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Dave's ESL cafe is a site that is maintained by Dave Sperling. I cannot find any information about the man and his affiliations on the website, but he does have contact info.

Dave collects and posts lesson plans, strategies, and assessments for teaching English language learners. Dave appears to have exclusive control on what gets posted, and there are a lot of helpful ideas from educators around the world.

I think this site is a great resource for teachers with ELL students. It maintains a large selection of works collected from educators. Many of the lesson aim at creating a more active and fun classroom. Also, if the forum was up and running it would also be a great place for teachers to help one another with their teaching dilemmas.

This map takes statistics from the National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition and Language Instruction Education Programs and maps it out so it is more meaningful.

I think this site is valuable because its a great example of what can be done with the internet, its an interactive map that shows social change on both a widespread and small level.

A teacher could use this site to understand the reality that they will most definitely teach to students who do not speak English, and deciding a plan for how they will approach this situation. Also, they could use it in a social studies classroom as a visual demonstration of a widespread social change.