CALL TOOLS  "Connect, Collaborate, Create"
This is an exceptional place to learn how to use Web 2.0 tools. Connect, Collaborate, Create was created by Pip Cleaves, and has step-by-step instructions on how to use some of the best Web 2.0 tools out there for educational use. You really need to visit it. If at some point you are prompted to log-in, all you have to do is click "Login as Guest." See The Best Places To Learn Web 2.0 Basics for even more. Best Online Collaboration Tools
MindMap by Robin Good Collaborative Online Mind-Mapping: This Collaborative Map is a live editable map of over 150 of the best free and low-cost online collaboration tools available. This collaboration tools map has the objective of bringing together the most useful, free or low-cost technologies available today online. Originally the types of tools included by the participants in this experiment, ranged from real-time instant messaging and video conferencing tools to the main social bookmarking resources and microblogging tools as several participants felt that these too were relevant collaboration technologies. To limit its breadth and provide more specific usefulness to those who are looking for real-time collaboration solutions, it was later decided to sacrifice microblogging and social bookmarking tools, which are collected in a separate social media and collaborative publishing group. The official focus is therefore on real-time or near real-time collaborative technologies in the groups that have been already defined. Key Mind-Map online collaboration categories covered in the map include 150 technologies: VoIP - Instant Messaging Tools ; Video Conferencing ; Screen-Sharing, Remote-Control; Web Conferencing; Co-browsing; Web Presenting; Workgrouping; File Sharing; Document Sharing and Wikis; Collaborative Document Reviewing; Collaborative Event Scheduling; Mind-Mapping; and Project Management. NetSupport School: Classroom Management System
Always Monitoring, Always Protecting, Always Teaching Classroom20.com
Classroom20.com is a social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in education. Cuddly Chatbots: Bearbot
Cuddly Chatbots: Yuichan
A Good Collection of Clozes
This collection of simple clozes (fill-in-the-gap) about nonfiction topics cant be completed online at their site, but they can be printed-out or students can copy and paste them onto their blogs. ConversationNetwork.com
Free Video Chat Language Learning Partners! Provides Conversation Practice Partners for many languages (Free Log-in Account required). ConversationNetwork.com video chat room included. Breaking News English.com
ESL / EFL Current Events Lesson Plans: November 2004 - February 2009 See 1,000+ earlier current events lessons (listed by month). All free!
CALL AND COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION CURRICULUM EXCHANGE
Visit CALL on C.A.L.L.
Connecting All Language Learners Collaboration Site for Language Learners and Teachers of Any Language. WebHeads Worldwide
View & Collaborate here! Collaborative Sharing for Teachers and Webheads using Tapped In
Instruction Design Tips for Online Learning Checklist with 6 categories
Learner Support and Resources, Online Organization and Design, Instructional Design and Delivery, Assessment and Evaluation of Student Learning, Appropriate and Effective Use of Technology and Faculty Use of Student Feedback.
CHILDRENS ENGLISH LEARNING SITES
Mingoville
The world's most comprehensive English language course online for kids all ages. A city inhabited by flamingos, who only speak English. An interactive dictionary with words and images available in 32 languages. 10 missions waiting to be solved and completed. Several hundred different exercises in spelling, speaking, listening and reading.
Conversation Questions for English Students
Compleat (sic) Lexical Tutor Explanation
(How to Use LexTutor)
CLOZE TESTING TOOLS
Cloze Builder
CLOZE BUILDER routines create cloze passages of different types and some allow links to learning resources (dictionary, audio file, video file) on user specification. One can create such Cloze Quizzes in English or French, either by a Nth-word and Rational Deletion Cloze, orVocabProfile Clozes, which are Frequency-Based (from LexTutor). Cloze Builder Tool
This program will make a cloze passage for words in a particular Frequency Band. VP Cloze (v.2) Use with VP-Classic *NEW>> - VP Negative! (Cloze words post 1k, 1+2k, or 1+2+AWL)
COMPARE TWO TEXTS
Compare Two Texts using Text-Lex Compare
(from LexTutor) Subtract one text or list from another; find the degree of word repetition between two texts, or over a set of texts (news articles, book chapters, etc). Text Lex Compare. See Comparison demos
CORPUS LINGUISTICS AND CONCORDANCES
Lexi-Studys Momentum
Online Vocabulary Expansion (MOVE) Language Learning System Concordancing Software Free
Laurence Anthonys Homepage
Corpus Analysis, Correcting Errors, Word Clusters approach to vocabulary learning. Laurence Anthonys AntConc is a free stand-alone concordancer for any platform. Corpus Analysis, Correcting Errors, Word Clusters approach to vocabulary learning. Collocation Searches
from WebCorp.org Corpus-based Linguistic Analysis
software programs Concept Mapping
CMap means Concept Mapping done online. IHMC sponsors this site, which means Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. Free downloads for all platforms available here. Use with students to help them learn how to map out relationships between conceptual area, semantic field, thematic topics and word relations and associations. Corpus-based language learning using authentic texts or Data-Driven Learning Materials on the Web
Joybrato Mukherjees collection includes gerneral corpus linguistics sites and links to other DDL-related materials and resources on the web, e.g. : The Compleat Lexical Tutor
(Tom Cobb, Canada) ICT4LT Module 2.4
(Marie Noelle Lamy, Hans Jorgen Mortensen) DLL materials
(T.Sripicharn) The Chemnitz Internet Grammar of English
(Josef Schmied) Corpus-linguistics.de
(Yvonne Breyer) Devoted.to/Corpora
David Lees Devoted.to/Corpora Bookmarks for Corpus-based Linguists. Most complete and up-to-date commented links on corpora matters. TextSTAT - Simple Text Analysis Tool
Concordance software for Windows, GNU/Linux and MacOS X. Takes Corpora from various file formats, from text into MS Word and Open Office. Xaira
Xaira is the current name for a new version of SARA, the text searching software originally developed at OUCS for use with the British National Corpus. This new version has been entirely re-written as a general purpose XML search engine, which will operate on any corpus of well-formed XML documents. It is however best used with Text-Enterprise Initiative (TEI)-conformant documents. Xaira has full Unicode support, so you can use it to search and display text in any language, provided you have a suitable Unicode font installed on your system. Web Vocab Profiler (VP)/BNC
(v. 3.0 British National Corpus lists). Concordancer (20 levels). Categorizes words in any text according to their frequency level, using 20 BNC 1,000 family lists ConcApp Concordance and Word Profiler
Version 4 for Windows operating systems (98, ME, NT / 2000, XP). Free Download. ConcApp provides concordance searches, and includes full editing support and testing activities, and also word frequency text analysis. ConcApp also has support for Unicode and can process not only English, French and probably most other European languages, but Chinese, Japanese, Thai and Russian texts in Unicode. Online concordancers (from LexTutor)
A concordance gives a list of several words, phrases, or distributed structures along with immediate contexts, from a corpus or other collection of texts assembled for language study. Those offered by LexTutor include 1) Corpus-based concordances in English or French Clean Sentences Conc (Eng); Multi_Concordance (English) 2) Text-based concordances: English or French (output is concordance-linked frequency index for entire text); 2) Story concordancers: in English or French (Every word in a full length story is click-linked to concordances from rest of the story + other works by author.); and 4) Related: Range (En/Fr) and Phrase Extractor (Eng or Fr) are other types of concordances. Multi-Concordance
OUTPUT MODES include: 1) Plain, 2) Gaps or 3) Quiz, with 8 Corpora to choose from.
Dictionary.com
Dictionary.com has a great searchable database and collection of dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedia, and reference works. Mostly monolingual, but multilingual definitions are also shown under searches at the bottom of the page. Online Concordancer from LexTutor
Find Keywords in various corpora by Alphabetical Order, Frequency or Collocation. Clever Keys free download
How to use CleverKeys for Windows: With CleverKeys for Windows you can look up words from almost any application, including Microsoft Word, Web browsers and e-mail programs. CleverKeys is easy to use with Mac, Windows or Firefox and easy to install. Highlights of this version include: - L: Highlight a word and Hit Control+L to Look it up at Dictionary.com.
- M: Hit Control+M to be presented with a Menu of other options, such as Thesaurus.com and Reference.com.
- Q: New 'QuickEdit and Lookup' search mode (Control+Q). CleverKeys takes you right to the definition in your default Web browser!
- For more help, double-click or right-click the CleverKeys icon in the System Tray after you download it (the group of icons near your clock) and select 'Help'.
- Compatibility with current Web browsers including Firefox
- In-depth documentation; Ability to add your own URLs
- Option to open CleverKeys results in a new window. Configurable hot keys. Download your FREE CleverKeys today!
- Compatibility with Windows 95/98/2000/Me/NT/XP
Corpus-based Linguistics Bookmarks
David Lees Corpora, Collections, Data Archives. Non-English Corpora
Parallel & Multilingual Corpora. Corpora and Corpus-based Computational Linguistics
Manuel Barbera's Web Resources Reference Guide. News Clipmarks
A user-created page of most interesting current news clips. Join free and add your own to the collage! With your free account, you can: Pop your favorite clips to the top or Create your own page of clips; Collect and Comment on other people's clips; and Follow your favorite clippers and topics. VIEW
VIEW: Variation in English Words and phrases - Mark Davies Corpus Linguistics-based Frequency Dictionaries for English, Spanish and Portuguese. This website allows you to quickly and easily search for a wide range of words and phrases of English in the 100 million word British National Corpus. One unique aspect of the corpus is the ability to find the frequency of words and phrases in any combination of registers that you define (spoken, academic, poetry, medical, etc). In addition, you can compare between registers -- for example, fiction versus academic writing. The interface also allows you to input information from WordNet (a semantically-organized lexicon of English) directly into the search form. This allows you to find the frequency and distribution of words with similar, more general, or more specific meanings. This interface to the BNC is fast, free, and easy to use, offering important features not found in any other interface to the BNC (or any other large corpus of English, for that matter).
CHILDREN'S CALL MATERIALS
International Children's Picture Dictionary
with Country Flags and Translations in over 170 Languages!
SEARCH ENGINES FOR CHILDREN AND LIMITED ENGLISH USERS
Simple Search Engines: ones that guide people to sheltered sites are a good way to encourage children or students with limited proficiency in English to use Internet without getting lost or frustrated. As Helgesen writes: By giving our students these URLs, we can make them more independent. They can start to seek out English language sites that they can read and understand on their own. Although the search engines are actually designed for native-speaking children, the sites they find are often suitable for adult and young adult language students. This is especially true for nonfiction topics, since they are often presented in ways that are not particularly childlike. Not only is the information found by these search engines usually presented at a vocabulary level learners can handle, the ideas are often presented more simply and slowly than on sites designed for adult native speakers. (Helgesen in Bamford and Days Extensive Reading Activities for Teaching Language, Cambridge University Press, 2004, pages 40-41). AJKids
The kids section of AskJeeves search engine. Although it does not show lists of previously identified Websites, AJKids has three major advantages over other engines. First, the learners can ask ordinary questions rather than just typing in target words. Second, the search engine will forgive spelling or typing mistakes. As long as you type something reasonably close, it will usually understand what you mean. Finally, it gives you a maximum of ten possibilities (along with up to ten from other sites). So you or your students wont end up with an overwhelming list of hundreds of hits (suggested Websites). Kidsclick.org
At KidsClick! Websites selected by librarians are identified by reading level. At the end of each Website description, a reading level range is given. Your students will soon find which levels they can read easily. Yahooligans
The section of Yahoo.com for kids. Information about cultures and countries is very interesting, useful, and understandable. Topics are broad-ranging. Try the category Around the World to can find things you are learning about in other classes. 4kids.org
Go to the category Cool Spots. Then search for your key words or explore some of the sites theyve already identified. This search engine lets you choose between Find all of my words and Find ANY of my words as you search. This helps students start thinking about how to search effectively.
CHILDREN'S TOP ENGLISH SITES
More of the worlds best English language learning links (top ten adapted from ESL All) Enchanted Learning
Encyclopedia for Kids Esl.about.com
Teaching Children ESL - Young Learners' ESL: K-12 and elementary school education articles and resources for ESL learning and teaching including: games, lesson plans, songs, fun activities and teaching techniques, as well as other sites of interest to K through 12 ESL educators. IATEFL Young Learners Special Interest Group
IATEFL Young Learners SIG: English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and English as a Second Language (ESL) directory of resources for young learners. One of the best lists of links of ESL/EFL resources for children on the Internet. For very young learners (<7 years old), primary school children (7-12), and secondary school students (13-17). The Internet TESL Journal List of Links for Kids
ESL Kids: Part of the most comprehensive and best-maintained list of children links for students and teachers of English as a second language. Story Place: The Children's Digital Library
StoryPlace.org: See and listen to multimedia stories for children in English. Provides children with a virtual library and activities including stories, riddles, craft activities, and reading lists for pre-school and elementary aged kids. Listen English for Children
Speech to Text for any message you want to paste in. Online English listening for Chinese or Asian children, as Menu is in Chinese. Kindersite.org
Kindersite Games, Songs, and Stories: Over a 1,000 of links to the best games, songs and stories for the introduction to English. Used by 11,540 schools in 136 countries. Recommended by teachers worldwide as the best way to introduce technology and English to children. Yahooligans
Yahooligans: The child friendly version of the famous Yahoo! portal and search engine. It is a browsable, searchable directory of Internet sites for kids (aged from 7 to 14) that features safe surfing games, jokes, news, homework help, sports, reference, and more kid friendly activities and resources. Each site has been carefully reviewed to ensure appropriate and high-quality content. BritishCouncil.org
Learn English Kids: Free website from the British Council that offers help to ESL learners from elementary to advanced levels. Helps parents and teachers of children learning English find information about young learner courses and tips on how you can help your child learn English. The Kids Zone features games, quizzes, print activities, songs, stories, e-cards and other resources on a wide range of topics. TimeforKids.com
Time for Kids: The child online version of the weekly classroom Time for Kids magazine. It includes the latest news from around the world about world and national events, scientific discoveries, sports, entertainment, kids in the news and much more. Also features articles, games, a reference toolbox, opportunities for student information creation and interaction, and parent and teacher sections. KidsClick!
Web Search for Kids by Librarians: A search engine for children that was created by a group of librarians at the Ramapo Catskill Library System to address concerns about the role of public libraries in guiding their young users to valuable and age appropriate web sites. Kidsclick! only searches sites for children pre-selected by librarians. It gives the grade level and indicates whether or not images are available. Can be browsed by categories or searched by keywords. In the advanced search, you can also search by reading level. PBSKids.org
PBS Kids Online: Childrens section of the PBS News Service. Official site for the cartoons and live action shows hosted by PBS. Features games, stories, coloring, music and show information. Thousands of pages of learning and fun to explore! Raz-Kids
Interactive readers help beginning Englisn readers by giving them online audio support. Just For Kids: fun & free games
An online playground for kids of all ages! Childrens Storybooks Online
Illustrated children's stories for kids of all ages arranged by fare for Young Children, Older Children and Young Adults. E-hon
Children`s Story and Picture Books; World Folktales Translated by Digital EHON Site
CHILDREN'S STUDY LINKS
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CRAFTS FOR KIDS
Crafts for Kids
Childrens Enchanted Learning Activities
Childrens Short Stories on East of the Web
Childrens Literature Online
Free and in the Public Domain. Phonetic Picture Dictionary
organized by first sound of each word. Childrens Picture Dictionary
that is searchable online. Also available for English to Dutch, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish in both directions and from English to Japanese Romaji.
CHILDREN'S SONGS
Mama Lisa's World: Children's Songs of All Nations
Features children's songs from over 75 countries in their original languages, with English translations. Some songs include sheet music and musical recordings. New contributions of songs and recordings are always welcome! Learn English Through Song
Teach and learn English through specially written grammatical songs. For ESL, EFL and English learners of any ages. Teach and Learn English grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary in a fun environment.
CHRISTMAS SONGS AND STORIES
Three Trees Story
Christmas Carol Support
COMPUTER-MEDIATED CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (CMSS)
A platform for online courses may also be called an LMS (Learning Management System) or LCMS (Learning Content Management System). Open Source Content Management Systems
The most comprehensive list of Computer-Mediated Content Management Systems (Click here to research and compare various CMSs.) Claroline
Crossroads Online
for Kids is a CMS for Grades 1-6. Guest Login Needed. Manhattan Virtual Classroom
3waynet Inc. and The Commonwealth of Learning (2003)
This study first identified 35 open source learning content management systems, and then compared five of them: ATutor
dotLRN
ILIAS
LON-CAPA
Moodle
Online classrooms for FREE?!
A Review of Free Online Learning Management Systems (LMS), Saskia E. Kameron (South Puget Sound Community College Olympia, Washington USA). From TESL-EJ, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Sept, 2003). Proprietary versus Free Open Source Systems
Questions to ask yourself or your students when comparing Proprietary versus Free Open Source Systems (FOSS). Open source learning
This is the best Wiki Tutorial available about: IMPROVING OPEN SOURCE LEARNING CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS. Catalyst IT Limited (2004)
This study compared three systems: ATutor, ILIAS, and Moodle. Moodle at DCU (2004)
This paper compared three systems: Bodington, Claroline, and Moodle. Sakai
Collaboration and Learning Environment for Education Drupal Open Source CMS
Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power scores of different web sites.
MODIFIED CMS
WordChamp.com
The most highly developed modified CMS specifically designed to help improve Vocabulary learning and teaching in over 70 languages.
CONFERENCING PROGRAMS RECOMMENDED
Hotconference
A professional online communicator for collaborative meetings, instruction, learning, and for friendly chats with family and friends. Click to try it here. Talking Communities
Many good programs for Tele-Conferencing and Web-Conferencing. Talking Communities is dedicated to providing software solutions for organizations requiring professional online collaboration at an affordable price.
CALL TEACHER-TRAINING
Summer Reading: CALL 2008 Conference Handouts: Obtained from four large technology conferences held during the 07-08 school year. Take some time to read, watch, and/or listen to these valuable, teacher-created resources! Stanford Universitys Linguistics Departments Invitation to CALL Training (8 Chapters)
Florida Educational Computing Conference: 2008
Texas Computer Educator Association: 2008
National Educational Computing Conference: 2007
ICL2008 - International Conference on Interactive Computer aided Learning
Crossword Puzzles for English Learning in 6 Levels
CALL AUTHORING PROGRAMS
Clear
Rich Internet Applications for Language Learning Created by the Center for Language Education And Research at Michigan State University. Online programs for recording, uploading, mixing, and interacting. Free! C.L.E.A.R.
= Center for Language Education And Research at Michigan State University. This portal promotes the teaching and learning of foreign languages in the United States. It covers face to-face activities, as well as web-based ones. Computer Assisted Assessment Centre
This website is the outcome of a now completed TLTP project. Some links may not be maintained, but it still contains many valuable resources and links to bibliographies, articles and other related websites. DigitalLang.com (Seth Dickens Homepage)
CALL/IT-Enhanced Learning Blog
Seth Dickens Thoughts and practical tips on ICT in language education Cutting Edge Online CALL Programs
(Jim Dubers) Cloud
Europes leading broad band network.
CALL PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS
APA CALL
The Asia-Pacific Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning, is an on-line association which acts as a clearinghouse for language professionals who are interested in investigating, sharing information, discussing, cooperating and collaborating with fellow professionals working with computer-assisted language learning (CALL). It acknowledges the opportunity for use of information and communication technologies in learning, teaching and research. International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning (IJPL)
A refereed electronic journal hosted by APACALL Canadian Institute of Distance Education Research (CIDER)
International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning
The iJET journal aims to focus on the exchange of relevant trends and research results as well as the presentation of practical experiences gained while developing and testing elements of technology enhanced learning. TESL : CALL
A sub-page of The Internet TESL Journal's TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ ESL/EFL/ESOL Links, but focusing on Computer Assisted Language Learning. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
(Open Journal Systems, Athabasca University, Canada) Cofundos
Cofundos.org is a novel platform for spurring innovation and development of open-source software, which we think can have quite an impact on open-knowledge, open-source and web collaboration in general. Cofundos.org is about revealing bright ideas regarding the development of open-source software and attracting a critical mass for their realization. The main idea of Cofundos.org is to share innovative (Open-Source) ideas, to refine them and to mobilize funding for their realization. All content contributed to Cofundos is truly open, the licenses are Creative Commons and OSI approved open licenses. All (non-sensitive) content is available as Atom, JSON feeds or RDF export. Primary developing research group is AKSW (http://aksw.org) (supported by IAOE). Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW)
The Research Group Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW) is hosted by the Department for Business-oriented Information Systems (BIS) of the Institute of Computer Science (IfI) / University of Leipzig. Asian EFL Journal Online
CALL Resource List
Fred Rileys General Languages Resource List - Hull University, UK. CALL EJ ONLINE
CALL-EJ Online
(Vol. 8, No. 2, January 2007 Issue) CALICO
Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium Computer-Assisted Language Learning Clearinghouse
Claire Bradin Siskin's CALL links EdVista
EdVista.com is the Siskins Clearinghouse of CALL Specialists and links. CALL - Robert Shea
Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) resources of Robert Shea Computer Assisted Language Learning Journal
Didascalia
Language & Multimedia Research Centre - Antwerp, Belgium Linguapolis
LINGUAPOLIS, formerly Didascalia, is a Belgian language institute. It stands for more than 20 years of expertise in language teaching and is a unique and prominent Institute for Research, Development and Training with respect to language learning, teaching and testing. LINGUAPOLIS aims to combine, develop, apply and spread scientific and practical expertise in order to make language learning, teaching, testing, acquisition and communication more effective. LINGUAPOLIS organises and offers language courses and communication training in 21 languages. Euro CALL
Euro CALL SIGs
Language Processing SIG, InSTIL (integrating speech technology in language learning) European EuroCALL Country Organizations National Websites
Australian TESOL Organizations Website
ATELL
Australian Technology Enhanced Language Learning CERCLES
Confederation Europeenne des Centres de Language de l'Enseignement Superieur CCALL
Canadian CALL Association for the Advancement of Computers in Education
FLEAT 5
Foreign Langauge Education and Technology IATEFL
International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language ICT4LT
Information and Communications Technology for Language Teachers IALLT
International Association for Langauge Learning Technology I Love Languages
Over 40 major language teaching and translation organizations. Internet Resources Flow Chart
for Language Teachers and Learners - from Fred Riley, Hull University, UK. New Perspectives on CALL
or the Second Language Classroom; edited by Sandra Fotos, Senshu University & Charles Browne, Aoyama Gakuin University. JALT CALL Website
JALT National
Language Education and Technology
The Japanese Association for Language Education and Technology The Japan Association for LET
Kyushu-Okinawa Chapter Literacy across cultures online journals
Pacific CALL
TESOL
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Christian Language Educators in TESOL Caucus
CETESOL is an online Special Interest Group Caucus of believers within the worldwide TESOL teaching community. You may find many helpful resources for integrating moral and spiritual education with English instruction here. World CALL
Language learning and technology
Athelstan Online
CELIA
Computer Enhanced Language Instruction Archive Euro CALL
Center for Internet Technology in Teaching
Selected Resources for Language Professionals
CALL Lab Managers Guide
by Vance Stevens The Virtual CALL Library
at Sussex Language Institute TESOL CALL - IS
TESOL CALL Interest Sections Software List Association for Learning Technology, UK.
ALT is a professional and scholarly association which seeks to bring together all those with an interest in the use of learning technology. With over 200 organisations and over 500 individuals in membership they exist to: promote good practice in the use of learning technology in education and industry; represent the members in areas of policy; facilitate collaboration between practitioners, researchers, and policy makers. Corpus-based Linguistic Analysis software programs
From Ritsumeikan's CALL EJ Online Journal. School of Language Studies and Linguistics
University of Malaysia at Kabangsaans Online Journal Fred Rileys CALL Language Site
(Nottingham University, UK) Foreign Language Resource Center
Worlds largest source for computerized translation products from many companies. Computerized dictionaries, with ability to point at a word on the screen and obtain possible translations in a balloon next to it. Learning Technologies Centre, University of Manitoba
Compare Any Two Texts
TextLexCompare compares any two texts to show you which words are repeated vs. unrepeated. Recycling Index provided shows # of Recycled words out of Total words.
CALL TEACHING AND RESEARCH PROFESSIONALS (CALL EXPERT'S HOMEPAGES)
Elizabeth Hanson-Smith's ESL Resources
Cal State U., Sacramento Ferit Kilickaya's clever CALL site
in English and Turkish. ESL Web.org
Randall Sadlers ESL Web.org is dedicated to Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) for Language Teaching, TESOL, & Teaching L2 Reading and Writing. View his great PowerPoints! View his CALICO Presentations (at bottom of the page) on: Second Life & Task-Based Language Learning and Computer-Mediated Communication and Video Chat. Carla Arenas CALL Blog
Reima Al-jarf's Website
ESL teaching: Contains research papers, conference presentations, course materials and tests in ESL. Glenn Stockwell's Homepage
CALL TEACHERS / WEBHEADS
Vance Stevens Papers on Social Networking, etc.
CALL PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS
CALICO Journal
Duke University U.S.A. Brigham: Provo CAELL Journal
Computers and English Language Learning, Deborah Healey en Jeff Magoto (eds.,) International Society for Technology in Education. Computer Assisted Language Learning
An international journal, Jozef Colpaert (ed.), Lisse: Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers Educational Technology
AACE Publications, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education ELT Journal
English Language Teaching Journal, Oxford, UK. Language Learning & Technology
Warschauer, Mark e.a. (eds.), University of Hawai and Michigan State University LL&T contains theoretical and research oriented papers. This is an excellent periodical for staying abreast of current trends and the latest directions of CALL. Issues often have special themes of particular interest to technology in education. There is also an excellent search function for finding back articles. On-CALL
Australian Journal of Computers and Language Education, Centre for Language Teaching and Research, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia ReCALL
Graham Chesters & June Thompson (eds.), CTI Centre for Modern Languages, EUROCALL, University of Hull, UK. System
Norman Davis (ed.), Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, UK: Pergamon Press. Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine
TESL-EJ Online Journal
One of the very best for language learning issues and articles online. Reading Online
Reading Online (ROL) is a peer-reviewed journal of the International Reading Association (IRA). Since its launch in May 1997 it has become a leading online source of information for the worldwide literacy-education community, with tens of thousands of accesses to the site each month. Unfortunately, it is not longer publishing any new issues after 2005. However, previous issues of the journal focus on literacy practice and research in classrooms serving students aged 5 to 18. "Literacy" is broadly defined by IRA to include traditional print literacy, as well as visual literacy, critical literacy, media literacy, digital literacy, and so on. A special mission of the journal was to support professionals as they integrate technology into the classroom, preparing students for a future in which literacy's meaning will continue to evolve and expand. GEMA Journal of Language Studies
published by the School of Language Studies and Linguistics, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Asia TEFL
Bangladesh English Language Teachers Association
International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET)
BBC.com/Click
BBCs flagship technology program about great Websites and PC gadgets. Click Online with Subtitles
International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (Wiley)
(Originally published online since 1995.) Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
(1995-2007 Issues)
CALL JOURNALS AND ORGANIZATIONS
AJET
The Australasian Journal of Educational Technology publishes research and review articles in educational technology, instructional design, educational applications of computer technologies, educational telecommunications and related areas. ALTJ
The Association for Learning Technologys international tri-annual, peer-reviewed journal, devoted to research and good practice in the use of learning technologies within tertiary education ALSIC
Apprentissage des Langues et Systmes dInformation et de Communication is the French journal for CMCL. It is online only and is free. ALSICs resources page is newly edited with each issue of the journal. It hyperlinks professional associations, other journals, conferences, recent theses and many other items of interest. Language Learning and Technology
The most widely quoted international journal in CALL and CMCL. The journals book reviews page give quick access to a very useful archive of reviews of major books in the field. CALL Book Reviews
System
Applications of technology and applied linguistics to foreign language teaching and learning, including EFL. Gives priority to theoretically based work. TESOL Quarterly
TESOL Quarterly guidelines for reporting quantitative research and types of qualitative research: case studies, conversation analysis (critical) ethnography. University of Liege website
In French
A site on technology-based research methods and ethno-methodology. University College Londons Technology Research website
A series of simple templates for different types of dissemination articles drawn up by writers for the journal ALT-J, to help prepare for publishing work in the field of learning technologies, including case study, experiment, survey, etc. Utah University OpenCourse Ware
An undergraduate course, Understanding Online Interaction, is available free of charge on this site. Easy, chatty style, it covers a range of systems, including game sites and includes assignments that repay if you spend a little time trying them out. Richard Donath: Englischunterricht in der Informationsgesellschaft
Useful tips for teachers This website by an enthusiastic English teacher contains a range of information on online projects, books/articles, teaching practice and learning strategies. The site concentrates on English but also contains information on German as a foreign language and French. Tandem
The tandem server at the Ruhr-Universitt Bochum brings together learners of different languages by telephone, e-mail or other media. The service is free.
CALL PAY-TO-USE TOOLS WITH PRACTICAL SUPPORT
ATLAS.ti
Tool for qualitative research able to handle multiple media. Developed n 1993 as part of a project at the Technical University Berlin. East Asian languages are supported. Claims to be easy to learn. Has an unlimited download demo online. LAMS
Learning Activity Management System is a visual authoring environment tool for designing technology-enabled course models, series of activities and lesson plans. LAMS also allows you to deliver courses to groups of students. IJCSCL
The International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (ijCSCL) is a new professional journal founded by the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS). ijCSCL is a high-quality, peer-reviewed academic journal reflecting the interests of the international CSCL community that promotes research on the theory and practice of computer-supported collaborative learning. A main focus is on how people learn in the context of collaborative activity and how to design the technological settings to enhance such collaboration. Sloan C(onsortium)
A Consortium of Institutions and Organizations Committed to Quality Online Education ALN
Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks Aims to describe original work in asynchronous learning networks (ALN), including experimental results. STICEF
Sciences et Technologies de Im formation et de la Communication pour lEducation et la Formation: a major French-language journal for computer environments and human learning (i.e. computer-assisted learning and CMC). Online only and free. The Journal of Computer-mediated Communication
Interdisciplinary journal devoted to CMC scholarshi The Journal of Interactive Online Learning
Interdisciplinary journal of theory, research, and practice in interactive online learning. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
THOT Online newsletter
Newsletter (in French) for distance education and training. Some content is free, the rest is pay-to-use, but it may be worthwhile subscribing to gain access to this rich resource, and have THOT alert you of new developments via email.
FREE ONLINE TOOLS AND PRACTICAL SUPPORT
CLAPI
In French, this is the public access part of the research site Corpus de Langues Parlees en Interaction, run by researchers looking into interaction corpora. Audio and video extracts are available, both everyday and educational. Useful for teaching speaking (possible use as examples of conversational stategies) or as a model for structuring ones own recorded corpora.
CALL PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS AND CALL JOURNALS
British Journal of Educational Technology
Covers developments in educational technology world-wide in the fields of education, training and information technology Computer Assisted Language Learning
Intercontinental interdisciplinary journal covering all matters associated with the use of computers in language learning (L1 and L2), teaching and testing. Computers and Education
Welcomes articles on computer-mediated communication, cooperative and collaborative learning, country-specific developments, cross cultural projects, distance education and tele-learning, distributed learning environments. Language Learning and Technology
The most widely quoted international journal in CALL and CMCL. The journals book reviews page give quick access to a very useful archive of reviews of major books in the field. CALL Book Reviews
System
Applications of technology and applied linguistics to foreign language teaching and learning, including EFL. Gives priority to theoretically based work.
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS PROGRAMS
Really English
ReallyEnglish.com joins with Lets Talk Online (CUP).
CALL RESEARCH Resources: Online Journals for Language Learning and CALL/Technology
Research: Any journal with an asterisk (*) means that it is searchable in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) or the Science Citation Index (SCI), which are provided by the Journal Citation Report (ISI Web of Knowledge). You may use this link to search indexed papers in the ISI Web of Science [V. 4.8] of the NCKU web domain, and can use this link to log in to the NCKU online library. (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan) CALL Issues
References to work in Iowa States TESL/Applied Linguistics Program in the following areas:
CALL Research Issues; CALL Software Design; CALL Training and Use; CALL Thesis Projects; Discourse Analysis and Sociolinguistics; English for Specific Purposes; Second Language Acquisition; Second Language Testing; Spoken English: Acquisition and Use CALL Tech: 12 Essentials for Online Technology
Curriculum21.com Blog
CALL MATERIALS
Planet CD ROM
Planetcdrom.com is about the cheapest source in the world for Educational Software, Movie DVDs, and Music CDs. Christian Book Distributors
Cheapest prices online or off for inspiring faith-building books, music, and software. CALL Research Handbooks and Digital Encyclopedias
Handbook of Research on Computer-Enhanced Language Acquisition and Learning: to view the abstracts of all of the chapters from the Handbook of Research on Computer-Enhanced Language Acquisition and Learning, Please go to this page: http://www.infosci-on-demand.com/search/advanced.asphttp://www.infosci-on-demand.com/search/advanced.asp. Then search for (handbook of research on computer-enhanced language acquisition) within the source field. You may view the complete table of contents here: http://www.igi-global.com/reference/details.asp?id=7441http://www.igi-global.com/reference/details.asp?id=7441
CHINA-BASED TESOL AND CHINESE LANGUAGE PROGRAMS
China Holistic English.com
Learn Chinese online
Learn Chinese language for Travel, Education, Career and Business with Chinese culture. Chinesesphere is an online Chinese school with experienced teachers to guide you using audio & video conference. CALL Resources from Hiroshi Shimatani's CALL Lab
(Kumamoto University)
CALL/E-LEARNING ORGANIZATIONS
World Association for Online Education
(1998-2007) Online library. Winksite
Mobile phone site Japancasting podcasts
Japancasting video blog
CALL ORGANIZATIONS/CONFERENCES
Udo Jung's plenary
Udo Jung's plenary at EUROCALL 2004 in Vienna was a good survey of the ups and downs of publishing trends in CALL: CALL Past, Present, and Future: a bibliometric approach Published in ReCALL, Vol 17, No. 1, May 2005 Randall Sadler's survey
Randall Sadler's survey, which he presented at EUROCALL 2008, is also very useful: How is Computer-Mediated Communication actually being used in the classroom?
CALL GROUPS
Consultants-e
Sole Online Providers of CertIBET and CertICT
COLLABORATION TOOLS
Teamness
TEAMNESS is a new and innovative online project collaboration platform. TEAMNESS's main features include task management, messages, file sharing, whiteboard, search engine, RSS and notifications. The service is completely web based free to use.
COLLABORATION AND VIDEO-CONFERENCING PROGRAMS
Cosketch
Cosketch is an online tool that allows one or more users to create an online sketch in real-time. No registration is needed and the image can be embedded in a blog or Web site with the included code. Cultura.MIT.Edu Cultural and Language Exchanges Online Free
Vesions of Etherpad Are Raining From The Sky
Since Etherpad closed down and open-sourced their code, lots of new companies have created their own versions of this great web-based collaborating tool. Here are two new ones: Meeting Words; Titan Pads; They join Type With Me, Sync.in, and PiratePad. All are on The Best Online Tools For Real-Time Collaboration list. Syncc.in For Collaboration
Sync.in is the latest site to use the open-sourced code from Etherpad, which was purchased by Google several months ago and closed-down. You just paste a bunch of text in a window and, without even having to register for the service, send others the url and everybody can edit it in real time. It also has a chat option. You can go back to the url address at any time to make further, adjustments, too. See more at The Best Online Tools For Collaboration NOT In Real Time, where it joins several other Etherpad clones, including NetherPad, PiratePad and Primary Pad. Best of CALL Programs and Websites:
Arranged Topically from A-Z by Larry Ferlazzo. CALL Content Creation
Best sites and programs for creating online learning content quickly and easily. AppsWave.com
One of the best Collaboration programs available. Test it out here! Mikogo Forum - Portable Version for Mikogo
Mikogo is a free online collaboration tool. Get it from Softpedia here. Teamness
Easiest to use, highly motivating Online Collaboration program.
CHAT ROBOTS, CHATBOTS OR CHATTERBOTS, ALSO SIMPLY KNOWN AS BOTS
These are computer programs on online sites that simulate human communication patterns. They can mimic human conversation or chatting by using artificial intelligence (AI). Eliza was the first chatbot, made in 1966 by Weizenbaum. ALICE
Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity ALICE downloads
Google Directory Chatterbots
Great list of Chatterbots from Googles Directory. Geocities Botlist
Chatterbots waiting to simulate chatting with you at Geocities.com. Basic Bot site for Artificial Intelligence Projects
CANADA
Canadian Contacts
Great for finding friends, visiting Homestays and churches in Canada. They also have a great free Online Bible available at their site. University of New Brunswicks Second Language Education Center
COUNTRIES
(Also see Atlases.) Countries of the World
Country Profiles
Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions. Select a country, territory or international organization from the menus included. These Country Profiles also include Audio or Video Clips from BBC. Countries, Flags and Geography of the World Encyclopedia
Includes Map Activities and Geography Crafts for Young People. Photius Flags
Learn all major country names and flags. Theodora Flags
Learn all major country names and flags. Vietnam Travel
Vietnam tours operator, Vietnam hotels reservation, Vietnam ticket booking, Vietnam car rental. World Distance Calculator
How Far Is It to ? Take an Imaginary Trip! Countries & Nationality
About Various Countries
COUNTRIES GLOBAL STATISTICS
GeoHive: Global Statistics
GeoHive is a site with geopolitical data, statistics on the human population, Earth and more. The main kind of data you can find here is population statistics of regions, countries and cities.
CHILDREN
World Kids Network
This site is very safe and has lots of fun links where kids can play online in security. Safety tips are given.
CHILDRENS DICTIONARIES
Children's / Students Links
Childrens Literature & Fun Links Wordsmyth Childrens Dictionary
Word Central Student Dictionary
Fact Monster Encyclopedia
Jenny Eather - Kids Math(s) Dictionary
Little Explorers Picture Dictionary
Time 4 Learning
Teach Children to Learn to Read Online - Time4Learning is an online learning system for children, PreSchool through Middle School teaching language arts, math & more. Online learning & fun.
CLIP ART
OPEN CLIP ART LIBRARY
Open Clip Art Library is a site from Richard Byrne's excellent blog. This is one of the best sites around for finding clip art on any number of subjects. Christmas Song Lyrics
Til the Season Comes 'Round Again by Vince Gill Christmas Song Lyrics
One Bright Star, by Vince Gill
CHINA BUSINESS LINKS
Alibaba
Jack Mas China Biz connections. Taobao
CLASSICS
Short Stories
Authors Bibliography included. Classic Short Stories
Collection for pleasure reading.
CLASSICS: GREEK AND LATIN STUDY ONLINE
Lectrix
A powerful online tool designed to help students read Greek and Latin texts in the original language by providing them with all the information required actively to understand a text at the click of a mouse, including commentaries, dictionary, parser and translation. Random House
RandomHouse.coms 5 European Language general online courses
COMICS
Daily Comics
Comics to learn English having fun! Comics
How to use Online Comics to improve your English reading skills.
CYBERCRIME / CYBER-ABUSE
Software 4 Parents
Sites that promote social interaction between people who have never met can be dangerous. Some most popular with young people to monitor very carefully are www.MySpace.com
COMICS FOR KIDS
Create Your Own Comic Strips
Encourage Writing, Reading and Communication using comics. This site offers fun animal and human characters with different moods, thought and talk balloons to fill in with words, and story prompts. It's a wonderful resource to spur children and adults to write, read and communicate their ideas and to practice English and other languages. Here children and adults can create their own comic strips, selecting from 10 fun characters with different moods - happy, sad, angry, worried and write words for blank talk and thought balloons to make their characters talk and think. There also are story ideas and prompts to help users create graphic stories. This site can be used by educators to teach language, reading and writing skills, and also for students in English-as-a-Second-Language programs to facilitate self-expression and storytelling. Some educational therapists use it with deaf and autistic people to help them understand concepts and communicate. Parents and children can create stories together, then print them to create comic books or email them to friends and family. Heres a place to be creative, calm down and have some fun!
CALL BLENDED OR HYBRID LEARNING ARTICLES AND WEBSITES
(Adapted with permission from Ian Browns 2005 JALT CALL Conference Presentation, entitled Blended Delivery: The Future of CALL) Blended Learning
Links to many resources and articles on blended learning Blended learning defined
Learning New Skills in Blending
Australian National Training Authority, (2003), Learning New Skills in Blending, Booklet 1 Blended Learning. Hybrid Course Project
Aycock, A. Garnham, C. & Kaleta, R. (2002), Lessons learned from the Hybrid Course Project, Teaching with Technology Today, 8 (6). Online and Hybrid Methods of Course Delivery
Black, G. (2002), A comparison of traditional, online and hybrid methods of course delivery, Journal of Business Administration Online, 1 (1). The dark side of your e-learning project
Broadbent, B. (2003), Facing resistance to change: the dark side of your e-learning project, The Training Report, April 2003. Hybrid Courses are Best
Brown, D. G. (2001), Hybrid Courses are best, Syllabus, August 2001 Integrating Technology into the Curriculum
Capper, J. (2003), Complexities and Challenges of Integrating Technology into the Curriculum, TechKnowLogia, Jan-Mar, 2003 A Survey of Educational Change Models
Ellsworth, J. B. (2000), A Survey of Educational Change Models, Eric Digest, EDO-IR-2000-07 Introduction to Hybrid Courses
Garnham, C. & Kaleta, R. (2002), Introduction to Hybrid Courses, Teaching with Technology Today, 8(6). Is Instructional Technology a Must for Learning
Haddad, W. D. (2003), Is Instructional Technology a Must for Learning, TechKnowLogia, Jan-Mar, 2003. Hybrid Course Website
UWMilwaukee, University of Wisconsin, learning technology center TechKnowLogia.org
MacKinnon, S. (2002), Technology Integration in the Classroom Is there Only One Way to Make it effective?, TechKnowLogia, Oct-Dec, 2003 Can Blended Learning Be Redeemed?
Oliver, M & Trigwell K. (2005), Can Blended Learning Be Redeemed?, E-Learning, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2005. Strategies for Building Blended Learning
Rossett, A. et al (2003) Strategies for Building Blended Learning, Learning Circuits, July 2003. Strategies for Connecting Online and Face-to-Face Instruction in Hybrid Courses
Sands, P. (2002), Strategies for Connecting Online and Face-to-Face Instruction in Hybrid Courses, Teaching with Technology Today, 8(6) Building Effective Blended Learning Programs
Singh, H. (2003), Building Effective Blended Learning Programs, to be published Educational Technology, Nov-Dec 2003 Preparing for and Teaching Hybrid Courses
Sudzina, M. Kaleta, R. & Garnham, C. (2003), Preparing for and Teaching Hybrid Courses. Paper presented at Midwest EDUCAUSE Conference, USA. Blended learning
Voos, R. (2003), Blended learning What is it and where might it take us?, Sloan-C View, 2(1) Blending Face-to-Face and Distance Learning Methods
Wonacott, M. E. (2002), Blending Face-to-Face and Distance learning methods in Adult and Career-Technical Education, Eric Practice Application Brief no. 23 Hybrid teaching Seeks to End the Divide Between Traditional and Online Instruction
Young, J. R. (2002), Hybrid teaching Seeks to End the Divide Between Traditional and Online Instruction, Chronicle of Higher Education, Information Technology, March 2002 Thwarted innovation: What happened to e-learning and why
Zemsky, R., and W. F. Massey. 2004. Thwarted innovation: What happened to e-learning and why. West Chester, PA: The Learning Alliance at the University of Pennsylvania.
CAREERS
Fashion careers
Find all the information you need to jumpstart your career in fashion merchandising at Fashion Schools. Medical career training
Features information for individuals who aspire to a career as an ultrasound technologist.
CLIP ART
Clip Art Collections
The Grosse Pointe Public Schools (MI) offers this site with links to clip art collections, a content-specific clip art list, and links to seasonal clip art. Clip Art HUGE Collection
Clip Art for Language Lessons
FREE ENGLISH GAMES AND TESTS
ESL-PRO.COM
offers free TOEFL, TOEIC and English Grammar and Vocabulary Practice Tests. Free-English.com
has lots of free and cheap practice downloads or CDs of offer. Free-English-Games.com
has fun games to try.
OTHER
Quick Currency Conversion Engine and Charts
Free Currency Converter
Convert currencies online. Exchange rates and quotes. Currency Converter
Click Online (1)
to review great gadgets and websites. Click Online (2)
Click Online Archive for all 2007 programs
Worldwide Classroom Consortium for International Education and Multicultural Studies
Worldwide Classroom Consortium for International Education and Multicultural Studies Recommended Study Programs in Japan
Computerized Profiling of English Dialects
Listen to various samples. China Data for Children and the Great Wall History.
Chinese Language Learning and Web Dictionaries
Access free Chinese-English and English-Chinese online dictionaries, or buy portable electronic dictionaries. (local page) Cell Phones Store
Excellent shop for sale of many cell phones. NAJAS
National Association of Japan-American Studies Chiefs of State and Cabinet officials
listed by Country China Teaching Opportunities
Chinese BBNBI News and Inspirational Radio Online
Celebritiesfans.com
The biggest, most comprehensive database of celebrities addresses --Actors and Actresses, Singers, Authors, Politicians, Models, Athletes and more. This database is free for everyone, and easy to use. Futurekids Online
Looking for a cost effective, comprehensive online learning and communication environment that aligns to major funding streams? Futurekids online is a comprehensive, customizable web-based solution that integrates best-of-breed educationally relevant solutions for your school or district. Futurekids online will deliver a complete online learning, training and communication environment for everyone in your school or district. The platform was developed to meet the specific funding requirement for several major U.S. funding programs including No Child Left Behind. The Futurekids solution empowers educators, students, and administrators to be proficient with technology as a learning, instruction, administrative and communication tool resulting in better learning outcomes and improved return on investment. Adam Kilgarriffs Homepage
on Lexicography and Computational Linguistics The Association for Computational Linguistics Hompage
Communicate. Collaborate. Educate.
Distance Learning and Tele-Communications. Elluminate pays attention to how people communicate, educate, and collaborate in the real world. You'll see this reflected in their commitment to developing the enabling technology that advances these activities in the virtual world. Built on their unique No User Left Behind technology, Elluminate Live! 7.0 delivers enhanced accessibility, functionality, and usability that facilitates small group collaboration, enables blended online/onsite learning, creates dynamic online communities that foster social networking, and much more. Creative Commons (Digital Resource Library).
Creative Commons is an excellent resource for teachers trying to find authentic, uncopyrighted digital material. Material is categorized by audio, images, video, text and education (including lesson plans). Some items found may contain restrictions on their use such as for education only or not-for-profit use only. Creative Commons also allows people to submit their own original works to the site. R Reader
Tom Cobbs Reading Tutor for Jack Londons Call of the Wild. Read, listen to the recording, pause to click any word once for individual pronunciation twice for examples + definition. Quick look-ups in Word-Net. Web-Programming Demos and Lessons
Edict.com
Web Concordancer, Unique Words Text Profiler, Word Frequency Text Profiler, Net Dictionary, Chinese - English Parallel Concordancer, Teachers' toolbox, etc. Celebrations and religious holidays
Penguin Chat
I've been using Penguin Chat with students for several years with positIve results. This site lets students text chat using an anonymous nickname and in several different rooms. As Penguin Chat is open to anyone on the Internet, before using this site I recommend going over chat rules and warning them of the dangers of giving information to strangers. Chat/Keypals
Google Image
Google Image search is a great place to get free Clip Art and images to supplement classroom activities. It is easy to search and navigate with one of the best collections of images available. Some of the images are copyright protected so care must be taken that they are used responsibly for educational purposes and that credit is given to the source. Country Data
World by Radio gives dynamic information about each country in the world, including Flags, Population, Maps, Major Cities, Languages & Radio Broadcasts available in them. Cultural Content discusses difference between ancient versus digital artifacts
CANDLE Project Using Corpora and NLP for Digital Learning of English
Chinese Savvy
ChineseSavvy.com is a free website dedicated to the study of China, its language, and its culture built by language students for language students. Its features include language reference tools and lessons, a comprehensive Chinese-English/English-Chinese dictionary, a "Speech Dictionary" for practicing oral Chinese, multimedia, travelogues, podcasts, forums, and more!
COLLOCATIONS OR WORDS THAT OCCUR TOGETHER OFTEN
Learn about collocations in English. But what is "collocation" exactly? Put simply, it is the frequent use of two or more words together (mostly verbs and nouns) in a way that sounds correct to native speakers of English. Collocations are common word combinations or collections of words that "fit together" such as "If I had the chance," or "talk freely," or "heavy smoker." Internet TESL Journal : A collection of quizzes and exercises about English collocations
ESL.About.com : A series of collocation quizzes
with: Take, Have and Break; Catch, Pay and Keep; Save, Find and Go; Come, Get and Feel; and Miss, Get, Do and Make. Lexical Phrase Resources : A series of collocation quizzes
with: Give, Have, Make, Take, Do, Pay, and Hold. Interviews with College Students from Around the World
Links to information about many countries of the students being interviewed.
Computer History Museum
This museumis "committed to preserving and presenting the history and stories of the Information Age." Introduce the next generation to some of the legends involved in developing the internet. YouTubes Computer History Show
Confluence
An enterprise wiki that makes it easy for your team to collaborate and share knowledge. Adding, sharing and finding content has never been easier. Cybercultures in American Culture
History of Computers Webcast Course from Berkeley Design Dictionary
Design Search Engine
Design Taxonomy
DESIGN is an ever-growing, all-encompassing field that accommodates a plethora of different disciplines. How would a contemporary hierarchical tree of Design look like? The proposed challenge is simply to visualize the contemporary Design landscape. CASTs (Center for Applied Special Technology) Curriculum Design
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework developed for designing curricula that enable all individuals to gain knowledge, skills, and enthusiasm for learning. UDL provides rich supports for learning and reduces barriers to the curriculum while maintaining high achievement standards for all. Though initially for helping learners with disabilities, the principles of this approach support the goal of providing learning environments that maximally accommodate learners individual differences. Chinese Language Learning
A new site providing help in learning Chinese with basic vocabulary & forum. Online EnglishChinese dictionary
Chinese handwriting recognition and pronunciation sound clips included. Design vs. Chance DVDs
Theories of Origins or the Science of Cosmology Intelligent Design or Creation versus Random Chance Evolution: Where does the evidence lead? Explore the evidence for design and purpose in the universe. Discover the truth about the origin of life and the universe. Does the design of the universe and life point to a Designer, a Divine Engineer or Architect? Call of the Wild (Jack London novel)
Read Online using all these great tools: Audio Text-to-Speech, dictionary and concordance information with any browser, via two type-in boxes or simply by clicking on words in the text with Windows and Explorer 5 and above. Calendars and Celebrations around the World
Earth Calendar is an easy-to-use site which is "a Daybook of Holidays and Celebrations around the world." EmbassyWorld.com
All of the Embassies from All Countries in the World in a searchable database! Kolabora.com Online Collaboration Tools And Resources
Robin Goods VERY GOOD Online Collaboration Blog Crocodyl.org is a Corporate Research Wiki.
Chinese Edict Dictionary
(Excellent for quick A-Z Search.) CAST
Founded in 1984 as the Center for Applied Special Technology, CAST has earned international recognition for its development of innovative, technology-based educational resources and strategies based on the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). CAST staff includes specialists in education research and policy, neuropsychology, clinical/school psychology, technology, engineering, curriculum development, K-12 professional development, and more. By defining UDL and exploring its practical applications, CAST is pushing the boundaries of education research, practice, and policymaking. Achievements include: - Creation or codevelopment of innovative software such as Thinking Reader, WiggleWorks, and Bobby
- Leadership of federally funded initiatives to develop and promote a National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS). NIMAS will guide the production and electronic distribution of curricular materials in accessible, student-ready versions, including Braille and Digital Talking Books to make education accessible and rewarding for learners of all kinds.
- CAST's Mission: To expand learning opportunities for all individuals, especially those with disabilities, through the research and development of innovative, technology-based educational resources and strategies. Universal Design for Learning calls for ...
- Multiple means of representation, to give learners various ways of acquiring information and knowledge,
- Multiple means of expression, to provide learners alternatives for demonstrating what they know,
- Multiple means of engagement, to tap into learners' interests, offer appropriate challenges, and increase motivation.
Inquisitor
An intuitive Search Program that can anticipate what you are looking for, help you search and also add more search engines with customized keyboard. Inquisitor is fast, smart, flexible... and free. Joodo
Organize your photos, videos, RSS feeds, friends, into a private trusted network. Distribute data amongst friends, contacts and amongst individual groups. You can use Joodo to communicate with messages, chat in real-time, and share files and folders. Jabbify
Embed a text-chat on your site and interact with visitors. Visual Geography.com
Visual Geography is a nice site available in 5 European languages with images, information, and quizzes about 85 countries around the world. The text is accessible to Intermediate English Language Learners, and the images are obviously good for students of all levels. Good quizzes about each country, and a neat feature called Compare, by which you can pick any two countries and easily compare their demographic data with the click of the mouse. Visualgeography.com lets you explore the world through images, flags, money, language, maps and other information. Best Online Learning Games
(in Larry Ferlazzos Opinion, that is!) "Chatiquette" from EnglishClub.com
RealTeachers.org: Basic Communication Skills (Powerpoints, etc)
Phil Cooke.com
Cultural Wars and Engaging the Culture with Faith Conversation-Matters.com
How to Improve your Speaking and Listening Skills Career Videos
iSeek is an organization out of Minnesota designed to assist young people develop career goals. However, a lot of its materials would be useful wherever a student lives. There are many closed-captioned videos about different careers it has, most which are accessible to English Language Learners. See more under Jobs and Careers. Readers might also be interested in The Best Websites For Students Exploring Jobs and Careers.
COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD, PROGRAMS FOR AREA RESEARCH
Country Area Studies
(US DOD) Capitol Words
Capitol Words. uses the Congressional Record to develop ongoing word clouds for each member of Congress, and can show clouds representing each state, too. For English Language Learners, it would be a great real-world exercise in vocabulary development combined with civics. See also Citizenship.
Car and Driver.com
Classical Music Site
Creative Kids Central has a number of very engaging online activities related to classical music. See its "talking" and musical story on the 1001 Arabian Nights and its online video game on the composer Brahms Both are accessible to English Language Learners. Classical Music for Kids Links
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Internet-based, interactive audio-visual English learning center with instructions in 21 languages.
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Click on a flag to choose a language.
online electronic translation tools
ESL Lounge
Free ESL Lesson Materials for teachers. Grammar, worksheets, song lyrics, board games, pronunciation and more. All free and printable.
Online Conference/Classroom
Nellies English Projects is an educational website for students and teachers whose aim is to motivate students for lifelong learning. It provides resources for teachers on how to integrate technology into the classroom by means of project based and experiential learning using WebQuests. The site provides many educational resources, articles, lesson plans, evaluation rubrics, reading practice and collaborative writing ideas.
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Worldlingo.com,
Tranexp.com,
Google.com,
Abacho.co.uk,
Altavista.com,
Apertium.org,
Eigo-navi.com,
Elmundo.es,
Excite.co.jp,
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Ibm.com,
Imtranslator.com,
Internostrum.com,
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Linguamatix.com,
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Lingvo.org,
Nazgol.co.il,
Nifty.amikai.com
Ocn.ne.jp,
Oesi.cervantes.es,
Online-Translator.com,
Opentrad.org,
Sli.uvigo.es,
Solvingmaze.com,
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