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Erin McKean is a lexicographer. She studies words. She is also very funny. She writes dictionaries. She says that old fashioned paper dictionaries don’t work very well. They need some help from computers, and from people, to make the dictionaries come alive.
This is a TED talk. TED stands for Technology Entertainment and Design. It is [...]

This is a graded reader, short story, with easy English. It is science fiction, about the future. It is about teachers and learners, and it is about society. Ryan’s friend Ted O’neill made it simpler, using an original story by V. E. Thiessen. It is very scary. This story is something you can talk about [...]

Feedbooks is a great website where they have lots of interesting books, some short, some long, most for free, some paid. There are lots of classics, but also a lot of new books. You download and read with Stanza, or another eReader.

Stanza is a wonderful eReader from LexCycle. It is free. You can download both free books and paid books to read on your iPod Touch. You can download books when you have access to wifi Internet, then read any time, even if you are not connected.

Evernote is the best note-taking application because it works with Windows, Macs, mobiles like iPod Touch. You can save text, pictures, videos, anything! It remembers where you got your information, too. This is great for research. Comes in about 10 languages, including English and Japanese.

Evernote works with Windows, Macs, mobiles

A good example of an unusual use of iPod Touch for teaching students how to move around. The best applications of Touches are ones like these, ones that you would never think of yourself.

One of the best blogs about using the iPod Touch for education. Tony Vincent.

A 50-slide presentation about different softwares we can all use for learning with the iTouch.

A very good website form Louise Duncan showing a number of ways to personalize learning with the iPod Touch.

Most people think of iTunes as a helper for an iPod. It is really the other way around. The iPod Touch only makes the iTunes software portable. You can use iTunes software without the iPod. You can’t use the iPod without iTunes. iTunes is the way to get new software, new music, new video and [...]