LET: The Treasure Hunt Club

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October 2011 Treasure Hunt
PowerPoint Games and More Offline Game Resources
Marcel Van Amelsvoort （Kanagawa Prefectural College of
Foreign Studies)

In a previous column, I introduced game resources online for
teachers who have no opportunity to use the internet in
class. At that time, the focus was on games that could be
printed out and brought to class
(http://www.toolsforeducators.com/boardgames/, for example).

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October 2011 Treasure Hunt
Online Conferencing, Online TEFL Training, and More Online Vocabulary Tools
Marcel Van Amelsvoort （Kanagawa Prefectural College of Foreign Studies)

■Online Conferencing
BigMarker offers free and unlimited web conferencing. It isa web conferencing tool similar to Adobe Connect orBlackboard Collaborate, allowing you to host up to 10 peopleat a time. But it is also a learning platform for informallearning. You can make your own conferences (either publicor private) or you can find learning modules at the website.Great if you want to add a live conferencing session to yourcourse. http://www.bigmarker.com/

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June 2011 Treasure Hunt
Search Engines for Kids and Tips from Time
Marcel Van Amelsvoort
(Kanagawa Prefectural Institute of Language and Culture Studies)

Hope everyone had a nice summer. This month I’ve got a whole bunch ofwebsites to introduce. The first group is search engines that youmight want to get your young learners to use if you are having themsearch the web. And the second group contains some unrelated websitesthat were recommended recently by Time Magazine.

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August 2011 Treasure Hunt
Offline Fun: Printable Game Sites
Marcel Van Amelsvoort
(Kanagawa Prefectural Institute of Language and Culture Studies)

Recently I have met many high school teachers. Only a few of themteach in classes that are online. This month’s column is especiallyfor those teachers, but also for other teachers who want to make useof offline activities available on the Internet for fun face-to-faceclasses. The sites this week allow users to print out games to use ingroups in class. Games can be a fun way to practice language and thesesites have some really good ones.

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July 2011 Treasure Hunt
Web Audio Banks and Eyercise Speed Reading Tool
Marcel Van Amelsvoort
（Kanagawa Prefectural Institute of Language andCulture Studies)

This month I’d like to introduce some sites where you can access ordownload audio that you can later edit and use with learners. This isespecially useful for teachers in situations where you do not have anInternet connection in the classroom and you want to convert audio foruse on a CD player. I’d also like to introduce a speed reading toolthat is recently becoming popular.

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