36 Tools for Digitising your ELT Course Book Vocabulary development Wordle http://www.wordle.net/ create Get students thinking about the vocabulary from the texts they are studying. Wordnik http://www.wordnik.com / Get students finding out more about words and creating their own word lists. FlickRiver http://flickriver.com Brainstorm topics using visual to stimulate vocabulary and existing knowledge. Going beyond word level Phras.in http://phras.in / Get students to hypothesize and check collocations. PhraseUp http://www.phraseup.com / Students can find out words that are commonly used together. 36 Tools for Digitising your ELT Course Book Nik Peachey | Learning Technology Consultant, Writer, Trainer Page 1 http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/NikPeachey
These are the notes to accompany my presentation at IATEFL Brighton 2011. The document shows a number of tools and how they can be used to create digital tasks to mirror those in our course books.
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36 Tools for Digitising your ELT Course Book
Vocabulary developmentVocabulary developmentVocabulary development
Wordlehttp://www.wordle.net/create
Get students thinking about the vocabulary from the texts they are studying.
Wordnikhttp://www.wordnik.com/
Get students finding out more about words and creating their own word lists.
FlickRiverhttp://flickriver.com
Brainstorm topics using visual to stimulate vocabulary and existing knowledge.
Going beyond word levelGoing beyond word levelGoing beyond word level
Phras.inhttp://phras.in/
Get students to hypothesize and check collocations.
PhraseUphttp://www.phraseup.com/
Students can find out words that are commonly used together.
Get students to do pronunciation research and find out about other accents.
HowJsayhttp://howjsay.com/
Get students to explore word stress and find related words.
Making example sentences and texts more interestingMaking example sentences and texts more interestingMaking example sentences and texts more interesting
You can show students how to add detail to sentences and they can examine sentence structure. they can also practice adding detail to their own sentences.
You can create yes no receptive skills tasks and students can compare their answers with others.You can get students thinking about discussion topics.You can get students creating polls.
Intervue Mehttp://intervue.me
You can get students to answers comprehension questions verbally using video.You can create discussion questionnaires for them.