Mailvu

Mailvu is one of the useful tools that can unleash the power of video with the simplicity of email. It functions more or less similar to Keek. We can make video using both tools and teachers need to be creative in manipulating these tools for language teaching. Activities that can be conducted using this tool might be suitable for students age from 15-17 years old.


It is important to note that, to use this tool, webcam is needed while recording the video.


Teachers might create several activities to be collaborated with this tool. In order to get students to engage themselves into the class activity, for example, students can conduct an interview session among themselves and record it using the technology. Teachers might ask students to work in pairs and get students to firstly, make questions to ask another friend such as, 
1. How did you get your name?
2. Which character in Harry Potter do you like the most? 
3. What do you want for your next birthday present?
And, the list of questions go on as many as possible.

elloenglish

Elloenglish is a tool which consists of various activities including multimedia, free MP3 files, vocab tasks,

language notes, print page and more. 


How to use it? 

1. Just by clicking on the link and you will see this page is coming up from your screen: 

2. Students can choose which level they are and what genres they want. 

visuwords

Visuwords is a tool which offers students to look up words to find the definitions and associations with other words and concepts. It works like online graphical dictionary with colourful diagrams in showing the relations between words.


To use it, students can just type the vocabulary. For example, I'm trying to find the associative words to 'technology'. I could just type the word and press 'Enter', this is the diagram that coming up:

Learn English Through Sound and Media

The NFSA (National Film & Sound Archieve) offers educational community a very good website which has lots of digital resources like videos and audio clips that are available for streaming as well as downloading, to be used by teachers and students. 

There are several steps to be followed in using this website. Firstly, go click on the link below to get into the website : http://nfsa.gov.au/learning/digital-learning/.

You will see this page will be coming up on your computer screen:

Learn Language knowledge (Vocabulary, Grammar) And World Knowledge

Clicknlearn tool is a Spanish website which allows language learners to learn linguistic knowledge (grammatical rules) as well as world knowledge (Biology etc) depending on what learners want to learn. 


How to use this tool? 
1. Just click on the link and then enter site:

2. Choose the language. There are four languages available (English, French, Spanish and Valencia). In my context, I will choose English because English is my target language: