- Team Talk is a great way to chat with text or voice, on a LAN or the Internet
- kotobaminers.org is a community for learning Japanese and English through Minecraft
- Many teachers use the world-building game Minecraft to engage and educate.
- Memrise is a great way to learn something new every day
- Bubbl.us allows you to brainstorm and mind map online…
- likewise, Popplet is a great app for brainstorming on your iOS device…
- … and Padlet is paper for the web
- VoiceThread is a tool which enables conversations in the cloud
- Voki allows you to add voices (in over 25 languages) to customised avatars
- BYOD means “Bring Your Own Device”
- Agoda is a great website for finding cheap hotels
- The Mixxer is a great place to find language exchanges via Skype
- LiveMocha provides drop-in, instructor-led conversation classes online
- MyLanguageExchange is also a good place to find language exchange partners
- Voice of America provides easy-to-understand news for English learners
- livesofteachers.com interviews famous names in the English-teaching community
- WeVideo is one of the leading online video creation platforms
- Notability is a great app for annotating PDFs
- WikiSpaces.com provides social writing workspaces for education
- Text-to-speech.imtranslator.net allows you to listen to the English language in multiple accents
- Popjisyo provides pop-up dictionary translations for English or Japanese vocabulary on any website
- Simpleenglishnews.com provides simple English news for English learners!
- BocaVideo is an app which turns your visuals and voice into attractive, engaging videos.
- PBworks is a good tool for online team collaboration
- Trace Effects is an immersive, free 3D video game for learning American English
- Linguamation is a studio specialising in video games for language learners
- The US Department of State has a website for learning American English
- MailChimp is a great way to easily manage newsletter mailing lists
- iTeacherBook records teachers’ schedules, student attendance, and grades, and more…
- …while iStudiez helps students manage their learning
- TeacherKit is an alternative (free) productivity tool for teachers, with many features
- iGrade is an app for grading students…
- … as is Paperless Teacher…
- …
while Bento can help you manage your files and dataUpdate: Bento has been discontinued - Stick Pick is an app for randomising student names
- iTools is an alternative to iTunes for managing Apps, Music and Photos on your iOS device
- Infinote is a virtual pin-board for notes and tasks
- Notes Plus allows you to use less paper
- The Babel Program is developing advanced speech recognition technology
- Desktop Tidy allows you to keep your Mac desktop tidy
- You can upload videos direct to your Google Drive with the Google Drive app
- Similarly, you can upload videos direct to YouTube with the YouTube Capture App
- 8mm allows you to give that vintage 8mm look to your iOS device videos…
- … while VideoFX Live lets you create real time video effects…
- …and Video Star is great for becoming the star of your own music videos
- Weebly is a super simple way to create great looking websites
- MReader is Moodle Reader minus Moodle
- There is a hidden side to everything
- Elance is the best place to find freelancers
- The JALT CALL Conference is an amazing opportunity for learning how to use technology in English teaching!
If you found these tips useful, why not check out the new version of my book, which has been revised, updated and expanded for 2019: 50 Ways to Teach with Technology