Online Tools for Language Teaching
In his article “Online Tools
for language teaching”[1], Dr. Jeong-Bae Son of the
University of Southern Queensland, Australia, divides online tools for language
teaching (OTLT) into 12 categories. Here
is a list of some the tools he mentioned in his article:
1. Learning/content management systems:
Blackboard, Drupal, Joomla, Moodle
and Sakai.
2. Communication:
Gmail, Skype, TokBox, Windows Live
Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Jabberwacky, Verbot, MyBB, phpBB, Tangler and Voxopop.
3. Live and virtual worlds:
Elluminate, Livestream, OpenSimulator,
ActiveWorlds, Second Life, Ustream, Wimba Classroom and WiZiQ.
4. Social networking and bookmarking:
Delicious, Diigo, Elgg, Facebook,
Grouply, MySpace, Ning, SocialGo, LinkedIn, Twitter, Lang-8 and Livemocha.
5. Blogs and wikis:
Blogger, Edmodo, Edublogs, LiveJournal,
WordPress.com, PBWorks, Wikispaces and Penzu.
6. Presentation:
280 Slides, Animoto, Empresser, Prezi,
SlideRocket and Zoho Show.
7. Resource sharing:
Google Docs, TitanPad, Zoho Writer,
Box.net, Dropbox, VoiceThread, Xtranormal, Flickr, Picasa, MyPodcast, PodOmatic,
Glogster, Screenr, Slideshare, PhotoPeach, Dipity, OurStory, Jing, SchoolTube, TeacherTube,
VideoPress, Vimeo, WatchKnow and YouTube.
8. Website creation:
Google Sites, Jimdo, KompoZer, Mahara,
Movable Type, SnapPages, Weebly, Webnode, Webs and Wix.
9. Web exercise creation:
ontentGenerator, SMILE, ESL Video,
JClic, Hot Potatoes, Quia, Lingt and Listen and Write.
10. Web search engines:
Ask.com, Bing, Google and Yahoo! Search.
11. Dictionaries and concordancers:
Dictionary.com, Merriam--‐Webster
Online, YourDictionary.com, Compleat Lexical Tutor, Forvo, Howjsay, Visuwords, OneLook
Dictionary Search and VLC Web Concordancer.
12. Utilities:
CalculateMe, CalendarFly, Doodle,
ClustrMaps, Currency Converter, Dvolver Moviemaker, Google Earth, Lesson Writer, Storybird, Cacoo,
Mindmeister, Mindomo, Remember the milk, SurveyMonkey, Voki, Time and Date, TinyURL.com,
W3C Link Checker, Wallwisher, Wayback Machine and Wordle.
(Son, 2011, p. 2-3).
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