OPPortunities in ESL

OPPtimal Fun: Places to Go and Things to Do

• 1002situations This project lets you place text, photos and sounds that define your "heimat" (homeland) into this virtual museum.
  To Do: Make a visit, and add your own "things" (words) to the museum!
  http://fgidec1.tuwien.ac.at/1002situations/
  
  
• Blue Dog
  To Do: She's blue, she barks, she counts! But can you make her howl???
  
  http://kao.ini.cmu.edu:5550/bdf.html
  
  
• Books On-Line
  To Do: What is your favorite story, book or poem? Search and see if it's on-line!
  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/booktitles.html
  
  
• CNN's Weather Page
  To Do: Visit your favorite spot and check out the weather. Is it raining cats and dogs in your hometown?
  http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/index.html
  
  
• CRAYON CReAte Your Own Newspaper.
  To Do: Subscribe! You can choose which newspapers, comics and services you would like to receive. It's not only fun, it's free!
  http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~boulter/crayon/index.html
  
  
• The Electric Postcard A virtual mailbox where you can exchange postcards with friends.
  To Do: Choose a picture and write a postcard to e-mail to someone. Don't know anyone? Send one to yourself!
  http://postcards.www.media.mit.edu/Postcards/Welcome.html
  
  
• Smithsonian's Ocean Planet An incredible ocean tour!
  To Do: Go to the "Reflections" room. Put a note in the bottle to tell what you will do to help ocean conservation.
  http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/ocean_planet.html
  
  
• Virtual Flowers
  To Do: Send a bouquet of flowers to someone!
  
  
• The White House
  To Do: Take a tour... Find the name of the Clintons' cat... Send an e-mail message to the President.
  http://www.whitehouse.gov