The theory and practice of using technology in English teaching

Age: 13+

13. 
    Skype in the classroom
    

Everyone has used Skype in order to keep in touch with friends and family at distance, to organise events, hold virtual meetings, and to send messages to colleagues. Today, Skype is an everyday tool in your English language classroom. English teachers are aware of the power of video calling to bring language learning to life for their students. Partnering with other schools enable all learners to broaden their horizons and knowledge, across all subject areas, by working together, and through exploring and understanding differences and similarities. Also, when they are speaking to another classroom outside their country and the only language they can understand each other is English, they are becoming more confident to use the language and as well build-up their vocabulary and improve their pronunciation.
Age: 14+

14. 
    Spelling City
    

SpellingCity is a free of charge website that provides a fun and effortless way to practice spelling words and vocabulary. It can help both teachers and parents to create their own spelling lists and help the kids practice spelling. This tool is interactive and very user-friendly for the students, since it is it is more focused for younger ages but can be used for anyone needing to study some spelling words efficiently. There are three options for each list: Teach Me, Test Me, or Play A Game. SpellingCity offers a variety of options such as: see spelling words, the possibility of hearing up to 43,000+ words and sentences spoken by a “real” human voice, play games with the words, and even take practice spelling tests.
Age: 6+

15. 
    FlipQuiz
    

FlipQuiz is an interactive web tool that helps teachers determine the level of knowledge in the classroom trough creating gameshow-style boards. What is the better way to engage all classroom if not a fun quiz? This tool can help you make a quick review on previous lessons or to pre-assess what they know about the upcoming topic. All the boards you create can be saved for later use. You can also share your boards up on-screen and have students work on them collaboratively. Even the students can use it and create and play quiz with their classmates and learn the topic in a more inventive and interactive way. The tool also allows you to make the quiz more visual by adding pictures, videos or links.