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Internet sites for students and CALL | Jake Kimball | October 22nd, 2001
First off, welcome aboard all new members.
I'm just curious if anyone keeps tabs on where their students go on the internet to beef up their English studies or if any of you integrate CALL in your classes.
I'm currently building a website for my school and I'm posting links to useful sites for my students (games, vocab, grammar, etc).
How about a vote for best, useful sites? Any takers?
I've collected a few already. Right now I'm having students check them out to see how they like them. I'll post my collection for everybody later on.
Jake Kimball
Re: Internet sites for students | Jerry Talandis Jr. | October 22nd, 2001
Hi Jake,
Jerry here. Here's a site I use all the time with my Japanese writing students: Penpalnet.com
As you can tell, the site is all about finding penpals (really keypals). This has been the best project I've done with them. Most of my students really enjoyed corresponding with people from different countries and found this site through and easy to use. They claim it's the world's biggest site for penpals; I don't know about that, but it is HUGE, with key pals listed from nearly every country.
Good luck with your list. I'm really interested to see it.
Jerry
Re: Internet sites | Francesca | October 22nd, 2001
Jake, do you or your school receive the publication English Teaching Professional magazine? If so, you will already know about the series called ICT (information and communication technology) which appears on page 17 and lists useful sites for teachers and students with comments and suggestions for activities. If you do not have this publication or access to it, I can list the sites from the series so far for you.
Francesca
Re: Internet sites | Catherine Buhler | October 22nd, 2001
Hi Jake,
Try English-to-Go.com which includes photocopiable lesson plans based on current events from Reuters News. The latest English Teaching Professional actually includes a working CD Rom with sample lessons but you can also obtain a sample lesson by looking at the website.
Best wishes
Catherine Buhler
Webtips from Jessie | Raymond Sheehan | October 23rd, 2001
In reply to the query re Internet/CALL: You might find some of these websites worth checking out:
(Also, Dave's ESL Cafe which probably gets the most hits per day...)
Raymond
UAE
Rong-Chang.com
(this
one is awesome if you're not already familiar with it).
Re: Internet sites for students and CALL | Jake Kimball | October 23rd, 2001
Good for you, getting to put together your school's website. What program are you using? I have access to Dreamweaver and Frontpage, and was wondering which one is more useful.
My university will finally have permanent facilities next year, including a self-access computer lab and a computer-equipped classroom. Until then, I won't be able to use CALL on any kind of regular basis.
I don't really keep track of my students' favorite ESL sites, although I have heard good things about the parlo.com vocabulary newsletter and the eslnotes.com notes on popular films. I've also discovered that a lot of my students use their computers for listening to music (MP3 or CDs in the drive) while they're studying or writing papers. That makes downloadable music sites pretty attractive, and you could link to a lyrics site as well. Catherine mentioned the english-to-go.com site already; I subscribed to their service last year, and the lesson plans seemed useful and enjoyable for the students. Another nice site for students is wordsmyth.net.
Off the subject of sites for students, has anybody else subscribed to the weekly tip at developingteachers.com? It's usually quite nice.
Laura
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