Apps for EFL

[Susan]

FeedJournal.com lets any blogger create one free PDF newspaper from their blog RSS. All you need to do is sign up with an email address, click on the "publisher" link, add the RSS feed for your blog and click on the "Generate Your Free Newspaper Now" button. The link to the pdf and a widget to embed in your blog will be sent to your email.
During the promotion period the free newspaper can include up to 20 pages.

Unfortunately the widget didn't work for my blog - however I uploaded the pdf to issuu.com and scribd.com in order to show 2 alternatives for embedding the newspaper.

In order to view the fullsize simply click on the widget below

[Susan]

Personalized MultiMedia Music Magazine -idiomag

ideomag.com This has to be a great way to encourage advanced students to read. Not neccessary to sign up in order to create a magazine which includes music, photos, video and news articles, based on your preferred artists, but if you do sign up you can also keep archives and get a widget to embed in your blog or social network. Great fun!

[Susan]

SpellingCity

http://www.spellingcity.com

This new site for spelling practice and games came from tbarrett via twitter.

After entering a list of words, students get a choice of activities which include spelling the words after listening to each one read aloud, both alone and in a sentence, word scramble and a hangman game.

[Susan]

Vozme.com has an excellent Text to Speech script to add to your blog, website or your browser, unfortunately I'm not having any luck adding it as a forum comment, you can see it in action here

[Susan]

Create, or have your students create multimedia posters containing graphics, sound, video and more, could be used for purpose, basic vocabulary, book reports, projects/

If the embed code doesn't work in this forum reply you can see an example here