Book Review: Let Me Finish!

Author:  Minh Le  Illustrator: Isabel Roxas Interest Level: Ages and Up From the Book Jacket: When our young hero settles in to read, the la...

Book Review: What Does It Mean To Be Present?

Author: Rana DiOrio Illustrator: Eliza Wheeler Interest Level: Ages 5 and Up About This Book:  This refreshing, vibrant picture book engages...

Book Review: Ozzie and the Art Contest

Author/Illustrator: Dana Sullivan Interest Level: Ages 4 and Up From the Book Jacket: Ozzie loves to draw. Ozzie loves drawing and being an ...

Get your Students Listening and Interacting with Native Speakers

Listening in the EFL / ESL classroom can be a pretty dull business. Usually it consists of students all listening to the same thing at the...

So Ask Me a Question

I recently spotted this very interesting site called Vyou.com which exploits video to create asynchronous conversations. I find it interest...

Text to Speech Movies for EFL ESL

Yesterday on my Quick Shout blog, I wrote about a new tool called Xtranormal for creating text to speech animated movies. Since then I...

Exploiting a Video Viral

For a long time now I've been fascinated with viral marketing campaigns and the way advertisers use these to promote their products. Wha...

Text to Speech for EFL ESL Materials

Text to Speech (TTS) technology has come a long way in recent years and this is nowhere more evident than on the Read The Words website. I...