Designing Activities Based on
Authentic Web-based Resources

 

Evaluating Websites:

Web Lesson Evaluation Form: http://members.aol.com/maestro12/web/evalform.html

Site Evaluation Form, Oregon Public Education Network: http://www.open.k12.or.us./jitt/evalform.html

Evaluating Internet Resources, St. Norbert College Library: http://www.snc.edu/library/evalnet.htm

Starting Points:

FLTeach WWW Resources for Language Teachers: http://www.cortland.edu/flteach/flteach-res.html

The Internet for ESL Teachers: http://edvista.com/claire/internet-esl.html

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Websites with Ideas for Web-based Activities:

Internet Activities for Foreign Language Classes: http://members.aol.com/maestro12/web/wadir.html

Cooperative Learning Activities for the Foreign Language Classroom, by Jean LeLoup and Robert Ponterio: http://llt.msu.edu/vol3num2/onthenet/index.html

Language Learning Activities for the World Wide Web: http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/nflrc.html

How to Write Activities for the Web, by Lewis Johnson: http://members.aol.com/maestro12/web/writing.html

WWW Activities that Work (and Why!), by Volker Hegelheimer, Douglas Mills, Ann Salzmann, Heidi Shetzer: http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/resources/TESOL/WWW_activities.html

How to create a web activity for foreign languages, by Maritza M. Osuna and Carla Meskill: http://llt.msu.edu/vol1num2/article4/default.html#appendix3

480 Favorite Teacher Web Pages (For French, Spanish, and German, categorized as Geography, Newspapers, Foods, Sports, Music, Literature, Museums, Artists, Leisure, History, Holidays/ Celebrations, Weather, Search Engines, and Comics): http://members.aol.com/maestro12/web/toplinks.html

Teaching with the Web -- by Lauren Rosen http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/teach.html

Working the Web for Education - by Tom March- http://www.ozline.com/learning/theory.html

Teaching with the Web: Trails and Tools for German Studies. by Andreas Lixl-Purcell: http://www.uncg.edu/~lixlpurc/publications/UTSAtech.html

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WebQuests:

What is a WebQuest? (PowerPoint presentation)
http://science.uniserve.edu.au/school/tutes/webquest/present/

The WebQuest Page at San Diego State University: http://webquest.sdsu.edu/

WebQuest template: http://www.ozline.com/templates/webquest.html

Examples of foreign language webquests: http://www.aea2.k12.ia.us/Curriculum/webquests.html#flang

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Specific Examples:

Yahoo Greeting Cards (click on appropriate country under "International Greetings"): http://greetings.yahoo.com/

La Familia Real Española: http://www.casareal.es

First year French web exercises (UT Austin): http://www.lamc.utexas.edu/fr/web.html

Internet Treasure Hunts for ESL Students: http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/th/

Hausa Live Broadcast: http://www.dwelle.de/hausa/Welcome.html

Público Online: http://jornal.publico.pt

Interviews of German students about their projects: http://www.museumonline.at/1998/abschluss/filme.htm

German driving test: http://palimpsest.lss.wisc.edu/~clove/ger225/autos.html

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Robert Henderson Language Media Center, University of Pittsburgh

http://www.polyglot.pitt.edu/workshops/techfall02/authentic.html
Last revised: September 30, 2002