twenty first century language learning series
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The Powerpoint that accompanies my CATESOL presentation on Web Applications for ESL teachers on Dec. 2, 2011 in Santa Barbara.TRANSCRIPT
Twenty-First Century Language Learning Series: Web-based Applications to Simplify Teachers’ Lives
By Michael Q Larson – ELS Center Director
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Content ManagementDropboxGoogle Docs
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Social MediaClasswaveSlideshare
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ContentLesson PlanetPermaFry
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Grading and AttendanceEngrade
Classwave
Classwave is a social network designed for college to students to connect and share with the people in their classes.
Classwave allows students to see who is currently in their classes allowing them to communicate and share information regardless if they are Facebook friends or not.
Classwave
SlideShare
“SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing presentations.
With 55 million monthly visitors and 120 million pageviews, it is amongst the most visited 200 websites in the world.
Besides presentations, SlideShare also supports documents, PDFs, videos and webinars.”
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LessonPlanet
Founded in 1999 by educator, Jim Hurley, Lesson Planet is the #1 online teacher resource search tool, now helping teachers in over 23,000 schools around the world.
Lesson Planet's team of credentialed teacher reviewers and editors are constantly scanning the Internet for new online lesson plans and worksheets to review and rate. Every month over 6,000 newly reviewed and rated online teacher resources are added to Lesson Planet.
LessonPlanet
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you through your reading and tests you when you’re ready Permafry enables easy, convenient test generation for any
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Engrade
“Engrade was founded in 2003 with a single mission: to help teachers.
Our service is truly free and will remain free. We offer all teacher services for free and we offer a large number of school services for free. Engrade is supported by schools that chose to upgrade to our optional premium service, EngradePlus, which offers advanced reports and customizations.”
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