LISTEN AND WRITE

Improve your listening skills and hear about the news. Listen-and-write.com is free listening practice.

Cricklers

Cricklers are Flash-based puzzles which adapt: they become easier or harder depending on the skill of the solver. There are several types of puzzle enjoy the news-based ones (e.g.choose London Times / drop down box right hand corner). They refer to today's news and each clue has a link to the article where you'll find the answer. A bonus for language learners is that you get to see the words in context.

ThanX to Jeffry for this hint

BOOKBUTLER

BookButler is a price comparison service for books and not a book store. This service helps you to compare the prices, availability and shipping from a wide range of bookstores. After you have found the book you are looking for, click on "Compare Prices" and you will see a list of stores who are selling this book. When you click on "View Item", you are forwarded to the bookstore of your choice where you can order the book.

CREATE VIDEOS FOR ESL

Two different but very cool features two work with videos.

1) ESL < Video http://www.eslvideo.com/index.php>
Use videos of YouTube BlipTV and others via the embed code. Create a quiz for it and publish it. Here is an example: < http://www.eslvideo.com/view_quiz.php?id=135>
2) Make your videos interactive with the help of asterpix. < http://www.asterpix.com/>
How does that work? Here are the details.
< http://www.asterpix.com/help/learnmore/creating/>
Enjoy and share your results with us.

TELLING DIGITAL STORIES

Here is a list of tools as a result of a discussion on the ev e-list on digital story telling.

• MS Photo Story 3 


• Jakes tutorials on  Photo Story 3
  
  


• Slidestory


• Slide


• BubbleShare


• SlideShare


• VoiceThread


• Animoto


• Scrapblog
  
  


• Cogdogroo's collection 50+ tools
  
  

CREATE YOUR OWN COMIC STRIPS

Good with words but lacking in artistic ability?
Have no fear, now you can create your own comic strips by using the pre-drawn frames at these sites.

http://www.stripcreator.com/make.php
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/comic/
http://www.wittycomics.com/make-comic.php
http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/

VUVOX

VUVOX is an online service that can enable you create personal, collaborative & emotive slideshows using your own digital media – including video, photos, music and text.
There are still some features in progress but it's already worth a try. Here a small example with the images of a workshop.

25 GBs FREE STORAGE

MediaMax, powered by Streamload, gives you a private and secure place to upload, store, access, and share your personal videos, photos,movies, music, and files.

< http://www.mediamax.com/index.aspx>

THE BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT PODCAST

THE SPOTLIGHT PODCAST

A NEW WAY TO PUBLISH: SCRIBD

Have a look at this example. Don't miss the possibility of the sound export.

A Different Dictionary