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Final Column
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December 2013 Treasure Hunt
Marcel Van Amelsvoort
神奈川県立国際言語文化アカデミア
Kanagawa Prefectural Institute of Language and Culture Studies

Hello and welcome to my very last Treasure Hunt column. This month,
I’d like to introduce a new presentation and project tool, list up
a few sites with lists of resources, and then say farewell.

First up is a site that deserves special mention: Buncee. It’s a
web tool that allows you or your students to create and share
multimedia projects on the web. It is easy to learn, easy to use,
and allows you to embed video or audio in slideshow presentations.
http://www.buncee.com/education

Since this is my last column, I’d like to leave you with some links
that you can continue to explore on your own.Larry Ferlazzo’s blog is a great source of ideas and information.
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/

Cybrary Man’s list of educational online tools is quite large and
contains a lot of great stuff.
http://cybraryman.com/teachertools.html

Shelly Terrell is a very smart and very prolific presence on the web.
Follow her on Twitter (@ShellTerrell), or check out this great list
of (mostly listening) resources from her blog:
http://shellyterrell.com/free-ebooks/listening/

Ana Cristina is another person with a great eye for educational
technology for ESL/EFL classes. Her blog is inspirational. Here is
page with resources for language learners and teachers:
http://cristinaskybox.blogspot.fr/p/eltefl.html

I think this list should keep you busy. There is a lot of great
stuff, but you’ll need to devote a little time to exploring these
resources. You might also want to follow these people on Twitter.

And that brings us to the end. I started this column in January of
2005 when the new editor of the new newsletter, Michiyo Maeda, asked
me to write something. I have greatly enjoyed writing the column
over the years, but my present job does not include much application
of new technology and I think there are other LET members who have
more to offer in a column like this, particularly as we move toward
greater use of mobile devices.

I’d like to thank everyone who has read this column over the years,
beginning with a great group of editors. I would like to thank the
LET leadership for their support and trust.

Take care and see you online,
Marcel
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August 2013 Treasure Hunt
Marcel Van Amelsvoort
神奈川県立国際言語文化アカデミア
Kanagawa Prefectural Institute of Language and

Hello everyone. I hope you are all surviving the heat. I'm busy
getting ready for the national conference right now so I haven't had
time to go through all my monthly links and think of a theme.
Instead, I'll just pick a few good ones from my list and pass them
on to you.By coincidence, a few vocabulary resources have come to my attention
recently. I'm a big fan of COCA (http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/)but
sometimes I think it is nice to have a target list of vocabulary
that I can use in materials creation. Dr. Charles Browne, Dr. Brent
Culligan and Joseph Phillips have recently made their revised
General Service list of the most frequent words in the English
language available through a new website. You can read about the
list and download it from there.
http://www.newgeneralservicelist.org/

If you are looking for something with more of an academic focus,
John Morley at The University of Manchester has recently (I think…)
created the Academic Phrasebook of academic strings learners can use
to refer to literature, report results, describe methods, or other
such common academic writing challenges. The page also includes a
link to a list of more general academic functions.
http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/

And while we're on the topic of academic English, Coursera.org has
another session of their popular Think Again course (offered in
conjunction with Duke University) beginning soon on August 26th. The
course teaches how to reason and argue in an entertaining and
understandable way. Highly recommended!
https://www.coursera.org/course/thinkagain

Teachers of teenage learners might be interested in Rap Genius. It
describes itself as “a hip-hop Wikipedia.” If your students ever ask
you about language or concepts in rap or hip-hop music, now you have
a place to go for answers. http://rapgenius.com/

And for teachers of any young learners, check out Oxford Owl to
access 250 free electronic books. These are very high quality multi-
media books that you can have read to you on your computer or access
via a tablet device (I haven't tried this yet, but the website says
it's possible). http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading-owl/reading

See you next month.]]> The Treasure Hunt Club https://j-let.org/~wordpress/?itemid=730 Mon, 12 Aug 2013 21:09:19 +0900 https://j-let.org/~wordpress/?itemid=723 Marcel Van Amelsvoort
神奈川県立国際言語文化アカデミア
Kanagawa Prefectural Institute of Language and
Culture Studies

It's July again. And for some teachers that means the end of classes.
Summer is a great time to explore new technology that you might want
to introduce in your classes in the fall. This month I'd like to
give you some suggestions for things you might want to check out
over the summer. There are many tools for exploring, learning, and tracking
vocabulary on the web. One of my favorites is Quizlet, (http://quizlet.com/) which keeps getting better and better. It now has a
new cards function and is easier to access from mobile devices. The
cards function is a presentation interface change that will make it
easier to use the system to learn collocations or strings. Take a
look at this example that also uses images: http://quizlet.com/20736176/flashcards If you haven't checked out Quizlet recently, it
might be a good time to go back and take a close look. Using Quizlet
with smartphones (there are many apps that work with Quizlet, or you
can access the a mobile-friendly version from your device: http://quizlet.com/mobile) is a great way to give your learners an powerful
resource for vocabulary learning. If you aren't already doing it
with your learners, now is a good time to explore how you can do it.

Another vocabulary tool that has come to my attention recently is
Wordcount, a tool that gives you frequency information about words.
It's a little limited in functionality, but the interface is very
nice. You can search by word or by frequency rank.
http://www.wordcount.org/main.php

One site I've been playing with recently is No Red Ink, a grammar
practice site where students can take quizzes on various grammar and
punctuation features. Teachers can make quizzes for their students
and monitor progress.
http://www.noredink.com/

Many teachers dream about connecting their learners with learners in
other countries. Well, ePals is a website that does exactly that.
You can choose by language, age group, and then narrow your search
by country or number of learners. Summer would be a great time to
look for a class in another country to set up a keypal exchange.
http://www.epals.com/

Finally, creative projects can be daunting to do with learners,
especially if you've never tried them before. Summer is a great time
to do that. If you can successfully complete the project and have
fun doing it, chances are your learners with be able to do the same.
One project to consider is subtitling movies. Bombay TV was very
popular with many teachers and students but doesn't seem to be
working recently. Instead, you can try The Peanut Gallery (https://www.peanutgalleryfilms.com/) which uses voice to text to add
subtitles to old silent movies, or a shot-by-shot subtitle tool for
the famous scene in the German movie Downfall where Hitler blows up
in anger (http://downfall.jfedor.org/). Both of these sites require
a little practice to use well. Since The Peanut Gallery requires
voice input, getting the accents right, as well as timing the
utterances can be tricky. Good luck and have fun.

On Twitter? For more treasure more often, @Marcelva. For high school
and junior high school English teachers, @AcademiaEFL.
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June 2013 Treasure Hunt
Self-access
Marcel Van Amelsvoort
神奈川県立国際言語文化アカデミア
Kanagawa Prefectural Institute of Language and
Culture Studies

Hello everyone. This month’s column is about learning―self-
accessed, self-paced, self-driven learning. To get started, please
take a look at Josh Kaufman’s March, 2013 TED talk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MgBikgcWnY
Yes, it’s overly simplistic, but the optimistic message is that
when it comes to acquiring demonstrable skills (yes, even language
skills), 20 hours (or 45 minutes a day for a month) can be enough to
make serious progress. Of course, it’s not just the amount of time,
but a focused learner can do a lot. With that in mind, I’d like to
introduce some places where language learners might want to apply
their 20 hours. Readers of this column are aware of many sites that
can be used for self-study. English Central, Elllo, Quizlet, and TED
-Ed are some of my favorites that just keep getting better and
better, and if you are not familiar with them, go now and check them
out!
English Central:
http://ja.englishcentral.com/videos#!/index/all/all/popular/0
Elllo: http://www.elllo.org/
Quizlet: http://quizlet.com/
TED-Ed: http://ed.ted.com/

But here are some sites that are not as well-known as those four:

First up is Videojug. It is a Youtube-based learning platform for
learning almost anything you can imagine. There are videos for how
to tie a tie, how to do an Australian accent, and how to kiss well,
for example. http://www.videojug.com/

If you would like to practice grammar, The Virtual Grammar Lab is a
good place to start. You choose the grammar point you want to learn
and the type of activity. Teachers can also create accounts and see
how much their learners have done. http://www.spunkyenglish.com/VGL/

SpellBee is a spelling game. You register and then compete in
spelling challenges. It’s possible for teachers to create a virtual
classroom by registering their learners. If you do this, you can
monitor your learners’ progress.
http://aeaea.cs-i.brandeis.edu:8080/spellbee/index.jsp

That’s it for this month. I can be found on Twitter (@Marcelva)
where I tweet regularly on ed. tech., gameful design, and EFL. And
if you are a junior or senior high school teacher, you can get lots
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May 2013 Treasure Hunt
Twitter as a PLN / PLE
Marcel Van Amelsvoort
神奈川県立国際言語文化アカデミア
Kanagawa Prefectural Institute of Language and
Culture Studies

A Personal Learning Environment (PLE) (sometimes called a Personal
Learning Network (PLN)) is a collection of connected resources (
people, blogs, journals, etc.) through which a person manages his or
her own learning online. In other words, it is a set of online
connections to help a person learn whatever they are interested in.
Recently, most people seem to be connected via some social
networking services (SNS), usually including Twitter, along with
blogs, webzines (such as http://paper.li/), or curating sites (such
as http://www.scoop.it/). This has created a level of connectivity
and quick transfer of information that is surprising compared to
even five years ago.But creating a PLN, while it seems natural for many teachers, is an
intimidating challenge for others. Many teachers do not feel a
strong need to have a SNS presence, and some teachers who are active
online, have not taken advantage of the benefits of social media for
learning for professional development. In my job as a high school
and junior high school teacher trainer, I meet many teachers who
need to be convinced of the benefits of a PLN. I always suggest
people create a dedicated professional development Twitter account,
follow a few people and organizations, and see if it works for them.
In order to convince people, I usually just show them some of the
wonderful resources that have come to me via Twitter in the past
week, which is what I'd like to do in this column.

First up is another comic strip maker, Make Beliefs Comix, that
supports English and several other European languages. The art is a
little limited, but it's very professional and the interface is easy
to use. http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/

Next is Textivate, a site that allows you to manipulate written
texts to create worksheets or materials for other activities. You
input your text and then choose the type of gap-fill output you
would like. You really need to give it a try to see what it can do.
For those times when you need a cloze exercise, this site can really
save you some time. http://www.textivate.com/

If you would like to have your grammar checked, GrammarBase can do
it for you. Just input your text and hit the button. It's not
perfect (no grammar checker ever seems to be…) but as a free tool
it's pretty good. http://www.grammarbase.com/

Looking for some short factual texts to help you practice listening
and/or reading? Then this site by the California Distance Learning
Project can be a good resource for you. There are hundreds of
listening texts here across many topics, and this site would be
great for self-access study.
http://www.cdlponline.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=homepage

And finally, here are two websites where you can create those fancy
quotation images that are so common on Facebook and other SNSs these
days. Just add your quotation and choose the styles you want. Then
share. Quotes Cover
(http://quotescover.com/#sthash.4jm97967.MZgFAEcH.dpbs) and
Quozio http://quozio.com/

This is just a small fraction of the suggestions that came to me
this week via Twitter. If you want to get started and are not sure
what to do, Russell Stannard of the wonderful Teacher Training
Videos website will walk you through the whole process in his series
on how to set up and get running with Twitter.
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/twitter1/index.html

That's it for this month. You can find me on Twitter at @Marcelva.
For public junior and senior high school teachers, my institute is a
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April 2013 Treasure Hunt
Ideas for Student Intros and Projects
Marcel Van Amelsvoort
神奈川県立国際言語文化アカデミア
Kanagawa Prefectural Institute of Language and
Culture Studies

It's April, and soon our classrooms will be full of new students. It
is a time of uncertainty for everyone. We teachers don't know much
about our young charges, and they don't know much about us or each
other. Speaking activities in language classes can really help
students become more comfortable with their new environment and
classmates. And by allowing students to be creative and expressive,
everyone in the classroom can get to know a lot more about each
other. So this month I'd like to offer some websites that can give
students a way to express themselves.

First up are two sites that you can use to explore your birthday.
The results can be used as part of a self-introduction. Just type in
your birthday and check out the results. Wolfram Alpha is a
computational search engine and has a wide range of uses, but it
returns very nice and simple results when you input your birthday.
Find out how many days old you are, what day of the week you were
born on, and what significant events happened on your birthday.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/

Even better is Take Me Back To, a website that creates a collage of
information about your birthday. It is very American-centered, but
you can see the tops songs, books, films and news from the month you
were born. http://takemeback.to/

Letting students produce creative little projects can be a nice way
to foster group camaraderie and give students a chance to interact.
One easy one is to have students make a short comic or illustrated
story explaining their reasons for choosing the present school or
their hopes plans for their futures. Storyboard That is a very easy
to use website that is very flexible. http://www.storyboardthat.com/.
For more humorous illustrations, you can also try Write Comics.
http://writecomics.com/.

Easy radio shows can be produced and delivered using web-based
recorders at Vocaroo or Apowersoft. http://vocaroo.com/ and
http://www.apowersoft.com/free-audio-recorder-online. Or if you want
to have everyone's introductions in one place, start a thread at
Voxopop. http://www.voxopop.com/

If your students are a little more tech savvy, you could even let
them try to create videos at Wideo (registration requied).
http://wideo.co/

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March 2013 Treasure Hunt
Vocabulary and Culture
Marcel Van Amelsvoort
神奈川県立国際言語文化アカデミア
Kanagawa Prefectural Institute of Language and
Culture Studies

It's March already, and the new school year is just around the
corner. This month for some reason, a large number of vocabulary and
culture sites have been brought to my attention.

First up is Test Your Vocab, a very simple and flexible adaptive
vocabulary level testing site that works for EFL students and
college professors. It's all done by self-evaluation―you simply
click on the words you say you ‘know.' But it can give you a rough
idea of your vocabulary level. On the last page, you input or select
options to describe your experience with English and English
learning. It's easy and fun to use and is a good way to get learners
to think about vocabulary needs. http://testyourvocab.com/ Next is a different type of dictionary, a reverse dictionary called
OneLook. You input the definition to find the word you are looking
for. It is a brilliant tool but will probably take learners a little
time to get used to. It typically returns a list of 40 plus items
that are related, so it's probably best for intermediate and
advanced learners. You can also use it just to find definitions of
single words. http://www.onelook.com/

Professor Word is a browser tool that you can use to find the
meanings of difficult (SAT) vocabulary from any web page. Just drag
the tool into your toolbar and it works automatically. Very nice,
but unfortunately only for certain advanced vocabulary. http://www.professorword.com/

If you have an iPad, there are two nice little apps you may be
interested in. Cambridge University Press is offering the Phrasal
Verb Machine for free. It is a combination visual dictionary and
learning game for phrasal verbs. Find it at: https://itunes.apple.
com/us/app/phrasal-verbs-machine/id593374912?mt=8app
And if you would like something a little more game-like, there is
Words Mine, a Tetris-like word search game that's ddictive for all
levels. Free and available at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/words-mine/id436953814?mt=8

Next, on to culture. Looking at global problems and comparing
countries is a common topic in textbooks. The web has a few
resources that can work well with such units.

If It Were My Home is a brilliant site that lets learners compare
any country in the world to the USA. It returns statistics about the
difference in quality of life that can be very eye-opening. Just
select the country you want to compare with the US. There is also
nice (but still-limited) section looking at the impact of disasters
on quality of life.
http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/

Hans Rosling is one of my heroes. His TED talks are brilliant and
his insights into the world are fascinating. Go to his site called
Gapminder to compare the development of any countries in the world
over the last century.
http://www.gapminder.org/

For something more visual, Time magazine recently featured a nice
pictorial essay. They asked families from around the world to be
photographed with the food they had in their homes. Called What the
World Eats, Part 1, it also lists how much the family spends on food
per week and what their favorite foods are.
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519_1373664,00.html

Lastly, an important announcement: if anyone is interested in taking
a writing course, Coursera, in conjunction with Duke University is
offering English Composition 1: Achieving Expertise, beginning on
March 18. If you haven't tried a MOOC before, this could be a great
time to do so. This course should make you a better writer and a
better writing teacher. And it's free!
https://www.coursera.org/course/composition

For more sites more sites more often, follow me on Twitter
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February 2013 Treasure Hunt
Reading Resources and Activities and Kickstarter
Marcel Van Amelsvoort
神奈川県立国際言語文化アカデミア
Kanagawa Prefectural Institute of Language and
Culture Studies

This month's theme is reading, and I have several sites that can
help reading teachers to plan and teach reading, and several sites
for reading students to practice reading while having fun.

Readworks.org helps teachers with the what and how of teaching
reading. Hundreds of short reading texts with complete lesson plans
are available for use here. If you are teaching reading to teenagers
or college students, please be sure to take a look.
http://www.readworks.org/Literactive is a huge site with all sorts of reading activities and
resources for both learners and teachers. It has lots of talking
stories and interactive stories that are especially good for younger
readers. Registration required.
http://www.literactive.com/Home/index.asp

USA Learns has a nice reading section. There are lots of accessible
reading passages with audio. http://usalearns.org Click on the
Reading link. But take a look at the whole site while you're there.
It's really very good.

Mingoville is a free and fun way to learn English for younger
learners. Surprisingly, it is made in Denmark and language support
is available in Japanese (as well as other languages). Registration
is required. http://www.mingoville.com/ja.html

Peguin's We Tell Stories Site has an interactive fairy tale called
Once Upon a Time. You have to input various pieces of information
and make choices about the characters. The site has a nice, clean
interface and is great fun for all ages.
http://www.wetellstories.co.uk/stories/week3/

For something a little whimsical for all ages take a look at
Magnetic Poetry. Originally, magnetic poetry kits were popular items
sold in bookstores. People stuck the hundreds of words to their
fridge at home and the whole family had fun making “poems.” Now
you can experience this online at
http://play.magneticpoetry.com/poem/Original/kit/

For something a little more interesting and engaging for older
readers, Kickstarter.com is a great resource. It is not an EFL site
at all, but rather a site where people go who have business or art
project ideas but need money to get started. Just reading the
proposals and watching the videos is engaging, however, and the
excitement of ideas is palpable. It can also help learners to
understand the importance of multimedia in presentations and
proposals. For an interesting lesson, learners could discuss or
assess different proposals. Or they could even plan or make one as a
project. You might need to help learners out with the navigation, or
even choose a few target topics to get them started.
http://www.kickstarter.com/

That's it for this month. See you next month. For anyone who might
be interested, I occasionally introduce websites and tools on
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January 2013 Treasure Hunt
New and Updated Sites for Kids and Young Adults
Marcel Van Amelsvoort
神奈川県立国際言語文化アカデミア
Kanagawa Prefectural Institute of Language and
Culture Studies

Hello and Happy New Year! This month I wanted to focus on sites for
younger learners. Some of these are sites that have been around for a
while but that have recently been updated. If you haven't checked them
out lately, you might want to do so now.
First up is PBS Kids. PBS stands for Public Broadcasting Service, kind
of the NHK of the United States. They have a great kids site to
support their child programming, While it is not exactly a language
learning site, it has lots of games that allow kids to have
interactive listening fun in English. The interface is made so you
don't need to be able to read to navigate. http://pbskids.org/

The British Council's LearnEnglish Teens site now features tons of
videos and other learning activities for reading, vocabulary, and
grammar, all with multimedia content and nicely organized and tagged
for easy searching (CEFR levels included). The site also allows for
learner discussions or opinions.
http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/

Harry Potter fans now have a new place to hang out with Pottermore, an
interactive site that was launched last year. Explore, play games, and
read new content by J.K. Rowling. Registration is required and the
content only reflects the first volume of the series, but this could
be a great place for some good immersive fun.
http://www.pottermore.com/

The Voice of America (VOA) Learning English site has also been
recently redone. It is now more user-friendly, especially for less-
proficient learners and features much more than just news articles in
American English (http://learningenglish.voanews.com/). Of special
note is the new page of interactive lessons in everyday, business, and
academic English. These would be very nice for learners aiming to
prepare for the TOEIC. There are also interactive wordbooks.
http://learningenglish.voanews.com/section/activities/2384.html

The BBC's Learning English site is another good site for learning
English through news stories and other activities, especially for more
proficient young adults. The content is a little more difficult here
and the focus is on British English, but there are videos to watch,
games to play, and you can chat with other learners from around the
world. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/

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December 2012 Treasure Hunt
Classroom E-magazines
Marcel Van Amelsvoort
神奈川県立国際言語文化アカデミア
Kanagawa Prefectural Institute of Language and
Culture Studies

Hello everyone. This month I'd like to introduce
some sites that can help your students create and
publish e-magazines (e-zines) or make newspapers.
These sites can be used to facilitate meaningful,
open-ended projects for groups of learners. It can
be great fun to plan and work on articles. And
once content has been published, friends and
family can view it as well.
First up is Joomag. They offer a basic free
service you can use to publish interactive,
multimedia e-zines. As with most other free
services, you'll have to put up with some ads. And
if you want to deliver your content to mobile
devices, you'll need to pay for the service.
http://www.joomag.com/

Calameo and Issuu are similar to Joomag. You might
want to check out all three to see which one works
best for you. Joomag allows you to create your
magazine at the site from scratch. For the other
two, you'll need to create a pdf document that
you can upload.
http://www.calameo.com/
http://issuu.com/

Scribd is a site most people are already familiar
with. It calls itself the world's biggest online
library. But you can also easily use it to publish
student work. It's a nice publishing platform, but
you'll have to do the page design work yourself
(Japanese interface available).
http://www.scribd.com/

Zinepal lets you turn blog postings, web feeds and
web pages into magazines (printable pdf, or for
mobile devices). One easy way to publish using
this platform would be to have learners each
create blog postings and then gather them together
to create and deliver a class magazine.
http://www.zinepal.com/

If you want to make a very professional-looking
printed newspaper and don't mind paying a little
for a good template, there is Build a Newspaper.
You can choose the teacher based template that
matches the level of your readers. Right now they
are offering a free Facebook page template that
could make a fun writing assignment. The newspaper
templates are not free, however.
http://www.buildanewspaper.com/

That's it for this month. Happy holidays everyone
and see you next year.]]> The Treasure Hunt Club https://j-let.org/~wordpress/?itemid=640 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:56:12 +0900