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Activities for Using Junk Email in the ESL/EFL Classroom: Suggested ways to use junk mail and some ready-to-use handouts for the classroom.
By Michael Ivy, The Internet TESL Journal, May 1998
An Overview of The Internet TESL Journal's Things for ESL Teachers and Activities for ESL Students (Charles Kelly): In addition to publishing articles, this online journal offers other things on its website.
BionicTeaching.com - Bob on Blogs (Tom Woodward and Jim Coe): Download the PowerPoint or Keynote presentation.
ChitCh.at - Educational Network: Put lessons online. DRAWBACK = You have to give students your email address.
Claroline - Open Source eLearning and eWorking platform: Build online courses; manage learning and collaborative activities (MySQL)
CNN Money - Best Places to Live: Not designed for ESL, but good for a lesson on describing places.
Critical Evaluation Surveys (Kathleen Schrock): Evaluation forms which you can use with your students to help them be able to critically evaluate a Web page for authenticity, applicability, authorship, bias, and usabilty.
Dave Sperling's Speech about Teaching ESL using the Internet - Streaming Real Audio: Click this link to stay online and listen to a streaming RealAudio file.
DimDim - Free Open Source Web Meeting Software: Presenters must use Internet Explorer 6 or Firefox 1.5 on Windows (XP/2000/2003)
Dokeos: An open source e-learning and course management web application.
Duke University Podcasting Symposium (MP3 Files) (September 27-28, 2005): If you are considering using podcasts with your students, then listen to this.
Elegg - Elgg is an open source social platform.: Requires PHP 4.3, MySQL 4.1, Apache web server with mod_rewrite installed
English on the Run - Activities Using the Web (Ana Clara Sanchez and Gabriel Oband): Designed to help teachers find activities for their classes
English on the Run - Grammar - Reported Speech (Ana Clara Sanchez and Gabriel Oband): Explanations with examples.
ETNI's Keypals Page: Teachers can post requests for keypals and read request by other teachers.
George's Grammar Page: This is a good example of how one teacher organizes Web activities for students.
Getting More Out of Hot Potatoes (Gordon Bateson): How to modify Hot Potatoes quizzes to get detailed info sent to the teacher.
Getting Your Class Connected: Some ideas on using e-mail and homepages. By Dennis E. Wilkinson, The Internet TESL Journal, September 1996
Gong: Voice Communication on the Web (Requires Windows?): Set up your server for an audio discussion board / Moodle module, online recorde
Grow Your Own: Online Placement Testing: By Maggie Sokolik and Jim Duber, TESL-EJ, June 2002
How to Create Web-based Culture Capsules (Michael Krauss): A student web project you can do with your students. Presented at ORTESOL 1998
How to make 'The Daily English Show' (Video) (Sarah Lilburn): This is how it is done. Maybe you can do something similar.
Incorporating Audio into Moodle (Irshat Madyarov): You can add audio to forums, journals, Wikis and glossaries.
Internet Activities for Foreign Language Classes (Lewis Johnson): How to Write Activities for the Web, Web Lesson Evaluation Form, ...
Internet Evaluation Webquest: By Kathleen P. King, Tools for Teachers, February 27, 2001
Internet for English Teaching Chapter 7 (U.S. Department of State): By Mark Warschauer, Heidi Shetzer and Christine Meloni
Introduction to the Internet for ESL Students (James Christensen): Requires a wide screen and uses tables, so it is a little bit slow.
Jing - Freeware Mac or Windows to Create ScreenCasts (Video or Slides): Teachers can easily explain to students how to do things. Narration is possible.
Kuwait University Unified Remedial English (Buthaina Al Othman): Six General English Internet Lessons. Perhaps other teachers will find them useful, too.
Language Education Chat System: a chat room for ESL/EFL learners, teachers & researchers
Language Learning Activities for the World Wide Web: July, 1995
Language Professional's Guide to the World Wide Web (Carolyn G. Fidelman): (1996) CALICO Journal, Volume 13 no.s 2 & 3
MoBlog.co.uk - camera phone mobile blogging community: Free, take pictures and videos with your camera phone and blog with them.
Moodle: Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software packag
Moodle Tutorials - Videos (Rowan Chakoumakos): Over 10 short videos (YouTube Style) to help teachers learn to use Moodle.
MyClass.org.au - Free Moodle Hosting for Educators: You can get a free Moodle account up to 200 MB.
Online Strategic Interaction: ESL Role-Playing via IRC: A description of an Internet-based exercise that uses Strategic Interaction over an IRC network to practice writing.
By Christopher M. Colburn, The Internet TESL Journal, June 1998
openlearn.open.ac.uk - Open University Free Language Courses: You can download them to import into your Moodle under Creative Commons.
Podcast on How to Podcast (l5_u_podcast20.mp3) - 10.7 Mb. (Elliott Masie): 10 min. MP3 file. Equipment, Software, Recording Telephone Interviews, etc.
Projects Using the Internet in College English Classes: By Victoria Muehleisen, The Internet TESL Journal, May 1997
QuestGarden 1.0 (Bernie Dodge): Online authoring tool for making WebQuests. (To protect your privacy, a fake email address is OK.)
Question Creation Activity Module for Moodle (Peter Ruthven-Stuart): requires students to create questions either on their own or in groups
SakaiProject.org - Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE) for higher education: An open source CMS (Course Management System)
Springdoo.com: Have your students post video or audio for free.
Syllabus for 'Computers and English Education': Other teachers teaching a similar course might find this useful to look at.
Teaching and Learning with Internet-based Resources: By Susan Cowles, 1996-97
Teaching ESL listening comprehension through podcasting (Volker Hegelheimer): project overview
Teaching with the Web: By Lauren Rosen (Not ESL, but useful). Mainly a List of Links
Ten Tips for Effective E-Mail (Ellen Dowling): It's for native English speakers, but could easily be adapted for ESL students.
The Daily Word on the Web: How I Use It: By Tomoyasu Kimura, The Internet TESL Journal, March 1997
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