Revision 2021

 

OPEN Online Courses and Platforms

 

OPEN Online Courses and Platforms

Imi face placere sa va anunt ca am absolvit cu calificativul "outstanding" (s-au acordat numai 9 astfel de distinctii in regiune (19 tari)) programul de formare profesionala OPEN Program Spring 2021 - Using Educational Technology (am atasat si diploma caci, din cate am vazut, asa e la moda). Este un curs exclusiv online asincron pentru care as dori sa felicit reprezentantii BUREAU OF EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS.

It is a great pleasure for me to announce to you that I have recently graduated as "outstanding" (only 9 other participants in the region (19 countries) were awarded such distinction) from the professional training program  OPEN Program Spring 2021 - Using Educational Technology (I attached the certificate for, as I have seen, it is fashionable). This was an exclusively asynchronous online course for which congratulations are due to the  BUREAU OF EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS.

In cursul acestui curs, am aflat de urmatoarele platforme online care v-ar putea fi de folos:

During this course, I learned about several online platforms that you may find useful:

The U.S. Department of State American English website: https://americanenglish.state.gov/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

·       American English Facebook Page1: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanEnglishatState/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

·       American English for Educators Facebook page1: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanEnglishforEducators/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

·       American English YouTube channel1: https://www.youtube.com/user/StateAmericanEnglish

Voice of America (VOA)  

• News Words: Obliterated: http://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/3522697.html (Links to an external site.)  
• Additional News Words stories: http://learningenglish.voanews.com/z/3620.html (Links to an external site.). 
• The VOA news reports lesson plans: http://learningenglish.voanews.com/ (Links to an external site.).  
• New Details on Asteroid Strike That Killed Off the Dinosaurs is available at  https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/new-details-on-asteroid-strike-that-killed-off-the-dinosaurs/5082360.html

Lingro.com - you can feed electronic text or its link in this platform and all the words of the text will be hyperlinked, each hyperlink leading to explanations for each word.

Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) - this is a very complex and systematic concordancer that gives you info on the contexts in which a word is used offering you thousands of examples, statistics etc.; you need to log in.

  https://web.seesaw.me/

• Fan Fiction websites1
  • https://archiveofourown.org/ (Links to an external site.)
    

• https://www.fanfiction.net/

Readability Analyzer at https://datayze.com/readability-analyzer.php (Links to an external site.)

WebFX Readability Test Tool at  http://www.webpagefx.com/tools/read-able/

 (Links to an external site.)

(I found these two tools useful in selecting texts for evaluation exercises, designing grammar activities)

American Teens Talk:
This collection of interviews with American high school students is available in written format and in audio format. Read 3-5 of the interviews and listen to the audio. Think about how you might be able to pick out a few aspects the students discuss to use as starting point for a reading/speaking lesson. https://americanenglish.state.gov/resources/american-teens-talk

All reading resources available at the American English website: https://americanenglish.state.gov/search/solr/?f[0]=bundle%3Aresource&f[1]=im_field_resource_skills%3A15

GRAMMARLY

EFL listening websites:
ESL Lab1: http://www.esl-lab.com  (Links to an external site.)
ESL Lounge1: http://www.esl-lounge.com  (Links to an external site.)
Many Things1: http://www.manythings.org  (Links to an external site.)
TED Ed1: https://www.ted.com/watch/ted-ed  (Links to an external site.)
YouTube1: https://www.youtube.com  (Links to an external site.)

Additional Websites:
NBC1: http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news  (Links to an external site.)
ABC1: http://abcnews.go.com/Video  (Links to an external site.)
CBS:1 http://www.cbsnews.com  (Links to an external site.)
PBS Kids1: http://pbskids.org/video  (Links to an external site.)
National Geographic1: http://www.nationalgeographic.com  (Links to an external site.)
Academic Earth1: http://academicearth.org/electives  (Links to an external site.)

Resources for teaching speaking:

1. Youglish: http://youglish.com (Links to an external site.)
2. Merriam-Webster: https://www.merriam-webster.com (Links to an external site.)
3. Skype (https://www.skype.com/en (Links to an external site.)) offers free audio/video calls among its users.
4. Google Hangouts (https://hangouts.google.com (Links to an external site.)) allows for free audio/video conference calls.