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If you are looking for ideas and lesson materials that will accompany different topics and units you are doing in your classroom,hereis an amazing collection of lesson plans bySean Banville.

This can be a great way to motivate our stories to improve their creative writing skills and a good challenge for high achievers.

If you like creative writing activities and promote creativity in your English classes,hereis a cool blog that you can use in class.

Quozioturns meaningful words into beautiful images in seconds and it lets you share them on different social media platforms.

Each video post includes a viral video accompanied by ten conversation questions and a listening activity.

Are you interested in integrating films in your English classes?

TimelineJSis an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines.

You can generate an entire story or a movie script.

Kiddleis a new and a child-friendly search engine for kids that is supported by Google’s Custom search bar embedded in the website.

You can collaborate with other teachers from all over the world, join in online groups of teachers and watch examples of effective teaching.

I have been integrating a little bit of gamification into my 1:1 iPad classes with coolbadges that I have been giving my students for their accomplishments in AppClass.

Snappy Wordsis a free online visual dictionary and thesaurus.

When you watch a video with your kids in the classroom or you assign them a link, the videos come up with unwanted ads, inappropriate comments and unwanted suggested videos.

Wheel Decideis a web tool that will help you to make choices in your classroom easier.

ShortText allows you post text online, with minimum fuss. You can also insert a picture and a video into your post as well.

Sound of textis an online text-to-speech tool that allows you to listen and download the MP3 audio from Google translate.

It’s a great first day introduction tool.

The website finds interesting and real tweets at your language level easy, medium, or difficult.

Here is a super cool and easy tool to create printable bingo cards for your students.

Writing Exercises provides free writing prompts and exercises to help you get started with creative writing and break through writing blocks for your students.

If you like MadLibs kind of activities in which you write words to substitute for blanks in a story, before reading; you and your students will love Wacky Web Tales.

Vocaroohas always been my favorite online voice recording tool!

This app helps us to remove advertisement, side bars and unwanted/not appropriate videos for kids as well.

To help those looking for some advice, here are 4 things to consider when creating or setting up a website.