Voicethread

Voicethread is an online digital tool that allows you to: Create multimedia albums as video tutorials, inserting images, audio, video and documents (PDF, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).

This tool is very useful, but it still needs some adjustments. for language learning it can be very useful, as you can reinforce all the skills. Overall, it is a great tool for teaching and learning.

Storybird

Storybird is a fantastic tool for creating stories online. This tool allows you to promote writing and reading skills in students through storytelling. In this tool, teachers can create interactive and artistic books online through a simple and easy-to-use interface.

However, it is not only a tool focused on teachers, as students can also be the protagonists, creating their own stories. They can explore the type of narrative they want to create and find the template that best suits what they want to convey. They can also share it with their teacher and classmates.

Voki

Voki is an online tool that allows you to create a "Voki" or character (avatar) that moves and can speak. Use a variety of options to create the character, from physical characteristics to the language and regional accent you want to use for the character's voice.

This tool is very useful and a creative way in which students can express themselves, because they can create an avatar of themselves and add all the characteristics they identify with. this also helps students feel more comfortable when speaking in public, since they can record an audio beforehand, upload it or even write a text with what the avatar will say. Voki promotes the development of skills such as listening, speaking and writing.

Schoology

Schoology is an LMS that allows users to create, manage and share content and resources. It is also known as a course management system (CMS) or virtual learning environment (VLE). The cloud-based platform provides tools necessary to manage any classroom or blended learning environment.

This system provides the opportunity to build a classroom with a personalized environment where students can connect with interactive, tailored experiences to enhance their learning process and where teachers acquire tools to better master their field. An important feature to highlight about Schoology is its ease of use, testing the platform is very simple, it will take you 5 minutes. Schoology's graphical interface is a point that adds up in favor of this platform, as it presents a friendly and intuitive interface. 

Elsa speak

ELSA (English Language Speech Assistant) is a fun and engaging application specially designed to help you improve your English pronunciation. ELSA's artificial intelligence technology was developed using sound data from English speakers with various accents. ELSA is able to recognize the pronunciation of non-native speakers, unlike most speech recognition technologies.

Spell Up

Spell up is an interactive online game for the Chrome browser to improve vocabulary, pronunciation, comprehension and spelling. The user must spell, pronounce, complete or write words to form a higher and higher tower and move up a level. As levels advance, the difficulty increases.

In Spell Up we have to spell correctly the words we are told to create the highest tower possible. The higher the tower the more difficult the words will be to spell. There will be no shortage of levels and achievements in this experimental Chrome game that has been developed together with teachers and game designers to turn Spell Up into an educational and fun game.

Listen and Write

Listen and write is a website that brings dictation into the present and allows students to work on English comprehension and writing skills while transcribing from Coldplay or Katy Perry songs, to Emily Dickinson poems, TED conferences or news

Vaughan Radio

Vaughan Radio is a well-known English radio station, especially designed for Spanish speakers. It allows you to train your ear, deepen your grammar, expand your vocabulary and improve your pronunciation with its varied and entertaining programs for all levels. It is the first station to offer 24 hours of bilingual programming with English predominating.

Storynory

Storynory is a website with hundreds of stories, fables, poems and songs for children recreated by actors and collected in audios to play online or download. Includes from Greek myths to classics such as The Snow Queen.

Storynory has been giving free audio stories to the world since November 2005. We are a podcast and a website with audio streaming. Some months we serve around a million downloads of our mp3 files (stored on Libsyn). All our content is free. 

LearnEnglish Teens

LearnEnglish Teens is a British Council website that includes countless resources for Secondary and High School students to learn English with activities, videos, images and resources related to their interests. For primary school students there is the LearnEnglish Kids option.

D-ID

D-ID is an artificial intelligence-generated video creation platform that allows you to create high-quality, engaging and cost-effective videos from simple text quickly and easily. Its Creative Reality™ Studio is powered by Stable Diffusion and GPT-3 and can produce videos in over 100 languages without requiring technical expertise. In addition, its Live Portrait feature creates videos from a single photo and Speaking Portrait provides a voice for text or audio. Its API is trained on tens of thousands of videos to produce photorealistic results.

Chat GPT

Chat GPT is a language model developed by OpenAI. OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research organization based in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 2015 by a group of AI researchers and entrepreneurs, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman.

OpenAI's goal is to develop high-quality, freely accessible AI technologies for society at large. To achieve this, the organization conducts research in a wide variety of areas, such as deep learning, natural language processing and automatic gaming.

Mentimeter

With this platform you will be able to create interactive presentations and very visual and attractive quizzes. The platform offers a list of sample templates and different types of questions to customize your presentation.

Once the presentation is done, you can share it with the audience and collect participation data. The audience participates via cell phones, tablets or PCs. Participants will be able to send their answers, opinions or questions as they go through the screens of the presentation.

Stopost

StopotS is the online version of the game known as Stop, Basta, Tutti Frutti, Lápiz Quieto, Mercadito or Bachillerato. At the beginning, you must choose the themes, which will then serve as the basis for the dynamics of the game. Examples of themes are: Name, Color, Animal, among others.

Wordwall

Wordwall is a digital platform that allows you to create and edit customized learning activities that can be developed throughout a class session. Users can create activities from pre-designed templates and adapt them according to their planning.

The following can be created: matching, wheel of chance, anagrams, computers, word search and more. All of these can be assigned as in-session training activities or out-of-class assignments.

lingodeer

LingoDeer is an app that is made for people from anywhere outside of Asia who are new to these mysterious and beautiful languages. Learning your favorite Asian language with an app is now a dream come true.

Born as an app specialized in teaching Asian languages, you can now use it both as an app and on your computer to learn up to 11 languages (as of August 2021): Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, Vietnamese and Arabic (Beta)

ESL games

This page can be useful for English teachers, since it contains some teaching aids such as videos, flashcards, puzzles and crossword puzzles. These teaching aids could be applied to preschool and early elementary school, but they can also be used in classes with youth and adults. There are also games called Classroom Games, which are ideal for reinforcing subjects in an academic group.

Technology is no longer an imaginary of the future. Today, where everyone has a mobile device, ESL Games offers the advantage of using vocabulary games, spelling games and more with great adaptability.

So, if academics, languages, games and fun are your thing, this could be your favorite site. Create your user and start enjoying the tools it offers you

Genially

Genial.ly is a tool that allows us to generate interactive digital content without programming and without design knowledge. That is, we can design infographics, presentations or maps with the typical "drag and drop" interface and, in addition, we can provide it with some interactivity for the user and easily embed it in a website or generate an interactive presentation for viewing in the browser.

The strong point of Genial.ly, unlike Canva and Piktochart, is the interactivity, but keep in mind that this application is intended to design content in digital format that you can embed in web pages or display online, and not to design creativities that you want to print in paper format.