Teaching and Learning
in the Digital World

This was originally part of the Culpeper Workshop at the University of Puget Sound in 2000.

Finding graphics

	Using Clip Art Searcher at http://www.webplaces.com/search/
	Some nice animated gifs at http://www.webplaces.com/html/animations.htm - use these with care! Animations can be very distracting
	University of Victoria's Language Teaching Clipart Library - about 3000 images for basic vocabulary, designed to be culturally neutral
	Barry Bakin's ESL Action Photos - available only for educational use, these are photos depicting basic actions

About sound/video

	Download Audacity to record your own sound files at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
	Some free midi files at http://www.weblust.com/midi/midi2.html
	A variety of free sound files in a variety of formats are at http://www.soundcentral.com/
	Cyberspace report - lectures in .au format are at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~ejw/csr/cyber.html
	Saving YouTube videos to your computer at http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Save_YouTube_Videos_To_Your_Hard_Drive

Web 2.0 Information

	Everything You Need to Know about Web 2.0 at http://www.techsoup.org/toolkits/web2/
	Web 2.0 Language Learning at http://web20andlanguagelearning.wikidot.com/
	Language Learning and Web 2.0 video on TeacherTube at http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=621
	Best Ways to Create Online Content from Larry Ferlazzo at http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2008/02/09/the-best-ways-for-students-and-anyone-else-to-create-online-content-easily-quickly-painlessly/

Help with website creation

	HTML Tutorial at http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp
	Bare Bones Guide to HTML at http://werbach.com/barebones/
	Cascading style sheet (CSS) tutorial at http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/

A note on accessibility

	Quality tips from the World Wide Web Concortium (W3C) are at http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/
	The accessibility guidelines that are endorsed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) are at http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/#Guidelines

Sites that check websites

	Dr. Watson: http://watson.addy.com/
	W3C Link Checker - see if your links still work: http://validator.w3.org/checklink

Miscellaneous but interesting

Text to speech demo - type in English text and it will digitize and record it. The wave of the future? at http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php

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