An Overview of Web-based EFL Teaching Resources
[Introduction]
The sites listed and linked from this page are by no means a comprehensive list of all the resources on the Web that relate to the topics covered in this workshop, or to the areas that interest its participants. It is intended to be a "starter list" of resources to consider and evaluate, as you begin the long process of researching and compiling your own resources for your particular educational setting.
[Internet in General]
Nua Internet Survey
http://www.nua.com/surveys/how_many_online/index.html
A Brief History of the Internet
http://www.isoc.org/internet-history.
Timelines outlining the history of the Internet
http://www.davesite.com/webstation/net-history.shtml
McGrawHill/Dushkin Online: How to Best Use the Web - The Six Step Method
http://www.dushkin.com/online/study/dgen8.mhtml
[Email & Email Lists]
A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email
http://www.is.kiruna.se/english/emailguide/email.top.html/
[Netiquettes]
Netiquette Home Page
http://www.albion.com/netiquette/
The Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette
http://www.fau.edu/netiquette/net/
Netiquette Guidelines
http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html
[Email lists]
Topica/Liszt
http://liszt.com
An Introduction to Usenet News
http://www.islandnet.com/~tmc/html/articles/usentnws.htm
Harley Hahn's Master List of Usenet Newsgroups
http://www.harley.com/usenet/
Language-Related Mailing
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/lists.html
[Email Exchanges]
ePALS Classroom Exchange
http://www.epals.com/
Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connection
http://www.iecc.org/
SL-LISTS: International EFL/ESL Email Student Discussion Lists
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/www/education/sl/sl.html
[EFL&ESL Resources]
Provides a variery of resources for English language and professional development
for learners and teachers of
Dave's ESL Cafe
http://www.eslcafe.com/
Frizzy University Network
http://thecity.sfsu.edu/~funweb/
Linguistic Funland's TESL
http://www.tesol.net/
Ruth Vilmi's Web World
http://www.ruthvilmi.net/hut/
English and French Language Resources
http://www.wfi.fr:80/volterre/
Activities for ESL Students
http://a4esl.org/
NETEACH-L - Sites Neteachers Thought were Cool!
http://www.tesol.net/neteach.cgi?FA=ShowCat&Category=Activities%20for%20Students
Grammar Safari
http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/web.pages/grammarsafari.html
Guide to Grammar and Writing
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
The Purdue University On-Line Writing Lab (OWL)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
A Word A Day (AWAD)
http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/
History of English
http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/hel/hel.html
Time for Kids Classroom
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/teachers/index.html
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
http://www.esl-lab.com/
The Voice of America
http://www.voanews.com/
CNN Student News
http://learning.turner.com/newsroom/index.html
EFL/ESL.
http://www.angelfire.com/yt/efl/
Newseum
http://www.newseum.org/
Interactive museum of news with related class activities.
TESOL-L
http://www.tesol.org/index.html
[Student Projects]
Student Projects at the English Language Center -- at MSU
http://polyglot.cal.msu.edu/ELC/stuproj/default.html
Japanese Famous Personage
http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/information/famous/
Fukushima Association of International Exchanges
http://www.worldvillage.org/e_index.html
Japan Thru Young Eyes
http://www.shejapan.com/jtyeholder/jtye/001/
JEARN - Global Exchanges of Children
http://www.jearn.jp/eng/
[Discussion Sites]
ESL Discussion Center
http://eslcafe.com/discussion
ESL Message Exchange
http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/wwwboard/wwwboard.html
Interactive Reading & Writing Community
http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/iwc/index.html
[Courseware]
WebCT
http://www.webct.com/
WebCT - Japanese Version
http://www.emit-japan.com/
Blackboard
http://www.blackboard.com/
[Chat Sites & Tools]
Omni Chat
http://www.4-lane.com
ESL Chat Central
http://www.eslcafe.com/chat/chatpro.cgi
IRCLE for Macintosh
http://www.ircle.com
mIRC for Windows
http://www.mirc.co.uk
[MOOs & Tools]
schMOOze University
http://schmooze.hunter.cuny.edu:8888/
Diversity University
http://www.du.org/
saMOOrai
http://johoeigo.intl.chubu.ac.jp/MOO/
tkMOO-light for UNIX, Windows and Macintosh
http://www.awns.com/tkMOO-light/
[Online Conferencing]
Netmeeting Home Page
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/netmeeting/default.asp
CU World
http://www.cuworld.com/
[Dictionaries]
Dictionary.com
http://www.dictionary.com
Longman Web Dictionaries
http://www.longman.com/dictionaries/webdictionary.html
Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary
http://www.m-w.com/home.htm
A Web of On-line Dictionary
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html
Jim Breenfs WWWJDIC
http://www.dgs.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html
Eijiro on the Web (English-Japanese/Japanese-English)
http://www.alc.co.jp/
Acronym Finder
http://www.acronymfinder.com/
[Free Services]
The web sites listed in this section are examples of free services that do not require that you have access to your own server or server space; i.e., you can use the server space as allowed by these organizations, companies and institutions. Typically, you will need to register and will be required to log in each time with a password.
Aladdin Systems FreeDrive
http://www.aladdinsys.com/freedrive/
This is a place where you can upload, store, retrieve, and distribute 20 MB of your data for free.
Milken Online Assessment Tool
http://www.mff.org/edtech/
Educators take the surveys at this site to assess their level of expertise with technology. At the end of the survey, resources for self-improvement and help are suggested.
NiceNet
http://www.nicenet.org/
A free, non-profit organization of Internet professionals who give their time to provide discussion board services to the Internet community.
QUIA
http://www.quia.com
Web page space, quiz generator, and other teacher tools available. Free service, but you must register and log in o use it.
Tech Tools, University of Hawaii
http://motted.hawaii.edu/
Try the sample quiz for this workshop. Design your own quizzes, as well.
[Lesson Plans, Worksheets, Activities, Curricula]
The links in this section may be oriented toward K-12 or adult educators,
but many items will be adaptable for a range of ESL/EFL population. We
encourage you to examine, evaluate and adapt or adopt other educators'
ideas, as best fits your educational setting.
Challenge 2000, Example Activities
http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/examples_main.htm
Examples of general projects and ideas for how they can be incorporated in many ways and at many levels/ages.
ELT and Communication
http://ilc2.doshisha.ac.jp/users/kkitao/
ESL, EFL, ELT Web Resources - Online Self-Aces Centre (OSAC)
http://www.englishstudydirect.com/OSAC/academicesol.htm
ESOL Student Resources
http://aei.uoregon.edu/iep/iep.htm
A select list of high-quality sites that can be used with students in ELT.
ISTE, Lesson Plans
http://www.iste.org/resources/curriculum/lesson-plans.cfm
Links to resources educators have developed for their K-12 classrooms. Useful for getting ideas that can be adapted to ELT.
Project-Based Learning Curriculum Activities
http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/PBLGuide/Activities/Activities.html
A framework for creating different types of projects that incorporate computers.
School Express
http://schoolexpress.com/
Thousands of free worksheets and lesson plans. Focus on K-12 area, but many items adaptable for adult ESL/EFL population.
Technology Tips
http://osu.orst.edu/dept/eli/prevtips.html
Ideas for ELT educators who want to incorporate computers into their classes or curiculum.
[ELT Journals]
Many refereed journals are still produced only in print form. Following are ome examples of high quality ELT journals that you can find online.
CALL-EJ Online
http://www.clec.ritsumei.ac.jp/english/callejonline/index.html
TESL-EJ: Teaching English as a second or foreign language
http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/
The Internet TESL Journal: For teachers of English as a second language
http://iteslj.org/
Language Learning and Technology: A journal for second and foreign language educators
http://llt.msu.edu/
The Language Teacher Online
http://www.jalt-publications.org/
C@LLING JAPAN ONLINE
http://jaltcall.org/
[General Educational Technology Resources]
These are a handful of resources to get you started looking at what others in education are doing and thinking about with respect to computers. We all look forward to hearing more about additional resources that you find pertain to your specific educational setting.
Tomorrow's Professor Listserv
http://cis.stanford.edu/structure/tomprof/listserver.html
Tomorrows-Professor?Listserv with postings twice a week (usually on Monday
and Thursday) offers comments, reactions, ideas, and suggestions that can
be shared with the approximately 3,000 other members (mostly graduate students,
postdocs, and beginning faculty at colleges and universities around the
world).
International Forum of Educational Technology & Society Mailinglist
http://ifets.ieee.org/maillist.html
A subgroup of IEEE Learning Technology Task Force.
The Technology Source
http://ts.mivu.org/
Educational Technology Resources from Duke University
http://www.law.duke.edu:9000/infoweb/edtechresources3.php?filter=Indexes+of+Web+Resources
Designed for Duke educators, but has very good information in general in
the areas of software, hardware, emerging technologies, Internet resources,a
glossary of computer terms, and links to other Ed. Tech. resource sites.
Training resources, manuals, sample lesson plans, and recommended tools
for educators.
The Virtual CALL Library
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/languages/1-6-6.html
[Downloadable Software]
Cutting Edge CALL Demos
http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/chorus/call/cuttingedge.html
Hot Potatoes
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/
{Others}
WWW Virtual Library
http://www.vlib.org/
Links to informative web sites on almost any topic imaginable. A great resource for building activities in a content-based curriculum.
http://www.geocities.co.jp/CollegeLife-Labo/9976/
Kaz's Golden Pot
http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/ec/~nozawa/index.html
Gengo Johogaku IV 2003
http://www.leis.ritsumei.ac.jp/~nozawa/index1.html
Workshop Date and Place - August 27, 2003 at Rits Lab, Ritsumeikan-UBC House, The University of British columbia, Vancvouver, B.C. Canada
Workshop Leader - Kazunori Nozawa, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Email nozawa@ec.ritsumei.ac.jp