AloofDoof is a useful drawing web app with a weird name. After registration, you can either upload an image, choose an image that someone has already uploaded, or start with a blank canvas — then draw away.
I’m adding it to The Best Art Websites For Learning English. Even though there are other sites on that list that have better drawing capabilities, AloofDoof has the added feature of being able to embed your image. I think it can be especially useful in illustrating student stories, like these.
I’m recovering from taking the California Zephyr train from Denver. It was a fun adventure. You haven’t lived until you’ve spent thirty-size hours in the same railcar with twenty family members .
(NOTE: I usually publish this kind of post once-a-week. However, even more links than usual accumulated during this last week of school”)
I have a huge backlog of resources that I’ve been planning to post about in this blog but, just because of time constraints, have not gotten around to doing. Instead of letting that backlog grow bigger, I regularly grab a few and list them here with a minimal description. It forces me to look through these older links, and help me organize them for my own use. I hope others will find them helpful, too. These are resources that I didn’t include in my “Best Tweets” feature because I had planned to post about them, or because I didn’t even get around to sending a tweet sharing them.
Here is Another Special Edition Of “Links I Should Have Posted About, But Didn’t”:
I’ve used board games when teaching English Language Learners, and students have particularly enjoyed it when they’ve made their own.
When I was cruising the Web recently, just by chance I found that there were sites that had lots of free downloadable templates for ESL games. Many of you probably knew that already, but it was a surprise to me. They could certainly come in handy at times, especially as models for students designing their own.
Here are some of the best sites I saw, and I welcome additional suggestions:
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