Learning Technology Resources

Here are links to Nik Peachey´s great blogs on learning technology for TESOL instructors and teacher educators.

http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/
http://quickshout.blogspot.com/

Just as a sampler of the kind of stuff he posts about, here are links to a few of his most recent posts together with his comments.


I've been doing some training for teachers on how to create their own
RSS reader / Personal homepage using Netvibes. This is a real time
saver to help keep you up to date. You can download a step by step task
list that you can either use yourself or to train other teachers from
here:
http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/2008/07/creating-personal-homepage.html


For those of you who have students that like music have a look at this.
It is a posting on how to use an online Karaoke site to help your
students develop their English.
http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/2008/07/karaoke-with-social-network.html


This week I have also started naming my sources of information, so
those of you who are interested in doing some research yourselves and
finding your own useful sites have a look at this:
http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/2008/07/naming-my-sources-part-1.html


On my Quick shout blog, I've also been reviewing a number of resources.

Google's new 3D virtual world Lively
http://quickshout.blogspot.com/2008/07/googles-lively-competitor-with-second.html

The wonderful encyclopedia of life on Earth
http://quickshout.blogspot.com/2008/07/encyclopedia-of-life.html

A site that helps you to create your own SMS groups
http://quickshout.blogspot.com/2008/07/create-your-own-sms-groups.html

SnapYap, a site to enable you to send video messages
http://quickshout.blogspot.com/2008/07/send-free-video-messages.html

I've also added some more new second Life tutorials
http://quickshout.blogspot.com/2008/07/more-second-life-tutorials.html

Lastly for anyone involved in training journalists, or even anyone who
wants some motivating tasks for their students, there's some
information here on how to become a 'citizen journalist'
http://quickshout.blogspot.com/2008/07/becoming-citizen-journalist.html

All amazing stuff! What´s needed now is a robot that can check them all out for us, learn how to use them, and then write a software program that we can upload to a specialized device embedded in our brains. This too shall come!