Reading & Writing with Computers & the Internet
Reading: Controlled material
- Breaking News English: Ready-made activities for use in class or outside of class
www.breakingnewsenglish.com - BBC Culture Lab - readings: www.culturelab-uk.com/
- ESL Independent Study Lab: http://legacy.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/reading2.html
- Learners Online - thematic units with reading and links: www.learnersonline.com/weekly/index.htm
- New York Times learning blog: http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/ - lesson plans
Reading: Authentic material
- Sources of academic texts: www.deborahhealey.com/digitallibraries.html
- Literature - Project Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org
- Business forums
- The Small Business Community Forums: www.smallbusinessforums.org/
- Small Business Ideas Forum: www.smallbusinessbrief.com/forum/
- The Open Forum: Articles and discussions about business topics: www.openforum.com/idea-hub/topics
- Science forums
- The Science Forum: http://www.thescienceforum.com/
- Science Chat Forum: text and chat options in many science areas: http://www.sciencechatforum.com
Reading: Teacher tools
- Readability of online texts: www.twurdy.com
- LessonWriter - vocabulary, grammar, pre-reading, post-reading from a text (800 words maximum): www.lessonwriter.com
- Hot Potatoes - create exercises to accompany readings; can be timed; download at www.hotpot.uvic.ca - sample
Writing: Tools
- Writing references - Online Writing Lab: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
- Word templates
www.brainybetty.com/MENUWord.htm
office.microsoft.com/en- us/templates/fx100595491033.aspx - AutoSummarize
Writing: Authentic audience
- Email partners - tandem learning www.slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/etandem/etindex- en.html
- Projects to join
- iEARN: http://iearn.org/
- ThinkQuest: www.thinkquest.org/en/projects/
- International Writing Exchange: www.writeit.fi/sys/
- Blog - individual or class: www.blogger.com
- Web page (wiki): http://sites.google.com
- Student Forums at Dave's ESL Café http://eslcafe.com/
- Business and science forums from above
- TakingITGlobal - student awareness and cultural forums: www.tigweb.org
Writing: Class discussion
- Nicenet: www.nicenet.org
- Yahoo group: groups.yahoo.com
Assessment: Rubrics
- Sample writing rubrics: http://www.rubrician.com/writing.htm
- TeachNology rubric page: http://www.teach- nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/ - sample
- Rubric generator: RubiStar - join to save and edit your rubrics: http://rubistar.4teachers.org/