Deborah Healey's Attic : Internet Possibilities

Internet Possibilities

 

by Deborah Healey

Here are some sites with teaching resources to explore.

What could you use in your curriculum? What do you need in order to use one or more of these?

Quick links

Communicating
Email - online projects - blogging

Creating
Graphics - More classroom material
Effective Web use
Web searching - Writing - Listening - Pronunciation
Sites with many links - Sites by skill and level
Other online material - Content-based class material - Learning styles
Authoring
Authoring exercises - Creating web sites - Web hosting
Digital sound and video - Other possibilities to explore

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Communicating: Email, projects, blogging
Mail at Yahoo! - mail.yahoo.com or Google mail.google.com
Catalist lists at https://www.lsoft.com/catalist.html - search for mailing lists
iEARN at https://iearn.org - teachers find email partners and global projects to join
Blogger at https://www.blogger.com - an online discussion area and diary

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Creating
Graphics
Language -ESL Action Photos at https://www.literacynet.org/esl/minigrants/webactions/
Language Teaching Clipart Library at https://web.uvic.ca/hcmc/clipart/
General - https://pixabay.com (free to use without attribution); https://www.freeimages.co.uk/ (use with attribution)
More classroom material
Word and PowerPoint Templates at the Office Template Gallery at https://templates.office.com/
Song lyrics - http://www.songlyrics.com/; https://www.lyricfinder.org/ (search by artist, song, or phrase)

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Effective Web use

Finding authoritative sources at https://websitesetup.org/evaluating-online-resources/ and https://wordagents.com/authoritative-sources/

Google Advanced Search tips at https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/35890?hl=en
Writing sites
Online Writing Lab at https://owl.purdue.edu/
My site at https://sites.google.com/site/readingandwritingresources/writing-resources
Writing activities for teachers to use at https://esl-galaxy.com/writing.html
Some suggestions for English for Engineering at https://www.usingenglish.com/articles/how-to-teach-english-for-engineers.html
Listening sites
My listening (and speaking/pronunciation) site at https://sites.google.com/site/listeningspeakingpronunciation/
Randall's Cyber ESL Lab, https://www.esl-lab.com
Business news podcasts at https://player.fm/featured/business-english - use an app for these
Pronunciation sites

Eva Easton at https://www.evaeaston.com/ - videos and activities

My pronunciation (and listening/speaking) site at https://sites.google.com/site/listeningspeakingpronunciation/
BBC phonics site (for children) at https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primary
Sites with teacher (and student) links
British Council English site for teachers at https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/ and for children at https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/
Read-Write-Think at http://www.readwritethink.org - designed for elementary and secondary teachers in the US, but lots of good links to lesson plans and web resources by grade level
ManyThings from Charles Kelly at http://www.manythings.org/
One Stop English from Macmillan at https://www.onestopenglish.com
Free online activities by skill and level
Randall's Cyber ESL Lab, https://www.esl-lab.com - listening
ESL Study Hall at https://home.gwu.edu/~meloni/eslstudyhall/
ITESL-J student activities at http://a4esl.org
Other online activities
Real English online (video and audio) at https://www.real-english.com/
Grammar hint of the day via email at http://www.dailygrammar.com
Word of the Day via email at https://www.wordsmith.org/awad/ or https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day
BreakingNewsEnglish offers graded news and many related activities at https://breakingnewsenglish.com
Class content
MIT online at https://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
Digital libraries with free material (Deborah's list) at  https://deborahhealey.com/digitallibraries.html
Learning styles and multiple intelligences
Learning styles inventory to print at https://www.middlesex.mass.edu/ace/downloads/learnstyles.pdf
Learning styles self-test at https://www.learning-styles-online.com/inventory/
Multiple Intelligence Inventory at https://www.literacynet.org/mi/assessment/findyourstrengths.html
MI inventory to print out at https://www.kerstens.org/alicia/planning10/Multiple%20Intelligences%20Inventory.pdf

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Authoring tools
Exercises
Hot Potatoes at https://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/
PuzzleMaker at https://www.puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/ - a variety of puzzles; store them online
Web creation
Google sites at https://sites.google.com - classic version allows you to use HTML; new version doesn't
WebQuest site at http://webquest.org/
WebQuest templates at https://sites.google.com/site/studentwebquesttemplate/
WebQuest help at https://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/archives/webquest.shtml
Link checker at https://validator.w3.org/checklink - online tool that checks one page at a time
Online surveys at https://surveymonkey.com and Google Forms at https://docs.google.com/forms
Free website hosting
Google sites at https://sites.google.com
Digital video and sound
English Insight - videos and exercises to download at https://condor.depaul.edu/~dsorsa/insight/
RealEnglish Online at https://www.real-english.com/
Copyright-free films at Moving Image Archive: https://archive.org/details/movies
Interesting but complicated
Webheads at http://www.webheadsinaction.org/ - this group has several online sites; they've been meeting and offering support since 1987
SchMOOze at http://schmooze.hunter.cuny.edu/ - a MOO designed for English learners

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Last updated 3 February 2009