making the internet work for you
Denise Cabanel-Bleuer & Akemi Kagawa
 
There are a wide range of manners in which to enhance classroom learning through use of the Internet; so many, in fact, that some may feel overwhelmed by the idea of even beginning to explore this wonderful resource. Today we will demonstrate a variety of ways, from simple to more complex, that Foreign Language instructors can take advantage of the Internet and make it work for them in the classroom.
 
Contact with students - Homework from students (via attachments) - Storage for instructor
Advantages:
Accessibility
Checking POP mail (in Options/Preferences)
Virus check for attachments

Some Free Web-Mails:
Hotmail: http://www.hotmail.com/
ZD-Net: http://www.zdnetonebox.com/inbox.html
Yahoo!: http://mail.yahoo.com/
Lycos: http://mail.lycos.com/
Eudora: http://www.eudoramail.com/
Latinmail: http://www.latinmail.com

E-Mail Resources:
Harnessing E-Mail: http://www.learnthenet.com/english/section/email.html
Sending & Receiving Attachments: http://www1.csolve.net/newbie/attachments/
Sending Attachments: http://www.learnthenet.com/english/html/94attach.htm
Opening Attachments: http://www.learnthenet.com/english/html/76open.htm
Attachments (Macintosh): http://www.macinstruct.com/tutorials/email/index.html

 
Web Albums
Picture files storage - Easily accessible
Some Free Web Photo Albums:
Yahoo Photos: http://photos.yahoo.com/
MSN: http://communities.msn.com/
YourPhotos: http://www.yourphotos.com/
ClubPhoto: http://www.clubphoto.com/
Scanning Resources:
ScanTips: http://www.scantips.com/
Scanning Images: http://www.cortland.edu/flteach/mm-course/scanning.html
Scanning Images for the Web: http://www.iboost.com/build/graphics/1130.htm
 
web sites
Course information - Class handouts - Assignments - Announcements - Grades - Contact information - Practice - Fun - Interesting Links - Student involvement - Instructor storage
Where to Publish:
- Free sites, Communities: Generally include basic web building software
- Campus: Also tend to have web building integrated
- Textbook Publishers: ex. http://dcabanel.pageout.net/
- Personal: Dreamweaver, FrontPage, Netscape Composer, FirstPage
Web Site Building Resources:
Yahoo Geocities: http://geocities.yahoo.com/home
Tripod: http://www.tripod.lycos.com/
Hitbox Communities: http://www.hitbox.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?hbcommunity
MSN Communities: http://communities.msn.com/home
MultiMania: http://www.multimania.lycos.fr/hebergement/ (in French)
Web 101: http://www.hitbox.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?website101/wsb101_intro
- Basic web site building
Hitbox Doctor: http://www.hitbox.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?tools/doc
- Check your pages and get feedback on areas for possible improvement
W3C- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/
- Guidelines explaining how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities
Bobby: http://www.cast.org/bobby/
- Ensure that your site is accessible to all
Moreover News Portal: http://www.moreover.com/news
- "Put dynamic news headlines on your site- free!": http://w.moreover.com/webmaster/
- Full list of available categories: http://w.moreover.com/categories/category_list.html
Non-Western Languages and Computing:
Viewing homepages without installing software-
Japanese
Japanese Viewer: http://embjapan.org.uk/viewer.html
Japanese WWW Page Viewer: http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/subjects/japanese/japsoftw.html
Shodouka: http://web.lfw.org./shodouka/
Viewing homepages by installing software-
Chinese, Japanese, Korean
Twin Bridge Asian Viewer for PC: http://twinbridge.com/
NJWIN CJK Multilingual Viewer 1.83: http://www.njstar.com/
NJStar Asian Explorer 1.25: http://www.njstar.com/ 
Reading and Writing-
Chinese, Japanese, Korean
Microsoft Internet Explorer IME 5.02: http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/iebuild/ime5_win32/en/ime5_win32.htm
NJStar Communicator 2.23: http://www.njstar.com/communicator/
- Word Processors:
NJSTAR Chinese Word Processor 4.33 (DEMO): http://njstar.com/
NJSTAR Japanese Word Processor 4.33 (DEMO): http://njstar.com/
Chinese Partner 5.0 DEMO: http://www.twinbride.com/
Japanese Partner 2000 DEMO: http://www.twinbride.com/
JWPce Support Information: http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~grosenth/c_main.html
More Foreign Language Resources:
E-Conflict World Encyclopedia: http://www.emulateme.com
- "Eradicate Conflict by Increasing Cultural Awareness"
About: The Human Internet- Cultures: http://home.about.com/culture/
- Cultural links as well as for language learning
Mosaic Web: http://www.mosaicweb.com
- "Celebrate Diversity"
Oxford Language Centre: http://units.ox.ac.uk/departments/langcentre/teaching_resources.html
- Language learning teaching resources
I Love Languages: http://www.ilovelanguages.com
- "Your Guide to Languages on the Web"
Foreign Language Internet Activities: http://members.aol.com/maestro12/web/wadir.html
- Advice on preparing activities, as well as sample lessons (from CFLP & CLTA workshops)
International Language Development: http://www.ild.com
- Online lessons in French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish
YourDictionary.com: http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages.html
- Over 260 languages represented
Quia: http://www.quia.com
- Teacher-submitted language games
Tongue Twisters: http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/
- "1st international Collection of Tongue Twisters"
Internet Public Library Online Newspapers: http://www.ipl.org/reading/news/
- From all around the world
The World Clock: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
- Find out the current time around the world
Universal Currency Converter: http://www.xe.com/ucc/
- You can link to this site or put it on your own site
Typing International Characters: http://www.umass.edu/langctr/keyboardhelp.html or
- http://dcabanel.pageout.net/user/www/d/c/dcabanel/occ/sfa/int_char.html