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WordMagnets is a really useful tool that students can either use alone on a computer, or that you can use in class with a projector or IWB. Here's a short video showing you how to use it. You can download a copy of the video here and copy suitable for iPod here . WordMagnets is a simple tool that allows you to paste text into a field and then click a couple of times to change the text into word tiles a little like fridge magnets that you can drag and rearrange. Here's a text that I quickly copied in from an article about J. K. Rowling. I clicked on 'Next', then ignored the opportunity to change the background and clicked 'Next' again and I had these randomised word tiles that I could then drag to recreate the text. This is a great tool that has some really useful features. You can type in and add words to the text, or you can delete word tiles from the text by clicking on remove then clicking the words you want to get rid of. You can also change the colour and...

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...