Extractions: On this page you'll find links to organisations promoting international educational co-operation and research, and sites to help teachers link up with other schools around the world. Look to the right for directories of worldwide education ministries, sites for teachers wanting to work overseas - plus our selection of good newspaper sites from different countries. Please let us know if we've missed any important websites. And tell us if you find a link that doesn't work:
Essential Web Sites For Special Educators involving key pals (electronic pen pals exchanging information via email). What to Expect Your First Year of Teaching www.ed.gov/pubs/FirstYear/ A http://www.bctf.bc.ca/lata/resources/web/web_sites.htm
Extractions: By Molly E. Holzschlag Link to original article Have you ever wanted to explore the wilds of Africa, or touch the face of the Mona Lisa? Maybe you want to lend a hand to local causes, or reach out across the world to make a new friend. Perhaps you want to lose yourself in the depths of the Grand Canyon, or find yourself at the feet of Buddha. Whether you're an art collector or just an enthusiast, the Web is a rich resource for browsing the great and near-great artworks of the world. If you don't know a lot about art but want to know more, the Web is a great place to begin. Perhaps best of all, you can return to online museums again and again, right from the comfort of your home. You don't have to fly to Paris to enjoy the Mona Lisa, although you might be inspired to do so after a visit to this most venerable museum.
ESL Resources For Students The site facilitates online language exchange learning via email (pen pals), Other interesting sites. World Language contains resources for teaching and http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslstudent.html
Extractions: Main Indexes OWL Home Page Writing Lab and OWL Info Handouts and Materials Workshops and Presentations Internet Resources owl home writing lab and owl handouts workshops and presentations ... internet resources For a list of all of our ESL handouts, please visit our ESL index page. We also have more resources related to writing in our Internet resources section. We're always looking to add more links to this page! If you know of any good ESL-related links, please send them to us at link@owl.english.purdue.edu List of topics on this page: General Resources 1-Language.com is a comprehensive ESL Site that has forums, realtime chat, jobs, links, worksheets, flashcards, Flash listening and TOEIC modules, helplines, reading library, games, multilingual support, and much more! ApplyESL.com is a free web-based research and application resource for students interested in studying abroad at an English language school. Dave Sperling's ESL Cafe is a great place for getting started, with lots of things to do and places to explore.
Masters In Teaching Students and teachers team up with electronic pen pals around the world. USF MAT Students (Sacramento) Web sites was completed by MAT students at the http://www.usfca.edu/library/remote_campus/sacramento/oldsite/mat.htm
Extractions: Associations Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development National Association of Beginning Teachers National Council of Teachers of English National Council of Teachers of Mathematics ... National Science Teachers Association Chatrooms Teachers.Net - TEACHER RESOURCES - "The most active teacher chatboards & teacher chatrooms, featuring 128 teacher mailrings and over 76 teacher chatboards, live 24 hours a day. Teachers.Net lesson bank offers over 1000 free lesson plan and curriculum and teacher project ideas." Credentialing and Examinations The CBEST Home Page provides a background and general information about the California Basic Educational Skills Test: How to register, administration dates, registration schedule, information about the day of the examination as well as a CBEST test description and content specifications. See Multiple Subject Examinations MSAT Bibliography provides Preparation References for Credential Candidates. The Commission on Teaching Credentialing Home Page provides Credential Information and Examination Information as well as Job Opportunities, Educational Standards, Reports-on-Line, and Troops to Teachers.
K-12 Resources For Teachers and cultures for email classroom pen-pal and project exchanges. Kidlink. Kidlink offers opportunities for teaching and learning with the Internet. http://web.utk.edu/~impact/teacherresources.html
Extractions: Created by Bernie Dodge, the designer of WebQuests, at San Diego State University, this site presents an overview, training materials, examples and collections of WebQuests. Learn more about the developer of this hot new way of teaching with technology. A WebQuest About WebQuests - Middle and High School Version
Resource Page plus bulletin boards, chat rooms and an electronic pen pal database so kids pen pal profiles and bulletin board messages are also screened by the http://rodriguez.eeisd.org/ParentTeacher Resource.htm
Extractions: Communication/Networking Children's Express - Children's Express (http://www.ce.org/) provided by Children's Express Foundation is designed so that children can voice their opinion about current affairs. This site is run by children and the topics of discussion are chosen monthly and comment are posted for all to read. Kidlink - Kidlink (http://www.kidlink.org/) provided by Kidlink Society, is aimed at involving as many youth through the age 15 as possible in a global dialog. This work is supported by 38 public mailing lists for conferencing, a private network providing a chatroom, and volunteer teachers and parents living throughout the world. UNICEF Voices of Youth - UNICEF Voices of Youth (http://www.unicef.org/voy/) allows young adults to voice their concerns and share ideas about important world issues. Topics of discussion include solutions and actions on child rights, children in war, child labor, and children and urbanization. Curiocity's FreeZone Curiocity's FreeZone - Curiocity's FreeZone (http://www.freezone.com/) is the computer companion to the Curiocity series of books. Designed for ages 10 to 16, the site features interesting articles and activities, plus bulletin boards, chat rooms and an electronic pen pal database so kids can write to new friends around the world. Trained adults keep an eye on all the chat rooms and will expel anyone for inappropriate language. Pen pal profiles and bulletin board messages are also screened by the monitors before they are posted for kids to read. And youngsters can become 'Junior Reporters,' adding their own material to the site.
Teacher Toolbox - 3rd Grade - Reading You can also find a pen pal. Just For Kids Who Love Books Teaching with Folklore A searchable database of brief facts about over 25000 persons. http://msd.k12.wi.us/teachtools/elem/thirdgrade/reading/
Super Russian Resources Welcome to Super Russian Websites- - Here you will find lots of sites that Guides Help Quizzes Worksheets Search Engines pen Pals Search Engines http://www.uni.edu/becker/Russian2.html
Extractions: - Welcome to Super Russian Websites Welcome to -Super Russian Websites- - Here you will find lots of sites that can be helpful for you for learning more about Russia and the Russian language and culture. There are many sites that link to others as well. If you find more that are useful, please send them on to me at the e-mail address below.
Extractions: Teaching Online: By Martin Kimeldorf The following people provided invaluable feedback and contributions in the true spirit of a scholastic community....or, dare I say, "virtual teaching community." Pam Mortillaro, Phil Shapiro, Jean Stringer, Emery Roth II, Leni Donlan, Sandy Ewanowski, Nina Hansen, and Paul Smallwood. Students enter through your classroom door, and if you're lucky enough to have windows, sunshine further illuminates your setting. Today, more and more teachers are discovering that students can leave your classroom at any moment through the phosphorescent window of their computer screen, travel half way around the planet to gather data, meet new people, or exchange ideas; and return with exciting information-all before the bell rings at the end of the period. This magical formula for learning takes place when you connect your classroom to the online world known poetically as "cyberspace." This paper discusses some general methods for developing projects between students from different locations through the use of telecommunications. The author has drawn upon his experiences in developing project-based curricula and his online research. The majority of the methods cited in this paper have been abstracted from projects found in the Electronic Schoolhouse (located on America Online information service network). Many of the specific methods were abstracted from Emery Roth's fully articulated curriculum:
Owens Library Education WWW Resources How to Substitute, Multicultural Ed., New Teachers, pen Pals, , Prof. There are over 1000 links in their database to sites which include lesson http://www.nwmissouri.edu/library/courses/education2/education.htm
Extractions: This site, sponsored by the Houston Independent School District, is "intended to be a list where teachers can quickly access resource materials for direct use in their lesson plans or as additional resources for students to explore." It has useful links to the World Wide Web on a variety of topics, including specific subject areas, educational resources, and resources for parents. AskERIC Virtual Library
ISTE | March (No. 6) (www.penpals.net and www.interpals.net) Examples of sites that can be used to This database creates a reading list according to criteria identified, http://www.iste.org/inhouse/publications/ll/27/6/28s/supplement/index.cfm?Sectio
Educational Articles: More Than Just Key Pals This article addresses tips on finding pen pals, safety issues you need to Visitors can browse through this database and then contact any class that http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/article/penpal.htm
Extractions: This article has appeared in the magazine Library Talk , Linworth Publishing, January/February 1999. page 25-27. Articles and Interviews What do you say? What can you do? This article addresses tips on finding pen pals, safety issues you need to discuss with your class, and activity ideas you can do with your partner class. Three Ways to Find Key Pals Visit a Site that Hosts Key Pal Information As schools go on line, more sites will be developed to help educators use the Internet. The sites listed below invite educators around the world to fill out a form and submit their class into their database. Visitors can browse through this database and then contact any class that they would like to correspond with. Just because you've requested to become a pen pal with that class, does not guarantee that they will want to correspond with you. Wait until you get a confirmation from them before announcing to your class and their parents, that you will be exchanging e-mail with another class. Suggested websites to visit are: eMail Classroom Exchange
4. Interactive Technology Lesson Plans Return to Putnam s OnLine Course for Using Internet In K-12 FL Teaching Find On-Line debates in Imaginet and Accroche-toi! found at the pen Pals page. http://www.ea.pvt.k12.pa.us/htm/Units/Upper/modlang/out4.htm
Extractions: -Go to and save on your drive as a bookmark C.B. Putnam FL Teaching Using Internet Resources Home Page . We will use this site throughout this session. Goal One: Plan a Large Scale Email Exchange Description of Project: for an email exchange with one or more school groups in a region that your class is studying, you and colleagues are to develop a year-long project that will include email exchanges between one or more schools. You have decided to begin with a class-to-class endeavor, (NOT an individual-to-individual keypal project for now) since this is the first exchange for you and your students. At this point, you are not clear how often and for which specific activities your individual classes will be involved. However, you have agreed that the interaction will include the following: an Information Exchange by groups of students:
Language Online This section is dedicated to the free, online teaching of as many languages It also supplies links to chat rooms as well as lists of pen pals with whom http://www.lmrc.sa.edu.au/files/links/Lang_online.htm
Extractions: Internet language sites selected by the Languages and Multicultural Resource Centre - updated and checked June 2003 These sites have been checked for appropriateness; however, contents on the Internet change continously. It is advisable that teachers preview all links before introducing project pages to students. Multi-language sites Eurocosm
COOL TEACHING LESSONS AND UNITS free searchable database of ISDN videoconferencing sites for K12 schools. Assorted Teaching Resources are individual sites were found or sent to me http://www.coollessons.org/coolunits.htm
Extractions: COOL TEACHING LESSONS AND UNITS ALONG WITH RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS Short Cuts: WEBQUEST UNITS RESEARCH MODULES ONLINE PROJECTS READY MADE UNITS ... STUDENT RESOURCES Some personal notes about this web page: It is designed as a resource for teachers K-12 who wish to find quality ready-made units and lessons for all subjects, or who wish to develop their own units. This page emphasizes engaged learning models such as WebQuests, Research Modules and Project-Based Learning, but links include other forms of lessons and tutorials. Included also are sites to help you build your own units as well as some examples of sources to help students do research. Some of these units depend on the ability of students to do interactive work with others using technology. However, even if you have one or no computer in your classroom, most of the units linked at this site can be of much help. They are great learning experiences not only because of technology, but because they also involve students in activities that challenge them to solve problems by doing quality research, analyzing information, synthesizing possibilities, making judgments and then creating interesting products in order to communicate their results. Technology can be used as tools in making these exciting learning experiences even deeper, richer and more motivating.
Lists Of Links And Search Engines This site provides links to 89 ESL teaching and learning websites. pen Pals for Classes allows teachers to find other teachers worldwide who want to http://maxkade.miis.edu/ESL_Resources/links.htm
Extractions: Resources for ESL and EFL Teachers HOME Communication via the Internet Distance Learning Information Instructional Software ... Multipurpose Sites for Students and Teachers LINK LISTS, SEARCH ENGINES: Link Lists: http://www.4teachers.com EF Englishtown http://www.englishtown.com/English/default.asp ESL Independent Study Lab http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/toppicks.html ESL Multimedia Language Learning http://www.monumental.com/richardx/index1.html The ESL Study Hall http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gwvcusas/
