Some Useful ESL/EFL Bookmarks
Compiled by Deborah Healey

Professional interest

TESOL online
http://www.tesol.org/
Internet TESL Journal
http://iteslj.org/s/
CALL Interest Section Software List
http://www.eltexpert.com/softlist
Project Gutenberg - free texts
http://www.gutenberg.org
Hot Potatoes authoring for the Web
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/
Make your own online quizzes (Javascript)
http://a4esl.org/q/h/project.html

Teacher-oriented sites

DEN - The Digital Education Network
http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/
A Place to Start in Selecting Software - an article to help teachers and lab planners get started with software
https://deborahhealey.com/cj_software_selection.html
Wandering the Web by Christine Meloni, from TESOL Matters
http://www.tesol.org/pubs/magz/wanweb/index.html
Keypals for students from Kenji Kitao
http://ilc2.doshisha.ac.jp/users/kkitao/online/www/keypal.htm
Tech Tips - helpful hints for teachers who use technology
https://deborahhealey.com/techtips/
Web developer information at WebMonkey - useful, but lots of ads.
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/
Extensive list of creativity techniques by Mycoted.
http://www.mycoted.com/creativity/techniques/index.php

Online Surveys

Getfast
http://www.getfast.ca - free survey maker
Surveys online
http://www.opinionpower.com/startSurvey.html- a variety of free surveys
Response-o-Matic
www.response-o-matic.com - add a survey to your existing webpage
Survey Central
http://surveycentral.org - see a collection of survey results, many of them quite odd, as well as create your own survey
Puzzlemaker
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/- like quia, lets you have an online classroom and make different puzzles. Not as elaborate, though.
Pizzaz from Leslie Opp-Beckman - links to lots of ideas and activities for the writing classroom
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/pizzaz.html
E.L. Easton's material for teaching English - lots of good links for language teachers
http://eleaston.com/
Online Writing Lab - information for students and ready-made handouts for writing teachers
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/internet/index.html

Student Interest

DAVE'S ESL CAFE ON THE WEB
http://www.eslcafe.com
Learning Oral English Online
http://www.rong-chang.com/book/
Pronunciation practice - some student-oriented links.
http://oregonstate.edu/~healeyd/138/pronlinks.html
ESL/Topic pages, etc. from Leslie Opp-Beckman
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/
Internet TESL Journal links for students, with quizzes and crossword puzzles.
http://a4esl.org
ESL Gold links for students organized by skill area and level; also has links for teachers.
http://www.eslgold.com
Holidays pages
http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/web.pages/holidays/
Michael Krauss's ESL Independent Study Lab - annotated links designed for student use
http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/toppicks.html
ELC Study Zone - annotated links for students at the University of Victoria
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/index.htm
Writing Den - part of the Digital Education Network
http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/index.htm
Online mysteries to read and solve
http://www.mysterynet.com/
Knock-knock jokes and riddles
http://www.bayne.com/kaitlyn/
Research-It, a site with links to a dictionary, thesaurus, translating dictionary, maps, and many other resources.
http://www.itools.com/
Cobuild Word Watch page (list of previous words)
http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/
Cobuild Concordancer demo
http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/direct_demo.html
Magazine Rack
http://www.magazine-rack.com/
The White House
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
The Smithsonian Institution
http://www.si.edu
CNN Online
http://www.cnn.com
See the related exercises put together by Brigham Young University - Hawaii's Language Center at CNN Newsroom and Worldview for ESL, http://lc.byuh.edu/cnn_n/cnnhome.html
Time magazine online
http://www.time.com/time/
NPR - National Public Radio- with audio files
http://www.npr.org


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Lightly updated 13 April 2010 by Deborah Healey