Links

LINKS

These links are organised into the following categories. Click on the category to see the links, or just scroll down the page.

BRITISH/CULTURAL STUDIES
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING/TEACHING

EMAIL PROJECTS
LESSON PLANS AND MATERIALS
SOFTWARE FOR AUTHORING EXERCISES
WEBQUESTS

ICT FOR TEACHERS
LINKS SITES
SOFTWARE FOR ICT IN ELT TRAINERS
QUALIFICATIONS

BRITISH/CULTURAL STUDIES

Gill, Simon - home page
Click here for the British Studies Web Pages at the British Council in Poland

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING/TEACHING

EMAIL PROJECTS

Both of the following promote international email/Internet projects for schools:

iEARN

Montage

LESSON PLANS AND MATERIALS

BBC World Service: Learning English

The British Council

LearnEnglish Central

LearnEnglish Peackeepers

LearnEnglish Sport

Learn English Kids

One Stop English

Bell English on-line

Clarity teaching ideas

Dave's ESL Cafe - lesson ideas

English Page free on-line lessons

The English Teaching Theatre

English-to-go.com

English Forum interactive exercises

Longman on the Web

The Storyteller

TESL Lessons from TESL Journal

SOFTWARE FOR AUTHORING EXERCISES

Hot Potatoes allows you to create crosswords, jumbled sentence games, drag and drop matching tasks, etc

Clic allows you to create word searches, drag and drop puzzles and word association games.

WEBQUESTS

WebQuests are a great way for both teachers and students to use the Internet for project work:

The Edweb WebQuest home page is one of the best places to start finding out about WebQuests

Click here for an example of a webquest from Amalnet

The basic building blocks of a webquest

A webquest about webquests

More information about webquests from Kathy Schrock

ICT FOR TEACHERS

ICT4LT (Information and Communications Technology for Language Teachers) provides 15 excellent downloadable modules covering a wide range of topics.
Computers don't bite is a beginner's guide to computers from BBC Education. Of special interest is the Teachers section.
Vance Stevens' Introducing Technology and Introducing the Web pages

LINKS SITES

Looking for useful sites on the Web can be a very time-consuming business. Links sites sometimes provide an easy way in.These sites contain a huge number of links to sites connected with ICT in ELT:

Dave's ESL Cafe - Web guide
Eastment, David - links page
Gill, Simon - home page
IATEFL Computer SIG Links page 1 (see also page 2)
Education Guardian ICT links
Leeds links for teachers
Neteach - list of "cool" sites
Stevens, Vance's home page

SOFTWARE FOR ICT IN ELT TRAINERS

ViewletBuilder is a program which allows you to create animated online demos of how software works. A free version of the software can be downloaded.

QUALIFICATIONS

ECDL (European Computer Driving Licence)

COLTE (Certificate of On-Line Teaching of English) This certificate, which you can study for either on-line or face-to-face, prepares experienced and qualified EFL teachers to use the Internet as a teaching medium.
M.Ed in Educational Technology & ELT at the University of Manchester. Distance programme.