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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.

All third year students will have free access to WordEngine’s Advanced Course.
Instructions on how to sign up for the course (you need a special card from EiComi).

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.

OK, so you missed the lecture by Daniel Dolan “Be Strong, Be Smart, Don’t be Cute.” Now you have to make up the lecture. Here are the instructions.
1) Watch the videos. There are six of them. Each one is about 10 minutes. Take notes while you watch.

Video 1 of 6
Video 2 of 6
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Here is the hitomi-cup-speech-contest-13-program-2009-v4 for the speech contest.