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Internet Projects for Learners and Teachers of English France | Around the World further down this page Volterre-Fr Internet Projects for Learners & Teachers of English has received WORLDSPEAKER's 1996 VIRGIL Award for providing quality resources to the international higher education community. France These Internet projects involved learners and teachers in France in some way. They include are email or web projects. International E-mail Tandem and Forum Project http://perso.enst.fr/~benenson/lgv/ Email: benenson@enst.fr This is an international project using email to link students in France with a number of other countries: Britain, Germany, Spain, Canada, the U.S.A... There are also bilingual forums English/French, Spanish/French, German/French. Contact James Benenson at the Ecole National Superieure des Telecommunications for more information. HUT Email Writing Project http://www.ruthvilmi.net/hut/ This is an on-going project coordinated by Ruth Vilmi at the Helsinki University of Technology (HUT) in Finland. Take a look at all her projects. Ruth is one of the most energetic Web users around. Visit her site often! Culture Pages Culture pages done by students involved in past or present HUT projects are well worth looking at. In fact, don't miss them. The autumn 1995 pages were among some of the first efforts at Web Pages with learners of English in the world! Teachers and students involved in these project are doing excellent work with writing and using the Web. William Burns, Sogang University, Korea http://www.sogang.ac.kr/~burns/ and lots to explore in The Internet Writing Project. Or you can go straight to the Korean Culture Pages, Spring 1996 http://ccsun7.sogang.ac.kr/~burns/cult96/cult96-index.html Excellent short essays by Bill Burn's students at Sogang University. You'll also find The Egyptian Culture Pages, Spring 1996 http://ccsun7.sogang.ac.kr/~burns/auc-cult/auc-index.html in Bill's pages. Internet Projects Around the World Academic Reading and Creative Writing through the internet http://mofetsrv.mofet.macam98.ac.il/~elaine//eti/elaine.htm Elaine Hoter and colleagues from Israel have a very interesting project. "The Internet has tremendous potential as a tool for teaching EFL. How can we best utilize this new phenomena so as to enable our students to be part of the global village? By this I mean to prepare them to carry on real correspondence with other learners and native speakers of English throughout the world, to use the internet as a source of knowledge, and - in the case of this course - to study in a virtual classroom via the internet." Find out more at this Web site. Bangkok Post http://www.bangkokpost.net/education/ Educational Services at Post Publishing Plc, has, to my knowledge, an innovative approach to using the Web to help readers, teachers and learns use their print publication: the Bangkok Post. Very interesting for English language reading skills, especially if you're working with newspapers. Aim your browser towards Thailand! Beaumont Publishing offers: Online projects (3 levels of difficulty) http://www.cyberjourneys.net/books/englishatwork/tbchapter2.html Online treasure hunts (3 levels of difficulty) http://www.cyberjourneys.net/books/englishatwork/treasurehunt.htm California Email Project http://www.otan.dni.us/webfarm/emailproject/email.htm Susan Gaer has developed this site sponsored by the Outreached Technical Assistance Network (OTAN) "geared toward non-credit/Adult ESL email projects." Civil Rights in the U.S.A. http://oregonstate.edu/Dept/eli/jan1998.html By Deborah Healey at the English Language Institute, Oregon State University, January, 1998: Civil Rights in the US; Activities, web links, vocabulary, cloze quiz and related links. Great stuff. Class Page, Summer 1996 http://www.vcu.edu/cspweb/,962/9000.html Ron Corio has a clean and easy example of using the Web with his students. This is the computer component for his Graduate Pre-academic program. Cultura http://web.mit.edu/french/culturaNEH/ "The CULTURA project - designed and based at MIT and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities - shows a concrete and dynamic way in which the Web can be used to foster understanding between American and French students. It offers learners (and teachers alike) on both sides of the Atlantic a unique comparative, cross-cultural approach for gradually constructing knowledge of other values, attitudes and beliefs, in an ever-enlarging construction of the foreign culture." The authors are: Gilberte Furstenberg and Shoggy Waryn Culture Capsules: People, Places, and Processes http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/computersf98/webprojhome.html with complete lesson plans and and rationale for the project at http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/ortesol98/home.html by Michael Krauss, who has a fascinating and challenging project he does with his ESL students at Lewis and Clark College in Oregon. Culture Pages http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/8383/ Udoka Ogbue at ogbue@rcs.urz.tu-dresden.de and his students have produced "an entertainment guide for Dresden... [The] aim of the course was to combine our linguistic facilities with our technical possibilities in order to design a cultural page in English about a German topic." [summer 1997] Email Projects http://www.otan.us/webfarm/emailproject/email.htm This site was developed by Susan Gaer in 1994 as a means for people to collaborate worldwide. Based on the premise that non-native speakers have as much to offer as native speakers of English, Susan created the site to help both interact with each other. Projects are either initiated by classes or individual teachers.The word "Email Projects" was developed in 1994 before the popularity of the world wide web. At that time (1994) most of the projects were conducted via e-mail. With the advent to the World Wide Web, most of the projects are now "web projects". Site updated in 2004. Dave's ESL Cafe http://www.eslcafe.com/ This site just doesn't stop growing! For students, teachers and everyone in ESL and EFL. ESL 471: Advanced Writing http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/advwrf99/home.html Michael Krauss' interesting September 1999 writing course at Lewis and Clark College in Oregon. Well worth the visit! Famous Personages in Japan http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/information/famous/ Tom Robb's students at Kyoto Sangyo University have done a very interesting project on famous people in modern-day Japan. Do stop by. An excellent project! Graffiti Wall http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/wall.html Original idea -- leave your graffiti chez Dave! King's Road 2001 Project http://www.hut.fi/~rvilmi/King/ A fascinating project started by Ruth Vilmi in Finland! "The basic idea of the project is to use the King's Road, which runs through four countries from St. Petersburg in Russia to Oslo in Norway (through Finland and Sweden) as the basis for all kinds of activities both physical and virtual." International Environment Project http://www.sogang.ac.kr/~burns/ This international project involves Korea, Egypt, Finland and the USA and is coordinated by Ruth Vilmi at the Helsinki University of Technology. Take a look at the Fall 1995 project here. The Mind's Eye: The Monster Exchange Project http://www.win4edu.com/minds-eye/ Brian Maguire has a stunning Internet Project for children. The Monster Gallery is outstanding and the project curriculum and lesson plans are clear and concise. This interactive email and WWW project involved children in the USA and Australia in grades 2, 3 and 4. Online Education in Theory, Practice, and Applying the Internet to English Education http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve/concepts.html Course Description - For a presentation at the University of Tsukuba Graduate School of Education in February, 2004. This is by Steve McCarty who is a full professor at Kagawa Junior College and elected president of the World Association for Online Education from 1998-2005. Pizzaz! http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/pizzaz.html This is a resource for Scribblers and Teachers of English as a Second Language run by Leslie Opp-Beckman at the University of Oregon. EFL teachers will find this Web site interesting too! There are copyable handouts at this delightful site. Check out the Bio-Poems, Cinquaine, Diamante and Haiku Poems as well as Limericks and 20 Consonant Poems. Projects and Tasks http://www.tcd.ie/CLCS/francais/francaishome.html Activities authored and maintained by Klaus Schwienhorst in Dublin. Topics include, the media, face-to-face, moving abroad, jobs and applications. Ron Corio's Home Page http://www.vcu.edu/cspweb/ron.html Take a look at how you can use the Web in a useful, clear way with your students. Ron Corio is at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, USA.

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