Quello che segue è un elenco di siti a nostro avviso interessanti per chi fosse interessato all'applicazione delle nuove tecnologie alla didattica in genere e in quella della lingua inglese in particolare.
Sono naturalmente solo spunti per stimolare un maggiore approfondimento dell'argomento, dato che sulla rete è possibile trovare infiniti altri siti altrettanto interessanti.
Per agevolarne la consultazione, i siti sono stati raggruppati per categorie tematiche, anche se in realtà è difficile schematizzare l'universo Internet.
Le parole in corsivo sono citazioni tratte dalle home pages dei siti stessi.
Se avete siti interessanti da segnalarci, inviate una e-mail con l'url e con un vostro commento e li pubblicheremo su questa pagina.
Click2learn.com The leading provider of people, products, and services to enable organizations to create, deliver, and manage e-Learning.(Società creatrice di ToolBook - 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. (Alcuni programmi sono di Martin Holmes, uno dei creatori di Hot Potatoes - 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. Stewart and Martin also work at the Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC, formerly the Language Centre). 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)
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)
Computer Assisted Language Learning Forum di discussione su CALL presso il sito Dave's ESL Cafe
Christine Bauer-Ramazani's Courses Welcome to my online course Computer-Assisted Language Learning. It is a graduate course in the Master's degree program of Teaching English as a Second Language at Saint Michael's College. In this course you will learn about various types of technology that you can use in your English language classroom. (US)
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.
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. (portale finlandese di Ruth Vilmi)
Kitao Useful Mailing Lists for TEFL/TESL, Linguistics, and Communication. (Università di Kioto Giappone)
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)
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)
CNN sito della Cable News Network americana
ESL PartyLand "A Fun Place to Learn English as a Second Language!" recommended by Abby
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)
Kitao On-Line Resources and Journals: ELT, Linguistics, and Communication (Università di Kioto Giappone)
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)
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
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)
Atlante Portale per la scuola della casa editrice Garamond (Roma Italia)
The British Council sito del British Council in Italia
INDIRE (ex BDP) 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)
DidaEl Catalogo dei prodotti della Didael che offre programmi specificamente pensati per la didattica; ovvero programmi nella cui progettazione sono coinvolte anche équipe di docenti e che - prima di essere messi in vendita - sono testati da Università e Scuole in Italia e all'estero (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)
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)
SWAPDRIVE società distributrice di un hard disc virtuale (US)
X-DRIVE società che distribuisce un altro hard disc virtuale (US)