This page has lots of helpful web based resources that can help you in your everyday teaching. You can create paper based materials such as word searches or crosswords and you can also find image collections and interactive exercise creation tools.
Updated: Monday, September 29, 2008 9:15
Free Interactive Wordsearch Creator - www.teachers-direct.co.uk/resources/wordsearches
Wordsearches are a fun way of introducing and practising key words and terminology and are ideal activities for lesson starters or homeworks. The teachers-direct wordsearch maker allows you to create and save and print your own wordsearches. There are many options you can change to differentiate your resource including free interactive versions for your whiteboard or school website.
Flash ESOL resources from Content Workshop
Quiz
Maker
MAPE. You can create four different types of stand-alone quiz
SpellMaster
Create your own Flash 5 Vocabulary Training Aids Online (FREE)
http://www.spellmaster.com/
OCSD
Interactive Games
Design Your Own Games
http://www.oswego.org/staff/cchamber/techno/games.htm
CREATE
A MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST
The CASTLE
toolkit (Computer ASsisted Teaching & LEarning). The CASTLE toolkit
is an on-line authoring tool that allows course tutors and managers to
quickly create interactive quizzes for use on the web.
Hot
Potatoes
The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create
interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword,
matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web.
Parapal Online
This site includes software for schools and teachers to use to create
almost any type of learning interaction you can imagine.
Hangman code and download
Spelling activity
Vocabulary cards
Alphabet jigsaw
The Makers Pages
Created by the Mellon Project at Swarthmore College
http://lang.swarthmore.edu/makers
Charles Kelly's Online Quiz Generator
http://a4esl.org/c/
WebAuthor
(Language Resource Center at the University of Pennsylvania)
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/larrc/webauthor.html
MaxAuthor
MaxAuthor makes
authoring language courseware as easy as typing in the lesson text and
recording your voice. No programming is needed.
Clip Art, Pictures, Images
WPClipart
. . . a robust collection of high-quality artwork and photos optimized
for use in word processors and inkjet printers
The Internet Picture Dictionary [www.pdictionary.com]
Hassle free ClipArt - nice selection.
Free Images from the Hot Potatoes team
Royalty-Free Clip Art Collection for Foreign/Second Language Instruction by Kazumi Hatasa
Katy's Kubicle some images here (scroll down the homepage)
Discovery School.
Choose from hundreds of original clip art pieces
Stuff to make paper based worksheets
Educational software
and Jardotty fonts
Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists.
Tracing Sheet Maker from Personal Educational Press
Word Scramble Maker from TeAch-nology, Inc
Discovery School. Now you can create customized Vocab worksheets in less than 5 minutes! Word Chop [Enter words as a list - each on a new line]and Scramble [Enter words as a list - each on a new line] Matching [Enter words below as pairs separated by commas.]
Cool text is a nifty web site to make 'cool' text images like the one on the left
Audio
using
sound in websites
Sound can be usefully employed in websites to support SEN students. This
article explains how, and also points you to some of the tools (most of
which are available free) that you can use to add sound to Web pages yourself.
Jerry's Jukebox More midi Files
Midi files MIDIs Galore
A-Z LYRICS- a large, every day
growing universe of lyrics where stars
of all genres and ages shine
http://www.a1freesoundeffects.com
(National Center on Adult Literacy (NCAL), University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.)
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