Internet Resources for Language Teachers
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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
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/
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T, I | Teacher | Individual |
Catalist at http://www.lsoft.com/catalist.html
- search for mailing lists
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S or T, I | Teacher and students | Individual |
Nicenet at http://www.nicenet.org
- free online discussion site
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S or L, I |
Teacher and students |
Group |
Ruth Vilmi's Writing Exchange at http://www.ruthvilmi.net/hut/Current/twe.php
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S or T, I | Teacher and students | Group |
Tech Teaching Worldwide blog at http://techteachingworldwide.blogspot.com
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S or T, I | Teacher and students | Individual |
Many
languages |
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Class mailing list - groups.yahoo.com
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S or T, I | Teacher and students | Group |
IECC at http://www.iecc.org/ - teachers find
email partners for class projects
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T, I | Teacher | Group |
Blogger at http://www.blogger.com - an online
discussion area and diary
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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 |
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Graphics | T,I or sw | Teacher | Material |
Language -ESL Action Photos at http://www.literacynet.org/esl/minigrants/webactions/ |
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Language Teaching Clipart Library at http://web.uvic.ca/hcmc/clipart/ |
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Clip Art for Foreign Language Instruction at http://www.sla.purdue.edu/fll/JapanProj/FLClipart/ |
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General - http://clipartconnection.com, http://www.webcreationz.co.uk/imagearchive.php, http://www.freeimages.co.uk/ -photos |
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Add clip art to Word, PowerPoint - http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/default.aspx |
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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/
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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)
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T/S/L; I |
Teacher | Individual or pair |
Create a movie at http://www.dfilm.com/index_movie_start.html
(instructions in English)
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C/S/L; I | Teacher |
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Online quiz generator at http://a4esl.org/c/qw.html
(instructions in English)
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T/S/L, I |
Teacher |
Individual or pair |
Word
searches – online: http://www.clearlight.com/~vivi/xw/wordsearch.html
(instructions in English)
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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) |
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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 |
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F2Gnet Webhosting at http://www.f2g.net |
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Free Prohosting at http://free.prohosting.com |
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Activity/tool | Resources | Who directs the activity | Type of activity |
Useful sites - many languages |
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Copyright-free films at http://www.archive.org/movies/index.html
- add words to silent films
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T, S; I or download | Teacher |
Teacher or group |
Search engine comparison at http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html
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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 |
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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
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English Insight - videos and
exercises to download at http://condor.depaul.edu/~dsorsa/insight/
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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 |
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EL Easton at http://eleaston.com - many links within categories, but little description of each |
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Arlyn Freed's page at http://www.eslhome.com/ |
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ManyThings from Charles Kelly at http://www.manythings.org/ |
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One Stop English from Macmillan at http://www.onestopenglish.com |
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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 |
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Randall's Cyber ESL Lab, http://www.esl-lab.com - listening |
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ESL Study Hall at http://home.gwu.edu/~meloni/eslstudyhall/ |
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ITESL-J student activities at http://a4esl.org |
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ESL Gold at http://www.eslgold.com - for teachers and students |
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Other online activities |
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Dave's ESL Cafe at http://eslcafe.com
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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 |
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Class
content |
T/L, I |
Teacher or student |
Individual or group |
MIT
online at http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
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World
Lecture Hall at http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/
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Digital library listing at http://oregonstate.edu/~healeyd/digitallibraries.html
- online texts
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