RESOURCES AND TOOLS

What tools can we use to effectively select and curate information?

During the pre conference (and before that), we're working on preparing our own blended learning unit. Related to tools we can use for this, we’re receiving information about many different apps and, unfortunately, we’re not practising with each one, but we’re exploring some of them.

By now, for second language teaching, I’d recommend Playposit (you can add videos to your tasks and get answers from students while watching them by written and by oral as well! Write me if you’re interested at some point!).

Most of these apps are free, here you have a list of useful resources and tools:

Books:

- Project Gutenberg offers more than 49,000 books free of copyright. This includes classics as well as books in the humanities and social sciences. 

- Pubmed is a free database of more than 24 million science article citations. 

- Digital Textbooks in many different disciplines are also available.

Onlines video resources

- Youtube and Vimeo (teachertube)

- PBS digital learning

- Tedtalks and TEDed

Onlines Audio

- For quality podcasts, NPR and iTunes U are two great sources for a start. Podcasts are a good source of information (with fewer access restrictions than tv programs).

- BBC, France Culture or you can also use a site such as Tunein to locate national radio sites.

Images/picture sources:

- Flickr, Open Clip Art Library, and Everystockphoto have a substantial pool of copyright-free or creative common licensed images.

- Libraries are also developing their collections of copyright free images as NY public library digital collections.

Content curation tools:

- Diigo: content organizers, PDF anotators

- Padlet- virtual Wall

- Thinglink: picture annotator

- Scoopit: content curation service

- Pinterest: picture organizer

- Flipboard: news aggregator in magazine format

- Evernote: online notebook