ANTHONY BRIAN GALLAGHER
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Useful Tools and Resources

Free PDF Editor
CHat Open AI
CEFR Checker Cathoven
CEFR Levels
WORDWALL (Quizzes, plenaries, or fun)
Easy Schedule Creator
Vocabulary Profiler
Rewordify (Rewrite Anything Application)
Inspirassion - Collocation Dictionary
Tiny URL (URL Shortener)
KeamK Random team Generator
Bouncy Balls (Manage Classroom Noise or Visualize Music)
Turn Off The Lights (Another YouTube simplifier)
ZEN PEN (simple text writing)
LEXTUTOR (Research tools for Linguists)
Visual Thesaurus (Linking Words Together in a Fun Way)
Classroom Fun Timers and Online Stopwatch
Quiet Tube (Video without the distractions)
Window Swap (VIdeos of Window Views around the World)
Open Broadcast Software (Live-stream and Video Production)
https://thewordsearch.com/
eTransCribe (Audio to Text converter)
Jigsaw Classroom (Lesson Strategies for Groups)
Road to Grammar >> Free Grammar Quizzes
English Grammar Rules (Basic/Intermediate/Advanced)
Free Rice for Vocabulary (World Food Programme)
ELLLO (English Listening Lesson Library Online)
Noun Project (SVG Image finder)
KAHOOT (premade clicker-type quizzes for □)
Quizizz (Premade and Easy to Make Quizzes for plenaries)
Know Your News Quiz (Recent Newspaper Quiz)
Useful English Expressions (Beginner Intermediate and Advanced)
2 Mad Minutes (My Cracking wee vocabulary Strategy)
The Mike Rowe Podcast (The Way I Heard It)
Ourworldindata.org
Britannica ProCon.org (Reliable Non-Partisan Pro & Con Ideas)
Memo Notepad (Simple and Effective Full-Size Notepad)
Flippity (Turn Spreadsheets into Digital Flashcards)
SAGE JOURNALS
Free Educational Resources (Printable Elementary Worksheets)
Pac-Man Donkey Kong Frogger and more
PEXELS (Free Stock Images and Videos)
CyberSmile Education
E-LEARNING Infographics
iFixit the Free Repair Manual
Okinawa JALT
Click here for APA 7th Edition Formatting guides and downloadable APA guides

SAMPLES of my work are available here to read ​and adopt under a Creative Commons 4.0 licence and under contract. Simply contact me for details at [email protected].

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Academic Writing

(1) "What Makes Tutors Tick? Exploring Motives and Experiences in the JALT Writers' Peer Support Group (PSG)" (2019, Dec) Research in Online Literacy Education, Section 3: Studies of Tutor Training in Online Writing Centers. Volume 2, Issue 2.
http://www.roleolor.org/what-makes-tutors-tick-exploring...

"Is Something Too Good to be True? Ethics in Publication"
Gallagher, A.B. (2019, Nov) Journal The Language Teacher, Volume
43, Issue 6, pp 29-30. The Japan Association for Language Teaching ISSN 0289-7938

Here is a walk-through of the benefits of using a virtual learning environment in an academic writing course.
How to set one up and use it.

Issues Affecting Students of Academic Writing

Cultural Learning Through Playground Games

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy or recommendation

Tutors Motives in an Academic Writers Peer Support Group

Original Lesson Activities & Plans

Debate Rebuttals
Readers Theatre: Sal The Salty Horizon
Reader's Theatre: The Hobby Hijinks
2 Mad Minutes

Quick Chats You tell me, I'll tell you
Can You Spell It for Me? Victorian Chairs

Student Well-Being

Simple ideas to improve student well-being and strength of mind

Ask students to talk about:
The view from a window - see Window Swap 
Something that gave them pleasure today
A moment of kindness they shared or witnessed recently
A place they find very relaxing and enjoyable
Please contact me for classroom lessons on this topic.
Membership of Professional Bodies
JALT Japan Association for Language Teaching
Okinawa JALT Publications Chair (2022-present) & Publicity Chair (2022-present)

CALL SIG Computer Assisted Language Learning Special Interest Group
 * CALL SIG Conference Treasurer (2018), 
 * CALL SIG Conference Site Chair (2019), 
 * CALL SIG Conference Proceedings Sub-Editor (2019, 2020, 2021).
 * CALLSIG Liaison with PANSIG (2022)

PanSIG
 * PanSIG Conference Forums Chair & CALL Liaison (2016-2018, 2022-present).
 * PanSIG Conference Journal (Editor 2017)
 * PanSIG Conference Proceedings (Senior Reviewer 2016-2019)
PIESIG Performance in Education Special Interest Group
 * PIE SIG Contributor, Member at large
   PIE SIG JALT International Conference 2022 Forum Chair.

Common Grounds Scholar
Technology, Knowledge & Society Research Network - Common Grounds Scholar (Publishing Senior Reviewer 2016-present). 
​International Academic Forum
IAFOR (Reviewer since 2016-present)

Web-based applications I recommend

G Suite for Education      edu.google.com/products/gsuite-for-education/?modal_active=none 
Word Processing >> Google Docs     https://www.google.com/docs/about/
Collecting information and lesson distribution >> Google Forms     https://www.google.com/forms/about/
Spreadsheets >> Google Sheets     https://www.google.com/sheets/about/
Presentations >>  https://www.google.com/slides/about/
Interactive Presentation >> https://www.mentimeter.com/

Media Images     https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wikipedia
Encyclopedia Wikinews
Open journalism Wiktionary
Dictionary & thesaurus Wikibooks
Textbooks & manuals Wikiquote
Quotations Wikispecies
Species directory Wikiversity
Learning tools Wikivoyage
Travel guide Wikisource
Source texts Wikidata
Knowledge base Meta-Wiki
Coordination MediaWiki
Wiki software development

Video Logging/Sharing
Flipgrid      https://info.flipgrid.com/

Classroom and Home Quizzes
Quizizz      quizizz.com/
Kahoot     https://kahoot.com/

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