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by Deborah Healey

Here are some sites with teaching resources for you to explore. Note the resources required, whether the teacher or student directs the activity, and the type(s) of activity enabled.

What do you have? What could you use in your curriculum? What would it take to let you use one or more of these?

Key: C=classroom computer    T=teacher's computer
    S= students with computer access outside of class     L=lab
P=projector    I=Internet access    sw= software

Quick links

Email, online discussion
Creating material - graphics and authoring
Creating web pages
English sites
Many languages

Activity/tool Resources Who directs the activity Type of activity
Email, online discussion, journaling


English teachers


TESL-L information at http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/~tesl-l/
T, I Teacher Individual
Catalist at http://www.lsoft.com/catalist.html - search for mailing lists
S or T, I Teacher and students Individual
Nicenet at http://www.nicenet.org - free online discussion site
S or L, I
Teacher and students
Group
Ruth Vilmi's Writing Exchange at http://www.ruthvilmi.net/hut/Current/twe.php
S or T, I Teacher and students Group
Tech Teaching Worldwide blog at http://techteachingworldwide.blogspot.com
S or T, I Teacher and students Individual
Many languages



Class mailing list - groups.yahoo.com
S or T, I Teacher and students Group
IECC at http://www.iecc.org/ - teachers find email partners for class projects
T, I Teacher Group
Blogger at http://www.blogger.com - an online discussion area and diary
S or T, I Teacher and students Individual

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Activity/tool Resources Who directs the activity Type of activity
Creating material - any language



   Graphics T,I or sw Teacher Material
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://www.sla.purdue.edu/fll/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



   Word Templates at the Office Template Gallery at http://office.microsoft.com/templates/default.aspx T or C, Word Teacher or student Individual or group
   PowerPoint templates at the Office Template Gallery at  http://office.microsoft.com/templates/default.aspx T or C, PowerPoint Teacher or student Individual or group
Many languages - Authoring


Hot Potatoes at http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/   
T/S/L + sw Teacher
Individual or pair
PuzzleMaker at http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/ - a variety of puzzles; store them online (instructions in English)
T/S/L; I
Teacher Individual or pair
Create a movie at http://www.dfilm.com/index_movie_start.html (instructions in English)
C/S/L; I Teacher

Online quiz generator at http://a4esl.org/c/qw.html (instructions in English)
T/S/L, I
Teacher
Individual or pair
Word searches – online: http://www.clearlight.com/~vivi/xw/wordsearch.html (instructions in English)
T/S/L, I Teacher
Individual

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Activity/tool Resources Who directs the activity Type of activity
Authoring tools - web creation (Instructions are in English; can be used in any language)



Filamentality - create and host a site at http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/
T/L, I Teacher or student Individual or pair
WebQuest site at http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquest.html
C/L, I
Teacher
Group
WebQuest help at Teaching with Technology (handout) at http://www.wmich.edu/teachenglish/subpages/technology/webquest.htm
T, I
Teacher
Teacher resource
Link checker at http://validator.w3.org/checklink - online tool that checks one page at a time
T/L, I
Teacher or student
Individual
Online surveys at http://www.getfast.ca; http://www.opinionpower.com; http://www.response-o-matic.com
L, I Teacher and student Group
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




Activity/tool Resources Who directs the activity Type of activity
Useful sites - many languages



Copyright-free films at http://www.archive.org/movies/index.html - add words to silent films
T, S; I or download Teacher
Teacher or group
Search engine comparison at http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html
T, I or C, I Teacher Teacher resource
Online newspapers - Multi-newspaper sites
http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/  or  http://www.ipl.org/div/news/
T, I or C/L, I
Teacher or students
Teacher resource or individual, group

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Activity/tool Resources Who directs the activity Type of activity
Useful sites - English



Digital video and sound T/C/L, I Teacher or student Individual or group
Online videos at www.video.csupomona.edu/streaming/inc/ht_index.html



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)


Sites with teacher (and student) links T/C/L, I
Teacher or student
Individual or group
British Council English site at http://searchenglish.britishcouncil.org



EL Easton at http://eleaston.com - many links within categories, but little description of each



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 T/C/L,I
Teacher or students
Individual or group
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



Dave's ESL Cafe at http://eslcafe.com



Erlyn Baack's Advanced Composition page at http://eslbee.com/
C/S; I Teacher or student Individual
The LinguaCenter Grammar Safari at http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/web.pages/grammarsafari.html
C,P,I Teacher Pair or group
Grammar hint of the day via email at http://www.dailygrammar.com/
C/S; I Student Individual
Word of the Day via email at http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/ or http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/mwwod.pl
C/S; I Student Individual
Pronunciation suggestions from John Whitney at http://www.quia.com/pages/s38.html



Class content
T/L, I
Teacher or student
Individual or group
MIT online at http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html



World Lecture Hall at http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/



Digital library listing at http://oregonstate.edu/~healeyd/digitallibraries.html - online texts



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Last updated 13 November 2004 by Deborah Healey, deborah.healey at oregonstate.edu