This URL has lots of great pictures

Type in a few words and Lyreach will show you the words and a link to a YouTube video of a singer. Nice idea, and might lead to some projects for students: find the song, learn the lyrics, sing for the class.

This is a really nice description of what WebQuests are and how to develop them. Uses short videos for various aspects, and has links to articles on the Web.

Education site to promote digital literacy. Allows kids to see how various media work and to try them out. High school oriented, not necessarily ESL/EFL

Discussions about "safe surfing" on the Internet -- what works for kids, with imput from teenagers.

"It's as if there's a layer of conversation lying on top of the regular web," shared David Warlick at the TechForum Texas that took place on November 10, 2005. At the same time, he introduced the concept of a Personal Learning Network, or PLN. Facilitated by blogs and RSS Feeds, the purpose of the PLN is professional development within an area of interest. This idea of building your own professional development network - where you find the people from whom you can learn, ask questions of them, comment on their thoughts and links, and have them do the same for you - is one of the major benefits of blogging and podcasting. It is the art of conversation captured in digital format. This article shares how blogs enable both adult learners and students to create their own Personal Learning Networks, sometimes with unintended consequences - both positive and negative. It also examines possible solutions to address unintended consequences among student blog use.

EnCompassCulture is a worldwide reading group, the place to find your next book and talk about books with other readers from around the world. It has full details of over 10,000 books for all age ranges and is full of useful features. British Council initiative.

A multi-week video course for professional development. Sponsored by NSF. Communty-college oriented but good for all levels of teaching and learning.

wikis enable anyone and everyone to create content online using easily understandable tools. The most famous wiki is Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia created by users from around the globe. Wikis are also increasingly being used by the corporate world; for example, eBay recently added wikis to its auction site so members can coauthor articles about buying and selling. Not surprisingly, K-12 schools are also taking advantage of the opportunities for "collaborative construction" that wikis provide.

An assessment rubric for teachers to analyze the Language of the WebQuests students have created. Very detailed with several levels of evaluation.

ongoing student work/collaborations: This wiki contains resources for educators interested in podcasting and language learning and teaching. Although the primary focus is on English Language Teaching (EFL & ESL), it also applies to (and contains examples of) podcasting and MFL (Modern Foreign Languages) teaching and learning.

The Duke Digital Initiative enables Duke faculty members and students to experiment with, develop and implement new and emerging technologies in support of teaching and learning. Non-students at Duke may also use the content for free by signing up.

Play lectures anywhere. Download courses, faculty lectures, interviews, music, and sports. Play on your iPod, Mac, or PC, or burn to a CD.

Online journal of literature and the arts, semi-annually.

USING BLOGGER TO GET STARTED WITH E-LEARNING In "Using Blogger to Get Teachers Started with E-Learning" (FORTNIGHTLY MAILING, May 25, 2006), Keith Burnett discusses how "[s]imple class blogs can be used to post summaries of key points, exercises, links, etc., by email.

"Introducing: the first search engine that can find podcasts according to the words spoken during them!"

Can be put on a Geocities Webpage. Can be run online or download to computer to create and print locally.

Poems set to music. Explains relationship of poem to, e.g., a painting. Nice food for thought for a literature class.

Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized crossword, word search, criss-cross, math puzzles, and more using your own word lists.

The idea of "portfolio" implies that the sum of the parts is greater than its individual parts, that there is some benefit to seeing the whole work longitudinally or from start to finish. A portfolio, here, is a collection of written work, related or not, presented as well as it can be, by a student for the purposes of showing, well, the best that the student can do at a given time. ... The idea of "portfolio" implies that the sum of the parts is greater than its individual parts, that there is some benefit to seeing the whole work longitudinally or from start to finish. A portfolio, here, is a collection of written work, related or not, presented as well as it can be, by a student for the purposes of showing, well, the best that the student can do at a given time.