Outline and Resources

Exercise creators

• Breaking News English: www.breakingnewsenglish.com - readings and audio with many different activities for individuals, pairs, or groups inside or out of class
  
• LessonWriter: www.lessonwriter.com - create reading activities from a text
  
• Hot Potatoes: download from www.hotpot.uvic.ca - crosswords, matching, gap-fill, scrambled sentence, and multiple-choice exercise creator
  See more information: Getting Started with Hot Potatoes PDF

Internet link organizer

• Delicious: www.delicious.com
  See information about using Delicious
  
• Diigo: https://www.diigo.com

Writing tools

• Writing references and handouts - Online Writing Lab: https://owl.english.purdue.edu
  
• Google Docs: https://docs.google.com - share files, simultaneous editing
  
• Google Forms: https://docs.google.com => Forms - create surveys
  
• Google Sites: https://sites.google.com - easy website to share resources
  See information about using Google Sites - how-to PDF and wiki..

Writing feedback

• Track Changes, Insert Comments, AutoCorrect and other Word features (AutoSummarize): see some information at https://pages.uoregon.edu/dhealey/techtips/may2009.html
  
• Word 2007 (Windows)/2008 (Mac) tutorial - text format: https://www.uwec.edu/help/word07.htm  - working with Track Changes
  
• Word 2007 Track Changes: https://www.word07.com/tracking-changes.htm
  
• Word 2007 Comments: https://wordprocessing.about.com/od/wordprocessingsoftware/a/comments.htm

Concordancing and vocabulary tools

• LexTutor: https://www.lextutor.ca - inductive vocabulary and grammar; authentic examples for teachers

Concordances in LexTutor (PDF format)

• VisuWords (visual thesaurus): https://www.visuwords.com - a graphic view of words

Handout for this presentation (PDF format)

See other workshops in Thailand

• Rubrics Webinar, January 18, Bangkok
• Handy Teacher Tools, Thai TESOL, January 22, Chiang Mai