There’s a good introduction to concordancers in ELT on the British Council Teaching English website here:
https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/concordancers-elt
Here’s an example of an online concordance
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Pete’s trip to Venezuela
Pete’s itinerary includes visits to universities in Mérida (Thursday 28th May), Puerto Cabello (3rd June am), Valencia (3rd June pm), Maracay (June 4th ) and Caracas (June 5th).
And, of course, VENTESOL http://ventesol.ning.com/
PPT vs Prezi
More and more people in the corporate world are turning to Prezi. www.prezi.com What about EAP?
Giving feedback with iAnnotate
There are many ways of giving students feedback on their writing.
iAnnotate allows you to provide feedback by annotating a .pdf
Apps
Which apps are useful for EAP students?
Master Cite is a reference checker: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/globalpad/mastercite/
Free software to help with referencing
Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network. Make your own fully-searchable library in seconds, cite as you write, and read and annotate your PDFs on any device. Visit: https://www.mendeley.com/
Virtual Learning Environments: which one?
There are many VLEs available.
To explore Moodle, visit the site and try out some of the courses: https://moodle.org/demo/
To open a free educator’s account on English360: http://www.english360.com/pricing/
Edmodo https://www.edmodo.com/
Chamilo https://chamilo.org/
MOOCs – how effective are they?
MOOC stands for massive open online course. Just how effective are they? For more on MOOCs, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course
Sonocent Audio Notetaker
Sonocent Audio Notetaker combines audio, text and images in one single workspace. Audio is visualised into coloured chunks and can be highlighted to analyse. This allows the analysing of the language used in a live or online class, through to practising presentations and even teacher development. Here is a short clip to remind you of how Sonocent Audio Notetaker can support learning and teaching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf6l48P1FZs
Ebooks
iPad o Kindle? Sony or Kobe? EBook readers are becoming increasingly popular. They are great ways to read .pdfs
