Favourite websites

Improve your English and maths with skillswise:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/

Lots of fun exercises that include listening to pop music to build vocabulary
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/business/

Partnerships
http://comenius.eun.org

Learning English
http://englishlive.co.uk

For English teachers
http://www.insideout.net

Teaching English
http://myeurope.eun.org

some games: Oxford
http://www.oup.com/elt/students/?cc=pl

BBC for schools
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools

Some exercises:
http://www.lamansiondelingles.com

English as a Second Language:
http://www.rong-chang.com

More English exercises:
http://www.english-to-go.com/

MORE LINKS:

Dictionaries:
http://http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
http://http://dictionary.reference.com/
http://http://www-math.uni-paderborn.de/dictionaries/Dictionaries.html
http://http://www.yourdictionary.com/
http://www.oup.com/elt/oald

Exercises on grammar, vocabulary,pronunciation, games:
http://www.englishlive.co.uk/
http://www.1-language.com/
http://a4esl.org/
http://english-to-go.com/
http://www.englishclub.com/
http://www.thebeehive.org/
http://www.eflclub.com

For teachers:
http://www.etprofessional.com/
http://www.esl-images.com/
http://www.eflworksheets.com/
http://http://members.tripod.com/~ESL4Kids/songs.html
http://http://www.onestopenglish.com/
http://http://www.businessenglishonline.net/e-lessons/
http://http://www.eslcafe.com/

Project

REMEMBER:

- Multimedia (make it interesting. Make the slides look nice, with texts, graphic, links, colour)
- Pedagogy
- Content

Onlinechat

Onlinechat

Its language

It uses an informal language, the one used speaking. It is a written spoken language with expressions such as
Cul8r - see you later
4 - for
w84U - wait for you

E-mails can be formal if we write a language school to find some information, for example. We write e-mails, but we speak in chatrooms.

How to use it in the English class

- The students need a task, a certain amount of time and a follow-up activity the same as in any other class).

- The teacher has to create a social friendly environment. They can't think they are going to be evaluated.

Some points to take into account

- If they write slowly, the other person will become bored and will go to another room, write e-mails... Tell them that they don't need to res[pond to everybody.

- The teacher has to create a social friendly environment because some of them are not used to computers.

- Online chat: quiet students may speak more. if you make a mistake, they won't be laughed at.

- If you use capital letters, it's shouting

- (A4 is freezing the students' computers in some computer labs)

- Possible topic: speak about the best thing you did last summer

- it must have a use: maybe chatting with students of schools you are e-mailing.
RULES

DO:

- Ignore or notify the teacher if you receive an obscene message
- Don't be fooled
- Ignore rude messages

DON'T

- Don't use your real name (don't say your surname)
- Never give personal information (address, telephone...)
- Don't share passwords
- Don't have one passwords for everything
- Don't meet anyone you've met there
- Don't take that seriously

SOME GOOD FILM

Students could watch "You've got mail" by Tom Hanks before the chat.

SOME WEBSITES

www.theconsultants-e.com
www.rheingold.com/texts/artonlinehost.html
www.englishclub.com

www.englishclub.com

To register, do it in pairs to be able to solve the problems that always appear the first day.
Go to "chat". Then, "register". You get a message with a password in your e-mail address. Then, you clic "activate" and you get the password.

Social Networking Applications: Bebo, Messenger...

Social Networkings

www.Bebo.com (21 million users)

www.Cyworld.com (in South Corea. it is integrated with the mobile phone)

www.Myspace.com (there is more advertising)

They are useful for social contact.

www.Singinfool.com you put your favourite videos there and you share them. This one is the one made for the older. The other ones are for people from 10 to 22 approximately.

www.Bebo.com

You can see some photographs. They show the photographs of the people who have allowed so. They have to be over 13 to use it or at least they have to declare so.

It is banned by schools in England and Ireland.

"skype" is free telephone calls. You can buy credit to phone someone who has not got skipe. There you have a username. You can put in your photograph...

Every computer has an IP address (Internet protocol=a number) They know where you are when you are working with it. Pornographers were the pioneers of this sort of stuff. It is easy to find your address. They were the pioneers of pop-ups too.

They pioneer cookies. They can look at what you are interested in unless you are protected.

There are advertisements.

You have to invite someone into your website. That's how people protect themselves. There have just been two incidents with 21 million users. When someone shows a picture, yu can just see some information, not all the webpage. It is not a way of making new friends, but a way of keeping friends in contact.

You can have a link to the Bebo site of a friend.

There are also "quizzes". Could we use this in the English class?

There are four people working for Bebo. They earn their money through advertising...

When you register, they ask you about your hobbies, favourite films, sports... You can even choose "Make my Homepage visible to everyone" or "Feature me on the Bebo.com homepage from time to time".

They also ask you your address, phone number... If someone invites you, then you invite them and they can see your information. It's the heaven of pedophilians.

"Join your school" (or your college) is what launched Bebo.


Language Learning Potencial:

We could use these social networking, but a more secure one. We could use them for chatting in class (in English, of course).

Skype:

It's totally free. Exceptional quality. With a webcam or a video you can use it. All you need to do is to download it.

"redeem a voucher" means buy a phone credit, and it is just need when the other person doesn't have skype.

If you want to phone someone, you need to know his/her username.

You just need headphones with microphone. You don't need a camera, but you could add a photograph, use a webcam...

Search Strategies

This one can be a good webpage to work with our students.
http://bscw.fit.fraunhofer.de

Google. Some helpful hints when googling.

- "I'm feeling lucky" takes you directly to the most important place, the first one.

- Punctuation: ignored by Google = for the most part except for apostrophes, hyphens and quotation marks. So for commonly hyphenated or compound words, it is worth running the search a few ways e.g. try “bowtie”, “bow-tie” and “bow tie”.

- Whole phrase matches: put them in quotation marks.

- "Searching within results", adding another word.

- Just say ‘No’. Google lets you use a minus sign or hyphen (-) to indicate that you do not want a certain term to appear in your results. (example: "compact disc -car -Connection")

- Don't include "and", "to", "in", "where", "how"... They are ignored by google. To force google to include these words, you could add "+"

- If you don't remember something, you can write * or ? to replace a word, but not to replace a part of a word.

- If you look for quotations, song lyrics..., we could use the asterisc, the quotation marks and apart from that, add the word "lyrics"

- If you want to know when something happen, don't ask "When did it happen?", say "It happened in *" or "It happened every * years"

Narrowing the search:

- "Google scholar" is http://scholar.google.com/ . It only goes to academic paper references. It includes some things such as: "cited by ...(a number)" It shows how many people have mentioned this article in their web, how important it is.

- .doc is a document of word .html is the language used by web pages

. pdf is "public domain format". It has got higher quality.

- You can say:

filetype:pdf site:.edu "English for Engineers" (there is a space between pdf and site and another one between edu and the quotation mark)

This could be to narrow the search. Just looking for pdf documents in educational sites. But we should only use the quotations if we know the exact name.

If you ask for html, it would be all the websites.

Another example: filetype:pdf OR doc site:.edu "English for teachers"

Other uses:

1. If you don't know the meaning of the word "bicker", go to google and type: define bicker

Another possibility to make sure of the site: encephalitis definition site:edu.

2. How many miles are five kms? Try 5 kilometers in miles 5 kilos in pounds

Other search engines:

if you want audio and video searches, use: www.alltheweb.com www.altavista.com

or www.dogpile.com Google is not very good at these things.

http://Vivisimo.com Here, you can see clustering of results. It puts the result into groups.

http://google-watch.org/

http://scroogle.org

Web Images Groups News Froogle Maps more »

groups - discussion groups

froogle - shopping

earth - fly from the space to somewhere

Authoring tools: tense buster (a really expensive one)

AUTHORING TOOLS

- Hot potatoes is free
- There are other authoring tools which are not free. Tense Buster is one of them. There are 5 different levels of tense buster. It is more grammar related.

Interesting article on Tense Buster:
http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/ej31/m3.html
(you can write exercises , adding hints, explanations, and with scores)

Address of the website:
http://www.clarityenglish.com/TenseBuster/

There are different kinds of exercises: true or false, Gap Fill (where you can have hints), drag and drop, multiple choice, proof reading, target spotting and free practice.

How to use it. Create a new exercise.

- If you go to gapfill, there are 6 steps you have to follow. You can copy a text from microsoft word or from the Internet and then change the format if you want. In "add multimedia" you can even record your own voice and put it there, or add any other sound).

- in multiple choice exercises, you write several opcions (a, b and c) in add an option. In feedback, you will tell the computer which one is the correct one and which ones are incorrect.

- for the drag and drop option it's the "drop" one the one you use.

- REMEMBER: First you have to save and then add exercise

Prices

Once you buy it, it's yours. You have to buy one per computer if you want to use it in class. 20 computers are 1,600 euros. One computer, 320 euros.

Corpora and Concordancing

-Corpora and Concordancing

It is based on the study of real life language.

Some definitions:
- A corpus: set of texts put together for some purpose
- A concordance: list of examples of a particular word, part of a word or combination of words, in its contexts drawn from a text corpus.
- Collocations: statements of the habitual places of that word.
- Colligation: grammatical company a word keeps and the position it prefers.
- Semantic prosody: many uses of words and phrases show a tendency to occur in a certain semantic environment (example: "happen" is usually for unpleasant things)

With intermediate students, you should pick a corpora of easier texts.

Advantages:
- they favour discovery learning
- they do it with examples of authentic language
- it is motivating

This is freeware and it is the one the teacher recommends us to use:
http://www.edict.com.hk/pub/concapp


Another recommendation: have a look at the corpora that is already available on the web.
wHong Kong Virtual Language Centre http://www.edict.com.hk/concordance/default.htm
wBritish National Corpus (corpus demo) http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc/
wCobuild Bank of English (wordbanks online) http://www.cobuild.collins.co.uk/
wCorpus Concordance Sampler http://www.collins.co.uk/Corpus/CorpusSearch.aspx

Wordsmith Tools
It is not a free one, but it is quite a good one. It has got a word list and concord.

It costs 50 dollars for each computer that uses it.

Once you have bought it you have to get the "corpora" (from a CD-Rom for example). If you have no more money to spend, you can go to the "British National Sampler" for example.

How to use it:
- In "file", choose texts (get them from the CD)
- Then, ALL,
- Then, OK
- After that, in "concord" (settings, search word), press the green botton

WORKING WITH HONG KONG VIRTUAL CENTER
It is free, son it doesn't have too many options.
How it works:
- Go to "English. Simple search"
- Search string: It is the search word. It can be one word (ex. "get") or two ("get up"). It can be an ending or a start, or a word containing somthing.
- Normal: It searchs words down the middle of the page
- Gapped: fill in the blanks
- Sort type: you can sort words alphabetically on the right, on the left, in a random way... (after the word)
- Stop after - we will write default there because there aren't usually too many examples
- Select corpus: brown corpus: American English; LOB corpus: British English

Creating a website

Frontpage
This is used to create a webpage. We can now write a text, insert a picture and hyperlink.

Websites. Steps.
1. You have to buy or get a domain name (maybe free or cost about 50 dollars)
2. You have to buy the space to host your site. They usually give you some service. (They may give you 30 MG for free). Some good hosting services for schools are BLOGS, freewebs, http://www.register.com/retail/index.rcmx ...
There is a place called www.mysite.com which compares websites and prices.

Who is going to create the website?
We could try to make students be motivated in maintaining the page dividing them into teams. They could create exercises (hot potatoes)...
It is a very exhausting task for the teacher and it is much better if he/she can be helped.

Websites

WEBSITES
The main points of websites:
- topic
- multimedia
-pedagogy

If you go to "view source" you can see the language they use to create a website. It is in wordpad, something similar to word. There are < > (they are tags). When you write something you have to open an tag and then close it.

HTLM is the code we use to create a web page.

Hot Potatoes

HOT POTATOES

http://www.iq.poquoson.org/hotpotatoes/

hot potatoes tutorial: http://hotpot.uvic.ca/tutorials6.htm

It can be used to create different exercises: gap filling, multiple choice, matching...
Each time we create an exercise , in "FILE" we have to go to "Create a web page" and not to "save as".

It could be used by our own students, to make them create their own exercises.

Problems of using CALL

Problems and solutions:
- Large classes: We could divide the class (with pair or group work, or splitting groups. in pairs, each student shoul have the mouse half of the time)
- Attention span: We should keep the activity short and fun (and finish it while it is fun in such a way thta they feel like going on the next day)
- Plagiarism: When they copy from the Internet, they must write the source
- Mixed abilities: They could do different tasks, even keeping the text the same

Powerpoint

SOME HINTS

In powerpoint you have to "insert slide" if you want to go to a new page.
As for the slide you choose, the layout should be quite simple.
Then, go to "slide design" to make it nicer (apply a slide template. It is in "format")
If you want to insert a picture, "clip Art" is very popular.
If you press down, on the left, you can change the way you are going to show the slides (big or small, the order of the slides...).

Microsoft Word

How to deal with our students in this class:
- When they create a document, they have to save the document just from the start.
- The best students can help the weakest students
- You should always hava a plan B, because there may be problems with the computers
- Don't keep talking while the students are working
- When the teacher speaks to the class noone can use the computer unless you just speak to some students
- At the beginning of the class they just want to use the computer. You could tell them to switch the screens off if you want to say something.
- You could work with a system of points, such as starting the class with 50 points and taking points each time they use the e-mails, or if they don't help each other. You could give them points if they make a good worksheet or if they help their mates. These points should be negociated and they could start every day or go on for a month... Under certain amount of points they would have more homework than the rest of the class or get notes for their parents... These points can also affect their marks somehow.
- If something doesn't work with the computers, try them to do a different activity (in pairs, for example) while you solve the problem.

As for Microsoft Word:

Some useful hints may be:
- When you write a letter and then the next one disappears, you can solve this pressing "Insert"
- When you save a document in your computer, remember to keep the level and the date.

Learning management systems

LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

You have to pay for most of them, but some ones (of course, the less functional ones) are free.

The ones we are going to work on today are:

- blackboard:

http://coursesites.blackboard.com/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp

This one is not free. It costs 495 dollars a year, but there is not too much space for this price. You would have to pay more for a whole school.

You can put announcements, calendar, tasks, forums (there are threaded discussions, where students answer to each other), links, chats...

You don't need an administrator. It comes likes this on the Internet. You simply use the control panel and it is very easy.

- sakai:

http://sulis.ul.ie/portal

It is an open source. You need an administrator, a technician. This is the one used at the university of Limerick.

It is very similar to the one above. Students have access to any course they are involved in.

- nicenet:

http://www.nicenet.org

It is free and you don't need a technitian. It has been used for years. I think the teacher is recommending us to use it although moodle seems much better. In this one you cannot add exercises online, just texts...

We have created a class (on the left: create)

Class Name: holaI
Your Class Key: AZ68909H6SAVE THIS KEY NOW!
The Key given above is the code people will use to join your class and add themselves to the class roster. Give this key to members of your class. Direct them to http://www.nicenet.org/ to enter the key and join your class.
You should write this key down now for future reference.
You have been logged into your new class. Press the button below to return to the home page.

I think I was maria jose fuster and then, maria.

We can have different classes.

- nuvvo:

http://www.nuvvo.com/

It is free as long as you only use 10 MG (10 members in the class). You have to pay about 10 dollars a month if you have 20 students...

- moodle:

http://moodle.org/

Free once you have got the technology to use it.

CHATTING IS GOOD FOR STUDENTS TO PRACTICE THE USE OF THE INFORMAL LANGUAGE.

Wikis and Wikipedia

A good address for wickis is this one:

It is just for advanced students, maybe 2nd bachillerato.

Wickipedia is an example of writing content in the web.

Students can read from the wikipedia, but they can also correct and add things.

Blogs. Ideas to integrate them in the classroom

Ideas for integrating blogs in the classroom:

- Role as a teacher:
- familiar with the tool: questions - posts, comments, uploading photos
- generic tool: non-dedicated language learning tool
- creative role: task design

- tasks: points to consider
- journal/diary in the target language
- learning about culture (photograph)
( using pictures can be good for vocabulary acquisition)
- writing a story in the target language
- you can have images and make the students write a story using your images
- as for the comments, you can encourage them giving students extra marks if they write a worthwhile comment in their friend's diaries.
- the teacher can comment and it can motivate students to write better comments.

Types of L2 blogs:
- grammar blog
- culture blog
(including post which describes various websites/resources which can exploit)
- online dictionaries; web translators; thesaurus
- shopping websites (for vocabulary acquisition)


Language level? Beginner? Intermediate?
Mother tongue for less advanced levels?

puzzlemaker

To make puzzles. it is very easy. Students practice vocabulary in this way.
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/

You can even ask students to make puzzles (in pairs for example)

Evaluating learning websites

4. We have to study everything here.

http://www.ict4lt.org/


5. evaluating language learning web sites

Criteria for evaluating language learning Web sites

Appearance (e.g. aesthetic appeal - colour, layout, legibility, style of presentation, is the site Home page attractive/overwhelming)
Site map and navigation (e.g. site index/menu? speed of navigation? How direct?)
Instructions & use of activities (e.g. clear, easy to use?)
Exploitation of the medium for learning (e.g. interactivity, multimedia)
Interactivity (How truly interactive are the activities, is this technical or cognitive/linguistic interaction?)
Feedback (are learners given feedback on-screen and if so, how?)
Proficiency levels (e.g. does material specify proficiency level, is this realistic?)
Language information (e.g. accurate? authentic?)
Authenticity of language samples (e.g. are the language samples authentic or obviously invented?)
Culture (integration of cultural element?)
Interest (e.g. do the activities on the site maintain interest? Is the language meaningful?)
Currency (is the site regularly updated? How up-to-date is the language content?)
Learning styles (e.g. do the activities cater to different learning styles?)
ICT-focused (e.g. are the activities solely focused on ICT or do they offer scope for non-ICT activities?)
Links (are the external links current, relevant?)
Language learning/teaching aims (e.g. transparent? How well effected?)
Authority & accountability (who produced the materials and maintains the site? Contact details?)
OTHER …

6. learning sites to evaluate


Links pages for teachers:
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/ESL3a.html I like it. Not very good appearance
http://www.edict.com.hk/vlc/
http://www.world-english.org/
http://www.developingteachers.com/
http://www.englishnetlinks.com/
http://www.englishforum.com/
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/index.shtml
http://searchenglish.britishcouncil.org/
http://www.tesol.net/neteach.html
http://members.tripod.com/~ESL4Kids/links.html
http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/websites.htm
http://www.tesol.edu/pubs/profpapers/techclass2.html
http://esl.about.com/education/esl/blgrammar.htm
http://www.comenius.com/

Ready-made lessons http://www.free-english.com/ need email address
http://www.english-to-go.com/
http://www.englishclub.net/handouts/index.html
http://www.handoutsonline.com/
http://www.onestopenglish.com/

Blogs for LT: intro
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/resources/blogging.shtml

Links for children/ http://www.starfall.com/
about teaching children http://www.isabelperez.com/
BBC cbeebies http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/
BBC cbeebies children’s videos http://www.bbcshop.com/icat/1
BBC educational videos http://www.bbcschoolshop.com/
http://www.mrshurleysesl.com/ must have a look
http://esl.about.com/cs/childrensesl/
http://www.childrenonlyesl-efl.com/index.asp
http://members.tripod.com/~ESL4Kids/links.html
http://www.kididdles.com/
http://www.genkienglish.net/curriculum.htm
http://www.educalia.org/
British Council for kids http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/


Links page for learners:
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/ESL.html
http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/eslcafe.html
http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/toppicks.html
http://www.edunet.com/
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/index.htm
e-zine for students/teachers http://its-online.com/

Skills
Reading and writing skills http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/pizzaz.html
http://webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/grammar.htm
Speaking skills http://www.eslflow.com/ http://www.homestead.com/eslfloweslflow/speakingtalktopics.html
Listening skills http://www.esl-lab.com/
http://www.englishlistening.com/
http://www.otan.dni.us/cdlp/lllo/home.html
Internet Basics for http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/s/ib/
ESL Students

On-Line Dictionaries
Dictionary links page http://www.yourdictionary.com/
Merriam Webster http://www.m-w.com./netdict.htm
Wordsmythe http://www.lightlink.com/bobp/wedt/
Cambridge http://www.cambridge.org/
Nonverbal Dictionary http://members.aol.com/nonverbal2/diction1.htm
Illustrated/Interactive Dicts http://www.illustratedvocabulary.ip-providence.net/
http://www.pdictionary.com/
Voycabulary (links a webpage directly to dictionary) http://www.voycabulary.com/ TRY IT
On-Line Grammars
Grammar links page http://www.yourdictionary.com/grammars.html
http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar/
http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/fr_gram.html
http://webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/grammar.htm
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/grammar.htm
http://webnz.com/checkers/grammar2.html

TOEFL Homepage (inc. practice questions) http://web1.toefl.org/
Phonetics & Phonology
For EFL http://www.oupchina.com.hk/dict/phonetic/home.html
IPA all sounds with descriptions http://ds.unil.ch/ling/english/phonetique/api2-eng.html
International Phonetics Association (IPA) Website http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html
Consonant articulation http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~danhall/phonetics/sammy.html
Online phonetics & phonology courses
http://www.celt.stir.ac.uk/staff/HIGDOX/STEPHEN/PHONO/PHONOLG.HTM
http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/linguistics/russell/138/course.htm
See especially class notes:
http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/linguistics/russell/138/notes.htm
Speech accent archive (comparisons of accents) (click English on menu on left) http://classweb.gmu.edu/accent/

Authentic On-Line Material
News
Broadcasting
RTÉ http://www.rte.ie/
BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/
CNN http://www.cnn.com/

BBC Languages Pages http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/languages/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index.shtml

Newspapers
The Irish Times http://www.irish-times.com/
The Times http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/home.html
The Sunday Times http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/
The Week http://www.the-week.com/
The Limerick Post http://www.limerickpost.ie/

Media directories http://www.kidon.com/media-link/index.shtml
http://www.mediainfo.com/emedia/
http://www.newslink.org/
http://www.newsd.com/
Books
Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/
http://www.bibliomania.com/
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/search.html
Fairy tales http://members.aol.com/surlalune/frytales/index.htm
Songs
Pop http://www.lyrics.com/
Children’s songs http://www.theteachersguide.com/ChildrensSongs.htm quite good
http://www.gigglepotz.com/eslsongs.htm
International Folk songs http://ingeb.org/

Poetry
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/intro.html
Movie scripts
http://www.script-o-rama.com/table.shtml
http://www.tvguide.com/movies/database/super.htm
http://www.dailyscript.com/
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/9371/script.htm

Jokes Pages
Jokes: http://www.jokes.com/
Cartoons: http://www.cagle.com/main.asp
Puzzles: http://thinks.com/

Spoof newpapers: http://www.theonion.com/
http://www.bobsfridge.com/
Irish culture
http://www.irelandseye.com/
http://home.iol.ie/
Irish government site http://www.irlgov.ie/

Cybertrail, Webquest, Electric news, Virtual Shopping, Web evaluation

1. Cybertrail. We have some hints and solving them we will know the answer to a question.
Example: Cybertrail - WHODUNNIT??

On 1st April 2006, somebody secretly climbed up the Eiffel Tower and placed an enormous red balloon on top. Who did it?? In this cybertrail you are following a trail to see who committed this daring act!

You will follow links to different Web sites and pick up CLUES from each to find the name of the person! Type the answers to these questions:

Remember to use the Back button on your browser each time, to return to this text.

ANSWERS
CLUE ONE: This site is for teachers wishing to teach in …?
http://www.eltnews.com/home.shtmlJapan

CLUE TWO: At this site you can search for song lyrics http://www.lyrics.com/
Your first option is to browse … artists
CLUE THREE: Write the name of the AUSTRALIAN city where Cambridge
University Press Worldwide is located http://www.cambridge.org/Melbourne

CLUE FOUR: This site is intended for WHICH types of students?
Write the 2 acronyms (abbreviations) http://iteslj.org/ESL.html ESL and EFL

CLUE FIVE: What is the SECOND LANGUAGE you can choose on this site? http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/ Spanish,

CLUE SIX: Who runs this site (look on the left side of the screen!)
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/
British Council

CLUE SEVEN: What colour is the background to this company logo?
http://www.clarity.com.hk/ Orange

CLUE EIGHT: There is a question (in red) at the top of this site
http://www.slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/email/infeng01.html what is the SIXTH (6TH) word? network

CLUE NINE: What is the FIRST name of the person
who runs the site at http://www.eslcafe.com/ David

à To find the name of the person who placed

ICT for language teachers: introduction

SOME INTERESTING PAGES:

We go to their page of BSCW: http://bscw.fit.fraunhofer.de/bscw/bscw.cgi/31458492

We need a user name and a password (which we have been given) . Then we get into workspace

We will create a new folder: "find new folder "(up above) . This is similar to "moodle"

A page we should have in mind is: ICT4LT http://www.ict4lt.org/

Other pages: - Webquests http://webquest.sdsu.edu/
- Cybertrails: Whodunnit??
- Electric News Activity Electric News Activity

Cybertrail - WHODUNNIT??

On 1st April 2006, somebody secretly climbed up the Eiffel Tower and placed an enormous red balloon on top. Who did it?? In this cybertrail you are following a trail to see who committed this daring act!

You will follow links to different Web sites and pick up CLUES from each to find the name of the person! Type the answers to these questions:

Remember to use the Back button ^ on your browser each time, to return to this text.

ANSWERS
CLUE ONE: This site is for teachers wishing to teach in …?
http://www.eltnews.com/home.shtml___________

CLUE TWO: At this site you can search for song lyrics http://www.lyrics.com/
Your first option is to browse … ____________

CLUE THREE: Write the name of the AUSTRALIAN city where Cambridge
University Press Worldwide is located http://www.cambridge.org/____________

CLUE FOUR: This site is intended for WHICH types of students?
Write the 2 acronyms (abbreviations) http://iteslj.org/ESL.html ____________

CLUE FIVE: What is the SECOND LANGUAGE you can choose on this site? http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/ ____________

CLUE SIX: Who runs this site (look on the left side of the screen!)
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/
____________

CLUE SEVEN: What colour is the background to this company logo?
http://www.clarity.com.hk/ ____________

CLUE EIGHT: There is a question (in red) at the top of this site
http://www.slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/email/infeng01.html what is the SIXTH (6TH) word? _________

CLUE NINE: What is the FIRST name of the person
who runs the site at http://www.eslcafe.com/ ____________

à To find the name of the person who placed the balloon on top of the Eiffel Tower, write the FIRST LETTER of each of your 9 answers in these boxes:

Electric News: On-line news comparison activity

Find and compare:
Online newspaper in English
The Irish Times http://www.irish-times.com/
The Examiner http://www.examiner.ie/pport/web/
The Times http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/home.html

The Sun http://www.thesun.co.uk/

Online broadcasting in English:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/index.shtml
http://www.rte.ie/
http://www.voanews.com/
http://www.cnn.com/

Technology for Language Teaching: General

Using technology for http://www.ict4lt.org/
Language teaching http://www.history-of-call.org/
CALL Bibliography http://www.eurocall-languages.org/resources/bibliography/books.html
UL Applied Languages Web site http://www.ul.ie/~appliedlanguages/LI4113_TELL_websites.htm

Portals for teaching & learning modern languages

http://www.ilovelanguages.com/
http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/websites.htm

CORPORA

Introduction to DDL (English) http://www.geocities.com/tonypgnews/units_index_pilot.htm
English corpora
Cobuild Bank of English (wordbanks online) http://www.cobuild.collins.co.uk/
British National Corpus (corpus demo) http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc/
Hong Kong Virtual Language Centre (Various corpora) http://www.edict.com.hk/concordance/default.htm
Voice of America Special English (simplified) http://www.manythings.org/voa/sentences.htm
Links to corpora in different languages: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~barlow/ http://visl.hum.sdu.dk/visl/corpus.html http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
German corpora
Online corpora at the Institute for the German Language (Institut für Deutsche Sprache in Mannheim) http://www.ids-mannheim.de/
(look under Service Einrichtungen for Textkorpora or Tonkorpora
Register freely as users of COSMAS II on http://www.ids-mannheim.de/cosmas2/install/
Mannheim Corpus: http://corpora.ids-mannheim.de/~cosmas

French corpora
Corpus lexicaux québécois: http://www.spl.gouv.qc.ca/corpus/index.html
Corpus of works of Maupassant http://maupassant.free.fr/
Corpora of learner language http://www.flloc.soton.ac.uk/
Various corpora http://www.edict.com.hk/concordance/default.htm

Japanese corpus
http://www.edict.com.hk/concordance/default.htm

Irish corpora
Tobar na Gaedhilge http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/~oduibhin/tobar/
An inaccessible corpus of 15 million words?: http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaeilge/gaeilge.html#corpas

Email Networks
International Email Tandem Network
http://www.slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/email/infeng01.html

Intercultural email classroom connections (IECC)

http://www.iecc.org/

Discussion Lists
English-l http://tiger.coe.missouri.edu/~english/index.html


Online Quiz Authoring
Reading matrix http://www.readingmatrix.com/scripto/index.html
Hot Potatoes and Quandary (quzzes etc) http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/
Quia (quizzes, crosswords, games etc) http://www.quia.com/web
Puzzlemaker http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/

Online Journals
The Internet TESL Journal http://iteslj.org/
Language Learning and Technology Journal
http://llt.msu.edu/
Science Direct – System http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0346251X
Mark Warschauer homepage (for research) http://www.gse.uci.edu/markw/

Online dictionaries & grammars
Dictionary links page http://www.yourdictionary.com/
Grammar links page http://www.yourdictionary.com/grammars.html

CALL Software Companies
TenseBuster: Clarity Language Consultants Ltd http://www.clarity.com.hk/
Camsoft: http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/index.htm
Speech in action http://www.speechinaction.com/
Abacus, Dublin http://www.abacus-communications.com/
Authentik (magazine) http://www.authentik.com/

Chat
Hosting good conversations online
www.rheingold.com/texts/artonlinehost.html

Tips for using chat rooms
http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/edu/chat.htm

Chat and text language http://www.transl8it.com/

Some chat sites for language learning
www.eslcafe.com/chat/chatpro.cgi
http://www.1-language.com/
http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/
yahoo chat

Private chat room: http://www.unique-voice.com/

Websites for Language Teaching: by language
French
‘About French’ (resources for students, teachers, and lovers of French: lessons, quizzes, dictionaries, software, linguistics, chatroom etc.) http://french.about.com/

Tourism
http://www.franceway.com/

Language
http://www.francophonie.org/

Bibliothèque National de Paris
http://www.bnp.fr/

Bibliothèque Publique d’Information:
http://www.bpi.fr/

Working in France
http://www.apec.assoc.fr/

Le Monde Newspaper
http://www.lemonde.fr/

Voltaire
http://history.hanover.edu/early/voltaire.html

Tennessee Bob’s Famous French Links
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html

Colonel Craig’s French Links
http://www.isu.edu/~nickcrai/frenchlinx.html

Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/youth/hello/french.html

Branchez-vous
http://www.branchez-vous.com/

Le Monde Diplomatique
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/

Yahoo
http://fr.yahoo.com/

French Vocabulary
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/vocab.html

French Grammar
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/gramm.html

Other Useful Sites
http://www.lafontaine.com/
http://www.momes.net/
http://www.tv5.org/
www.bonjourdefrance.com/

German
‘About German’ (resources for students, teachers, and lovers of German: lessons, quizzes, dictionaries, software, linguistics, chatroom etc.) http://german.about.com/

Germalingua
http://www.germalingua.com/

Goethe Institut
http://www.goethe.de/dublin

University of Hull Links
http://www.hull.ac.uk/Hull/GR_Web/info_d.html

Duke University German Links
http://aaswebsv.aas.duke.edu/languages/german/links/

Colonel Craig’s WWW links for German
http://www.isu.edu/~nickcrai/german.html

News Online
http://www.tagesschau.de/
http://www.welt.de/

Dictionary
http://www.lhs-lt-de/
http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/
http://www.pressroom.com/~communipaw/diction.htm

Grammar
http://www.wm.edu/CAS/modlang/grasmit/grammar
http://www.extension.ualberta.ca/language/german.htm
Site with links to German grammar exercises, cultural sites and fun activities through German.

Tourism
http://entry.de/
http://germanfortravellers.com/


General
http://www.elok.com/
Lets you subscribe, free of charge, to vocabulary listings and helps you to find e-mail partners in your chosen language.

http://www.slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/email/infen.html
Connects you to the Tandem E-Mail Network.

Japanese
General sites dealing with materials and other resources:
http://momiji.jpf.go.jp/kyozai/
This is the Japan Foundation site dealing with teaching materials

http://www.jpf.go.jp/j/index.html
The general Japan Foundation site. Lots of information to be found here if you can wade through the site.

http://www.jlgweb.org.uk/btj/
A huge resource on teaching and culture

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/japanese.html
Jim Breen's page from Monash University

http://www.cla.purdue.edu/fll/Japanese/jlink.html
Purdue University's Japanese site

http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/JapanProj/
Purdue's teaching resources

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/languages/1-6-6-6.html
General site at Sussex University

Sites dealing with Kanji and other writing systems:
http://www.kanjiclinic.com/
http://www.kanjistep.com/en/online/weeklytest/intro.html

http://www.kanjistep.com/en/online/weeklytest/intro.html
This one gives placement tests

http://www.kanjiclinic.com/
This is based on a weekly column in the Japan Times and has good tips

http://www.fll.purdue.edu/ultimate/
A brilliant computer game learners can play clicking off hiragana or katakana characters against the clock. Quite addictive!

Online dictionaries
http://www.alc.co.jp/
Has the Eijiro dictionary on the home page.

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jwb/wwwjdic?1C
Part of Jim Breen's monumental set of resources

Reading
http://language.tiu.ac.jp/
Reading Tutor - allows you to make up reading exercises easily.

Spanish
Grammar
http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/exercises/index.html
Website with detailed and easy to understand explanations of all aspects of Spanish grammar. Also contains excellent interactive exercises and quizzes.

http://www.studyspanish.com/
Site that caters to learners of all levels, from beginner to advanced, with grammar and vocabulary exercises. Also includes explanations of grammatical forms and gives many examples

http://academics.vmi.edu/modlan_kbb/kbb/vmispanishdrills.htm
Very comprehensive grammar site with brief explanations in English and interactive exercises.

http://www.indiana.edu/~call/ejercicios.html
Site with a range of grammar exercises (catering for beginners – intermediate), not all of which are interactive.

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/spanish_portuguese/spa220/gramatica.html
Site offering a very extensive range of interactive grammar exercises, but is short of explanations.

http://www.spaleon.com/
Very useful verb conjugation site, allows students to practise conjugating both regular and irregular verbs in all tenses. Also includes a verb conjugator.

http://www.quia.com/dir/spanish/
Site with dozens of quizzes, games and activities on vocabulary, grammar and culture

http://www.econ.jhu.edu/people/tchaidze/SPANGRAM/
Website in the style of a grammar reference book – no interactive exercises.

http://www.trentu.ca/spanish/masarriba/
Spanish grammar and vocabulary activities

Vocabulary
http://www.vokabel.com/spanish.html
Vocabulary site, featuring quizzes and activities designed to test knowledge of vocab in various fields. Also includes a grammar section.

http://www.languageguide.org/espanol/index.jsp
Site allowing students to learn vocabulary through pictures and sound files. Also available in French, German and Japanese.

Other
http://www.arcom.net/belca/del_dicho/indice%20dichos.html
Site, completely in Spanish, that lists idiomatic expressions and sayings, explains them, and gives their origins

http://www.elcastellano.org/
Advanced site dedicated to the Spanish language, would perhaps be of use from a socio-linguistic point of view.

http://globegate.utm.edu/spanish/span.html
Links to dozens of Spanish-language resources – though there are quite a few dead links.

http://www.slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/etandem/etindex-en.html
eTandem network site, helps learners of Spanish to find an e-mail language exchange partner - also provides instructions on how to get the most from your exchange partnership.

http://www.sgci.mec.es/uk/Pub/Tecla/2003/
Spanish government website dedicated to comprehension activities for foreign learners. Contains dozens of authentic articles catering to a variety of levels, each with an extensive set of questions.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/
Site with very useful material for beginners, as well as a monthly magazine for intermediate learners. Students can listen to the audio clips on the LRA computers.

http://www.littleexplorers.com/spanish/
Children’s Spanish-English dictionary

Media
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/news/
All the major international and Latin American news stories in Spanish.

http://www.abc.es/
http://www.elmundo.es/
http://www.elpais.es/
http://www.larazon.com/ (Argentina)
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/ (Argentina)
http://www.larepublica.com.pe/ (Peru)

Irish
http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaeilge/foghlaim/ Many links to learning Irish on the net.
http://www.ite.ie/nua/gaellink.htm ITE website: links for learning Irish
http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaeilge/gaeilge.html links to all Irish sites on internet, a good starting point for pupils and teachers
http://www.clubsult.com/english/language/index.htm probably one of the best sites as it gives links to learning aids, internet as a resource etc. Click on link to see options. Links fall into your categories below. Sult is a company set up in Dublin a few years ago, they arrange extensive language courses all over the city and their Thurs nite club is well known. All info on site.
http://www.clubsult.com/english/language/irish_orgs.htm Sult gives good links to Irish lang organisations / cultural material etc and is updated regularly
http://www.muintearas.com/ <http://www.muintearas.com/> support teaching of Irish in the Gaeltacht at both prmary and sec. level, have developed some good resources, phonetic prog partic., involved in pre-school support alos

http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaeilge/gaeilge.html#scoil schools using Irish.
http://www.beo.ie/ <http://www.beo.ie/> excellent resource for teacher and student, monthly e-mag. See section for teachers (some sample material) and section for learners "Rannóg na bhFoghlaimeoirí" targeted elem and interm learners. It has many words underlined which translate as the cursor moves to them.

http://www.muscrai.com/pinocchio Language cultural info, excellent new version of Pinocchio as Gaeilge

http://www.rte.ie/rnag/ Raidío na Gaeltachta, free RealOne Player by following instructions.
http://www.acmhainn.ie/ <http://www.acmhainn.ie/> a must for anyone involved in translation ..
www.may.ie/language/ <http://www.may.ie/language/> organise Vifax na Gaeilge
http://www.aingilin.com/ <http://www.aingilin.com/> Irish drama site, trendy layout etc for sec school pupils
http://www.gael-linn.ie/ <http://www.gael-linn.ie/> organise competitions for schools, debates etc
http://www.oideas-gael.com/ <http://www.oideas-gael.com/> excellent site targeting adult learners mainly, see options of courses available thru irish, hillwalking, art etc
http://www.focloir.ie/ the first major lexicographic initiative to be undertaken by Foras na Gaeilge. Includes the UL Foclóir Beag: http://www.csis.ul.ie/focloir/

http://www.ite.ie/gf/gloss.htm new resource material for adult learners
http://www.comhdhail.ie/ http://www.gaelport.com/ newsletter, update on all events, new services etc as Gaeilge. sign up to receive it by email
http://www.ruatelecom.netfirms.com/ phone company offering irish lang service
http://www.irishforlife.com/ new software

http://www.drama-gaeilge.com/ all things Irish drama, links etc

http://www.merriman.ie/ <http://www.merriman.ie/ link to Summer school and winter school, will be updated by 25th of month, Winter school biggest Irish language conference anually, always held w-end of end Jan / beg of Feb

http://www.udaras.ie/ <http://www.udaras.ie/> re: funding, see also section on culture
http://www.ucd.ie/bnag/lamh.htm UCD Irish language office some useful links re: organisations etc.
www.ul.ie/aonadnagaeilge UL Aonad na Gaeilge, comprehensive site on all things Irish at UL and in the region
http://www.uisce.com/ <http://www.uisce.com/> water sports through Irish, excellent for TY teachers of Irish, useful for projects / trips etc.
homepage.eircom.net/~comhluadar <http://homepage.eircom.net/~comhluadar> support parents raising kids thru irish
http://www.spailpin.com/ <http://www.spailpin.com/> siopadóireacht

Trends in education through Irish over past 3 decades? http://www.gaelscoileanna.ie/default.asp


English as a foreign/second language

Links pages for teachers:
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/ESL3a.html
http://www.edict.com.hk/vlc/
http://www.world-english.org/
http://www.developingteachers.com/
http://www.englishnetlinks.com/
http://www.englishforum.com/
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/index.shtml
http://searchenglish.britishcouncil.org/
http://www.tesol.net/neteach.html
http://members.tripod.com/~ESL4Kids/links.html
http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/websites.htm
http://www.tesol.edu/pubs/profpapers/techclass2.html
http://esl.about.com/education/esl/blgrammar.htm
http://www.comenius.com/

Ready-made lessons http://www.free-english.com/
http://www.english-to-go.com/
http://www.englishclub.net/handouts/index.html
http://www.handoutsonline.com/
http://www.onestopenglish.com/

Blogs for LT: intro
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/resources/blogging.shtml

Links for children/ http://www.starfall.com/
about teaching children http://www.isabelperez.com/
BBC cbeebies http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/
BBC cbeebies children’s videos http://www.bbcshop.com/icat/1
BBC educational videos http://www.bbcschoolshop.com/
http://www.mrshurleysesl.com/
http://esl.about.com/cs/childrensesl/
http://www.childrenonlyesl-efl.com/index.asp
http://members.tripod.com/~ESL4Kids/links.html
http://www.kididdles.com/
http://www.genkienglish.net/curriculum.htm
http://www.educalia.org/
British Council for kids http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/

Links page for learners:
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/ESL.html
http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/eslcafe.html
http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/toppicks.html
http://www.edunet.com/
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/index.htm
e-zine for students/teachers http://its-online.com/

Skills
Reading and writing skills http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/pizzaz.html
http://webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/grammar.htm
Speaking skills http://www.eslflow.com/ http://www.homestead.com/eslfloweslflow/speakingtalktopics.html
Listening skills http://www.esl-lab.com/
http://www.englishlistening.com/
http://www.otan.dni.us/cdlp/lllo/home.html
Internet Basics for http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/s/ib/
ESL Students

On-Line Dictionaries
Dictionary links page http://www.yourdictionary.com/
Merriam Webster http://www.m-w.com./netdict.htm
Wordsmythe http://www.lightlink.com/bobp/wedt/
Cambridge http://www.cambridge.org/
Nonverbal Dictionary http://members.aol.com/nonverbal2/diction1.htm
Illustrated/Interactive Dicts http://www.illustratedvocabulary.ip-providence.net/
http://www.pdictionary.com/
Voycabulary (links a webpage directly to dictionary)
http://www.voycabulary.com/
On-Line Grammars
Grammar links page http://www.yourdictionary.com/grammars.html
http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar/
http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/fr_gram.html
http://webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/grammar.htm
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/grammar.htm
http://webnz.com/checkers/grammar2.html

TOEFL Homepage (inc. practice questions) http://web1.toefl.org/
Phonetics & Phonology
For EFL http://www.oupchina.com.hk/dict/phonetic/home.html
IPA all sounds with descriptions http://ds.unil.ch/ling/english/phonetique/api2-eng.html
International Phonetics Association (IPA) Website http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html
Consonant articulation http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~danhall/phonetics/sammy.html
Online phonetics & phonology courses
http://www.celt.stir.ac.uk/staff/HIGDOX/STEPHEN/PHONO/PHONOLG.HTM
http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/linguistics/russell/138/course.htm
See especially class notes:
http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/linguistics/russell/138/notes.htm
Speech accent archive (comparisons of accents) (click English on menu on left) http://classweb.gmu.edu/accent/

Authentic On-Line Material
News
Broadcasting
RTÉ http://www.rte.ie/
BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/
CNN http://www.cnn.com/

BBC Languages Pages http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/languages/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index.shtml

Newspapers
The Irish Times http://www.irish-times.com/
The Times http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/home.html
The Sunday Times http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/
The Week http://www.the-week.com/
The Limerick Post http://www.limerickpost.ie/

Media directories http://www.kidon.com/media-link/index.shtml
http://www.mediainfo.com/emedia/
http://www.newslink.org/
http://www.newsd.com/
Books
Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/
http://www.bibliomania.com/
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/search.html
Fairy tales http://members.aol.com/surlalune/frytales/index.htm
Songs
Pop http://www.lyrics.com/
Children’s songs http://www.theteachersguide.com/ChildrensSongs.htm
http://www.gigglepotz.com/eslsongs.htm
International Folk songs http://ingeb.org/

Poetry
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/intro.html
Movie scripts
http://www.script-o-rama.com/table.shtml
http://www.tvguide.com/movies/database/super.htm
http://www.dailyscript.com/
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/9371/script.htm

Jokes Pages
Jokes: http://www.jokes.com/
Cartoons: http://www.cagle.com/main.asp
Puzzles: http://thinks.com/

Spoof newpapers: http://www.theonion.com/
http://www.bobsfridge.com/
Irish culture
http://www.irelandseye.com/
http://home.iol.ie/
Irish government site http://www.irlgov.ie/

USEFUL SPANISH WEBSITES

ABC
http:/abc.es

Instituto cervantes
http://www.cervantes.es


universidad de sevilla
http://cpd.us.es/us.us.html


universidad de alicante:
http://www.ua.es


Spanish language exercises:
http://mld.ursinus.edu/~jarana/Ejercicios/instructors.html

Spanish Online Workbook:
http://philo.ucdavis.edu/zone/home/askarp//al_corriente/indice.html

Tecla Magazine for Learners and Teachers:
htpp:??www.bbk.ac.uk/tecla

dictionary
htpp://www.diccionarios.com/

grammar
htpp://www.colby.edu/~bknelson.exercises

General
htpp://www.elok.com
lets you subscribe, free of charge, to vaocabulary listings and helps you find e-mail partners in your chosen language


http://www.slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/email/infen.html


today's class (by the way)
http://bscw.fit.fraunhofer.de/bscw/bscw.cgi/31458492

we will create a new folder: "find new folder "(up above)