I am in the process of reviewing these sites. This list of sites has been compiled from information that has been sent to me from third parties. They will be added to my main list of Favourite Websites as soon as I have had time to look at the sites more closely and to complete their descriptions. Comments on any of these sites by people who have already visited them are most welcome. You can email me via Camsoft's Contact Form.
Graham Davies
4 March 2010
AudioFrench: French words, grouped thematically, pronounced by a native speaker, with English equivalents: http://www.audiofrench.com
Babel Project: An EU project that aims to help educators, associations and students make use of Web 2.0 applications and also the virtual world of Second Life: http://babelproject.folha.eu
Bescherelle: Interactive tests (http://www.bescherelle.com/tests.php) and dictations (http://www.bescherelle.com/dictees.php) for learners of French.
Cambridge English Online: Web resources designed to help students of English as a Foreign Language to improve their pronunciation and knowledge of phonetics: http://www.cambridgeenglishonline.com
Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies (C4LPT): http://www.c4lpt.co.uk. Language learning sites are listed here: http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/Showcase/100langlearning.html
Clip2Go: Description to be written: http://www.clip2go.com
Clipart: Description to be written: http://www.realiaproject.org
Clipart: Description to be written: http://pics.tech4learning.com
DeskBot: Freeware, multi-featured Clipboard Reader: http://www.deskbot.com
Dictionarist: Description to be written: http://www.dictionarist.com/woerterbuch/
Digital Dialects: This site contains free to use interactive activities for learning languages and links to study resources. The following sections of the site include audio files: French, Dutch, Spanish, Finnish, German, English, Japanese. Audio files for other sections of the site are forthcoming: http://www.digitaldialects.com
Entertonement: Sound clips: http://www.entertonement.com
Español Extra: Description to be written: http://www.espanol-extra.co.uk
eTools for Language Teachers: (IWBs French) - description to be written: http://www.toolsforlanguage.com
Eurolanguages: A website that easily allows people to compare and book language courses all over Europe. The language schools are reviewed and rated by previous students: http://www.eurolanguages.com
Eurovolt: European Vocational Online Language Teaching and Vocational Online Language Learning via a Virtual Learning Environment: http://www.eurovolt.net
Firefly Learning: A suite of commercial a freely downloadable resources for teachers and learners of Modern Foreign Languages: http://www.fireflylearning.com
French Audio Dictionary: Around 2500 words pronounced by a native speaker: http://french.about.com/od/vocabulary/a/audiodictionary.htm
French websites: Lots of links to websites for learners of French, created by Jim Becker, Webmaster / Professor Emeritus, University of Northern Iowa: http://www.uni.edu/becker/french31.html
French: A free website. Description to be written: http://freefrench.frenchspanishonline.com
French Learning Fun: A website created by The Park School of Baltimore USA. A comprehensive range of interactive exercises: http://www.frenchlearningfun.net
French Teaching Blogs: Description to be written: http://www.frenchteacher.net/blogs.html
Gavin Dudeney's Blog - That'SLife: Description to be written: http://slife.dudeney.com
Gender Genie: Description to be written: http://bookblog.net/gender/genie.php
German Grammar PowerPoint presentations: Description to be written: http://webgerman.com/Animated/
Ghotit: Word-processor for ESL learners: http://www.ghotit.com
Hello-World: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Chinese and Indonesian for young learners. Games, activities and songs with native speaker recordings: http://www.hello-world.com
iBrowse: An interactive PowerPoint Web browser that allows you to easily add live Web content such as HTML, PDF and Flash to your PowerPoint presentations. Simply insert the PowerPoint Web Browser control into your slide and specify a starting URL to add live Internet Web pages linked with your presentation contents: http://www.tdogsoftware.com/powerpoint-web-browser/index.html
IMVU: IMVU is a new way to hang out and have fun with your friends online. You download IMVU's software onto your PC and create your own avatars who chat in animated 3D scenes: http://www.imvu.com
Joomla: An open-source Content Management Systen (CMS): http://www.joomla.org
La Jolie Ronde: French for young learners: http://www.lajolieronde.co.uk
Language Learning Library: A comprehensive selection of free language learning materials for a range of languages. Includes information on grammar, vocab and links to dictionaries and cultural resources: http://www.languagelearninglibrary.org
Learning From Online Worlds; Teaching In Second Life was a research project at the London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education, University of London. The project was funded by the Eduserv Foundation. The team worked part-time on the project from June 2007 to May 2008: http://learningfromsocialworlds.wordpress.com
Learning Resource Exchange (LRE): A new service that enables schools to find educational content from many different countries and providers. It initially includes content from Ministries of Education (MoE) and other partners that are working with European Schoolnet (EUN) in the EC-funded CALIBRATE and MELT projects: http://insight.eun.org/ww/en/pub/insight/interoperability/learning_resource_exchange.htm
Learn Anytime: Includes links to sections for learning foreign languages: http://www.learnanytime.co.uk
Lexibar is a small toolbar which gives rapid access to special characters not always available on your keyboard. To use, simply drag and drop the special characters into your word processor: http://www.lexicool.com/lexibar_special_keyboard_characters.asp
Linguafun: A flexible, fully interactive whole-class teaching resource, developed by practising KS2 MFL teachers. It looks good, but a subscription of £185 per year might stretch some MFL departmental budgets: http://www.linguafun.eu
Living Language: Description to be written: http://www.livinglanguage.com
Manic Monkey: Primary MFL software and books for classroom and home use: http://www.manic-monkey.com
MELT: The MELT project from the European Schoolnet (EUN): The MELT Learning Resource Exchange (LRE) portal for schools where you can find open educational resources and assets from many different countries and providers, including 16 Ministries of Education. LRE content covers virtually all curriculum subjects, can be freely used by anyone and in some cases resources can also be adapted and redistributed. Each item contains licensing information that tells you what you can do with it: http://www.melt-project.eu. See also Learning Resource Exchange.
Mon JT Quotidien: A digest of the news in French with the script running alongside the videos. Very useful for teaching: http://www.monjtquotidien.com
Neel Method French Vocabulary Revision: A free website. The learner is requested to translate useful words and phrases chosen at random, and the level of difficulty increases according to the learner's progress: http://www.neelmethod.com
Microvision: Supplier of devices that enable you to project images onto a large screen from mobile devices: http://www.microvision.com
Pageflakes: Description to be written: http://www.pageflakes.com
Radio Lingua Schools: http://rlnvault.com/rlnschools/
Rich Internet Applications for Language Learning, Michigan State University: http://clear.msu.edu/teaching/online/ria/index.php
Road to Grammar: This site features 365 self-access grammar quizzes with notes and answers: http://www.roadtogrammar.com
Robotel: Robotel designs and manufactures digital labs and multimedia teaching platforms: http://www.robotel.com
Shahi: A visual dictionary: http://blachan.com/shahi/
Slideshare: Description to be written: http://www.slideshare.net
SpeedSkin: Language-conversion covers which enable you to convert your computer from one language to another just by placing a language cover over the keyboard to match the language you have chosen in your operating system: http://www.ed-solutionsdirect.com/speedskin/speedskin4.htm
TextAloud: Text To Speech software: http://www.nextup.com
Virtual Worlds Special Interest Group (VW SIG) Ning: http://virtualworldssig.ning.com
Word Magnets: Sentence scrambler and many other games: http://www.xmleducation.co.uk/magnets.html
Yacapaca: Description to be written: http://yacapaca.com
© Graham Davies 2010 under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works, UK, England & Wales Licence.