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Teach ESL with Technology : Prezi - engaging presentations

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:18:14 +0000

Edu Pro licences http://prezi.com/profile/upgrade/edu/ are $59/year and give extra storage, premium support, and the desktop editor to work offline.

vfowler blog : Learning HTML5

Sun, 5 Jun 2011 22:52:14 +0000

Hi Agatha, Yes, I remember you and some of your class - wow, that was a long time ago. I'm still working at Hawthorn, both teaching and working on solving technology problems for all of our teachers. How about you - where are you now and what are you doing these days?

Teach ESL with Technology : EAP Education on TED

Tue, 31 May 2011 02:20:41 +0000

TED iPhone app available http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/ted-mobile/id30329...

vfowler blog : Bio

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:31:07 +0000

I believe you are referring to the candid photo I took on my mobile phone ( http://flic.kr/p/4Xk77 ). I doubt that I have the rights to photograph a movie poster advertisement. If it is my permission that you need, you have it. If you prefer to track down a contact via the poster links at imdb http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397535/posters then do so. My guess is that you would not need permission if you are painting a generic geisha pose like the one depicted in that poster. If you want to use the word "Sayuri" or the English title "Memoirs of a Geisha" then you probably do need permission from Sony Pictures. Hope that helps.

Teach ESL with Technology : Educating Diigo

Fri, 8 Apr 2011 23:28:15 +0000

Diigo Offline Reader for iPhone/iPod Touch http://www.diigo.com/tools/reader_for_iphone

Teach ESL with Technology : What is Twitter?

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:54:00 +0000

Twitter Search in Plain English http://commoncraft.com/twitter-search Thanks to Richard Byrne over at http://www.freetech4teachers.com/ for pointing out the extra on Twitter search.

Teach ESL with Technology : EAP Education on TED

Wed, 9 Mar 2011 05:44:12 +0000

New initiative on http://education.ted.com/

vfowler blog : I want my MP3

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 03:14:55 +0000

http://playground.last.fm/eventmap is an excellent (comprehensive?) utility for finding upcoming gigs in your local area. There are other demographics and statistics visualisations and toys at the last.fm playgound - http://playground.last.fm/

Edudemic : Can You Name The Most-Used English Words?

Wed, 8 Dec 2010 03:44:53 +0000

This looks like fun for linguists. I'm wondering how to incorporate it as part of a larger lesson for English as a Second Language (ESL) learning. My thoughts so far are a bit of trivial fun around collocations and vocabulary, perhaps combining with http://phras.in and maybe http://wordle.net ... Any other thoughts on use for students in studying ESL?

vfowler blog : site redesign

Mon, 31 May 2010 07:42:04 +0000

Despite the sexy visual overhaul, it appears the e-commerce Plugin by Instinct has let me down. I struggled through using it for several months, during which it gave me several headaches. Whilst the plugin is active, the shop was open, and both maintenance of other plugins and WordPress updates could not occur. Not only did it make the entire site a snail paced plugger, it also locked out all maintenance. I have de-activated this plugin for the last time and can\\\'t reactivate it even if I wanted to. Errors prevent me from doing so.

We are resorting to 3 simple PayPal buttons at this stage, until we can find a solution with additional payment options, that won\\\'t destroy the rest of the website.

vfowler blog : Swiss army knife and other tools for using the web

Fri, 3 Jul 2009 01:36:59 +0000

Bookmark Previews adds to the easy management, sorting and categorising of bookmarks (in Firefox of course).

vfowler blog : Multimedia Fundamentals

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:46:50 +0000

http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/06/26/use-wha... Earlier in the year, Alex wrote an article about Cufon, a method of text replacement which uses JavaScript to replace HTML text with canvas elements that render the text in vector format.