ONLINE EFL RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS Lynn

ONLINE EFL RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS Lynn W. Zimmerman, Ph. D English Language Fellow A. Xhuvani University Elbansan, Albania https: //lwzimmerman. wordpress. com/poland-workshop-materials-may-2015/ Lynn. Zimmerman@trainingexpress. es

Your Favorite • Tell your neighbor your favorite online resource • A few share

Teacher Resources • articles about how to teach • videos demonstrating classroom situations • lesson plans • graphic organizers • worksheets • quiz makers • rubric makers • puzzle makers

Learner Resources • Quizzes • Games • Podcasts • Videos • Webinars • Interactive activities • Dictionaries, thesauri, etc.

One Stop English (teachers) • www. onestopenglish. com • Methods • Lesson plans • Skills • Grammar • Vocabulary • Teaching various age groups • Materials

Dave’s ESL Café (teachers and learners) • http: //www. eslcafe. com • Stuff for teachers • Idea cookbook • Stuff for students • Grammar • Idioms • Phrasal verbs • Pronuciation • Quizzes • Slang

British Council (teachers) • http: //www. teachingenglish. org. uk/ • Lessons • Activities • Tips • British literature • Teacher training • Articles

British Council (learners) • http: //learnenglish. britishcouncil. org/en/ • Materials • Exercises • Games • IELTS tips and practice • Podcasts • UK culture

Cambridge English Teachers (teachers) • http: //www. cambridgeenglishteacher. org/ • Articles • Webinars • Interactive pronunciation

The EFL Playhouse • http: //www. esl 4 kids. net/ • games • songs • fingerplays • action rhymes • craft ideas • printable materials • tongue twisters • submit your own

American English (teachers) • http: //americanenglish. state. gov • Resources • Webinars • American culture • Games • Activities • Materials

Reference Materials for Learners • Links to all kinds of dictionaries • (http: //www. tesolgames. com/dictionaries) • Virtual Thesaurus • (www. virtualthesaurus. com) • Interactive phonemic charts with audio… American and British pronunciation • http: //www. onestopenglish. com/skills/pronunciation/phonemic-chart -and-app

Special Resources for Teachers • Rubistar Rubric generator • http: //rubistar. 4 teachers. org/ • Teacher tips for writing good test questions • http: //busyteacher. org/6095 -12 -teacher-tips-for-writing-good-testquestions. html • Puzzle maker • http: //puzzlemaker. school. discovery. com/

Independent and Classroom Work • Skills • Reading • Listening • Speaking • Writing

Extensive Reading • Reading for pleasure • Project Gutenberg (www. gutenberg. org) • Bartleby (www. bartleby. com) • Bibliomannia (www. bibliomania. com) • Online Books Page (digital. library. upenn. edu/books) • Good Reads (www. goodreads. com)

Reading Comprehension for Exams • Exam sites such as TOEFL, CAE and IELTS • have texts with interactive practice tests that students can use to practice reading comprehension. • Flo-Joe (www. flo-joe. co. uk) • ready-made reading quizzes and passages of text with exercises. • Various levels • Various topics • Include strategies and procedures for dealing with texts

Newspaper Examples • The Sun www. thesun. co. uk • Daily Telegraph www. telegraph. co. ok • The Australian www. australian. com. au • Daily Times Nigeria http: //www. dailytimes. com. ng/ • USA Today www. usatoday. com

Online Newspaper Portals • Yahooligans!, a child-oriented website • http: //yahooligans. yahoo. com/Arts_and_Entertainment/News papers • Newseum • www. newseum. org/cybernewseum Click Front pages • Free Online Newspapers. com • http: //www. free-onlinenewspapers. com/usa-news-papers-list. html

Create Your Own Newspaper • Crayon. net • A tool for managing news sources • Create a customized newspaper with links to predefined news sources • automatically connects to the newspapers of one’s choice • extracts news stories from them

Virtual Field Trip Activity In pairs, choose one of these art museum websites to visit • The Louvre (www. louvre. fr) – choose English • The National Gallery (www. nationalgallery. org. uk) • The Art Institute of Chicago (www. artic. edu) • The Uffizi Gallery (www. uffizi. firenze. it) • The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art (www. moma. org)

Listening for ELLs • Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab (www. esl-lab. com) • English Language Learning Lab Online (www. elllo. org) • The English Listening Lounge (www. englishlistening. com) • BBC English Learning Home Page (www. bbc. co. uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index. shtml) • Takako’s Great Adventure (http: //international. ouc. bc. ca/takako) • Real English Online (www. real-english. com)

Radio and TV Sites: Topics • Science • Earth & Sky www. earthsky. com • The Discovery Channel www. discovery. com • History • The History Channel www. historychannel. com • Literature • Poetry Archive www. poetryarchive. org • Moby. Lives www. mobylines. com • NPR: Books www. npr. org/templates/topics/ topic. php? topic. Id-1032 • Commercials • Funny Commercials http: //funnycommercials. nl • Clio Awards www. clioawards. com • Everyday Life • BBCs Video Nation www. bbc. co. uk/videonation • Sports • ESPN Sports Zone http: //espn. go. com • http: //espnradio. espn. go. com/ espnradio/index

Radio: General • World Radio Network www. wrn. org/audio. html • BBC www. bbc. co. uk • National Public Radio www. npr. org • Canadian Broadcasting Corporation www. cbc. ca • Australian Broadcasting Corporation www. abc. net. au • Voice of America www. voanews. com/english/portal. cfm

TV: General • ITN www. itn. co. uk • ITV www. itv. com • Central TV www. centraltv. co. uk • Channel 4 www. channel 4. co. uk • ABC http: //abc. go. com • CBS www. cbs. com • HBO www. hbo. com • NBC www. nbc. com • PBS www. pbs. org

Podcasts for ELLs • Breaking News English www. breakingnewsenglish. com/podcast. html • Jokes in English Podcasts www. voiceblog. jp/joke • The Daily Idiom Podcast www. englishcaster. com/blogs • The English Teacher Show http: //englishteacherjohn. com/podcast • TOEFL Podcast www. toeflpod. com • Voice of America’s Special English www. voanews. com/specialenglish/daily_radio. cfm

Podcasts for Everyone • National Public Radio (NPR) Podcast Directory www. npr. org/rss/podcast_directory. php • BBC Documentaries www. bbc. co. uk/1 xtra/tx/documentaries • CBS News Podcast Feeds http: //abcnews. go. com/Technology/Podcasting

Audio Books • Audible. com www. audible. com • Sherlock Holmes Audio Books www. pinkgeekaudio. net/weblog 3 • Project Gutenberg’s Audio Books www. gutenberg. org/browse/categories/1 • Repeast After Us – Children’s Stories http: //repeatafterus. com

Video Sites • Apple Movie Trailers www. apple. com/trailers • Movietrailers. com www. movietrailers. com • English Trailers www. english-trailers. com • The Internet Movie Database www. imdb. com • CNN (or other news media) video clips www. cnn. com/video_vault • Guiness World Records www. guinessworldecords. com • Brain POP www. brainpop. com • The Biography Channel www. biography. com/broadband/home/index. jsp

Interactive Web Pages for Writing • http: //www. rong-chang. com/writing. htm • http: //www. ego 4 u. com/en/business- english/communication/business-letter • http: //englishinteractive. net/tablet/writing. html • http: //www. esolcourses. com/content/topicsmenu/writing. html • http: //www. eslgo. com/classes/write/

Wikis • Some places you can set up wikis are: • Peanut. Butter. Wiki: http: //pbwiki. com • Seed. Wiki: www. seedwiki. com • Jot. Spot: http: //jotspot. com • Odd. Wiki: http: //communitywiki. org/odd/Home. Page • Wiki. Cities: www. wikicities. com/wiki/Wikicities • Wikispaces: www. wikispaces. org

Blog Sites • Wordpress: www. wordpress. com • Weblogger: www. weblogger. com • Diaryland: www. diaryland. com • Upsaid: www. upsaid. com • Webcrimson: www. webcrimson. com • Xanga: www. xanga. com

Writing • Bee online: http: //beeonline. blogspot. com • Blog-EFL: http: //blog-efl. blogspot. com • The Ford. Log: www. weblogs 4 schools. co. uk/The. Ford • Goin’ Upstream: http: //goinupstream. blogspot. com • Mariichigo: www. livejournal. com/users/mariichigo • The New Tanuki: http: //thenewtanuki. blogspot. com • EFL/ESL Exchange: www. dekita. org/exchange • Random Thoughts: http: //namckeand. blogpsot. com

Children’s E-zines • EEK: Environmental Education for Kids (Ages 9 -14) • www. dnr. state. wi. us/org/caer/ce/eek/index. htm • Midlink Magazine (Ages 8 -18) • www. cs. ucf. edu/~Midlink • Stone Soup Magazine (Ages 8 -13) • www. stonesoup. com/index. html • Scholastic News (Ages 8 -14) http: //teacher. scholastic. com/scholasticnews • Wire. Tap (Ages 14 and up) • www. alternet. org/wiretap

Pronunication Practice • Audacity (http: //audacity. sourceforge. net) • Make clips of authentic pronunciation • Students record themselves saying the same words and phrases • They compare them ‘side by side’

Podcasts • Article about equipment for podcasting • http: //www. hanselman. com/blog/How. To. Start. Your First. Podcast. Equipment. Editing. Publishing. And. More. aspx • Article about podcasting • http: //windows. microsoft. com/en-us/windowsvista/create-your-own-podcast-what-you-need-toknow-to-be-a-podcaster • Hipcast • Liberated Syndication

Video • Live action videos and stop motion videos can be motivating. • Jing: http: //www. techsmith. com/jing. html • MS Movie Maker: http: //windows. microsoft. com/enus/windows-live/movie-maker • Voki: http: //www. voki. com/ • Digitalfilms: http: //digitalfilms. com/ • Microsoft Photo. Story: http: //www. microsoft. com/enus/download/details. aspx? id=11132 • Mail Vu: http: //mailvu. com/

Center for Digital Storytelling • Center for Digital Storytelling (http: //storycenter. org/) • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Ocqi. Etj. Nr. A&list=PL 2 z. Mrq 22 Y 2 t. Fr 8 h. W 7 w 2 hisiuy. RVQx 6 s. V • What did you see? Hear? • Think about: • What story would you like to tell?

References • IRA. NCTE. (2006) IRA/NCTE. Wading through the web. Retrieved from http: //www. readwritethink. org/lesson_images/lesson 983/p resentation. ppt • Krajka, J. (2007). English language teaching in the Internet-assisted environment. Lublin, Poland: Maria Curie -Sklodowska Univeristy Press.

Online Sharing • Learning Management Systems • Nicenet • Moodle • Canvas • Edmodo • Easyclass • Wiz. IQ • Google Drive • Drop. Box

Nicenet • http: //www. nicenet. org • Some features: • List of class members • Class schedule • Can copy and paste documents • Personal messages • Link sharing

Moodle • http: //www. moodle. org • WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) interface • Some of its features: • effective email system • threaded forums • tracking reports • electronic assignment and management of papers and projects • can use documents and presentations in mutiple classes

Canvas • Offers a free version to educators • Has a wide range of features • http: //vimeo. com/35336470 • https: //canvas. instructure. com/login • https: //ciee. instructure. com/courses/73? invitation=b 3 f 5 DH aixsoseqq 2 ZGVa. No. UVk. MEPQl 63 S 08 mhd. Op

Other Sites • Virtual learning environments • Edmodo – https: //www. edmodo. com • Easyclass – http: //www. easyclass. com • Wiz. IQ – http: //www. wiziq. com/

Google Drive • Not an LMS • Versatile tool for file sharing • A single place to store, manage, and access all your files, from any place and on any device where you've installed Google Drive • Can use Google Drive to store all file types, including documents, presentations, music, photos, and videos

Dropbox • Not an LMS • Cloud storage and file sharing • http: //www. dropbox. com

Social Media • Facebook • Special sites for students • Twitter

Facebook • Can set up a special private group for your classes • Share self-study resources from the Internet • Add links to useful websites • Share materials connected to class discussions • Prepare for the writing paper in Cambridge exams with peer-feedback • Assign homework and remind students of homework deadlines • Prepare for end of term tutorials • Share files and pictures

Social Media for Students These sites are specifically designed with young learners in mind • Fakebook • Fake. Tweet • Edublogs • Kidblog • Edmodo

Resources for Twitter • http: //www. slideshare. net/halafawzi/twitter-in-efl- classroom • http: //www. teachhub. com/50 -ways-use-twitterclassroom • http: //etcjournal. com/2009/12/15/twit-torial/ • Don’t want to tweet online – do "tweets" on post-it notes

Social Media and Your Class • Set up the rules and guidelines with the students for safe and appropriate use • http: //www. safekids. com/kids-rules-for-online-safety/ • https: //www. commonsensemedia. org/blog/internet-safety-library • http: //www. gcflearnfree. org/internetsafety

References • Davis, V. (2014). A guidebook for social media in the classroom. Edutopia. Retrieved from • http: //www. edutopia. org/blog/guidebook-social-media-in-classroom-vickidavis • Haase, B. (n. d. ). Using Facebook groups with EFL students. Retrieved from http: //www. excel-college. com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Using. Facebook-groups-with-EFL-students. pdf • Stannard, R. (2011). How English language teachers can go with the Twitter flow. Guardian Weekly. Retrieved from http: //www. theguardian. com/education/2011/oct/11/twitter-for-englishlanguage-teachers