Internet Tour for EFL Teachers By PAULA LEDESMA
Don’t Hurry To Take Notes! Find all the MATERIAL at  www.grou.ps/ictinenglishteaching
INTERNET (Teeler & Gray, 2000) NET  CYBERSPACE  THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY THE ONLINE COMMUNITY THE ELECTRONIC LIBRARY  THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION
 
(Marc Pernsky, 2001) Digital Natives Vs Digital Immigrants
(Marc Pernsky, 2009) Digital Human
E-mail Mailing lists Forums/newsgroups Chat Video conferences Video games World Wide Web
World Wide Web Reading Companies’ Websites Hypertext Advertising  Text Professional Information   WEB 1.0   Writing Broadcasting Podcasting Communities Peer-to-peer Amateur Opinion WEB 2.0
Whatever Whenever Wherever W W W
Useful  Web 1.0 sites For Teachers
Those You May Already Know Dictionaries Encyclopaedias Newspapers Digital Libraries  “ Gateway” sites   (Indexes)
DICTIONARIES
http://dir.yahoo.com/Reference/Dictionaries/
http:// dictionary.cambridge.org / http://www.ldoceonline.com   http://www.merriam-webster.com/ http://www.oxfordlanguagedictionaries.com/Public/
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Internet
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/internet
http://visual.merriam-webster.com/
 
http://www.pdictionary.com/english/
http://www.yourdictionary.com/web
http:// www.yourdictionary.com/word-games/Crazy-Crossword/Crazy-Crossword-Game.html
http://www.visuwords.com/
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/try/links/Dictionaries-and-Encyclopedias
ENCYCLOPEDIAS
http://encarta.msn.com   www.britannica.com/
http://www.encyclopedia.com/
 
http://www.encyclo.co.uk/
http://www.webopedia.com/
NEWSPAPERS http://www.nicholsoncartoons.com.au/cartoons/new/2003-03-10%20Web%20vs%20newspapers%20athe%20breakfast%20table%201.JPG
http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/
 
www.nytimes.com
http://www.usatoday.com/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
http://www.buenosairesherald.com/
DIGITAL  LIBRARIES
http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/tracer-bullets/dinosaurstb.html
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/wwi/wwi.html
http://manybooks.net/
 
 
http://en.childrenslibrary.org/
http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/SimpleSearchCategory?ids=86&langid=&pnum=1&cnum=1&text=&lang=English&ilang=English
 
 
ESL and EFL  Websites
http://www.eslcafe.com/search/index.html
http://www.englishforum.com/
http://www.sitesforteachers.com/index.html
http://www.teach-nology.com/
http://www.surfnetkids.com/
http://www.proteacher.org/
Vocabulary and Spelling
http://www.spellingcity.com/
 
 
VOCABULARY:  http://www.vocabularya-z.com/vocabweb/frontpage.do
SAMPLE: BANKING
 
Some other topics
Vocabulary and listening:   http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/archive/2007-12/2007-12-17-voa1.cfm
SOME OTHER WORDS USED IN STORIES Colors: I'm Feeling Very Blue Today :  red hot,   in the pink ,  blues music ,  look green ,  green with envy ,  greenbacks ,  black day ,  blacklist ,  brown out .   Numbers: I, for One, Use These Expressions Often :  On the one hand ,  I for one ,  number one ,  looking out for number one ,  taking care of number one ,  one and only ,  pull a fast one ,  one in a million, one too many, at one with oneself   Stock Market: The Business of Investing :  stock exchange ,  shares ,  stocks ,  brokers ,  Big Board,   bull market ,  bear market
GAMES WITH WORDS
READING
READING PRACTICE:  http://www.readinga-z.com/
30  free downloadable books and worksheets just by submitting your e-mail address.
Reader: Cali and Wanda Lou
Worksheet
http://www.oup-bookworms.com/teachers-only.cfm
INTERACTIVE BOOKS FOR KIDS Read, listen, complete worksheets and answer quizes! (fiction and non-fiction) http://www.raz-kids.com/main/ViewPage/name/sample
 
Sample Non-fiction  Historic Peacemakers highlights six Nobel Peace Prize winners: Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa, Mairead Corrigan, and Betty Williams. It ends by appealing to readers to find the peacemaker within themselves. Historic photographs support the text.  http://www.raz-kids.com/main/BookList/id/27
http://www.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/load.htm?f
 
WRITING
http://www.rong-chang.com/writing.htm
http://www.1-language.com/eslwriting/
 
Writing http://www.writinga-z.com/razwritingweb/home.do
SAMPLE UNIT: Pre-writing steps
http://esl.about.com/od/writinginenglish/
http://writing.colostate.edu/
LISTENING
LISTENING :  http://www.voanews.com/SpecialEnglish/
http://www.saberingles.com.ar/listening/101.html
http://www.audioenglish.net
QUIZZES AND  GAMES
http://a4esl.org/a/g5.html
 
 
http://www.teacherplanet.com/resource/puzzle.php
 
http://www.dmoz.org/Games/Online/
 
 
http://www.english-online.org.uk/games/gamezone2.htm
 
 
 
 
 
http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/games/
 
http://www.eslgame.com/
 
Catch the Jobs
LAST BUT NOT LEAST... WEB QUEST CREATORS!
http://webquest.org/index-c reate.php
SAMPLE
http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/a/acaemics_gifts.asp
I HOPE YOU ENJOYED IT T here is A  lot more T o say  A bout  it To be continued…

Internet tour for student teachers

Editor's Notes

  • #21 YourDictionary is a free online dictionary and much more. It gives you definitions, thesaurus entries, spelling, pronunciation, etc. In addition it provides resources to help find the best dictionary and translation sites for French, Spanish, Italian, German and hundreds of other languages
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