelling

16.4. piktochart

16.5. creately - online diagramming and collaboration

16.6. periodic table of visualization methods

16.7. visual.ly

16.8. visuwords

16.9. easel.ly

16.10. gliffy

16.11. infogr.am

16.12. Lucidchart: Create Charts Collaboratively

16.13. Guide to Creating Effective Posters

17. get in touch with others

17.1. United Classroom

17.2. eTwinning

18. embrace new technologies

18.1. Interactive White Boards

18.1.1. 9 insightful videos about using SMART Boards in the Classroom

18.1.2. PolyVision ēno whiteboards: A great alternative to the SMART Board

18.1.3. The Eno Interactive Whiteboard – A Teacher’s First Glimpse

18.1.4. Taking Mimio’s low-cost, portable Interactive White Board device for a test run

18.1.5. Using The iPad As A Digital Whiteboard (Plus 4 Cool Free Apps To Try It Out)

18.1.6. ZigZagBoard

18.1.7. SyncSpace

18.1.8. Jot!Free

18.1.9. 4Free Digital Whiteboard iPad Apps

18.1.10. Dabbleboard

18.1.11. Whiteboards: Promethean Planet

18.1.12. 6 free online collaborative interactive whiteboards

18.2. Augmented Reality

18.2.1. AR Apps

18.3. iPad

18.3.1. Apps in Education

18.3.2. iPads in Primary Education

18.3.3. EmergingEd Tech iPad Apps

18.3.4. Free iPad Apps for Educators and Parents

18.3.5. Apple iOS 6 Guided Access Boon for High-Stakes Testing with iPads

18.3.6. School Edition - BuzzMath

18.3.7. Preschool Memory Match

18.3.8. Times Tables Quiz!

18.3.9. Trainyard Express

18.3.10. BrainPOP Featured Movie

18.3.11. Amazing Shape Puzzle Lite

18.3.12. My Math App Flashcards

18.3.13. Math Puppy

18.3.14. Factor Samurai

18.3.15. 40 Apps for Science

18.3.16. Animations & Drawing: Do Ink

19. go mobile/BYOD

19.1. elearning 3.0 (Steve Wheeler)

19.2. effective mobile learning (S. Terrel)

19.3. Resource Roundup (Edutopia)

19.4. cell phones in the classroom wiki

19.5. BYOD Toolkit

19.6. Creating Device Neutral Assignments for BYOD Classes

20. become net smart

20.1. 90 Videos for Media and Tech Literacy

20.2. digitalliteracy.gov

20.3. thinkb4u

20.4. great list of resources from classroom-aid

20.5. crap detection 101: evaluating websites

20.6. teach information literacy

20.7. partnership for 21st century skills

20.8. factchecked.org

20.9. digital literacy and citizenship classroom curriculum

20.10. article_ digital transliteracy as the social intelligence of the 21st century

20.11. 15 lesson plans for making students better online researchers (edudemic)

20.12. Seven myths about young children and technology (Lydia Plowman)

20.13. TTV (Russel Stannard): free online tutorials for learning to use ICT in the classroom

21. speak

21.1. Create Speaking Avatars: Voki

21.2. voxopop

22. CLIL Tools

22.1. CLIL-Store, Wordlink and Multidict