1. James Rogers gives pronunciation advice for Japanese learners of English
2. Linode is a powerful and good value web host
3. The Multiplayer Classroom (Lee Sheldon) was one of the first publications arguing for gamification of education
4. Class Craft helps you to make learning an adventure
5. Socrative allows you to administer assessments and surveys via mobile phones
6. Kahoot provides gamified classroom activities
7. QuizUp offers a competitive multi-player gaming experience
8. Sendtodropbox is a great way of getting files from your students into your Dropbox account…
9. …while QuickVoice (iOS) allows you to record and send audio files as email attachments up to 5MB in size…
10. …and MailVU are specialists in sending video via email
11. Moxtra is a mobile-first embeddable collaboration platform…
12. …and VoiceThread allows students to submit audio as attachments to images
13. Schoology is a modern Learner Management System
14. Ginger offers a variety of apps for online translation and grammar checking…
15. …while Grammarly claims to make you a better writer by finding and correctly 10 times more mistakes than you word processor
16. WikiTude is the world’s leading augmented reality SDK
17. Diigo allows you to annotate and save web pages as you browse them
18. Tiki Toki is web based software for creating beautiful timelines
19. iBuildApp allows you to easily make apps for iOS or Android
20. Mobyx (iOS) provides high quality VOIP (Voice over IP) services
21. KanjiTomo is a comprehensive OCR (Optical Character Recognition) application for Japanese characters…
22. …while Yomiwa (iOS) provides a real-time offline camera translator for Japanese…
23. …and Perfect Master Kanji (iOS) is a fully fledged kanji practice app for people learning Japanese as a foreign language…
24. …and Nihongo Shark provides free daily lessons for learners of Japanese
25. Discord provides all-in-one text and voice chat for gamers
26. Continuous Partial Attention (Linda Stone) is “motivated by a desire to be a LIVE node on the network”
27. Wiggle allows you to easily import sporting goods and accessories (a weird one, but a good one for those of us who struggle to find bicycles big enough in Japan!)
28. Phonologics offers automated pronunciation testing
29. Words and Monsters taps into the addictive game play of apps like Puzzle and Dragons and Candy Crush by offering uncertain and unexpected rewards
30. Paul Howard Jones is the preeminent expert on the effect of games on the brain

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