CyberESL - Email and Beyond

By Tom Robb (PCI Coordinator), Deborah Healey and Ron Corio

• Overview of the Internet
  • A graphic overview (http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~trobb/pci/html/internet.gif)
  
  
• E-mail
  • Configuring Eudora (handout)
  • Eudora -- Eudora How-to (http://ucs.orst.edu/~healeyd/pci/eudora_help.html)
  • Sending and receiving messages
  • Commonly used-features: Signatures and Nicknames/address books
  • Netiquette (http://ucs.orst.edu/~healeyd/pci/netiquette.html)
  
  
• Mailing lists
  • Ron's CyberESL page (http://www.vcu.edu/cspweb/,pci/cyberesl.html)
    
  • Introduction to TESL-L (http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~trobb/pci/text/tesl-l.intro)
    
  • Technical info on the TESL-L family of lists (http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~trobb/pci/text/tesl-l.instruct)
    
  • Doing a search of the message database (http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~trobb/pci/text/database.search)
    
  • Making use of the Index function (http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~trobb/pci/text/tesl-l.using.index)
    
  • Other mailing lists of interest (http://osu.orst.edu/Dept/eli/december.html)
  
  
• Classroom Applications
  • Some DOs and DON'Ts for using computers with students (http://ucs.orst.edu/~healeyd/pci/dos_donts.html)
    
  • Overview by Ron Corio (http://www.vcu.edu/cspweb/,pci/pci_ho1.html)
    
  • Interclass Projects (http://www.vcu.edu/cspweb/,icp/ipi.html)
    
  • Keypal Exchanges
    • Tom's article on keypals (http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~trobb/keypals.html)
      
    • School terms around the world (http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~trobb/pci/html/terms.html)
      
  • Student lists
    • Basic info on the SL Lists (http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~trobb/slinfo.html)
      
    • Detailed info for Teachers (http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~trobb/slhowto.html)
      
    • Welcome Message for Students (http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~trobb/slwelcome.html)
      
    • Information for students who are not currently enrolled in an English class (http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~trobb/slindiv.html)
      
  • Real-time Applications
    • Intra-class Chatting (http://ucs.orst.edu/~healeyd/pci/chat_help.html)
      
    • MOOs: Guide to SchMOOze U (http://ucs.orst.edu/~healeyd/pci/schmooze_help.html)
      
    • Class newsgroups (http://ucs.orst.edu/~healeyd/162/162news.html)
      
• World-Wide Web
  • Strategies for Searching on the Web (http://ucs.orst.edu/~healeyd/162/websearching.html)
    
  • Good classroom-use sites on the Web
    • Dave's ESL Cafe
      http://www.eslcafe.com
      
    • Linguistic Funland
      http://www.linguistic-funland.com/tesl.html
      
    • Comenius Virtual English Center (Idioms and fables)
      http://www.comenius.com
      
    • Visit the White House(Send Bill Clinton a message)
      http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Welcome-nt.html
      
    • Smithsonian Institution
      http://www.si.sgi.com/sgistart.htm
      
    • Online Writing Lab at Purdue
      http://owl.english.purdue.edu
      
  • Sample HTML document (http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~trobb/pci/html/htmldemo.htm)
  • Links to free images for student pages and a copyright message from Allen Sellers (http://ucs.orst.edu/~sellersa/images.html)
  • Student Projects on the Web (http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~trobb/pci/html/htmldemo.htm)
    • Tom's article on Web Projects (http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~trobb/pci/html/projects.html)
    • Fair use guidelines (http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~trobb/pci/html/fairuse.html)
      
• Some useful links
  
• Breakout sessions
  • Converting an e-mail file to a word processible document (breaking lines, indenting & tabs)
  • Basics of HTML page production
  • Interclass Projects
  
  
• What else to do at the conference

Email us!

• Tom Robb, trobb@cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp
• Ron Corio, rcorio@vcu.edu
• Deborah Healey, Deborah.Healey@orst.edu
  
  
  http://ucs.orst.edu/~healeyd/pci/cyberesl.html
  Last updated 15 Dec 1998