Eva Easton’s language page
http://eleaston.com
A very well organized site
for ESL and Foreign Language teachers.
Google
http://www.google.com
A simple search engine that
will also allow you to search in the target language. Hint for quick
searches: put quotation marks around what you are searching for.
Simple Class Web Site Creation
Schoolnotes
http://www.schoolnotes.com/
Create a class info page for
posting homework and linking to web activities.
Bonus: parents and students
can be notified when the site is updated.
Nicenet's Internet Classroom
Assistant
http://www.nicenet.org/
A free web based classroom
environment. Provides a class space where you can post discussion
questions and communicate with your students. You must provide a
key for your students to register. Very good option for slower internet
connections, very low graphics.
Blackboard.com
http://www.blackboard.com
A free online class management
& virtual class space. Communicate, post assignments, links,
discussion board, and chat, upload & share documents, maintain a gradebook.
This can also be upgraded to a pay site.
TappedIn
http://www.tappedin.org
A free professional environment
where users can meet for real time discussions, share websites, information
and much more. You can add sponsored accounts for your students and
create your own virtual office space.
Yahoo Groups (previously
Egroups.com)
http://www.yahoogroups.com
A gathering place on the Internet
for your group to send and receive emails, schedule meetings, share files
and photos, or have private group chats. Each participant must have
a yahoo id and the majority of the communities are not educational.
Quia
http://www.quia.com
Create vocabulary games, quizzes
and class homepages. This site now has a fee for the ad free version.
There are also many exercises already created for you.
Funbrain
http://www.funbrain.com
Create and grade quizzes &
have results e-mailed to you. You can also use this site as a gradebook
& attendance tracker, class calendar, and also create handouts to print
out for your students.
Hot Potatoes Software
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/
A software program for pc or
mac that you can use to create java based multiple choice, short answer,
jumbled sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gapfill exercises.
Great online tutorial for help.
Scripts for Educators
http://www.linguistic-funland.com/scripts/QuizTest/
QuizTest v3.0 will allow you
to create multiple-choice, or true-false quizzes online. On any given quiz,
you may have both true/false questions and multiple choice, and the same
program will grade the quizzes and email
you (or other designated instructor)
the results. Must download a program – pc only.
WebQuests - Guided Internet Discovery
Filamentality
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/
A simple site that guides you
in creating your own WebQuests.
Kiko
http://www.kiko.com/
Create an online learning center
and store lessons, webquests, and quizzes.
Trackstar
http://trackstar.hprtec.org/
Another site to complete a
guided WebQuest or compile groups of internet sites.
Don’t want to reinvent the wheel? Check here for ideas or use an activity listed.
Foreign Language Resources
on the Internet –Mark Davies
http://mdavies.for.ilstu.edu/class/see-projects.htm
Internet Activities for Foreign
Language Class
http://members.aol.com/maestro12/web/wadir.html
Scola Insta-Class
http://www.scola.org/insta-class/index.html
Native language audio newscasts
with the ability to print out transcripts for your classes. Uses
RealAudio & Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Media Resources for FL
http://www.furman.edu/~pecoy/mfl195/media.htm
Links to Radio, TV, Newspapers
and Magazines for English, French, German and Spanish.
Teacher Aides
http://www.furman.edu/~pecoy/mfl195/aides.html
One-stop shopping for taking
the technical out of technology. This site is set up as a guide to
all types of tutorials and resources. You choose your level (beginning,
intermediate and advanced) and the emphasis is SIMPLICITY.
The One Computer Classroom
http://www.furman.edu/~pecoy/mfl195/onecomputer.html
Comprehensive link to sites
which reference the various aspects of teaching in a one computer classroom.
(Planning, Classroom management, Tips & Ideas)
Tips on using video in the
Classroom
http://www.uiowa.edu/~pics/tips.html
Teaching video sequences, pacing,
news reports, & interactivity.
Power Point Presentations
for Spanish Class
http://tpduggan.tripod.com/powerp.html
Ready made powerpoint presentations.
You can download and edit them for use with your classes.
Puzzlemaker
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/
Create crosswords, word searches,
mazes and other activities for student handouts.
Intercultural E-Mail Connections
http://www.iecc.org/
A free service linking teachers
with partners in other countries for e-mail exchanges.
BLibs
http://www.blibs.com/b/p/create
Create "Mad lib" like stories
for the classroom
Worksheet Generator
http://www.mtech.on.ca/windex.html
A free site which will create
a vocabulary matching, & word scramble available for printing out or
cutting and pasting into a word processing document. Very low-tech.
The Online Books Page at
the University of Pennsylvania
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/index.html
Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.net/
Citations du Monde
http://www.citationsdumonde.com/
Bibliotecas Virtuales
http://www.foropoetico.net/bibliotecas.htm