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The UW ELP Center Pedagogical Resource Page
Presents:

Resources for Teachers

Computing Help

• Our handout on uploading and downloading (FTP).
• Catalyst - extensive new set of teacher resources from UWIRED.
• Office Help - Search the Tip Zone for questions & answers about the MSOffice products Word, Excel, etc. A service of Ziff-Davis Publishing.
• CALL Software Reviews - a searchable database from Ottawa Carleton District School Board (CA). Recommended.
• UW Web Ed - a special-interest group that meets every other month

Teaching Resources

• Going on a field trip? Get phone numbers, addresses, and maps from USWestDex, or maps with turn-by-turn directions from Mapquest. As well, Mapblast can create a custom map for you to display on your own web page.
• Language Interactive, a site for teachers that addresses questions such as "How can language teachers use the Web to help students learn? What kinds of interactivity are possible on the Web? Why would I want to do this, even if I had the time? By Bob Godwin-Jones, Virginia Commonwealth University.
• Just In Time Training; Eugene, Oregon School District. Rubric for assessing the pedagogical value of a website.
• Ask ERIC and ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics
• Microsoft in Higher Education - on-line monthly magazine, and a newsletter that can be received (free) via email.
• Edunet International - Digital Education Network, in Bedford, UK. Check out their English Practice Pages.
• Edutainment: How to Teach English With Fun and Games (book).
• EFLWeb - on-line magazine for teachers and learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL).
• English Language Teaching Resources - Many links to sites offering information about Organizations, Newsgroups and E-mail Lists, Publications and Publishers, Technology for Teaching, Testing, Research Centers, Jobs, Lesson Plans and Ideas, and more. A great starting point for exploring teaching resources available on the internet. From Ohio University.
• Refereed E-Journals
  1. Language Learning & Technology
  2. Computer Assisted Language Learning
  3. TESL-EJ
• Real-Time Communication in ESL/EFL: links for chat and MOOs.
• SchMOOze University - A MOO for learners and teachers of English. The Neteach discussion list (see below) periodically holds MOO sessions here.
• NETEACH-L:
  an on-line forum through which international EFL/ESL teachers can discuss issues related to using the Internet as an educational tool. This list was created for the purpose of not only sharing success stories and activity ideas, but also helping computer-phobic teachers overcome their fears in order to use the Internet to their students' (and their own) full advantage.
• Linguistic Funland TESL - A site owned by the Neteach-l webmistress, Kristina Pfaff-Harris.
• CNN Newsroom: Classroom Guide and Transcripts and ESL exercises for selected broadcasts
• PBS TEACHER CONNEX - One useful ESL-related feature of this site is a collection of teaching tips for using videos in the classroom.
• Newsweek Education Program - Comprehension and discussion questions for current and past issues of Newsweek.
• Marking Student Work on the Computer - an article by Martin Holmes in the Internet TESL Journal, on using Word 7 or Word Perfect 6.1 to mark student compositions.
• On-Line Writing Lab (OWL) at Washington State University - click on Feathered Friends to see an extensive list of other OWLs.
• Resources for Teachers of English for Science and Technology (EST)
• TESL-L Gopher:
  A Gopher directory from which you can download files from the archives of the TESL-L Electronic Discussion List for teachers of ESL/EFL. You can access list logs from the previous two weeks, or go directly to files on your area of interest, such as: Pedagogy and Issues, Testing and Evaluation, Classroom Techniques and Hints, Computer in ESL--Activities, Materials, Net Resources or Course Descriptions.
• The Virtual English Language Center - Resources include E-mail key-pal connection, Fluency Through Fables, Weekly Idiom, and software catalog.
• Bilingual Books for Kids
• Proposed additions to APA (American Psychological Assn.) citation style, for citing WWW documents.

Employment

• ESL Job Center at Dave's ESL Café.
• TEFL Professional Network
• Safe Jobs in Japan - an employment service dedicated to placing applicants in rewarding English teaching positions throughout Japan.

Organizations for English Teachers

• The American Association of Intensive English Programs (AAIEP) - of which University of Washington ESL Center is a member.
• WAESOL - The Washington Association for the Education of Speakers of Other Languages.
• California TESOL (CATESOL)
• Japan Association of Language Teaching (JALT)
• Michigan Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (MITESOL)
• TESOL, Inc. (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc.)
• TESOL Spain