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Internet Resources for the English Teacher |
Media
The Association for Media and Technology in Education in Canada
MediaStudies.com serves as a hub - providing links to international news, media studies sites, and other resources for media educators, students, researchers, and the wider community.
The
Association for Media Literacy - an Ontario Organization that has played
a major role in developing Media Education in Ontario and beyond.
Canadian Association of
Media Organizations (CAMEO)
Media Literacy Hub Page that seems to be standing on its own at the moment.
But contains enough links to last
Curricular Resources for Media Literacy/Studies is an index to several sites but the authorship is unknown
Media Literacy On Line Project from the University of Oregon
Reel Action: Teen Media. Resources and opportunities for young media artists
On Line Newspapers
World
Newspapers.com
Broken Pencil, a magazine of Zine culture and the Independent Arts in Canada
Canadian-Based Publications On Line lists a number of Canadian zines as well as magazines
Annenberg Media (Learner.org) opens the door to a lot of free, on-line videos for professional development.
Flora.ca contains information and links concerning digital copyright issues.
Teaching English On Line
Merlot, a multi-media educational resource, may be the mother of all sites for this category. Seems to be a portal site in the sense that it is a repository of reviewed sites on all subject areas. Look for English under the Humanities.
Poets.org is a product of the Academy of American Poets and has all sorts of practical materials supporting this task - all American, of course.
On-Line Teaching Tools and Projects
Check out Debatabase. This site will be a fantastic aid for both you and your students throughout a debate unit.
Secondary Education Resources - Language Arts
Literature Circles blog
Teachers.net, a high school English chat board
Paradigm On Line Writing Assistant, is a site students might use to help them with writing projects.
Ontario Blogs you may know about - a ministry site for student blogs
Teaching Tools On Line
The links here concern tool and applications of tools that teachers might access if teaching on line. Blog links seem disproportionate in number because of the prevalence of their use.
Moodle, a course management system
Digital Learning Objects for English (You'll have to pick through to find Secondary Materials)
Click here for a course done as a BLOG
Trackstar is absolutely free and provides teachers with an on-line "track" of sights with annotated instructions for students to follow. In other words, you can set assignments for students on line, and linked to information on line.
SERF, a web-based distance education environment
Knowledge Presenter is an example of elearning tools to be found on line for business clients, where money drives some very high-powered technology that elearning in education seems unable to afford.
Writely is a free on-line tool for collaborative writing. Share a document with a colleague or student and work on it together.
Want to create a small unit of work for students to do on line for your course? Try Sakai.
Blogger is a site among many others on which you can create your own website for free. Educators are making use of blogs. One of the links in the Teaching On Line section is to course work created on a blog.
Blog.com is a further site from which to create your blogs. Graduated scale of blogging allows you to expand (and pay) for features after a level of free blogging.
Canadian Blogs Directory "shamelessly plugging blogscanada.ca
Microcontentnews says blogs will assimilate journalism
Blogs in Education has a link in the course. It seems an excellent site to use in considering this particular teaching tool
Easywebvideo offers a tool for easily attaching video to your website.
Learning Objects are Internet Learning materials - sometimes specific teaching plans, sometimes websites, etc. - that are being collected on various sites to assist people putting together online courses. Two good introductory sites are Merlot, and the University of Wisconsin's learning objects' site.You might also visit the Learning Objects Portal.
Communications on the Internet
For Internet telephony (Voice Over Internet, or VoiP), connect with one of three packages: Skype , Google Talk, or Gizmo.
If you're a Skype user and want an answering machine, free, download Kishkish.
Help with creating Power Point presentations.
Click here for useful information on VoiP
Goldwave, for recording free audio files.
Educational Reform
Education Reform in Canada is a site where you can connect with critics of the system.
Council of Ministers of Education, Canada
Canadian Education Association
You will find a few articles on Accountability on the Canadian Teachers' Federation website if you go to the "issues" link.
Adolescence...and Adolescents on Line
The Book of Zines is a good starting point to discover young people publishing on line.
Adolescent Literacy site presents a good set of links for teaching and understanding adolescents.
Adolesecent Literacy: Instruction presents links to various research articles on this theme