The Heavy Metal Umlaut

This short video about the peculiar umlaut that has become so popular with heavy metal bands is an excellent demonstration of how wiki entries are modified by different users.

Let's Speak English video from 1948

A very funny early John Cleese and Marty Feldmann short video, " Let's speakEnglish" found onYouTube.http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=iLcbNKI0JQM

Phonetics

Interesting site called Phonetics: The Sounds of Spoken Language. Includes American English, German and Spanish. http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/?

A very interesting description about screencasts is here--using Flickr shots for a PowerPoint-type lesson: http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2006/10/flickr_as_prese.html
(Flickr as a presentaion tool)

And some very impressive student projects from Daf's architecture students are here:
http://dafneusb.motime.com/

And info from Daf on voice applications:
http://dafneusb.motime.com/post/614222/ICT+in+ELT+event

Steve McCarty at the CALL-IS list posted this interesting way to add audio to your PowerPoint presentation http://waoe.blogspot.com

and: This isn't an introduction, but a tickler--one can mount a PowerPointslideshow on Flickr. A video guide to the process is at Beth Kanter's blog:<http://www.projects treamer.com/ users/kanter/ projectpowerpont 480/projectpower pont480.html>

I-pods in Foreign Language Teaching

I just read this post about using i-pods in language teaching. Very interesting!

Fifa kicks off German Podcasts

To celebrate the opening of FIFA the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, is starting video podcasts which will be linked to her website. Click here for links to her slideshow, her website and other interesting stories.

TESOL in Tampa

The annual TESOL conference was held in Tampa this year. You can get a taste of the activities by looking at the rollicking photostory that Cristina Costa from Portugal put together. Aiden Yeh from Taiwan shared her Bubbleshare photo album here. Chris Jones posted her pics here. And I took a few pics of my own which you can see here or, if you want to take a look at some of the pictures from TESOL 2005 in San Antonio, take a look here.

Cristina has also created a brilliant webquest about a Canadian family trying to decide whether to move to Lisbon. Experience it here!

Can I post a note on this site

This is a test to see if using the website will allow me to post the opml code for my students' RSS feeds.