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I've been aware of 280Slides for some time now, but haven't really tried to use it much as I'm a very keen user of Keynote on my MAC, but this week I was looking around for ways to get video type lessons online and discovered what an incredibly easy and useful tool 280Slides is for this. Basically 280Slides is an online tool for creating presentations. It works in a very simple way and has a very intuitive interface which is very quick to understand. It has a few basic themes and layouts and you can do all the usual things like adding text, shapes and images to your presentations. The two key areas though that I like about 280Slides are: 1. It's really easy to import and embed video into you presentation. Just click on the 'Movies' icon add a search term. Find your video and double click it and there it is in the the presentation. 2. It's really easy to share the presentations online. Just click on the 'Share' icon and you get the options to publis...

This is a really interesting site that I spotted a little while back. The site was inspired by the late great John Cage , one of the most revolutionary composers of the last century. The site is called P22 Music Text Composition Generator and you can find it at: http://p22.com/musicfont/ What the site does is to convert a written text into musical notation with a midi music file to play the notation. It's quite simple to do. You just copy and paste your text into the field, give it a file name (with no spaces or punctuation) choose the speed and instrumentation, then just click to generate the notation and midi file. Then you get a printable copy of your notation and a midi music file that you can download and play. I copied and pasted this blog text in and generated this music file with it. Music Aiding Text Memory Well I can hear people thinking; "What's this got to do with language teaching?" and that's a really good question, so here's how this 'migh...