Saturday 9 March 2013

Tools to Enhance Listening Skills

First of all I would like to share some News, Great News is that... a few days ago I have finished my Degree as a Teacher of Primary Education with special mention in English... I´m very happy! :-)

Now I would like to share with you also the most practical and useful tools to enhance listening, reading and writing skills and today I begin with...


TOOLS TO ENHANCE LISTENING SKILLS :-)



A voiced-based eLearning tool used by educators all over the world enabling the users to create online recorded discussions. These can be set up easily and learners can access easily and use to maximise spoken English practice. It is a free online discussion site.

 
Software founded in 2003 allowing users to make phone calls through the Net using voice over IP (VoIP) technology. It offers a wide variety of services including calls from fixed-lines or mobile phones, fax and video calling.




Dictation exercise creation tool. It has a large number of dictation exercises already created in a number of languages, but you and your students can also create your own exercises. The dictation tool offers a number of options to support and develop students ability to listen.





Online tool to create multimedia slideshows where you can insert images, documents, audio, and video. Viewers can add text or audio comments, and even doodle while commenting by using voice (mic or phone), text, audio file or video (via webcam). It allows to collect and share group conversations in one place from anywhere in the world.





http://www.voki.com/
It is a great way to have students share therir knowledge of a topic in 60 seconds or less. You can make students organize their thoughts to focus on key details, picture description. You can customize: Character Style, change the look, clothing and accessories, voice (add your own voice via phone, microphone, text to speech or upload a file).


In the next Post I will show you ...  Tools to enhance Reading Skills!! : - )  

Happy Week!!