Finding ESL Books, Documents & Presentations Online

Some websites that have a lot of ESL books, documents and presentations:

• Scribd
• Docstoc
• Slideshare

You can read the books/docs online on those websites, download them to your own computer or even embed them in another web page.

You can access things other people have uploaded to those websites or upload things yourself. Some ESL teachers upload documents or presentations they've made, so their students or others can access them. It's quite easy to upload a file and then embed in a Moodle page.

Just copy & paste the "Embed" code.

Here's an example of a book available at Scribd:

• Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics

And here's an example of an embedded presentation thanks to Slideshare:

web 2.0 tools for ESL/EFL teaching (how to become web literate)

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: 2.0 web)

Flash video in Moodle; Flash video with subtitles

Here's a tutorial on how to embed a Flash video (like the kind on YouTube) in a page in Moodle, using the small free JW FLV Media Player.

• Embedding Flash into Moodle (or whatever)

And here's another on using JWPlayer with subtitles that you can turn on & off, and are high quality.

• High quality video with clear subtitles: JW Mediaplayer

Moodle seems to have JWPlayer already built in; when I linked to a Flash video ( ending in ".flv") in a Moodle web page, it was automatically embedded and played when I viewed the page. But it appears to use an older version of JW player (called "JeroenWijeringPlayer").

I haven't yet tried these techniques on Moodle but hopefully will soon. Please post any experiences/ideas you've had in the comments.

Video tutorial showing how to embed a Youtube video in a Moodle page

Here's a video tutorial showing how to embed a YouTube video in a Moodle page.
Un video que enseña como encrustar un video de YouTube en una página de Moodle.



There are a lot of videos on YouTube about Moodle, I recommend checking some out.

• YouTube - Moodle