- howdoyou.do allows students to practice their English writing and speaking skills by chatting with native speakers or with other learners of English
- Basecamp allows groups of people to collaborate on projects remotely…
- …as does Trello
- Tandem is a mobile app which helps students to find native speakers of English who want to do a language exchange
- P2 is a theme for WordPress that transforms a blog into a social forum, with features such as inline comments, and inline editing of posts and comments
- The Ginger Grammar Checker helps students write better English and efficiently corrects texts
- The Cambridge English Corpus is a multi-billion word collection of written and spoken English
- The NGSL-S is a list of high frequency words of everyday spoken English…
- …while the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English focuses on academic spoken English
- Word Learner (iOS|Android|Web) is a science-based efficient word learning system which tracks students’ vocabulary learning
- Lingopolis is a fun, social and fast vocabulary game powered by Cambridge Dictionaries Online
- VoiceTube allows students to learn English by watching TED talks, movies, and music videos…
- …while Speech Yard also offers English learning through videos with interactive subtitles
- PirateBox is a DIY anonymous offline file-sharing and communications system built with free software and inexpensive off-the-shelf hardware
- RACHEL Offline provides free copies of open source websites such as TED and Wikipedia for download and use without an internet connection
- Plickers is a tool that lets teachers collect real-time assessment data without the need for student devices
- The Intel Compute Card is a credit card sized computing device to be launched in August 2017
- SpyFall is an online version of the popular language-based board game of the same name
- Showbie combines all of the essential tools for assignments, feedback and communication into a single app…
- …while Schoology allows teachers and students to connect, communicate, and share with their peers across campus and around the world
- ReadTheory is an online reading practice platform that supplies students with an extensive library of passages targeting individual levels
- English News Weekly is a weekly English news podcast produced by Hiroshima University
- The M3 is a tiny fully functioning computer
- Kapture is an audio-recording wristband that allows you to easily save and share audio recordings of your life
- Not Hotdog is an app which allows you to check whether or not something (or someone?!) is a hotdog
- Mersiv is a concept designed to revolutionize the way in which we learn languages
- Memoto is a tiny, automatic camera and app that gives you a searchable and shareable photographic memory
- Sketch Engine is a corpus tool to create and search text corpora in more than 80 languages…
- …while WordSmith Tools provides a variety of corpus analysis software…
- …as does Laurence Anthony
- Datawrapper is an open source tool which allows you to create charts and graphs…
- …as does Tableau
- Datasift provides access to data from social networks, blogs, news, and more
- AntCorGen is a freeware corpus creation tool
- FireAnt is a freeware social media and data analysis toolkit
- PhraseBot is an awesome puzzle game to actively learn any kinds of words, phrases or sentences
- Apps 4 EFL: Real Time allows you to test your students’ vocabulary knowledge in real time, and has the NGSL, NAWL, and other word lists built in
- Apple TV allows students to wirelessly connect their devices to the classroom projector
- iBooks Author allows anyone to create iBooks Textbooks for iPad and Mac
- Spaceteam ESL is a fun English learning game that students can play with their friends and classmates using phones or tablets
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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