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esl-efl activities

1-language.com Online ESL Center (Free, comprehensive ESL Site including forums, realtime chat, jobs, grammar, helplines, multi-lingual content...")

Activities for ESL Students

Dave's ESL Cafe

The English Department Home Page - Barbara Dieu

English-Zone.Com

The ESLoop (click on List Loops)

ESL Quiz Center - Dave Sperling

Extensive Reading

Hot Potatoes Exercises - Michel Barbot (last updated 7 Jul. 2005)

Interesting Things for ESL Students

International Writing Exchange - Ruth Vilmi

Isabel's ESL Site - Isabel Pérez Torres

The Internet TESL Journal (articles, research papers, lesson plans, etc)

John's Word Search Puzzles (not interactive)

Jokes for the ESL/EFL Classroom

NetGrammar

Projects and Webquests - Barbara Dieu

Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab

Real English Online (Real English Interactive Video On-Line) - Michael Marzio and Elizabeth Hanson-Smith (moderators)

Repeat After Us: your online library and language lab ("an award-winning online library with the best collection of copyright-free English texts and scripted recordings. Our free audio clips provide an excellent resource for students and literature lovers of all ages")

Self-Study Links for ESL/EFL Students

Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students

Teach your Students Well -- With Movies (article) TRYING TO RECOVER THE LINK

Teaching with the Web

Volterre-Fr - Linda Thalman (English [and French] Language Resources)

Web Projects for the ESL/EFL Class: Famous Japanese Personages - Tom Robb (1996)

 

 
  projects

Flat Stanley Project

MayaQuest

Project MORE (something special for K-12 mainstream content-areas and ESL7EFL teachers)

The King's Road Project - Ruth Wilmi (Dec. 2000)

The Viva Project - Phil Benz (24 Aug. 2002)

 

 
  word games

(All-mixed up) Hangman

Internet Anagram Server

Vocabulary University

 

 
 

webquests

From Theory. . .

Adapting and Enhancing Existing WebQuests - Bernie Dodge (2002)

A Rubric for Evaluating WebQuests - Bernie Dodge (last updated 19 Jun. 2001)

Assessing WebQuests - Tom March (last updated 15 Jun. 2005)

Creating a WebQuest: It's Easier than You Think! - Linda Starr (Education World, last updated 12 Mar. 2004)

Creating a WebQuest with FrontPage - Christine Bauer-Ramazani (last updated 16 Jan. 2005)

Criteria for Assessing Bets WebQuests - Tom March

How to Succeed with WebQuests - Adam Garry and Parry Graham (Apr. 2002)

Overcoming Obstacles to Quicker WebQuest Creation - Bernie Dodge (NECC 2005)

Pre-Writing your WebQuest - Tom March (last updated 17 Apr. 2001)

Project-Bsed Learning Just Became Easy: An Introduction to WebQuests - Adam Garry (Learning Technology, Jul. 2001)

Readings & Training Materials - Compiled by Bernie Dodge

Some Thoughts about WebQuests - Bernie Dodge

The Idea Machine: A Possiblity Pool of Starting Points - Tom March (last updated 15 Jun. 2005)

The WebQuest Design Process - Tom March

The WebQuest Page - Bernie Dodge

Matrix of Examples

Readings & Training Materials

WebQuest Community

Understanding and Using WebQuests - Midge Frazel (last updated 12 Jun. 2005)

Using a WebQuest in your Classroom (includes a definition, evaluation, collections of WQ, choosing a topic, locating resources, constructing a quest, etc) - Susan Brooks and Bill Byles (last updated 2 Jun. 2005)

Using Design Patterns for WebQuests - Bernie Dodge

WebQuest 101: Putting Discovery into the Curriculum (a tutorial)

WebQuest Design Map - Bernie Dodge (2001)

WebQuest Evaluation Form (Spartanburg District 3, SC)

WebQuest Generator (Teachnology)

WebQuest Homepage - aclearn.net

WebQuest Links: a collection of theoretical and practical resources organized by Phil Benz

WebQuest News - Bernie Dodge

WebQuest Taskonomy: A Taxonomy of Tasks - Bernie Dodge (last updated 17 May 2002)

WebQuest Template (Spartanburg School District 3)

WebQuest Templates - Bernie Dodge

WebQuest Workshop - Phil Benz

WebQuests: A Strategy for Scaffolding Higher Level Learning - Bernie Dodge (Jun. 1998)

WebQuests & more ("This page gathers Tom's work in creating and teaching WebQuests") - Tom March (last updated 15 Jun. 2005)

WebQuests and other activities - a collection of sites organized by Phil Benz

WebQuests for Learning: Why WebQuests? - Tom March

Designing for Success - Tom March (last updated 2 Oct. 1998)

WebQuests in our Future: The Teacher's Role in Cyberspace (info on WQs & resources) - Kathy Schrock

What is a WebQuest? - Univeristy of Science, Sydney (29 Sep. 1999)

    Exploring WebQuests! (ppt)

What WebQuests Are (Really) - Tom March

Why WebQuests? - Phil Benz

 

. . . to Practice

A Magical Day in the Magic Kingdom - Linda Hackney (2000) [middle school: elementary to intermediate ESL/EFL students?)

American University: Here I Come!! (prepare advanced academic ESL students for American university) - Paula Emmert (2001) [high intermediate to advanced ESL students]

Ancient Egypt WebQuest (Grades 4-6) - Matthew Durant (last updated 11 Feb. 2002)

A WebQuest about WebQuests ("This exercise has proven useful for introducing the concept to educators. Working in teams they examine five WebQuests from four different points of view....") - Bernie Dodge

Create-A-Habitat ("Remember when you won your first goldfish at the fair? You have probably all gone through several goldfish bowls in your lives. What happened to that bowl that was left behind after the last fish died? Does it have to be filled with water? Does it have to contain fish? What are your options? There is an empty 10 gallon tank in our classroom that needs to be filled! What can we fill it with that we can afford, and that we will be able to maintain?") - Anna Zuccarini and Peg Vandeleur

Creative Problem Soving - Farida Pawan (2000) [advanced ESL students at the college level]

Ellis Island Webquest - Claude Covo-Farchi, Solange Soinard, Florence Viquerat and Phil Benz

Exploring Mars WebQuest - Phil Benz

Health and Fitness - Gabriela Santos (2000-2001) [intermediate EFL students?]

In Town without my Car - Fernanda Rodrigues (2001-2002)

Key Moments in the Troubles of Northern Ireland (for advanced learners of English) - Robert O'Dowd

Life in the Tenements - Phil Benz and Michèle Maurice (Dec. 2002)

Little Rock 9, Integration 0? (on racial desegregation in schools) - Tom March

Look Who's Footing the Bill! (on democracy and the national debt) - Tom March

Mission: Possible (an international student's adjustment to an American family) - Paula Emmert (2001)

Of Mice and Men, a Cloning WebQuest - Phil Benz

On the Road Again (mapping out a road trip) - Paula Emmert (2001)

Protest Songs in the United States: Civil Rights and the Anti-War Movement - Fernanda Rodrigues (1998-1999)

Radio Days: A WebQuest - Cynthia Matzat

Searching for China - Tom March

Snapshot in Time (how will the culture of your generation be reflected to future generations?) - Sandee Hallum-Torres [10th grade, Social Studies]

That's a Possibility: UFOs - JoAnn Miller

The 1960's Museum - Kathy Schrock

The American Dream: Immigration to America - Fernanda Rodrigues (1999-2000)

The Big Wide World WebQuest - Tom March

The Copacabana Restaurant - Barbara Dieu

They Had an Impact (people who had an impact) - Carlos Muniz

Tuskegee Tragedy (exploring the powerful and their victims) - Tom March

Un Jour à Paris (a combination of Paris tourism and the conditional tense: for level III or IV French students) - Dawn Smith

World Hunger: The Face of Starvation

World War II - Fernanda Rodrigues (1999-2000)

 

In Portuguese

Navegar é Preciso - Haydée de Oliveira, Barbara Dieu e Fábio C. Sampaio Netto

Teoria do Design: Factores Económicos - João Carlos Nunes (1999-2000)

WebQuest: aprendendo na internet (inúmeros WebQuests - Universidade de São Paulo)

 

Collections of WebQuests

Celebrating the Best in WebQuests - Tom March

ESC WebQuest Matrix ("built during  professional development experienceS at the Education Service Center, Corpus Christi, Texas")

Kathy Schrock's WebQuest Archives (1996-98)

Matrix of 320 WebQuests - Alice Christie

Matrix of Examples - Bernie Dodge

Matrix of Examples: Middling - Bernie Dodge

Matrix of Examples: New - Bernie Dodge

Matrix of Examples: Top - Bernie Dodge

Science WebQuests  Sheppard, Wade & Associates (last updated 1 Jan. 2004)

Spartanburg District 3 County Schools WebQuests

The TeachersFirst WebQuest Collection

Web-Based Projects ("The WebQuests on this page have been written and designed by students preparing to become teachers. They were created in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a course entitled Integrating Technology Across the Curriculum.") (Last modified 25 Apr. 2005)

WebQuest

WebQuest Archive (Education World)

WebQuest Collections (mostly University courses and workshops) - Compiled by Bernie Dodge)

WebQuest Discoveries Archive

WebQuest Resource Page - Christine Bauer-Ramazani (last updated 23 May 2005)

WebQuest Training: An Internet WebQuest on WebQuest Training - Heather A. Akiyoshi (last updated 24 Feb. 2004)

WebQuests (about blood drives, donating blood...) - Adam Garry

WebQuests (Spartanburg School District 3)

WebQuests (last updated 7 Aug. 2003)

WebQuests Created by Missouri Teachers

WebQuests in Geography - Tony Fisher

 

 
 

media & education

CNN

Los Angeles Times

The New York Times on the Web

The Washington Post

 

 
 

online dictionaries

The American Heritage Dictionary

Dictionary.com

Longman Web Dictionary

Merriam-Webster

Roget's Thesaurus

Voycabulary (not a typo!)

 

 
 

software (free tools to produce class materials)

Hot Potatoes

    Teaching Tools ("You will find here different "Add-ons" (=modified source files) for Hot Potatoes and Textoys which enable you in some cases to create complete new exercise types") - Michael Rottmeier

Quiz Star

Rubistar

Toolbox

Trackstar

 

 
 

tutorials

10 Netsurfing Tips: How to Save Time & Avoid Frustration - Charles Kelly

A Beginner's Guide to HTML

Breaking the Silent Barrier on the Web: Backgound - Randall S. Davis

Guidelines for Designing a Good Web Site for ESL Students - Charles Kelly (Mar. 2000)

How to Build a Multimedia Website for Language Study - Randall S. Davis (Feb. 2002)

How to Make a Succesful ESL/EFL Teacher's Web Page - Charles Kelly

 

 
 

articles, papers, presentations and chapters

Another Look at Tutorial CALL (.ppt & bibliography) - Claire B. Siskin and Philip Hubbard (WorldCALL 2003)

Attitude and Access: Building a New Teaching/Learning Community in TESOL - Julian Edge

Authoring in CALL - Claire B. Siskin (Last updated 20 Feb. 2004)

Captioned Video: Making it Work for You - Randall S. Davis (TESLJ, Mar. 1998)

A Brief History of CALL Theory - Elizabeth Hanson-Smith (2002)

Crosscultural Communication Online - The Webheads Community (Aug. 2002)

Getting Acquainted with the Internet (for ESL/EFL teachers) - Michael Coghlan (Jul. 1998)

Introducing EFL Students to Chat Rooms - Jo Mynard (2002)

Introduction: Principles of CALL & Content-Based Instruction (In CALL Essentials, Chaps. 1 & 7) - Joy Egbert (TESOL, 2005)

Overcoming Common Problems Related to Communicative Methodology - Stephen B. Ryan (Nov. 2001)

Overview of CALL Reserach with Second Language Acquisition Perspectives - Hee-Jung Jung (Jul. 2003)

Reassessing the Role of Tutorial CALL - Claire B. Siskin and Philip Hubbard (TESOL 2002)

Technology in the Classroom: Practice and Promise in the 21st Century - Elizabeth Hanson-Smith (TESOL, 2001)

Ten Ways to Enhance Teaching through Technology - Bob Godwin-Jones (1996)

Twenty Practical Uses of a Computer for the EFL Profession - Chris Elvin

 

 
  online reviews

ELT News - Archives (books, interviews, teaching ideas, etc.)

TESL-EJ

Index of archived book reviews

Index of archived media reviews

 

 
  MISCELLANEOUS

Evaluation Form for Web Lessons - Lewis Johnson

 

 

Updated 18Jul2005

Created 20 January 2002

Teresa Almeida d'Eça

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