Futurelab - 21st century learners via innovative practice and technology

"Futurelab is an independent not-for-profit organisation that is dedicated to transforming teaching and learning, making it more relevant and engaging to 21st century learners through the use of innovative practice and technology."

Personally, I think this website provides lots of useful sources for both learners and educators. The thing is these sources are free for everyone. Publication which includes literature review, magazine, report, poster, handbook etc are available for visitors to download them. 

Besides, free online tools available at http://www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/multimedia/free-online-learning-tools which include resources for creating digitally-enhanced learning experiences, easy-to-use online space that gives access to a wide range of exciting, free web resource,etc.

There are too many exciting sources available in this website. I highly recommend those active learners and educators to go and visit this website. Last but not least, don't forget to post a comment about this recommendation to me. This is one of good supports to Xaivier Blog.

 “We need the combined expertise of industry, academia, practitioners and policy to design and implement the tools, the technologies and practices that will revolutionise the way we learn”
David Puttnam, Futurelab Chairman 

Reference: http://www.futurelab.org.uk
Review by: Xaivier Chia
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Free Online Learning: English English - Learn English at BritishCouncil

These are some of the summary from http://www.britishcouncil.org/ which are very useful for everyone who want to improve your English language. A very thank you here for www.britishcouncil.org who have provided various free of charge and very helpful resources to help everyone in this world improve their English language. The purpose for this summary is to record those useful links for everyone's time to time revision.

1. J@M, LONDON'S BEST KNOWN WEB DESIGN COMPANY
"Thirty-nine episodes take you through the development of this web design company. Each episode starts with a description of the language areas and skills it practises. There are lots of exercises to help you learn the Business English of each episode. Follow the progress of Sanjeev, J@M's newest recruit, as you learn"

2. Double click dictionary at http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish site.
"This feature started life as the Global Glossary on the British Council's LearnEnglish site, offering language support for learners of English. Users can double-click on any word, and get a definition from Cambridge Dictionaries Online. LearnEnglish has now negotiated rights to use the dictionary on the corporate site and on a couple of other named British Council sites."

3. TEST YOUR LEVEL
"Online English tests are fun and can give an indication of your ability."

4. EXAM & STUDY SKILL ARTICLES

5. SPECIALIST VOCABBUILDER
"Learn new words for your area of interest with this new Specialist Vocabbuilder."

6. GRAMMAR MOVIES
"Practise your grammar with our short movies"

7. PROFESSIONALS PODCASTS
"Develop your English listening skills by subscribing to our podcast or using our MP3 audio files and PDF scripts. You can listen to the files online, download them onto your PC or put them on your MP3 player."

8. LESSON DOWNLOAD
"Lesson downloads are a way of studying English with LEP offline."

9. Science Cubed
"Here at cubed we keep you up to date with the science that’s shaping our society and bringing a new dimension to everyday life. We give you the latest innovations in fashion and music, design and digital, film and life, to bring you the products and ideas that will change our world - prepare to be cubed..."

10. Main page of LearnEnglish 
"LearnEnglish is a portal that links to all of our websites for teachers and learners of English - just one web address to remember."

Summarized by: Xaivier Chia
Resource: http://www.britishcouncil.org/
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Free online learning tips: A slice of life E-newsletter

A slice of life is a Singapore media program which provides an inspiration and motivation in our daily basis. By subscribing A slice of life free newsletter, one will receive a piece of article or information from Eugene Loh, the writer of this program, every weekdays.

This program has not only provided inspiration and motivation in my life, it has also given surprise and guidance in my life. It is because sometimes we do not have any idea about what we need to read today. We, however, do know we need to read something today. The something can be either meaningful, inspiration, motivation or bring an impact to our life in both long run and short run.

As a result, I do believe this program do a great job to fulfill the above requirements. Besides that, this program is total free of charge and available all the time. Hope this program will bring benefit to you too.

Free online learning tips: Learning English by using Youtube

English language is an international language. Proficient in English language give you many opportunity to know the people around the world as well as increase your competitive and market value in your career.

The questions are how to learn it, who is qualified to teach it, and its fee. As a student, I do not have many time and money to participle those so-called "smart learning in English" or "Guarantee Result English lesson". However, the contributors who have provided many fantastic lessons and advicesin Youtube.

First contributor is Jennifer, who can be found at http://www.youtube.com/user/JenniferESL. She has provided a lot of marvellous lessons which are close to our daily living life and present the sophisticated grammar in easy understand form. Her English lessons cover all we need in daily conversation.

Next contributor is Steve Ford, who can be found at http://www.youtube.com/user/PrivateEnglishPortal. His lessons mainly concern about the TOEFL and ESL examination preparation as well as business communication.

It is cannot be denied that there are many other contributors in Youtube. A very thank you for all of the contributors here.