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 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">**Podcasts** || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">**Sites Students Can Contribute to (authentic production)** ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">**Academic English** ||  ||

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 * ~ <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Business English (home) ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**One Stop English Business and ESP** This section of the site contains a series of articles and lesson plans for Business English and English for Specific Purposes. http://www.onestopenglish.com/section.asp?docid=144569 ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**EnglishClub.com - Business English** This page contains basic information on how to write business letters. http://www.englishclub.com/business-english/index.htm ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Monster.com - Job Search Basics** Good authentic resource concentrating on advice for the job market- primarily for the U.S. http://content.monster.com/basics/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**E. L. Easton** This is a webliography of sites relation to business and business English. Topics include commodities, personal finance small business and marketing. http://eleaston.com/biz/home.html ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Better English - Business** - Large collection of vocabulary exercises relation to business. http://www.better-english.com/vocabulary.htm ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Purdue Univ. OWL - Business Writing** This site concentrates on the production of business documents such as emails, memos, cover letters, and extensively on resumes. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/pp/index.html#business ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Business and International Communication (SOLVIT)** This is a new and very useful site maintained by CILT, BLIS and RLN. It covers all the important aspects of communicating and doing business overseas under the headings Spoken Communication, Written and Visual Communication and Cultural Communication: [|http://www.solvit.org.uk] ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Get International Clients** Interesting series of articles in English about targeting international markets. While geared toward native English speakers, non-native English speakers should find them useful as well. There is a series on //Basic Guidelines For Using Cross Cultural Communication Web Tools// (http://getinternationalclients.com/basic-guidelines-for-using-cross-cultural-communication-web-tools/) which also talks about how to analyze differnt cultures and how to communicate with people from those cultures. http://getinternationalclients.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Financial Sense Newshour** business news program http://www.financialsense.com/fsn/main.php ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**RTT News** Global financial newswires http://www.rttnews.com/Media/AudioNews.aspx ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**BusinessWeek** podcasts from the business magazine http://www.businessweek.com/search/podcasting.htm ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Cambridge Business Lectures** from Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge, UK http://www.cambridgebusinesslectures.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Monash University Business School** Online business lectures from Australia http://www.mulo.monash.edu.au/fac-buseco.html ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**BBC Learning Business English** Contains various substantial sections on business English, including a comprehensive and well-resourced series of talks by Charles Handy on leading management gurus, Business Language to Go, Talking Business, Get that Job etc.


 * ~ <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Academic English (home) ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**UEfAP** Reading skills for cademic study [] ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> **Khan Academy** - Short 10 minute lectures about mostly science and mathematics topics.[] ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Using English for Academic Purposes a kind of an online coursebook with exercises http://www.uefap.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Academic Earth** Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars http://academicearth.org/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**TED Talks** TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design. Site aims to provide video of academics, teachers and other speakers on a wide variety of topics http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">YouTube Edu Videos and channels from college and universities http://www.youtube.com/edu ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Brain Pop** Short video on academic topics. Good for lower levels http://www.brainpop.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Cambridge Business Lectures** from Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge, UK http://www.cambridgebusinesslectures.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Monash University** Online business lectures from Australia http://www.mulo.monash.edu.au/fac-buseco.html ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Delicious/lectures** Academic lectures from various sources on many subjects http://delicious.com/tag/lectures ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Reith Lecture series from the BBC** world history http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2008/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**The Infinite Mind** lectures in psychology http://www.lcmedia.com/mindprgm.htm ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**University of Michigan corpus of spoken English** Includes advising sessions, colloquia, dissertation defenses, discussion sessions, interviews, lab sections, lectures, meetings, office hours, seminars, study groups, student presentations, service encounters, and tours. Includes all academic disciplines. Audio recordings with written transcripts.http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/micase/ Sound files are available here http://lw.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/Audio/index.htm ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**UC-Berkeley** Audio and video webcasts of class lectures from the University of California at Berkeley http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_feeds.php ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Slideshare** is an application to make and share Powerpoint style presentations. Presentations already uploaded on site in a number of academic subjects. Could be good for lower levels http://www.slideshare.net/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Smarthistory** Video and audio alternative to traditional art history textbooks http://www.smarthistory.org/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Edublogs TV** alternative to You Tube created by Edublog. Seems to have videos suitable for lower levels http://edublogs.tv/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Open Culture** free downloadable lectures and courses from a number of US universities http://www.oculture.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Cephalopodcast** podcasts about oceanic science for the masses http://www.cephalopodcast.com/blog/cephalopodcast/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Academic Word of the Day** podcast including common academic English vocabulary, examples, exercises and linked texts. From Massey University, New Zealand http://tinyurl.com/6xy9hy ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Academic English Generator** Themed units with examples and exercises, including some (limited) interactivity, based on a set of academic vocabulary derived from the Academic Word List and from an analysis of core business textbooks. From Massey University, New Zealand http://www.academicenglishgenerator.com ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Academic Word List - Site to help students expand their academic vocabulary and tecnical jargon. [|http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~alzsh3/acvocab/index.htm] ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Open Video Project an online searchable video library stocked with many documentary and educational items http://www.open-video.org/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Vidipedia** similar to Wikipedia but with video. Site setup is similar to Wikipedia as well Good source for intermediate level videos http://www.vidipedia.org/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Graspr Instructional Videos** videos focusing on how to do things - categoried Good for intermediate level http://www.graspr.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**The Earth Institute at Columbia University** Webby award winner 2009 with videos, articles and more tailored for classroom use http://www.earth.columbia.edu/sections/view/9 ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**American RadioWorks** site with collection of documentaries, mostly dealing with U.S. history and current issues Webby Award nominee http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**WebMD** This site has long been used for medical information by laypeople. Good for nontechnical, but still authentic, materials related to health and health issues http://www.webmd.com/ ||


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 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**i-Village Quiz Central** A set of general popular-magazine-like quizzes. UK-culture-based, with topics ranging from the serious like health to the frivolous. http://www.ivillage.co.uk/quizcentral ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Jung-Myers-Briggs Personality Test** A simplified version of the well-known test. http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Multiple Intelligences Test** - find out more about how you learn best http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/ict/multiple_int/questions/choose_lang.cfm ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Quiz Central** A set of quizzes mostly based in U.S. geography, history as well as English grammar and vocabulary http://www.eslcafe.com/quiz/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Cybertown** A relatively simple virtual-reality world. Best-suited for adolescents and younger. http://www.cybertown.com/main_ieframes.html ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**USDA-Pyramid Dietary Assessment** Site sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. While not exactly intuitive, it is a very thorough anaylsis of diet. Keeps track of diet over time as well. http://www.mypyramidtracker.gov/login.aspx ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**European Railway Timetables** An interesting task for the language learner is to plan a journey by train, making use of authentic railway timetables. You can find details of most train numbers, connections and prices by consulting the websites of national railway networks. **Deutsche Bahn** (Germany: [|http://www.bahn.de]), **ÖBB** (Austria: [|http://www.oebb.at]) and **SNCF** (France: [|http://www.sncf.fr]) can be consulted in English as well as in the national language. The **Dutch Railways** site at [|http://www.ns.nl] is also very good for national and international connections. For the UK Ithere is the **National Rail** site, which - significantly - is available //only// in English: [|http://www.nationalrail.co.uk]. Try planning a rail journey from Oxford to Munich or from Manchester to Brussels. The Deutsche Bahn website allows you to do this, detailing all connections and the time that should be allowed for using the London Underground between stations. The SNCF site is much more temperamental, offering less detail and falling over if there are too many connections or if you choose an unacceptable preferred departure time or date. According to National Rail, however, UK trains only connect with Eurostar trains departing from Waterloo: end of the line. ||
 * **<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">PassportStamp ** A site which allows users to create a personalised map of their travels across the globe and discuss their exploits with other Web users: [|http://www.passportstamp.com] ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Senses Challenge interactive quiz about the 5 senses. Language level is intermediate to high-intermediate but the questions are hard! http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/interactives/senseschallenge/senses.swf ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Second Life** The fastest growing Multi User Virtual Environment (MUVE) on the Web, a 3D virtual world that you can explore in the guise of your chosen avatar: [|http://www.secondlife.com]. ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Webkinz** is a 3-D virtual work where users have their own virtual pet to take care of. Generally aimed toward younger learners. http://www.webkinz.com/us_en/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Daily English Activities** This site have a wide variety of different types of activities in English. Some are standard, like grammar drills but most are interactive and authentic like chatting with Santa or learning a song in English. http://daily-english-activities.blogspot.com/2008/12/have-chat-with-santa.html ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Voice Thread** Here you can upload images or videos for others to comment on. The main page is at http://voicethread.com/ One example of a good school activity is at a thread called "What Could It Mean?" at http://voicethread.com/share/48359 ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Sheppard Software** supports a free website with general educational games such as basic chemistry, world and US geography and history. Main audience is kids but good for beginner to intermediate English learners of any age http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/ ||


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 * ===<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">__Basic__ === ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**MES-Games** Mostly grammar and some vocabulary. Best for beginner and low intermediate levels. http://www.marks-english-school.com/games.html ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Better English - Easier** While the title claims its a business English site, it mostly has general grammar exercises, though content is better-suited to older learners http://www.better-english.com/easier.htm ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Verb Tense Tutorial** All the verb tenses in English here. Good basic exercises. There are some explanations of how to use the tenses but they are separated from the exercises, which makes them a bit difficult to consult when doing the exercises. http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.html ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Super Quiz Machine** Basic grammar quizzes. No categorization, no explanations. http://www.manythings.org/c/r.cgi/quiz ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Mad Libs on the Web** Not really a grammar quiz per se, more of a game where the participant is asked to provide words based mostly on grammatical category. It is a game native speakers (at least in the pre-digital age) have played. http://us.penguingroup.com/static/packages/us/yreaders/madlibs/fun.html ||
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**__Intermediate__** ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**ESL Blues** LARGE collection of grammar quizzes which are categorized. Some reading based quizzes, too http://ww2.college-em.qc.ca/prof/epritchard/trouindx.htm ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**330 Grammar Topics** Fairly complete set of grammar exercises. Each category of grammar quizzes are preceeded by explanation/review. http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/index.htm ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**SMIC Interactive Exercises** Mostly grammatical exercises with some vocabulary and 2 reading-based quizzes. http://www.smic.be/smic5022/Onlineexercises.htm ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Professor Grammar** grammar explanations, grammar exercises and video http://www.professorgrammar.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**__Advanced__** ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Purdue OWL - ESL and Punctuation Exercises** The ESL section is short but covers the most common errors ESL writers make. The rest of the quizzes tackle punctuation and other issues not restricted to the ESL learner. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/interact/ ||
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**__Multi-level__** ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Internet TESL Journal - Grammar Exercises** Extensive collection of Java-based quizzes at all levels. http://a4esl.org/q/j/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**EFL Net** Wide selection of grammar quizzes inclusing error corrections exercises similar to what is presented on the TOEFL. http://www.eflnet.com/grammar/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**English Learner** British English based site. Also includes some vocabulary work like crossword puzzles. http://www.englishlearner.com/tests/test.html ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Free English Tests for ESL/EFL** grammar, vocabulary and business English, with explanations http://www.english-test.net/ ||


 * ~ <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Grammar Tutorials (home) ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**onestopenglish.com - Grammar Reference** Pure explanations, might be more useful to teachers than students. http://www.onestopenglish.com/section.asp?sectionType=listsummary&catid=58093 ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Grammar Safari** This is a kind of "webquest" The purpose of this webquest is to find examples of grammatical structures and then create hypothesis as to the rules. http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/student_grammarsafari.html ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Professor Grammar** grammar explanations, grammar exercises and video http://www.professorgrammar.com/ ||


 * ~ <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Just for Fun (home) ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**The Speech Accent Archive** This site is part of a research project of George Mason University. They have samples of native and non-native speakers of English saying the same paragraph which contains the all the phonemes of English. http://accent.gmu.edu/browse_atlas.php ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Momma Said** Jen Singer's collection of maternal wisdom. http://www.mommasaid.net/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Mad Libs on the Web** Online version of the pen-and-pencil game that really is (was?) played by native English speakers. Good for reviewing grammatical categories and categories of vocabularies. http://us.penguingroup.com/static/packages/us/yreaders/madlibs/fun.html ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Virtual Tourist** Really good site to find out the main attractions of just about any country/city in the world. http://www.virtualtourist.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Overheard in the Office** Collection of really dumb things people say. Some can be a bit crass. The site also has related pages like Overheard at the Beach, Overheard in New York, etc. http://overheardintheoffice.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Cupcake Wars** So which are better??? Hostess cupcakes or Pinguinos???http://www.astro.ufl.edu/~levine/Cupcake_Wars.html ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Daily English Activities** This site have a wide variety of different types of activities in English. Some are standard, like grammar drills but most are interactive and authentic like chatting with Santa or learning a song in English. http://daily-english-activities.blogspot.com/2008/12/have-chat-with-santa.html ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Voice Thread** Here you can upload images or videos for others to comment on. The main page is at http://voicethread.com/ One example of a good school activity is at a thread called "What Could It Mean?" at http://voicethread.com/share/48359 ||
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 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Fiesta** This site focuses on the grammar and vocabulary difficulties Spanish speakers have in English. Some reading exercises as well. http://www.geocities.com/suzkeadie/FIESTA.html ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Tips for Spanish Speakers** who are learning English List of common errors that Spanish speakers make in English http://www.angelfire.com/fl/espanglishtips/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Pumarosa** English lessons at the beginner and intermediate level. http://www.pumarosa.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Sheraton English** Online English course for Spanish speakers http://www.shertonenglish.com/ ||


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 * ===<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Basic === ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Randall's ESL Cyber-listening Lab** Short listenings and related exercises divided into three levels of difficulty http://www.esl-lab.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**English Club Monthly News Digest** Easy listenings with transcripts and exercises based on news stories of the past month. Archive of stories available http://www.englishclub.com/listening/news.htm ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**About.com - Beginner Listening Exercises** Nine conversations with accompanying exercises http://esl.about.com/od/listening/Beginning_Level_English_Listening_Comprehension_Exercises.htm ||
 * ===<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Intermediate === ||
 * **<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Interactive Online Listening Assistan t** Large collection of listenings with accompanying exercises. Need to download audio clips. http://iola.cityu.edu.hk/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**About.com - Intermedate Listening Exercises** Twenty two listenings and exercises. Some are business-related http://esl.about.com/od/intermediatelistening/Intermediate_Level_English_Listening_Comprehension_Exercises.htm ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**ELLLO** a free online listening resource of over 1,000 listening activities designed especially for ESL and EFL students and teachers. Most listening activities include images, an interactive quiz, transcript of the audio and downloadable MP3 http://www.elllo.org/ ||
 * **<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">E.L. Easton ** Listening clips focusing on American pronunciation, especially reduction [] ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Randall's ESL Cyber-listening Lab** Short listenings and related exercises divided into three levels of difficulty http://www.esl-lab.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**Real English Listening** - Short clips from British TV shows with exercise suggestions for the classroom. [] ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Lit 2 Go** - Downloadable audio mp3's of poems short stories and more for multiple levels with searchable database http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/ ||
 * ===<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Advanced === ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Randall's ESL Cyber-listening Lab** Short listenings and related exercises divided into three levels of difficulty http://www.esl-lab.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Internet Archive** General archive of text and video from the WWW. Over 300,000 authentic videos. http://www.archive.org/index.php ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**BBC World Service** This is the Web version of the BBC’s excellent news service. As well as texts, you’ll find sound and video clips too. Schedules of broadcasts can also be found here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Lit 2 Go** Downloadable audio mp3's of poems short stories and more for multiple levels with searchable database http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Fancast** American television shows and movies re-broadcast on the Internet http:// www.fancast.com // ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Librivox** Free audiobooks online http://librivox.org/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**National Geographic Magazine Online** text, audio, and video - American English http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**The Economist Online Magazine** text, audio, and video -British English http://www.economist.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**UC-Berkeley** Audio and video webcasts of class lectures from the University of California at Berkeley http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_feeds.php ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**University of California at Berkeley YouTube channel** various events academic English http://www.youtube.com/ucberkeley ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**University of Michigan corpus of spoken English** Includes advising sessions, colloquia, dissertation defenses, discussion sessions, interviews, lab sections, lectures, meetings, office hours, seminars, study groups, student presentations, service encounters, and tours. Includes all academic disciplines. Audio recordings with written transcripts.http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/micase/ Sound files are available here http://lw.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/Audio/index.htm ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**University of California at San Diego** video lectures on demand in many academic disciplines http://www.ucsd.tv/library-human.asp ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Reith Lecture series from the BBC** world history http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2008/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**The Infinite Mind** lectures in psychology http://www.lcmedia.com/mindprgm.htm ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Delicious/lectures** Academic lectures from various sources on many subjects http://delicious.com/tag/lectures ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Delicious Listenings** Authentic and Graded Listenings from various sources on many subjects http://delicious.com/Free_Online_English_Practice ||


 * ~ <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Podcasts ||
 * **<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 125%;">Just a Minute ** - (U.K.) Game show where panelists must talk about a random topic for one minute. [] ||
 * **<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 125%;">Says You! ** - Game show from Seattle, Washington, USA [] ||
 * **<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 125%;">Wait wait... don´t tell me ** - News broadcasts from National Public Radio (U.S.) [] ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 125%;">**The Guardian Podcasts** - (U.K.) Podcasts from one of the largest newspapers in the United Kingdom. [] ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**UGoEigo** Podcast site for English phonetics http://www.ugoeigo.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Learn English with the Bob and Rob Show** podcast site for learning English http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=4371 ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**The Word Nerds** Podcasts about the English language, best for advanced learners http://thewordnerds.org/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**BBC Six-minute English** updated weekly http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/how2/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**English Through Football** for all you football (soccer) fanatics out there http://languagecaster.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Academic Word of the Day** podcast including common academic English vocabulary, examples, exercises and linked texts. From Massey University, New Zealand http://tinyurl.com/6xy9hy ||  ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**American RadioWorks** site with collection of documentaries, mostly dealing with U.S. history and current issues Webby Award nominee http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/ ||  ||


 * ~ ===<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">General News (home)=== ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**BBC Learning English - News English** English lessons based on news stories, mostly audio. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/index.shtml ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**English Club Monthly News Digest** Easy listenings with transcripts and exercises based on news stories of the past month. Archive of stories available http://www.englishclub.com/listening/news.htm ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Breaking News English** Short news stories for English learners. Includes lesson plans and comprehension exerciseshttp:www.breakingnewsenglish.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**CNN News Videos** Not an ESL/EFL site but good site for authentic news video. http://edition.cnn.com/video/index.html ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Listen to CBC News Radio** Canadian radio in streaming audio. Click on a city to choose which station to listen to. http://www.cbc.ca/listen/index.html ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**NPR Radio** Text-based news stories from US National Public Radio, including transcripts of radio shows. Links to affiiate radio stations. http://www.npr.org/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Euronews: English version** A news round-up in English, presented here from a European perspective: http://www.euronews.net/en ||


 * ~ ===<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">General Video (home)=== ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**CNN Videos** Mostly related to current events http://edition.cnn.com/help/video/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**You Tube** http://www.youtube.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**English Trailers** previews for movies made in English http://www.english-trailers.com/index.php ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Stupid Videos** The name says it all http://www.stupidvideos.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**BBC World Service** This is the Web version of the BBC’s excellent news service. As well as texts, you’ll find sound and video clips too. Schedules of broadcasts can also be found here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Adeaters** http://www.adeater.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Yapper** Like You Tube but set up for English learners. http://en.yappr.com/welcome/Welcome.action ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Brain Pop** short videos on academic subjects. Good for lower levels http://www.brainpop.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Moving Image Archive** collection of hard to find video and digitized films freely available to the public http://www.archive.org/details/movies ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Edublogs TV** alternative to You Tube created by Edublog http://edublogs.tv/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">A/V Geeks Educational Films - old school films from the late 1940's on [] ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Vidipedia** similar to Wikipedia but with video. Site setup is similar to Wikipedia as well Good source for intermediate level videos http://www.vidipedia.org/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Graspr Instructional Videos** videos focusing on how to do things - categoried Good for intermediate level http://www.graspr.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**American RadioWorks** site with collection of documentaries, mostly dealing with U.S. history and current issues Webby Award nominee http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/ ||
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<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">General Reading (home)
|| http://edsitement.neh.gov/ ||
 * ===<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Basic === ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**English Learner Basic Reading** http://www.englishlearner.com/tests/beginner_reading_1.shtml ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Encarta** Microsoft's online encyclopaedia. Useful articles, including a dictionary, thesaurus, atlas, quizzes and multimedia clicps: http://encarta.msn.com ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Wordle** is a site that generates "word clouds" by analyzing and demonstrating grafically the frequency in which words appear in a text. http://www.wordle.net/ Web English Teacher at http://www.webenglishteacher.com/ has ideas on how to use Wordles for pre-reading exercises. ||
 * ===<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Intermediate === ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**English Learner Intermediate Reading Test** http://www.englishlearner.com/tests/intermediate_reading_test_1.shtml ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**English 2 Go** http://www.rdenglish.com/newE2G/index.jsp?idPais=mx&target=home ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**English Learner Upper Intermediate** http://www.englishlearner.com/tests/mermaid.html ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Mad Libs on the Web** http://us.penguingroup.com/static/packages/us/yreaders/madlibs/fun.html ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Encarta** Microsoft's online encyclopaedia. Useful articles, including a dictionary, thesaurus, atlas, quizzes and multimedia clicps: [|http://encarta.msn.com] ||
 * ===<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**Advanced** === ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Gutenberg** The Project Gutenberg is a huge archive of free books which are in the public domain: [|http://www.gutenberg.org] ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**The Free Library** - offers free, full-text versions of classic literary works from hundreds of celebrated authors, whose biographies, images, and famous quotations can also be found on the site. Recently, The Free Library has been expanded to include a massive collection of periodicals from hundreds of leading publications covering Business and Industry, Communications, Entertainment, Health, Humanities, Law, Government, Politics, Recreation and Leisure, Science and Technology, and Social Sciences. This collection includes millions of articles dating back to 1984 as well as newly-published articles that are added to the site daily. [] ||
 * ===<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Multi-level === ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Rong Chang Reading** [] ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**The English Page-Reading Room** [] ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**ESL Reading** mostly ghost stories and links to other readings. Some activities as well [] ||
 * ~ ===<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Research (home)=== ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Google Scholar** To search for academic sources on the Web[| http://scholar.google.com/] ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Wikipedia** The most loved and hated online encyclopedia [] ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Yahooligans** The Web Guide for Kids [] ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**The Free Library** offers free, full-text versions of classic literary works from hundreds of celebrated authors, whose biographies, images, and famous quotations can also be found on the site. Recently, The Free Library has been expanded to include a massive collection of periodicals from hundreds of leading publications covering Business and Industry, Communications, Entertainment, Health, Humanities, Law, Government, Politics, Recreation and Leisure, Science and Technology, and Social Sciences. This collection includes millions of articles dating back to 1984 as well as newly-published articles that are added to the site daily. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">The National Archives free online access to U.S. government records and historical documents http://www.archives.gov/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Scribd online collection of documents uploaded by the Scribd community http://www.scribd.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Archive Grid resource to search through the collections of archives from around the world http://www.archivegrid.org/web/index.jsp ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Directory of Open Access Journals covers free full-text quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals http://www.doaj.org/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Fact Check Ed** Educational version of the Fact Check website which provides lesson plans designed to get students thinking critically about what they see, hear and read in the media, including the Internet. Provides links to reliable sites for research purposes. Webby Award nominee 2009 http://www.factchecked. ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**EDSITEment** Collection of humanities resources.


 * ~ ===<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Role-Playing Games (home)=== ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**ElectroCity** Webby Award nominee for Best Game. Be the mayor of a New Zealand town and manage its power resources http://www.electrocity.co.nz/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Workday Simulato** r simple game with simple vocabulary. Good for beginner level. Somewhat realistic and funny http://conceptlab.com/simulator/morning/clock800.html ||
 * **<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Lemonade Stand Game **unlike fantasy role playing games, your role is the owner of a lemonade stand with a goal of making as much virtual money as you can in 30 days http://www.lemonadestandgame.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Sharkrunners Game** Webby Award nominee based on the Discovery Channel TV program. Players become "freelance shark researchers" assigned to track and observe a real-world shark through its online avatar http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/sharkweek/shark-runners/shark-runners.html ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Fairyland - Download Page** http://www.1010game.com/asp/downloadpage.asp ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Everquest** http://eqplayers.station.sony.com/index.vm ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Hidden World** http://www.hiddenworld.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Runescape** http://www.runescape.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Altarion** http://www.altarion.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**FASCO** (Crimson Room, Viridian Room, Blue Room and White Chamber) Good for beginner levels http://www.fasco-csc.com/index_e.php ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Quest** http://www.questrpg.org/ ||
 * **<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Cybertown ** Similar to Second Life but easier to learn http://www.cybertown.com ||


 * ~ ===<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Speaking and Conversation Practice (home)=== ||
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Text Chat ** ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**1-Language** http://www.1-language.com/chat/index.htm ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Espanglishchat** Bilingual Chat http://espanglishchat.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Where Are You Now?** http://www.wayn.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**ESL Cafe Chat** http://host8.123flashchat.com/eslcafe/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**ESL Club** http://www.englishclub.com/esl-clubhouse.htm ||
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**Voice Chat** ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Friends Without Borders** A forum for people looking for chat partners on Skype http://www.cyber-courier.com/cer/japan/forum/viewforum.php?f=3 ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Yahoo Voice Chat** http://beta.messenger.yahoo.com/download.php ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**My Language Exchange** links to voice chat programs http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/VoiceChat.asp ||
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**Voice Forums** ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Voicethread** site where you can upload a spoken response to an image or a video http://voicethread.com/#home for an example assignment see http://voicethread.com/#q+what+could+it+mean.b48359.i253548 or for even more ideas go to the **Voicethread 4 Education Wiki** at voicethread4education:home ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Chinswing** voice forum like Voicethread but not as visual, more conversational http://www.chinswing.com/ ||


 * ~ <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Vocabulary (home) ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Word Up** Vocabulary quizzes at five levels[| http://www.teflgames.com/samples.html] ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Study Stack** Web 2.0 application where you can take advantages of activites designed to help with memorization or create your own activities. For English learners, there is the English Vocabulary section at http://www.studystack.com/EnglishVocab and the English Verbs section at http://www.studystack.com/EnglishVerbs ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Wordle** is a site that generates "word clouds" by analyzing and demonstrating grafically the frequency in which words appear in a text. http://www.wordle.net/ Web English Teacher at http://www.webenglishteacher.com/ has ideas on how to use Wordles for pre-reading exercises. ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**English 2 Go** http://www.rdenglish.com/newE2G/index.jsp?idPais=mx&target=home (scroll down and click on "Word Power" icon on left hand side) ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Illustrated Vocabulary** Around 500 basic words of vocab in English, primarily geared to French speakers but simple to use for other speakers as well. Simple multiple-choice exercises with pictures. Institut de la Providence, Belgium: [|http://www.illustratedvocabulary.ip-providence.net] ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Picture Dictionary** A picture dictionary in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. Also contains activities such as flashcards, fill-in-the-blank, etc: [|http://www.pdictionary.com] ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Michael Quinion's World Wide Words** "Investigating international English from a British viewpoint" - a useful and amusing site that takes an oblique look at the English language: new words, weird words, fun words, slang, etc: [|http://www.worldwidewords.org] ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**AllWords** A useful multilingual online dictionary: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch. Also lots of useful links for word lovers: crossword puzzles, word games, glossaries, song lyrics, translation programs, etc: [|http://www.allwords.com] ||
 * **<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Goethe Vocabulary Tests ** site is not interactive, offers tests and answer sheets combining any two languages (e.g. Spanish-English) **http://www.goethe-verlag.com/tests/index1.htm** ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**English for Techies** site is geared but French speakers but is an online database for learning technical English and translating specialist documents http://www.english-for-techies.net/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Frank's ESL Restaurant** site with crossword puzzles mostly for intermediate learners grouped by topic. Also has bilingual crosswords for Norwegian Italian and Spanish speakers http://frank_esl2000.tripod.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Language Games** site with various word games such as hangman, crossword puzzles and word searches http://www.languagegames.org/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Academic Word List Site to help students expand their academic vocabulary and tecnical jargon. [|http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~alzsh3/acvocab/index.htm] ||


 * ~ ===<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Standard Exam Practice (home)=== ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Watt Pad** Academic readings for TOEFL iBT [] ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Encomium TOEFL Tips** Geared for the TOEFL iBT [] ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**English for Phones TOEFL** TOEFL quizzes for handheld devices[| http://www.english4phones.co.uk/toefl/toeflhome.xhtml] ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**TOEFL Tips** How to prepare for the TOEFL iBT http://www.ets.org/Media/Tests/TOEFL/pdf/TOEFL_Tips.pdf ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**One Stop English TOEFL** http://www.onestopenglish.com/section.asp?sectionType=listsummary&catid=58086 ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**TOEFL Basic Skills Daily Quiz** Grammar section only http://www.gettoefl.com/cgi-bin/daily/daily.pl ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**TOEFL TV** Youtube channel sponsored by ETS with mini-lessons and advice to prepare for the TOEFL exam http://www.youtube.com/TOEFLtv ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Free English Tests for ESL/EFL** grammar, vocabulary and business English, which explanations http://www.english-test.net/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Exam English** free online practice for various tests such as TOEFL, TOEIC, CAE, and more http://www.examenglish.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Flo-Joe a comprehensive site for Cambridge exam preparation http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/ ||


 * ~ ===<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Writing and Composition/Rhetoric (home)=== ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Advanced Composition for Non-Native Speakers of English** http://eslbee.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**APA Citation** http://www.apastyle.org/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)** http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Study Skills Presentations** Five presentations covering the basics of academic writing, each one broken down into 'bite-sized chunks' of approximately five minutes each. From Massey University, New Zealand http://tinyurl.com/3gormp ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Referencite** Academic Referencing Resource from the University of Auckland. An online referencing tool providing guidelines and examples for a range of referencing queries in APA, MLA and Chicago formats (by clicking on the 'quickcite' button). Also has film extracts of a wide range of students talking about what academic integrity means to the as well as tutorials in evaluating the credibility of online sources. http://www.cite.auckland.ac.nz ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Myths and Legends Story Creator - not all of it is strictly writing, but it is creative writing [] ||


 * ~ ===<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Comprehensive Sites (home)=== ||
 * **<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Phone English **Site designed to be used on cell phones http://www.english-online.org.uk/mobileinfo.htm ||
 * **<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> Soccerlingua English ** - English lessons for soccer/football fans [] ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Reuter's English to Go** http://www.english-to-go.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Better English** http://www.better-english.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**E. L. Easton** http://eleaston.com/%28click|[|http://eleaston.com]](click on "English" tab) ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**LearnEnglish** The British Council's free site for learners of English http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/|[|http://www.learnenglish.org.uk] ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**English Page** http://www.englishpage.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Language Guide.org** site dedicated to beginner-intermediate vocabulary, grammar and reading lessons. It is a collaborative site, meaning students can participate adding content. http://www.languageguide.org/ ||

-**Tweetscan** site separate from Twitter itself, but designed to search Twitter, looking for posts containing keywords. Good for finding people to follow in Twitter. http://www.tweetscan.com/ -**Twemes** Site that tracks topic markers in Twitter (e.g. #English) to quicking get a look at what people are talking about in Twitter. http://twemes.com/ -**Mr Tweet** touts itself as "your personal networking assistant" Its a site to help find others on Twitter who share similar interests. http://www.mrtweet.net/ -**Twingly**- microblog search engine http://www.twingly.com/microblogsearch ||  ||
 * ~ <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Blogs, Wikis and Forums (home) ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Blogger** Probably the easiest blogging site for students to begin with. It has only basic functions but requires no downloading. http://www.blogger.com/http://www.blogger.com ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Wordpress** This is a more sophisticated method of creating blogs. Requires downloading of software (free) but has more tools to work with. http://wordpress.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Wikispaces** This site is a wiki created at Wikispaces. All tools are online. Use of wikispaces' basic functions is free. Use of more sophisticated functions requires fees. http://www.wikispaces.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Dave's ESL Cafe Student Forums** Asynchronous communication with rooms divided by topics such as music, current events, learning English and many others. http://forums.eslcafe.com/student/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Twitter** Best-known "microblogging" site. Participants answer the question "What are you doing now?" to make blog entries. Also able to send messages directed at specific users. http://twitter.com/


 * ~ <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Webquests (home) ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Webquest Repository** This is a growing selection of WebQuests created by participants in the Consultants-E courses. They are presented with the permission of the writers. Please feel free to try them out - if you use them in class, please contact the author(s) who have asked to be contacted to let them know how they went. http://www.theconsultants-e.com/webquests/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Webquest.org** This site was developed from a project at San Diego State University. It not only has sample webquests (ESL and other subject matters), it has pages devoted to explaining the how's and why's of using webquests for learning. http://webquest.org/index.php ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**CARLA Sample Webquests** This is a collection of webquests in various languages, but there is no reason why a non-English webquest cannot be modified for an English class. http://www.carla.umn.edu/technology/resources/languages.html ||


 * ~ <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Culture-themed websites ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**About: Famous Groundhogs** For Groundhog's Day Feb. 2 http://pittsburgh.about.com/cs/famousgroundhogs/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Picturing America** Collection of artwork depicting U.S. history. Sponsored by National Endowment of the Humanities. http://picturingamerica.neh.gov/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Calgary Science School Virtual Museum** dedicated to Canadian history http://www.galileo.org/initiatives/vmuseum-v1/ ||


 * ~ <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Sites Students Can Contribute to (authentic production) ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**All Dict** Online collaborative dictionary project Students can help! http://www.dicts.info/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Nibipedia** a site created and run by two guys in a garage (much the way Microsoft started). The purpose of this site is to link educationally-valuable video (mostly from YouTube) with relevant Wikipedia articles and/or related videos. Students can add "nibs" (links to other videos or articles) http://nibipedia.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Voice Thread** Here you can upload images or videos for others to comment on. The main page is at http://voicethread.com/ One example of a good school activity is at a thread called "What Could It Mean?" at http://voicethread.com/share/48359 ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Wikispaces** This site is a wiki created at Wikispaces. All tools are online. Use of wikispaces' basic functions is free. Students can collaboratively create entire websites about topics that are lacking on the Web. http://www.wikispaces.com/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Wiktionary** companion project to Wikipedia. Online multilingual dictionaries that anyone can edit. http://wiktionary.org/ ||
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Second Life** The fastest growing Multi User Virtual Environment (MUVE) on the Web, a 3D virtual world that you can explore in the guise of your chosen avatar. Students can create spaces and objects here. http://www.secondlife.com ||

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