25 Tech Tips from JALT 2016

  1. etec-illustrationThe Free Music Archive is a great place to find music for apps, games, and other projects
  2. LiveInk allows you to easily render any text in a “brain friendly” way
  3. FreeHostia allows you to host your own website, blog, or bulletin board for free
  4. Roll20 is a suite of easy-to-use digital tools that expand pen-and-paper game play
  5. Pics4Learning provides free clip art for educational resources..
  6. ..while the Library of Congress can be used to find public domain images of historical significance..
  7. ..and ELT Pics is a Flickr photo stream containing over 25,000 pictures for teachers of ESL
  8. LibSyn provides podcast hosting for only $5 a month
  9. Hopscotch helps you learn to code through creative play..
  10. ..while Javascript Obfuscator helps you protect your ideas when you eventually create that “killer app”..
  11. ..and the Learn How YouTube channel contains video tutorials for beginner programmers
  12. Imiwa is a Japanese dictionary for iOS
  13. Smart Smart produces many different apps for English study
  14. TEDict is an iOS app which allows you to use TED videos for listening dictation practice
  15. News in English provides English news in three different levels of difficulty
  16. Herstory is an innovative and interactive detective game
  17. EFL Technologies provide a number of free apps for learning the NGSL, GSL, NAWL and AWL
  18. English Test Prep Review provides unofficial guides and review materials for TOEFL, TOEIC, and other standardized tests
  19. Leander’s Lexicon Extractor is a free online tool that allows students and teachers of English to quickly extract and list important vocabulary from an inputted text
  20. CleverBot allows students to practice English conversation with an artificially intelligent chat bot
  21. Bloomin’ Apps lists apps and websites for every level of Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy
  22. The Rule of 6 (eBook) propounds a simple framework for how to teach with an iPad
  23. The WikiTude SDK allows you to build your own augmented reality app..
  24. ..while Aurasma enables anyone to easily create, manage, and track augmented reality experiences
  25. Documents 5 allows you to read, listen, view and annotate many kinds of documents on your iPad or iPhone

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

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