USEFUL REFERENCES

Many of the tools and sites we have been looking at were not originally designed for teaching English but in some cases they are more effective for day to day teaching than the specialised efl sites. Here, however, are a few more useful sites for you to visit if you want to integrate technology into your teaching:

Specialised EFL sites

http://www.onestopenglish.com Here you can find a wealth of lesson plans and materials;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/ Here you can find podcasts, videos, lessons etc. an excellent resource;
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/ this is an excellent resource for listening lessons with downloadable mp3 files and complete lesson plans;
http://www.macmillanglobal.com/elessons/archive a very good resource with relevant lessons that are updated regularly.

Useful software for authoring exercises:

http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ this is the hot potatoes site for creating activities.
http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/quandary.php this is a lovely site for making mazes.
http://www.cict.co.uk/markin/index.php this is a great correction tool.
http://www.techsmith.com/jing/ you can use this to make short screen capture videos of your desktop with audio.
http://www.podomatic.comhttp://it.youtube.com you can use this to make podcasts.
http://www.vocaroo.com this is extremely simple to use to make audio texts.

My blog and teaching wiki

http://hartlelearning.wordpress.com
You can use this as a starting point to read my articles (if you want to ) and to access other people's blogs.
http://hartledistancelearning.wikispaces.com My teaching wiki is just one example of how a wiki can be combined with f2f teaching in a blended learning approach.

Another list of useful bookmarks
http://www.englishcaster.com this is a general index of some useful sites.