Using ICT in Further Education

Lingro provides an online environment “that allows anyone learning a language to quickly look up and learn the vocabulary most important to them“. English, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish and German are all catered for on Lingro.

As well as providing a normal dictionary, Lingro also provides a web viewer and a file viewer. 

The web viewer opens a website in the Lingro viewer and allows you to select individual words for translation.

On selection, a translation box appears. This may be left open or closed before the next word is selected.

The file viewer translates files that are uploaded from your computer (txt, doc and pdf formats).

Lingro also provides study tools in the form of word lists and flash card games.

Looking for CC licensed work? A great starting point is the Creative Commons Search Site. This site will help you find  photos, music, text, books, educational material, and more that is free to share or build upon using Creative Commons.

You can also browse specific repositories of Creative Commons licensed content by clicking on the Content Directories tab. Currently, the directories includes audio, video, image, text education and geodata.

flickrCC is a great place to find CC licensed images.

Not only does it find images but flickrCC also allows you to edit them by cropping and resizing.

As well as this you can add text anywhere on the image. Finally, you can add a frame and inculde the correct attribution at the bottom of the image.

Once edited use a screen capture program such as Printkey2000 to save the image to your computer.

PictureSandbox is a cool tool that lets you choose the CC license type before it searchs Flickr for your specified photos.  First came across this on Tama’s eLearning blog. It is easy to use and should encourage students and teachers to pay more attention to copyright regulations!

Came across another similar tool on Stephen’s Web called Behold. This tool searches Flickr specifically for high quality images. Make sure you tick the ‘free to use’ box!