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Spelling help | Spelling tests | Spelling games

Posted by John Dalziel on Thursday, August 25, 2011, In : Spelling

English spelling online course to help older students, teenage to adult, learn and improve their spelling.
This spelling course uses lists, games, tests to teach English spelling rules to help students and adults learn spelling.

Try the help, tests & games at http://www.spellzone.com/index.cfm.

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MouseProgram

Posted by John Dalziel on Wednesday, February 9, 2011, In : ICT

MouseProgram, created by Lawrence Goetz 2008-2010, is very much a website for beginners to learn how to "Use The Mouse"

Visitors to the MouseProgram website practice using the Mouse, including:

Moving the Mouse;

Left Clicking;

Right Clicking;

Double Clicking;

Dragging and Dropping;

There is also an introduction to the elements found on "Online Forms", including using the mouse with...

Radio Buttons;

Check Boxes; and

Drop Down Lists.

The bonus for many may wel...

Road to Grammar

Posted by John Dalziel on Sunday, November 21, 2010, In : ESOL/Language

Road to Grammar is a free resource featuring quizzes, games, and lessons for ESOL, ESL, EFL & Functional Skills learners.

Learners can work through...

a dozen practice activities;
five practice games; and
365 grammar quizzes - each quiz provides instant feedback and notes explaining why answers are correct or incorrect.

Road to Grammar also provides some downloadable resources for teachers offering...

discussion starters for English lessons;
lesson warm-up activities; and
...

Spelling Match Game

Posted by John Dalziel on Tuesday, May 11, 2010, In : Spelling

Spelling Match Game...

is a spelling game developed by Houghton Mifflin;
is, as implied, a game where learners have to complete matching activities based on...
- the sounds; and/or
- meanings of words.
offers different levels of difficulty for learners (grades 1 through 8);
can be played as timed or untimed activity;
is just a game that almost all learners can use on their own; and
is also a good game to play on an interactive whiteboard.

It could be used by...

Literacy and/or
ESOL, ESL...

Literacy Center (Centre)

Posted by John Dalziel on Wednesday, March 10, 2010, In : Resources

The Early Childhood Education Network's Literacy Center (Centre) provides learners with online learning activities in four languages.

The Literacy Centre provides tutorials and games in...

English,
Spanish,
German, and
French.

The tutorials and games are designed to teach learners...

the alphabet,
writing the alphabet,
numbers,
shapes,
colours,
phonics, and
basic spelling.

Each section begins with a tutorial before moving on to ask learners to apply their new knowledge to an activity...

Time-for-time

Posted by John Dalziel on Saturday, February 20, 2010, In : Time

Time for Time is a website for anyone that teaches learners how to tell time.

The online games are easy for learners to access. And, if there are not enough computers for all learners to play the games at once, users can take advantage of the offline game suggestions in the teacher section of Time for Time.

Visit http://www.time-for-time.com/ to find out more.

Many Things: ESOL - EFL - ESL etc

Posted by John Dalziel on Tuesday, October 13, 2009, In : ESOL/Language

Many Things is a website offering Functional Skills/Key Skills/ESOL/EFL/ESL etc., practitioners and learners an extensive collection of...

Word games,
puzzles,
quizzes,
exercises and

...other online learning activities.

Many Things provides materials appropriate for beginners through to advanced ESOL/EFL/ESL learners.

In addition to the games and quizzes, Many Things provides...

listening activities made possible through the use of MP3 recordings.
video lessons on speaking and wr...

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About Me

John Dalziel

Liverpool

I'm an eLearning Adviser specializing in stimulating and supporting innovation in learning via eBooks, eMagazines, blogs (including audio versions), online TV, interactive resources, forums, workshops, conferences and face2face consultations. Evaluating and becoming familiar with sustainable and new technologies allows me to respond to the needs of learning providers from a position of experience rather than 'hearsay'. Supported learning providers, in the northwest of England (UK), can contact me for FREE consultations. Based at Lancaster University I work for the JISC Regional Support Centre - Northwest.