LET: The Treasure Hunt Club

Marcel Van Amelsvoort
（Kanagawa Prefectural College of Foreign Studies）
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A wiki is a type of website that organizes content. In terms of technology
it is similar to a blog, but it is able to contain a tremendous amount of
information organized in a way that makes it easy to search or find that
information. For users, wikis usually look like encyclopedias. Indeed the
most famous wiki actually is an encyclopedia: Wikipedia. The first wiki was

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Marcel Van Amelsvoort
（Kanagawa Prefectural College of Foreign Studies）
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Hello everyone and welcome to another month of the Treasure Hunt. Well, it’
s April and I’ve been cleaning up my desk and cleaning out my office in
preparation for the start of the new school year. I’ve been sorting through
old activities and papers, deciding which to keep and which need to go to
the shredder. I thought I would use this month’s column to do pass along
some odd links I’ve had on my desktop for the last few months.

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Marcel Van Amelsvoort
（Kanagawa Prefectural College of Foreign Studies）
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Hello everyone. Back in December I briefly mentioned podcasts. This month I’d like to help steer members to some sites that can help you find and use podcasts. I’ll also introduce one site that lets people set up their own podcasts.

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Marcel Van Amelsvoort
（Kanagawa Prefectural College of Foreign Studies）
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Hello everyone. Last year I did column on writing and I mentioned blogs as a possible tool for teaching writing. Well, blogs have been developing a lot lately, especially used together with podcasts. Today, however, I’d like to look at some of the tools that are available to help teachers begin making the most of blogs for reading and writing.

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　Marcel Van Amelsvoort
（Kanagawa Prefectural College of Foreign Studies）
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A very Happy New Year to all LET members. I hope everyone had a relaxing
and enjoyable holiday. This month we are going to go back to stories.
This time, however, we will not be looking at listening or reading
stories, but rather making them. Recently, a number of sites have
appeared that let visitors make their own stories by selecting pictures
and adding text. These stories can then be saved and shared. This gives
teachers all the tools they need for a very nice communicative writing
activity. With some sites, the options include not only pictures and
text but also music and video, requiring, of course, a faster internet
connection to work well.

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