Jackie, Romania
I don't have a lot of access to the internet when I'm teaching my students. However, I have internet at home and so use that to come up with new lesson plans, fresh ideas, and so on. The biggest use I make of the internet, however, is to look words up online. I often use texts with some of my older students, and with some of the tougher vocabulary, a translation can make a lesson much easier. Explaining words is good, but sometimes you can't stop to give a 5-10 minute explanation of each and every important word.

Sarita Manuja, India
I believe a combination of technology tools do a very good turn to the learning of the language. Since most of these tools enhance communication and communication is the core of language learning, the teachers world-wide can expose their learners to a variety of resource from any where in the world.

E. Akilan, India
This topic is quite an interesting one. I have been a regular visitor to this site. I have found the interactive quiz programmes very useful and I have been recommending them to my students. As for as educational technology is concerned, I have developed a fancy for the various authoring tools that are made available in beta versions. These tools help me create very useful language lessons in the interactive mode.
I have also found the downloadable versions of the native speakers' comments or observations very useful. They help my students understand the pronunciation, stress and intonation patterns in a better way. The Weekender, London Life, the Music Show, and the like are particularly very helpful to me in my classrooms.

Mini Joseph, India
I have used and found most useful tech tools such as chats, forums, online dictionaries. I would definitely be interested to use some of the others mentioned in this list such as blogs and Podcasting.

María Jordano, Spain
Forums are for me the best discovery in my life. To get in touch with other teachers,learn from them and to establish stronger links between your students. But also blogs, online dictionaries,etc.

Jorge Anchiraico
I have found quite useful Podcasting so that my students faced hearing native speakers in order to reinforce their listening skill.

Yola Catelly, Romania
I have used a multimedia environment in teaching English to Computer Science students. It's a huge advantage when your students are familiar with the equipment. It's less time consuming than the old chalk and talk, it's challenging for the students and it's challenging for the teacher to find the best ways of combining means and ways in order to help learners enhance their learning process.

Patricia Wilczek, Uruguay
I have found particularly motivating with teenagers the use of internet to chat with students and make them practise what they have learnt. Also to direct them on line to interesting and worth visiting web sites. I have also encouraged them to make e-pals from English speaking countries and this has provided us with very interesting material to discuss in class (cultural issues, language usage, etc.)

Joel Josephson, UK
My experience is that very early language learning can be motivated by age relevant games, songs and stories. This experience is based on a vast amount of feedback and usage of the Kindersite Project that has received registrations from 11,300 schools in 137 countries.

Delia Jones Siegenthaler, Switzerland
Although there are still some technical hiccups (when uploading pictures for example) I find wikispaces a great way to get students involved in continuing discussions outside the classroom, correcting and commenting on each others' work and just sharing holiday photos, personal reviews of films books and English documentaries they've
watched etc. It does require a fair amount of teacher input time and a lot of encouragement to get students involved, but it is like creating a live joint scrapbook of the class.

Pasul, Bolivia
All of these are interesting but for my students none can replace a classroom, a pen and some paper.

Karina Elizabeth , Peru
I voted for video blogging , chat and forums , but I can see from the results that chat is the more common.I think that forum can help our students.

Taha, Iran
I voted for video blogging but it's clear that chatting is the best way while you can use your English knowledge in an online and live conversation.

Irin David Evans, Spain
All my students have responded positively to the "Words in the News" archive in the BBC Learning English website. It is regularily updated, very topical and an invaluable tool to enhance listening skills for students who have little access to hear fluent spoken English.

Gladys Baya, Argentina
It's hard to make a choice. Wikis, online dictionaries, concordancers and blogging have all made as useful contributions as forums to my classes, each suiting different instructional purposes!

Siobhan, Italy
I would love to be able to say I had experience with all those types of tools for English language teaching.

Karen Haines, New Zealand
My students and I enjoy blogging because it gives opportunity for more communication between us, as well as a very accessible way to have a web presence.

Ra'ed Attal , Syria
Well, I used most of them. But what a student may find it useful is really chatting which makes a kind of communication.

Kim Feldmesser, England
I've been using a task-based approach to learning English in my IT classes. My students have been designing websites using Frontpage which our college fortunately has a networked licence for. However it is possible to use freeware such as bluevoda which avoids having to know and use html. The students work (they think it's play!) hard all lesson, produce some fetching sites and are fully motivated to search for information to include on their website. To get them to write their own input is a little more difficult but by drafting and redrafting using a process approach the results are worth waiting for!

Shahid Abrar Awan, USA
Technology can help language instruction in many ways: Enhanced interest of students, a fun way of learning, class community building, and lowering the affective filter. I have experienced a formidable difference between a technology based classroom and a traditional classroom.