Taiwan2008

July 17, 2008
I have collected just a few links here for you to explore that you might enjoy sharing with the students you work with. Thanks for a great day!


 * Epals: The Internet's Largest Global Community for Connected Classrooms**
 * [|Epals Homepage]
 * [|Top Ten List of Activities to Explore]
 * Explore the featured forum for teachers and students titled Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign Language
 * [|Teachers]: What activity has been most useful in teaching a foreign language?
 * [|Students]: What activities helps you speak up in class?


 * National Geographic Travel & Culture**
 * [|Travel & Culture Around the World]
 * [|Narrated Videos] to serve as models of formal English used for presenting information - videos of animals, daily news, environment, kids, music, science & space, specials, and more


 * CNN Learning Resources** (web-delivered reading instruction of current events in English)
 * [|Learning Resources Homepage]
 * Example of text to explore: [|Thanks to the Web] (and related reading support resources)
 * [|Story Archives Database]


 * Other resources:**
 * [|IECC]: Intercultural Email Classroom Connections - you can find many classes to join here
 * [|Mr. Nussbaum's Interactive United States] **-** Use the menu on the left to tour the US with slideshows, games, and lots of quick facts. Might be a starting place for "tourism" research about places in the United States.
 * [|Dave's ESL (English as a Second Language) Cafe]: Lots and lots of resources for teachers and students
 * [|English Club:] Learn English and Teach English
 * [|Activities for ESL/EFL Students]: (Project of the Internet TESL Journal) - You can add to the database of lessons, ESL podcasts, and quizzes including [|The Daily English Show] (video podcast)
 * [|BBC Learning English](from the United Kingdom)

You can email Dr. Julie Coiro at jcoiro@snet.net. To learn more about Dr. Coiro's research, you can read some of her publications [|here], visit her university webpage [|here], or explore three videos of seventh graders using the internet [|here].
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