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Claire Bradin Siskin
Email: claire@edvista.com
Home page: http://edvista.com/claire/index.html

 

Internet Terminology

What the Web Has to Offer

Using Search Engines

Standards

Language Learning Activities

Evaluating Websites

Teaching with the Web

Speeding up the Web

Designing Web-based activities

Making Web Pages

Web Page Design

Copyright Considerations

Free Webspace

For Teachers

Multimedia on the Web

Interactivity on the Web

Participants' Favorites

Internet Terminology:

Computer Network Glossary: http://coverage.cnet.com/Resources/Info/Glossary/

whatis?com Home Page: http://www.whatis.com/nfindex.htm

Examples of What the Web Has to Offer:

Chinese: Chinese Characters and Culture - http://zhongwen.com/
French: Au Clair de la Lune - http://www.fln.vcu.edu/murphy-judy/au_clair_lune/au_clair.html
German: Internet-Cafés en Müenchen - http://www.icafe.spacenet.de/
Korean: Digital Chosun Ilbo - http://www.chosun.com/
Spanish: La cocina mexicana - http://cocinamexicana.com.mx/
ESL: ESL Multimedia Language Learning - http://user.gru.net/richardx/index.html

Language Links, by Lauren Rosen: http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/langlink.html

FLTeach WWW Resources for Language Teachers: http://www.cortland.edu/flteach/flteach-res.html

Center for the Advancement of Language Learning: http://www.call.gov/

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Using Search Engines:

Seven Steps Toward Better Searching, by Bernie Dodge - http://edweb.sdsu.edu/WebQuest/searching/sevensteps.html
Searching for the Right Search Engine, by Robert Berkman - http://chronicle.com/free/v46/i20/20b00601.htm
Searching: Saving time, not wasting it, by Deborah Healey - http://www.orst.edu/dept/eli/february.html

Popular search engines:

AltaVista: http://www.altavista.com
Google: http://www.google.com
HotBot: http://hotbot.lycos.com
Infoseek: http://infoseek.com
Lycos: http://www.lycos.com
WebCrawler: http://www.webcrawler.com
Yahoo: http://www.yahoo.com

Kid-safe search engines:

Lycos Kids: http://www.lycos.com/kids
Yahooligans: http://www.yahooligans.com

Foreign Language Internet Search Engines: http://www.bizforms.com/search.htm

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Standards:

ACTFL Standards: http://www.actfl.org/public/articles/details.cfm?id=33

Developing FL/ESL Standards (information about national and statewide standards): http://putwest.boces.org/StSu/Flang.html

Language Learning Activities:

Internet Activities for Foreign Language Classes: http://members.aol.com/maestro12/web/wadir.html

Cooperative Learning Activities for the Foreign Language Classroom, by Jean LeLoup and Robert Ponterio: http://llt.msu.edu/vol3num2/onthenet/index.html

Language Learning Activities for the World Wide Web: http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/nflrc.html

Yahoo Greeting Cards (click on appropriate country under "International Greetings"): http://greetings.yahoo.com/

Internet Treasure Hunts for ESL Students: http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/th/

Ojalá que llueva café - exercises by Barbara Nelson: http://www.colby.edu/personal/bknelson/ojala/letra.html

Un Jour à Paris, by Dawn Smith: http://members.tripod.com/MsDSmith/teacher.html

Standards for Foreign Language Learning; Activities for French, by Joel Walz: http://www.uga.edu/~romlan/standards/standard.htm

Imagination Voyages, by Douglas Mills: http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/travelsim/

La Familia Real Española: http://www.casareal.es/casareal/cast/familia.html

Takako's Great Adventure: http://www.studint.net/takako/

Practical Chinese Reader Videos: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/East_Asian_Studies/hess/pcr.htm

Chinese Fables, by Marlowe Shaeffer and Annie Yang: http://www.wellesley.edu/Chinese/Chinese_Fables/title/title_page.html

Interviews of German students about their projects: http://www.museumonline.at/1998/abschluss/filme.htm

Resources for Teaching and Learning Korean (Monash University): http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/korean/centre/resources/index.html

Korean Folk Tales: http://www.lg.co.kr/kids/e_ani/e_guestroom.htm

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Evaluating Websites:

Evaluating Information Found on the Internet, by Elizabeth E. Kirk: http://milton.mse.jhu.edu:8001/research/education/net.html

Web Lesson Evaluation Form: http://members.aol.com/maestro12/web/evalform.html

Site Evaluation Form, Oregon Public Education Network: http://www.open.k12.or.us./jitt/evalform.html

Evaluating Internet Resources, St. Norbert College Library: http://www.snc.edu/library/evalnet.htm

Rubric for evaluating websites : http://edtech.sandi.net/rubric/

Teaching with the Web:

Teaching with the Web -- by Lauren Rosen http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/teach.html

The Internet in the one-computer classroom -- by Lewis Johnson http://members.aol.com/maestro12/web/class.html

Learning Styles and Web Delivered Foreign Language Education -- http://www.fln.vcu.edu/FLOWWW/talk.html

Working the Web for Education - by Tom March- http://www.ozline.com/learning/theory.html

Teaching with the Web: Trails and Tools for German Studies. by Andreas Lixl-Purcell: http://www.uncg.edu/~lixlpurc/publications/UTSAtech.html

DAAD Project (23 German students at the University of Illinois): http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/class.pages/daad.html

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Speeding up the Web:

10 Netsurfing Tips: How to Save Time & Avoid Frustration , by Charles Kelly: http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~ckelly/midi/help/surftips.html

Designing Web-based Activities:

How to Write Activities for the Web, by Lewis Johnson: http://members.aol.com/maestro12/web/writing.html

Web-Based Activities for Foreign Languages: http://www.furman.edu/~pecoy/lessons.htm

WWW Activities that Work (and Why!), by Volker Hegelheimer, Douglas Mills, Ann Salzmann, Heidi Shetzer: http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/resources/TESOL/WWW_activities.html

How to create a web activity for foreign languages, by Maritza M. Osuna and Carla Meskill: http://llt.msu.edu/vol1num2/article4/default.html#appendix3

480 Favorite Teacher Web Pages (For French, Spanish, and German, categorized as Geography, Newspapers, Foods, Sports, Music, Literature, Museums, Artists, Leisure, History, Holidays/ Celebrations, Weather, Search Engines, and Comics): http://members.aol.com/maestro12/web/toplinks.html

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Making Web Pages:

Beyond Vanity: Your Personal Space on the Web : http://edvista.com/claire/notvanity.html

HTML Crash Course for Educators, Andy Carvin: http://edweb.gsn.org/htmlintro.html

HTML editors: http://www.shu.edu/about/WWWFaq/htedit.htm

Creating HTML in Word, Step by Step, by Vance Stevens: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/4631/htmlword.htm

Web Page Design:

Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design, by Jakob Nielsen: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html

Guidelines for Designing a Good Web Site for ESL Students, by Charles Kelly: http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/Articles/Kelly-Guidelines.html

Web page Style Guide at Yale University: http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/contents.html

Web Pages that Suck: http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/

The 216 Colors of the Web: http://www.netscapeworld.com/netscapeworld/nw-11-1996/216_hexcodes.html

Consistent Color on ALL browsers, 10 easy steps: http://www.netscapeworld.com/common/nw.color.html

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Copyright Considerations:

"Tell it to the Judge" Quiz on copyright: http://www.news.com/Quiz/Entry/0%2C63%2C%2C00.html

Guidelines for the Use of Copyrighted Materials in Multimedia for Educational Purposes: http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Langs/llc/copyright.htm

10 Big Myths about Copyright Explained, by Brad Templeton: http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html

Linking Rights, by Brad Templeton: http://www.templetons.com/brad/linkright.html

Free Webspace:

Freewebspace.net (Searchable guide to free webspace providers): http://www.freewebspace.net/

Xoom.com: http://www.xoom.com/webspace/

GeoCities: http://geocities.yahoo.com

For Teachers:

Quia: http://www.quia.com/

TrackStar: http://trackstar.scrtec.org/

QuizStar: http://4teachers.org/tools/quizstar/

Nicenet: http://www.nicenet.org/

Filamentality: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/

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Multimedia on the Web:

Royalty-Free Clip Art Collection for Foreign/Second Language Instruction, by Kazumi Hatasa: http://www.sla.purdue.edu/fll/JapanProj/FLClipart/default.html

Clipart.com: http://www.clipart.com/

Embed Tags for QuickTime on the Web: http://edvista.com/claire/qt/embedtags/index.html

Interactivity on the Web:

Language Interactive Guide to Web Scripting for Language Learning, by Robert Godwin-Jones: http://www.fln.vcu.edu/cgi/interact.html

Interactive Web-Based Language Learning:The State of the Art, by Douglas Mills: http://iei.lang.uiuc.edu/~dmills/WorldCALL/

Javascript for Language Learning, by Douglas Mills: http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/JS4LL/

Javascript Templates, by Marmo Soemarmo: http://www.cats.ohiou.edu/~linguist/JSCRIPT/Menu.htm

Hot Potatoes and other tools by Half Baked Software: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/

Interactive Exercise Makers, by Daniel Beeby: http://lang.swarthmore.edu/makers/index.htm

Exercise types on the Web and in CAL (Computer Assisted Learning), by Andreas Röllinghoff: http://it-resources.icsa.ch/Pedagogie/ExsListE.html

Response-O-Matic (Free form processor): http://www.response-o-matic.com/

freepolls.com (Add a poll to your web page): http://ads.freepolls.com/welcome.asp?prod=1&ref=1003

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* This page accompanies a workshop, Modern Technology for Modern Language Teaching, conducted at Utah State University in June 2000.


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