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Authoring Programmes

Click2learn.com   The leading provider of people, products, and services to enable organizations to create, deliver, and manage e-Learning.(US)

 

Creative Technology    Here at Creative Technology, we have been publishing and supplying software to schools and colleges for over ten years. We have been involved with IT-based and online education since its inception, and we provide tools and systems to those who wish to provide training and education through computer networks, including the internet. (UK)

 

Half Baked Software Half-Baked Software is an independent company, set up with support of the University of Victoria and the UVic Innovation and Development Corporation.The shareholders are Stewart Arneil, Martin Holmes, and the University. The company was set up in order to handle the commercial aspects of the software (such as Hot Potatoes and Quandary) that the HCMC produces, and potentially to market other software produced within the Humanities at the University. (Victoria  Canada)

 

Wida Software   We develop and distribute language learning programs throughout the world. Programs running under Windows and the Macintosh are available by mail order for English as a foreign language, for French, German, Spanish, Italian. Wida specialises in making authoring programs that enable teachers to build up libraries of exercises closely geared to the needs of their own students. (UK)

 

CALL

Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)  . The Association (founded in 1981) is an international, educational, and professional organization dedicated to the advancement of the knowledge, theory, and quality of learning and teaching at all levels with information technology. This purpose of AACE is accomplished through the encouragement of scholarly inquiry related to information technology in education and the dissemination of research results and their applications. (Norfolk, VA - USA)

 

CALICO  Southwest Texas State University. CALICO, the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium, is a professional organization that serves a membership involved in both education and high technology. CALICO has an emphasis on modern language teaching and learning, but reaches out to all areas that employ the languages of the world to instruct and to learn. CALICO is a recognized international clearinghouse and leader in computer assisted learning and instruction. (Texas  US)

 

CALL-ED CALL-ED is a non-moderated e-mail discussion list created for teacher trainers or educators around the world to exchange information, share ideas, and discuss issues relative to Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL). CALL-ED also serves as a discussion forum for professionals who are planning or teaching a CALL course to pre-service and in-service language teachers. (Missouri  US)

 

Call library  The Virtual CALL Library aims to be a central point of access to the diverse collection of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) software scattered across the Internet and available for downloading. (Sussex  UK) 

 

 

CTI Centre for Modern Languages The CIT Centre, based in The Language Institute at the University of Hull, is part of the LTSN Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics, and Area Studies. Building on the work of the CTI Centre for Modern Languages, the CIT Centre focuses on all aspects of the use of technologies throughout the discipline areas. (Hull  UK)

 

DynEd International - Multimedia Language Learning Publisher  DynEd has the world's most comprehensive lineup of computer-based English Language Teaching (ELT) courses. Its courses range from beginning to advanced, from kids to adults, and include Placement and Mastery testing and a comprehensive Records Management system.

 

E-mail

HUT Internet Writing Project It's a flexible communicative project, with students writing to and receiving feedback from their global peers as well as their teacher. (Ruth Vilmi Finland) 

 

Tandem Server Torino  Apprendimento autonomo ed interculturale delle lingue in Tandem. (Università di Torino)

 

Wilkinson-Your Class Connected (I-TESL-J)  To encourage other teachers to enhance their usage of email and to discover how easy it can be to not only master and teach their students sufficient html to set up a website, but also to come online for free. (Internet TESL Journal)

 

Internet Resources

AskERIC  A personalized Internet-based service providing education information to teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators, parents, and others throughout the United States and the world. It began in 1992 as a project of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information and Technology and is now, with the ERIC Clearinghouse, a component of the Information Institute of Syracuse at Syracuse University (US)

 

Athelstan  Athelstan is known for making resources concerning technology and language learning available to the educational community (Huston Texas US)

 

English as a Second Language  Welcome to the English as a Second Language site by Rongchang Li, Ph. D., a starting point for ESL learners who want to learn English through the Web. Many people have created ESL learning materials for the Web. This site links you to those good and free ESL places. The variety of materials will allow you to choose something appropriate for yourself. (US)

 

English for Science and Technology  If you teach English to students or working professionals in the sciences or technologies, this site may be useful to you  (Center for Language Research, Università di Aizu, Giappone)

 

ESL  The Yamada Language Center WWW Guide: English as a Second Language (Università dell'Oregon US)

 

ESLoop   A collection of sites relevant to English Language Teaching and Learning on the World-Wide Web. Each site is linked to the next, so that no matter where you start, you will eventually make your way around all the sites and end up back at the beginning

 

Humbolt The Internet for Language Teachers at the Humbolt University, Berlin  (Germania)

 

NCSU  Computing resources (North Carolina State University  US)

 

PedagoNet  Learning Material and Resources Centre - The focus of our database is to facilitate the exchange of educational resources. Our database contains resources posted by educators and resources wanted by other educators. It is organized by subject . You may include your resources or post a request to find one by completing one of our on-line forms. The submitted information will remain in our database for three months (Canada)

 

the NODE technologies for learning  the Node.org's technologies for learning (tfl) database is a clearinghouse of information on the technologies used to develop and deliver online education and training (Canada)

 

ODL and Journals

The Internet TESL Journal  For Teachers of English as a Second Language - Articles, Research Papers, Lessons Plans, Classroom Handouts, Teaching Ideas & Links. This is a monthly web journal  (US)

 

JIME  Journal of Interactive Media in Education (UK)

 

LLT  Language Learning & Technology - a refereed journal for second and foreign language educators (Hawaii US)

 

OnlineNewspaper.com  The world's largest listing of newspapers from all around the globe

Educational Open Source Software Programmes

C-Map The IHMC Cmap Tools software empowers users to construct, navigate, share, and criticize knowledge models represented as Concept Maps (IHMC 40 South Alcaniz Street Pensacola, FL 32502 USA)

 

Project Based Learning

Edutopia The George Lucas Educational Foundation (USA)

 

BIE Buck Institute for Education (USA)

 

Constructionism, Learning by Design, and Project Based Learning University of Georgia College of education (USA)

 

4Teachers Tools US Department of Education (USA)

 

Study abroad

Studyabroad  Here you will find listings for thousands of study abroad programs in more than 100 countries throughout the world. You will also find hundreds of links to study abroad program home pages and a wealth of related information (Chester PA US)

 

JobMatch for Aupair  automated job matching for Aupairs and Families (UK)

 

Italia

 

Form@re  NEWSLETTER sull'e-learning a cura di Antonio Calvani

 

Sie-L Società Italiana di e-Learning a cura di Alberto Colorni

 

Atlante  Portale per la scuola della casa editrice Garamond (Roma Italia)

 

INDIRE   Biblioteca di Documentazione Pedagogica (Firenze Italia)

 

Centro Fonolinguistico Sperimentale  Il Centro Fonolinguistico Sperimentale (CFS) è una struttura educativa privata operante sin dal 1979 nel settore della formazione linguistica. Abbiamo gradualmente ma costantemente sviluppato un progetto educativo finalizzato al raggiungimento di una abilità comunicativa, nelle lingue straniere insegnate, in grado di consentire rapporti di lavoro e di partecipazione professionale attiva nel processo di sviluppo dell'unificazione della Comunità Europea. (Catania Italia)

 

CISI  Centro Interstrutture di Servizi Informatici e Telematici per la Facoltà Umanistiche (Universita' di Torino Italia)

 

DATA docens La DATA docens è nata nel 1996 occupandosi inizialmente di formazione, in particolare nell'ambito della didattica e del mondo della scuola A queste attività si è poi immediatamente aggiunta quella di fornitori di servizi per Internet (hosting e Web design) e di consulenza e progettazione per realizzazioni informatiche e multimediali  (Cambiago Milano Italia)

 

Ghiglieno On Line   Centro di formazione virtuale progettato, in un ambiente flessibile ed articolato, per consentire l'erogazione e la gestione di attività didattico-formative attraverso metodologie innovative (Italia)

 

The British Council  sito del British Council in Italia

 

LEND Lingua E Nuova Didattica  Lingua E Nuova Didattica è una associazione culturale, attiva da più di 25 anni, che "non ha fini di lucro ed ha lo scopo di condurre un lavoro di ricerca, sperimentazione, formazione e aggiornamento degli insegnanti dell'area linguistica; di diffondere nuovi orientamenti didattici" (Italia)

 

MediaMente  sito RAI della trasmissione televisiva di Carlo Massarini (Roma Italia)

 

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