Following up on our whistle-stop tour of cyberspace, here's a list of the sites we visited:
The BBC Learning English website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/
Breaking News English:
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/
Hot Potatoes software:
http://hotpot.uvic.ca/
Edunation:
http://www.theconsultants-e.com/edunation/edunation.asp
A good introduction to WebQuests:
http://www.e4b.de/WebQuests/WebQuests.html
The BBC/British Council Teachers' site:
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/index.shtml
Podcasts for learners (functional language dialogues):
http://www.eltpodcast.com/
The Macmillan OneStopEnglish site:
http://www.onestopenglish.com/
English for Professional Communication:
http://ec.hku.hk/epc/
Pete Sharma's website (Tech in ELT guru):
http://www.te4be.com/index.htm
A very helpful Blog from an experienced teacher:
http://www.eltnotebook.blogspot.com/
An example of how schools are providing services via their websites - worth a browse:
http://www.target-english.de/
A useful, free podcatcher (sourceforge is worth browsing in its own right):
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/
Podcast player software to embed in your website:
http://v2.bigcontact.com/about-feedplayers.php
A few tips in conclusion:
- get a blog - it has lots of learning potential and acts as advertising for you at the same time
- get a teaching site email address so you can subscribe to all those "FREE LESSON PLANS!" mailing lists without clogging your regular inbox
- play around with whatever technology you have - you will be surprised what potential there is
- don't be technophobic - the pen was a scandalous invention in its day!
Cheers,
Anthony
