My English Pages

WordNet
WordNet is a large lexical database of English, developed under the direction of George A. Miller, Profeessor of psychology at Princeton University.
Word Net is a useful tool because of many reasons:

Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets)
Each synsets expressing a distinct concept.
Synsets are interlinked by means of conceptual-semantic and lexical relations.

The whole network of meaningfully related vocabulary items and concepts can be navigated through a browser
You can also  download a free version of the tool.
Note that the database is still under construction. But …

Google Wave
Google wave is an online application that allows for:

real-time communication
collaboration

Web 2.0 and EFL and ESL teachers
This is a video by Nik Peachey explaining what web 2.0 is all about and how it can be useful to EFL and ESL teachers.
He first starts by presenting what was the internet like before web 2.0 and then he shows how the internet is now a richer and more powerful tool at the hand of both teachers and students, enabling them to connect and share information in an unprecedented way.

Wordle is a tool that creates word clouds that you can print and use in teaching English.

Educational tool
Eyeplorer is a an amazing eduactational tool. It is a research and study tool based on Wikipedia which enables students to make research about specific terms to prepare for writing assignments and class projects. It is espaecially useful to  help students develop their: