IELP-II Homepage || IELP-II Workshop || World Wide Web
Computer and Internet Training
Workshop
Internet Skills for English Language Teaching Professionals
Cairo, Egypt: April 3-8, 1999
WORLD WIDE WEB EXPLORATORIUM: CONTENT RESOURCES
IELP-II Homepage || IELP-II Workshop || World Wide Web
Computer and Internet Training
Workshop
Internet Skills for English Language Teaching Professionals
Cairo, Egypt: April 3-8, 1999
WORLD WIDE WEB EXPLORATORIUM: CONTENT RESOURCES
Following are some sets of resources to explore. Focus questions are suggested as"food for thought". Information from these sites and any related sites will be good information to discuss with your workshop keypal (through email) or with a group of workshop participants (face-to-face, through the workshop list, or through the workshop web board).
Bibliomania, The Network Library
http://www.bibliomania.com/
Question: What can you find of interest, and how might you adapt it to fit your own teaching framework?Books On-line
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/booktitles.html
Question: Books can be put online when their copyright has expired. What titles were you able or not able to find?Business English
http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/~kseybold/
Question: This web site opens with the statement, "As the world is becoming smaller and international borders are dissolving, the need for global communication is becoming increasingly important". Do you agree, or disagree? How do the site's materials support or not support a move toward global communication?The Case: Mysteries
http://www.thecase.com/
Question: What role do "high interest" or suspenseful activities such as multi-part mysteries play in motivating students to learn? What other kinds of ELT Web-based tasks seem high interest or motivating, from your perspective?Discovery Online
http://www.discovery.com/
Question: What kind of ELT writing or speaking activity could be derived from a session with the "Animal Cam(era)s"? What other kinds of ELT possibilities come to mind?Holidays and Seasons
http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/web.pages/holidays/
Question: What holidays and related activities would you suggest adding to this quasi-international calendar?NASA Search
http://www.nasa.gov/search/
Question: Search the NASA web site for a topic that interests you. What did you find?National Geographic
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
Question: Which simulation or feature story did you find most appealing, and why?Ocean Planet Homepage
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/ocean_planet.html
Question: Enter the exhibition and take the virtual tour. What kinds of ELT tasks or questions could you assign to students for this web site?Science On-Line
http://www.sciencemag.org/
Question: What kinds of information does a website such as this one offer that can not be found in a typical course textbook?Smithsonian
http://www.si.edu/
Question: Find a subject area that interests you personally. How might this be worked into an ELT task?Virtual Tourist - Middle East
http://wings.buffalo.edu/world/mideast.html
Question: What seemed most useful? What's missing?
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