Herding Cats: A Descriptive Case Study Of a Virtual Language Learning Community
John H. Steele
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
May 2002
APPENDIX A: INTERNET RESOURCES
Below is a list of Internet resources that are either mentioned in the text or may be of interest to online ESL/EFL teachers and/or virtual researchers.
These World Wide Web sites may be useful for ESL/EFL teachers who wish to incorporate the Internet into their classes.
Dave’s ESL Cafe
http://www.eslcafe.com
The Online ESL Palace
http://www.eslpalace.net
Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab
http://www.esl-lab.com
The Tower of English
http://www.towerofenglish.com
Web Enhanced Language Learning (WELL)
http://www.well.ac.uk
The following World Wide Web sites offer virtual ESL/EFL classes.
EF EnglishTown
http://www.englishtown.com
English For the Internet (EFI)
http://www.study.com
EnglishLearner.com
http://www.englishlearner.com
PeakEnglish.com
http://www.peakenglish.com
The following email distribution (or discussion) lists are for teachers who are interested in interacting with other teachers in the specific areas to which the lists are dedicated.
NETEACH-L
A discussion list for ESL/EFL educators that have incorporated the Internet into their classes
To subscribe, send the following message to:
listproc@ukans.edu
sub neteach-l <your name>
Do not include anything in the subject space.
Substitute your name (without the angle brackets (<>)) where it says “<your name>”
TESLCA-L
A discussion list for ESL/EFL teachers who are interested in Computer Assisted Language Learning. Before subscribing to this list, you must first subscribe to TESL-L.
To subscribe, send the following message to:
listserv@cunyvm.cuny.edu
sub tesl-l <your name>
sub teslca-l <your name>
Do not include anything in the subject space.
Substitute your name (without the angle brackets (<>)) where it says “<your name>”
The following four lists belong to the JISCmail system (the site that maintains most educational email distribution lists in the United Kingdom). Most public JISCmail lists have open archives (you can read messages without subscribing to the list). To access the archives, go to the list homepage (instructions below).
DISTANCELEARN-LANG
A discussion list for educators interested in distance language learning.
Subscription information is below
TEACHING-ON-LINE
A discussion list for educators interested in online teaching.
Subscription information is below
VIRTUAL-METHODS
A discussion list for educators interested in online research.
Subscription information is below
WELL (WEB ENHANCED LANGUAGE LEARNING)
A discussion list for language educators interested in using the Internet in the classroom.
Subscription information is below
Subscription information for the previous four lists:
1. Go to the JISCmail home page. (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk)
2. Click on the first letter of the list name.
3. Scroll down the resulting page until you find the list.
4. Click on the list name.
5. Select “subscribe” to the list.
6. Fill in the required information and submit the form.
To view the archives, step 5 would be to select the month that interests you.
LinguaMOO
Language teachers
http://www.lingua.udallas.edu:7000
MOOfrancais
Students and teachers of French
telnet//moo.syr.edu 7777
MundoHispano
Students and teachers of Spanish
http://web/syr/edu/~lmturbee/mundo.html
schMOOze University
Students and teachers of ESL/EFL
http://schmoose.hunter.cuny.edu:8888
TappedIn
Free office space and MOO environment for educators
http://www.tappedin.org