Drama project tools

Celtx is a nice free project work tool that can help give real shape to your class projects and make for much greater involvement and collaboration between students. It's a fee piece of software designed for creating media type projects such as movies, advertisements, screen plays, theatre plays etc.Once you've downloaded and installed the software, you choose what kind of project you want to create and then complete a series of templates which...

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Using 'How to' videos

Monkey See is an excellent site which carries a lot of short high quality video content. It is based around the concept of instructional videos; being able to see something in order to be able to do it yourself.It has short video clips that cover a really wide range of things from parenting tips, relationship advice, to how to set up a home studio, play the guitar or apply red lipstick!The featured video content is very high quality and each 'lesson'...

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Make your own chat room

Chatmaker helps you to do just that! I'm amazed at just how easy things like this have become these days and it's free! I used this website to create this chat room:http://www.chatmaker.net/chatap/rooms/NikPeachey/It took probably less than 2 minutes!Here's a quick tutorial showing how it was done.Chatmaker tutorial (Flash 202k)This is the kind of thing that you used to need your own server and a lot of knowledge to create, Now anyone can do it.How...

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A Picture's worth

A Picture's Worth is a really wonderful site which collects together images with short essays (300 - 1000 words). It's based on the old saying that a picture is worth a thousand words. The pictures and essays are sent in by site visitors.There's a gallery section where you can browse all the images and essays which have been sent in, as well as a feature section which has some of the most popular images. There is also a link to Google Maps which...

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Video debating website

I’ve been having a look at a new website (still in beta) which I think has some great educational / language learning potential. It's called BigThink.comThe site is designed to create debate and get people thinking about some of the big issues in life. It contains video clips from a very large and broad range of experts giving their opinions on various issues. users then have the opportunity to vote on whether they agree, respond to the questions raised or rate the speaker.The site also provides people with there opportunity to upload their own...

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Social networking for language learning

I've just seen this site which is aimed at helping people to set up language exchanges. It's a kind of social networking tool. It's called Friendsabroad.com. You simply put in your language and then the language you want to learn and then you can also choose the country where you would like to find the person. Click on search and you get a list of people who fit your criteria.You have to register, but it is free, then you can get in contact and start...

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