Deborah Healey's Attic: Internet Possibilities

Internet Possibilities

 

by Deborah Healey

Here are some sites with teaching resources to explore.

What could you use in your curriculum? What do you need in order to use one or more of these?

Quick links

Communicating
Email - online discussion - journaling - Nicenet

Creating
Graphics - More classroom material
Effective Web use
Web searching - Writing - Listening - Pronunciation
Sites with many links - Sites by skill and level
Other online material - Content-based class material - Learning styles
Authoring
Authoring exercises - Creating web sites - Web hosting
Digital sound and video - Other possibilities to explore

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Communicating: Email, online discussion, journaling
Mail at Yahoo! - mail.yahoo.com
TESL-L information at http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/~tesl-l/.
Class mailing list - groups.yahoo.com
Catalist lists at http://www.lsoft.com/catalist.html - search for mailing lists
IECC at http://www.iecc.org/ - teachers find email partners for class projects
Keypals: Kenji & Kathleen Kitao's Keypals Page at bowland-files.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/keypal.htm for basic information
Find more links and keypals at the Linguistic Funland Keypals Page at www.linguistic-funland.com/teslpnpl.html and EL Easton's Keypals Page at eleaston.com/keypal.html
Blogger at http://www.blogger.com - an online discussion area and diary
Gabes in English blog at http://gabesian.blogspot.com
Tech Teaching Worldwide blog at http://techteachingworldwide.blogspot.com
Nicenet at http://www.nicenet.org - online discussion

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Creating
Graphics
Language -ESL Action Photos at http://www.literacynet.org/esl/minigrants/webactions/
Language Teaching Clipart Library at http://web.uvic.ca/hcmc/clipart/
Clip Art for Foreign Language Instruction at http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/JapanProj//FLClipart/
General - http://clipartconnection.com, http://www.webcreationz.co.uk/imagearchive.php, http://www.freeimages.co.uk/ -photos
Add clip art to Word, PowerPoint - http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/default.aspx?lc=en-us
More classroom material
Word Templates at the Office Template Gallery at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/default.aspx
Tongue twisters at http://www.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/twisters.html
Song lyrics - http://www.lyricserver.com; www.classiclyrics.net; www.sing365.com (search by artist, song, or phrase)
PowerPoint templates at the Office Template Gallery at  http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/default.aspx

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Effective Web use
Search engine comparison at www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html
Specific search engines: Google, Kartoo, Teoma
Academic portal: Pinakes
Writing sites
Online Writing Lab at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
Erlyn Baack's Advanced Composition page at http://eslbee.com/
Online Technical Writing online textbook from David A. McMurrey at Austin Community College at http://www.io.com/~hcexres/tcm1603/acchtml/acctoc.html
EFL for Engineering Without Fear - a bibliography and some links, as well as tips for teaching English for Engineering at www.multimania.com/jcviel/tips/tips1.htm
Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students from Virginia Tech - good step-by-step guides and sample report formats at http://www.writing.eng.vt.edu/
Listening sites
Environmental Listening Project from Arlyn Freed at http://www.eslhome.com/chubu/
San Diego Zoo at http://www.sandiegozoo.org/pandas/pandacam/index.html
Peaceable Kingdom program 001 at www.uncommonknowledge.org/800/default.htm
More online videos at www.video.csupomona.edu/streaming/inc/ht_index.html
Business news podcasts at www.eslbusinessnews.com - download or listen online.
Sample cloze by Tereza Neves at http://www.geocities.com/tereza_neves/abstr_n_1.htm
Pronunciation sites
Pronunciation sites- high-speed
Okanaga's English Pronunciation at http://international.ouc.bc.ca/pronunciation/
BBC phonics site (for children) at http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/index.shtml
Diphthong Calculator by Steve Chadwick at http://www.stuff.co.uk/calcul_nd.htm
Jim Duber's Cutting Edge CALL Demos at http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/chorus/call/cuttingedge.html
More pronunciation sites
Accent Tutor Online from SpeechCom is at http://www.speechcom.com/tutor.htm
Minimal pairs and other practice lessons at http://www.manythings.org/pp/
EL Easton at http://evaeaston.com/pr/home.html
Pronunciation suggestions from John Whitney at http://www.quia.com/pages/s38.html
Sites with teacher (and student) links
British Council English site at http://searchenglish.britishcouncil.org
EL Easton at http://eleaston.com - many links within categories, but little description of each
Read-Write-Think at http://www.readwritethink.org - designed for elementary and secondary teachers in the US, but lots of good links to lesson plans and web resources by grade level
Tereza Neves' page at http://www.geocities.com/tereza_neves/ - lots of Hot Potatoes exercises and links
Arlyn Freed's page at http://www.eslhome.com/
ManyThings from Charles Kelly at http://www.manythings.org/
One Stop English from Macmillan at http://www.onestopenglish.com
Free online activities by skill and level
Michael Krauss' ESL Independent Study Lab at http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/toppicks.html
Randall's Cyber ESL Lab, http://www.esl-lab.com - listening
ESL Study Hall at http://home.gwu.edu/~meloni/eslstudyhall/
ITESL-J student activities at http://a4esl.org
ESL Gold at http://www.eslgold.com - for teachers and students
Other online activities
Real English online (video and audio) at http://www.real-english.com/learn_english_free.asp
The LinguaCenter Grammar Safari at http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/web.pages/grammarsafari.html
Grammar hint of the day via email at http://www.dailygrammar.com
Word of the Day via email at http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/ or http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/mwwod.pl
Jamaby offers graded news from the UK and the USA at www.jamaby.com - updated daily.
Create a movie at http://www.dfilm.com/index_movie_start.html
Class content
World Lecture Hall at http://web.austin.utexas.edu/wlh/
MIT online at http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
Digital libraries with free material (Deborah's list) at  http://oregonstate.edu/~healeyd/digitallibraries.html
Learning styles and multiple intelligences
Learning styles and multiple intelligence links at http://www.support4learning.org.uk/education/learning_styles.cfm
Learning styles self-test at http://www.crc4mse.org/ILS/self_test.html
Learning styles chart: http://www.chaminade.org/inspire/learnstl.htm
Multiple Intelligence Inventory (80 questions) at http://www.ldrc.ca/projects/miinventory/miinventory.php - scroll to the bottom for the test
MI inventory to print out at http://pss.uvm.edu/pss162/learning_styles.html

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Authoring tools
Exercises
Hot Potatoes at http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/
Online Quiz Generator from Charles Kelly at http://a4esl.org/c/qw.html
PuzzleMaker at http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/ - a variety of puzzles; store them online
Web creation
Tripod at http://www.tripod.lycos.com/ - look for the free hosting section
Filamentality - create and host a site at http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/
WebQuest site at http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquest.html
WebQuest help at Teaching with Technology (handout) at http://www.wmich.edu/teachenglish/subpages/technology/webquest.htm
Link checker at http://validator.w3.org/checklink - online tool that checks one page at a time
Online surveys at http://www.getfast.ca; http://www.opinionpower.com; http://www.response-o-matic.com
Free website hosting
Tripod at http://www.tripod.lycos.com/ - look for the free hosting section
F2Gnet Webhosting at http://www.f2g.net
Free Prohosting at http://free.prohosting.com
Digital video and sound
English Insight - videos and exercises to download at http://condor.depaul.edu/~dsorsa/insight/
RealEnglish Online at http://www.real-english.com/ (requires a free password)
Copyright-free films at http://www.archive.org/movies/index.html
 
Interesting but complicated
Webheads at http://tappedin.org/ - this group of teachers meets online at noon GMT on Sundays
SchMOOze at http://schmooze.hunter.cuny.edu:8888/ - a MOO designed for English learners
Class Chat (L.E.C.S.) at http://home.kanto-gakuin.ac.jp/~taoka/lecs/

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Last updated 3 February 2009