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Introducing the Web

Elsewhere in this website, you can view pages concerning

learning about HTML and web page design
finding tools for web page design
capturing web sites
introducing computers, as these introductions invariably move into web-based issues

There are a LOT of sites on the web explaining how to introduce web-based activities to teachers and students, and why ...and where. The following is a sampling.

• Vance's workshop in Cyprus, May 2001: Internet Applications in Foreign Language Learning
• "Mastering Internet Basics" is aimed at students of English (EFL) who would like to make use of Internet resources to practise their English - http://www.froschweb.com/mib. Making a homepage using Netscape Composer is at http://www.froschweb.com/mib/10.html. Evaluating what you find is at http://www.froschweb.com/mib/3.html#evaluate
• There is a complete book on using the web, Teaching with the Internet: Lessons from the Classroom: http://web.syr.edu/~djleu/sites.html by Donald J. Leu, Jr. and Deborah Diadiun Leu . From Chapter 1, "Welcome to the Internet," topics cover navigation strategies, communications, effective instructional stategies, "Using the Internet to Support Scientific Thinking" (Chapter 7), use with young children and to promote multicultural understanding, and ending with "Chapter 12: Developing a Homepage for your Classroom is at http://web.syr.edu/~djleu/sites12.html."
• "The Web Teacher site offers a long-list of self-paced tutorials for teachers interested in integrating technology into their curriculum. Offerings range from Internet basics, a "baby home page", to more technical topics such as protocols and packets: http://www.webteacher.org/winexp/indextc.html
• The CIT site for language teachers maintained at the U. of Hull, UK, aims to help teachers learn more about using technology for teaching. It's at http://www.lang.ltsn.ac.uk/cit/langsite
• Deborah Healey and Leslie Opp-Beckman have a web site prepared in conjunction with USAID, AED, and the Amideast / IELP-II project in Cairo entitled Computer and Internet TrainingWorkshop: Internet Skills for English Language Teaching Professionals, at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~ielp/, dated April 3-8, 1999
• Fidelman, Carolyn: A language professional's guide to the WWW, CALICO Journal, Vol 13 nos. 2 & 3, at http://agoralang.com/calico/webarticle.html
• Adrienne Paton has a site intitled The Internet in the ESL Classroom at http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/2609/index.html. It's a project she did for her MEd in TESL, and looks at the ways to use Internet in the classroom
• Ruth Vilmi's "all aspect of using the web for education"
• Michael Feldman's rationale for using the web extensively with his classes Server error indicated with Xenu Spider July 26, 2002
• Dundalk Community College's CIFT Tutorials for Educators, (currently) on Netscape, Search Engines, Web Banners, at http://204.91.33.3/ACADEMIC/FTRAIN/CIFTUT.HTM Timed out waitng for Gateway indicated with Xenu Spider July 26, 2002
• http://www.ryter.com/internet1.htm
• The Educational CyberPlayGround, http://www.edu-cyberpg.com, was selected as a "Best Bet" for the week of: 01/09/00 through 01/15/00 on the USA TODAY Education Web site, http://www.usatoday.com/educate/home.htm. The site was cited as being "a helpful resource to teachers, parents, librarians, home schoolers and even those with little or no on-line experience, to use the Internet effectively to aid teaching."
• Find links to sites on the Internet for learning English at the LEO homepage - http://www.aec.ukans.edu/leo/english/english.html (reported 404 not found by Xenu Spider, April 25, 2001)
• Renata Chylinski has her own webpage "resource centre": http://members.optushome.com.au/renatachylinski. She has also compiled another site for the Monash University English Language Centre, at http://www-muelc.general.monash.edu.au/LStation/station.htm

There is an "Introductory Guide to the Internet", designed by James Christensen for use in teaching ESL students and teachers the basics of using the Internet (with a focus on the World-Wide Web) at: http://www.uq.edu.au/~uejchris. Go directly to http://www.uq.edu.au/~uejchris/inetguide/intro.htm

http://www.well.ac.uk/ (Web Enhanced Language Learning Project)

http://www.froschweb.com/woe/training.htm (World of English) - has some free lessons for ESOL learners.

Clay Bond writes "my writing teachers wanted me to put tips up on the web for them, and the first stage is done, at" http://www.indiana.edu/~celtiep/tips1.html

Web tips from Project Cool: http://www.projectcool.com/ (Learn to build a "great" website; find resources)

From the lists: "Gymnasia Virtuales, run by Rob Higgins at Cybercorp. ... very helpful in preparing for online teaching ... half academics and half from business/government ... a good balance of ed theory and hands-on experience .... The url is ..." http://www.cybercorp.net/gymv/crs_out/to_crs.html. (What you'll find here is a course outline with few hot links, so you probably have to sign up to benefit - gvs)

OU CALL Lab's Help page: http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/OU_Language/help/index.html

• How to use the Internet: http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/OU_Language/help/tutorial.html
• Finding information on the Internet: http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/OU_Language/help/find.html
• Evaluating information on the Internet: http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/OU_Language/help/eval.html
• Citing information from the Internet: http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/OU_Language/help/citation.html

Arun Kumar Tripathi, http://www.gsh.org/wce, makes informative postings on Neteach giving a variety of sources for web resources and basic information. Click here to see some of Arun's postings.

Judy Gallian has given a number of presentations on the benefits of student web projects, interactive or Internet syllabi and related issues in instructional technology. Summaries of the presentation and links to examples of student work are available at http://www.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp/faculty/jgallian/CurrResearch.html. (6 Apr 1999, TEACHTECH LIST)

Citing and Evaluating what you find on the Web

Vance's 'sample report' comparison of websites about how students can judge the integrity of what they find on the web: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/pi/projects/example.htm

Teaching Critical Evaluation Skills for WWW Resources

There's a collection of links to evaluation tools at Infoseek: http://www.infoseek.com/Evaluate_Internet_information? Please note that you can also link to larger topics from this page: Directory > Internet > About the Internet > Use the Net effectively >Evaluate information - Cheers, John McVicker

"English Language Institute Technology Tip of the Month: Evaluating Sources" (Deborah Healey, Oregon State University): http://www.orst.edu/Dept/eli/july1996.html (corrected May 11, 1999)

"Evaluating Internet Research Sources" (Robert Harris, Southern California College)

• http://www.sccu.edu/faculty/R_Harris/evalu8it.htm

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators at http://www.capecod.net/schrockguide/

In July, 1998, on TESLCA-L

• Website Critical Evaluation Survey, http://206.12.151.253/LRC/evalhigh.html Timed out waitng for Gateway indicated with Xenu Spider July 26, 2002
• Checklist for an Advocacy Webpage, http://www.science.widener.edu/~withers/advoc.htm

Similar material can be found at http://www.tafe.sa.edu.au/top/how.htm

Bibliography

Internet English - WWW-Based Communication Activities by Richard P. Taylor et al, Oxford University Press has a dedicated Website at http://www.oup.com/elt/internet.english.

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