Presenters

Deborah Healey, American English Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene; dhealey AT uoregon DOT edu
  Website: www.deborahhealey.com
John Madden, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota; jpmadden AT stcloudstate DOT edu
  Website: web.stcloudstate.edu/jpmadden/

Resources

Teacher tools

• Lesson plans, articles and research: http://www.iteslj.org
• Authentic material in different media: www.bbc.com ; www.cnn.com -> education -> student news; http://www.pbs.org/teachers/ ; English Insight - http://condor.depaul.edu/~dsorsa/insight/
• Larry Ferlazzo's blog for ideas about different skill-builders, teacher tools, and more: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/
• Nik Peachey's blog for ideas about different skill-builders, teacher tools, and more: http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/
• Free text articles and other academic material for reading: www.deborahhealey.com/digitallibraries.html
• NoodleTools for web searching suggestions and options: www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html
• Twurdy - readability of web pages: www.twurdy.com
• Delicious to store web links: www.delicious.com (how-to information at www.deborahhealey.com/techtips/sept2009.html)
• Resource for setting up a lab, including suggested software/Internet resources: http://www.eltexpert.com/
• On-line safety - Cybersmart: http://cybersmart.org/

Sites for creating material

• BreakingNewsEnglish: - www.breakingnewsenglish.com and LessonWriter: www.lessonwriter.com to use/prepare material
• Crossword generator - Hot Potatoes: www.hotpot.uvic.ca or search online
• Authoring programs - Hot Potatoes: www.hotpot.uvic.ca (how-to handout)
• Audio recorder/editor - Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
• Gradebook - SnapGrades: www.snapgrades.net or search online
• Tools in Word: Insert Comments, AutoSummarize

Lab use

• Group discussion sites - Nicenet: www.nicenet.org (how-to handout)
• Online Writing Lab: http://owl.english.purdue.edu
• Concept mapping with FreeMind: http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php and Inspiration
• Social networking - if you're careful - www.ning.com , www.facebook.com

One-computer classroom

• Discussion generators - Flickr ( www.flickr.com ), class responses on social networking sites, simulations
• Concordancing: http://www.lextutor.ca/ , http://www.collins.co.uk/Corpus/CorpusSearch.aspx
• Reference information: www.iTools.com
• 5-minute quiz fun: a4esl.org , www.eslcafe.com , www.manythings.org

Independent use (with teacher direction)

• Project work: WebQuest (http://webquest.org ), class-to-class (http://iearn.org/ , www.tigweb.org/ )
• Rubrics - rubric generator: rubistar.4teachers.org/
• Class and individual web pages: sites.google.com , www.blogger.com
• Audio sharing/discussion: www.voxopop.com/ , www.podomatic.com