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   English - Reading - Also, Click & Read, my online reading course has a lot of exercises!

• They have different kinds of reading exercises including guessing the words in the reading and speed reading. http://eslus.com/LESSONS/READING/READ.HTM

• University of Victoria has reading and grammar exercises for different levels. http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/

• CNN news with different types of online reading questions. Their story archive is very easy to navigate.     http://literacynet.org/cnnsf/archives.html

• CNN news with questions. They categorize articles according to the grammar items too. http://lc.byuh.edu/CNN_N/CNN-N.html

• Chicken Soup is authentic, short, and easy enough for many students. . http://www.chickensoup.com/

• Rikai.com (Japanese) has various articles (and if you can't find a good one, you can cut and paste what you'd like) that have pop-up definition helps in Japanese. http://www.rikai.com/perl/HomePage.pl?Language=Ja

• Asahi Evening News (Japanese). Students can read English articles, and whenever they want Japanese definitions, they can click on underlined word to get help. http://www.asahi.com/english/popup/enindex.html
   

   English - Writing

• A guide for writing research papers with APA style. This site is very easy to use for students. http://webster.commnet.edu/apa/apa_index.htm
• Online Writing Lab at Purdue University. It has a lot of help for business writing including resumes and cover letters. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/pw/
• International Writing Exchange. If you have higher level students for writing, this could be a great site where students are assigned to write about different issues and then post them for feedback from their peers from different countries. http://www.ruthvilmi.net/hut/Current/iwe.html
   

   English  - Conversation

• Random English phrases for everyday conversation. Daily update by ALC (in Japanese). http://home.alc.co.jp/db/owa/reloc?genre_i=001&ctgr_i=001019&url_i=http://www.alc.co.jp/eng/ej/top/index.html
   

   English - Listening

• Movie scripts. http://www.script-o-rama.com/oldindex.shtml

• English listening. There are some free listening exercises here. http://www.englishlistening.com/

• I love using movies for my classes. This site has scripts for movies and shows like Friends, and Japanese help. http://midmiz.cool.ne.jp/
   

   English - Vocabulary

•  This page by ALC has explanation on frequently used verbs such as "do", "have" etc. and how they are used. (in Japanese) http://home.alc.co.jp/db/owa/reloc?genre_i=001&ctgr_i=001019&url_i=http://www.alc.co.jp/eng/ej/top/index.html

• Want to teach your Japanese students correct English for Katakana-English? http://www.eigo-navi.com/kata/kata-a.htm

•  Ohio U has a great page to many vocabulary sites. http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/english/vocabulary.html

•  What I love about the Internet is there are so many cool sites that help students learn. This site has University Word List (the most frequently used words in academic situations) and it's very, very extensive.  http://uvt.ust.hk/about.html

• This is the coolest thesaurus ever. http://www.visualthesaurus.com/index.jsp

• Tangoriki (Japanese). You can test yourself. You can also store up to 10 words that you want to remember. http://www.tangoriki.com/

• This Yahoo site tests students' vocabulary (Japanese). Daily update, but the questions can be boring. http://edu.yahoo.co.jp/gambare/test/center1500/
   

   TOEIC, TOEFL, IELTS

• This site has a very easy-to-follow guide for TOEIC first timers (in Japanese).  http://home.alc.co.jp/db/owa/reloc?genre_i=001&ctgr_i=001019&url_i=http://www.alc.co.jp/eng/ej/top/index.html
   

   English - Typing

• e-Typing (in Japanese). Very comprehensive and easy to use. Not too many ads. http://www.e-typing.ne.jp/index.asp?mode=levelcheck

• Learn2type. It has good exercises, and you can create a teacher account which enables you to collect students' progress when students sign in with assigned ID. However, the ads are annoying. http://www.learn2type.com

• Touch typing site with no ads. It has only practices and no fun games/tests. http://www.senselang.com/
   

   English - General - Also, Daikei Course,  my online general ESL course has a lot of exercises!

• This site by ALC has a lot of good activities in different skills (in Japanese). You can start by going to http://www.alc.co.jp/eng/index.html

•  This site has some supplementary activities for classes with English Firsthand (a conversation book that I like a lot). They also have discussion boards for students (grouped by the areas where they live) and some ESL/EFL links.  http://www.efcafe.com/index.html

• www.manythings.org has a lot of different games, puzzles, and activities for ESL students.

• A page with hundreds of links to pages with activities in different skill areas. http://englishnetlinks.homestead.com/files/General.htm

• A massive list of small lessons on grammar, reading, and vocabulary. There is a level assessment that can direct students to appropriate areas.  http://www.collegeem.qc.ca/cemdept/anglais/trouindx.htm#adj

• This site has a lot of power-point presentations on grammar points (mainly on writing). Also, there is a  massive list of quizzes, etc. http://cctc.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm

• An archive by Merlot, one of the biggest Learning Objects providers. http://www.merlot.org/Home.po

• This site covers areas such as computer use & web authoring, lessons, materials, and writing exchange. My friend from MIIS, Debbie, helped with this site :-) http://maxkade.miis.edu/ESL_Resources/index.html

• From TESOL CALL - a list of "starter sites". http://www.uoregon.edu/~call/cgi-bin/links/links.cgi

• Clipart for verbs, nouns, etc. Very easy to understand! http://www.sla.purdue.edu/fll/JapanProj/FLClipart/

• Links to learning and teaching languages. It has some Japanese sites as well.  http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/world/worldrw.html#foreign
   

   Holiday activities

• http://home.earthlink.net/~eslteacher/units/holidays.html 

• Lots of Halloween stuff, but not too many good reading. http://www.caslt.org/research/halloween9.htm 

   Japanese - Different skills

• Listening - Japanese news on video & gap filling activities. http://topaz.ecis.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~jems/hosokyoku/hosokyoku.html

• This site is created to accompany a textbook, Genki. There are flashcards for each lesson. http://www.genki-online.com/js/

• Rikai.com helps your students read Japanese by having pop-up definitions over real news. http://www.rikai.com/perl/Home.pl

• Random vocabulary flash cards. http://www.schei.com/cgi-bin/flash.cgi

• Mini Japanese lessons (16 lessons). http://www.japanese-online.com/LANGUAGE/index.htm

• KIDS Goo is a search engine with furigana. The top page doesn't have furigana, but any page from here, you can choose to show furigana - use the bar on top. http://kids.goo.ne.jp/index.html

• This site has different supplementary materials for Minna no Nihongo. It has a lot of good lesson plans if you use this book. http://www2.odn.ne.jp/kyouannohiroba1/

• English-Japanese picture dictionary. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/languages/Japanesedictionary.html

• Nihongo-memo for talking about different events in Nihon. http://www.geocities.com/shunkomuroya/nihongo-memo/nenchugyoji.htm
   

   Japanese - General

• This is for teaching Japanese. It has a lot of resource links.   http://maxkade.miis.edu/JResources/index.html

• Different activities for Japanese learners. http://www.geocities.com/shunkomuroya/nihongo-memo/resources.htm

• Nihonmura - a site for resources for teaching Japanese. http://www.nihonmura.com/J/nihongo/kyozai/index.htm
   

    Online Quiz

• A massive, massive list. The quiz categories range from grammar, vocabulary, idioms, to holidays. http://a4esl.org/q/h/

• Hotpotatoes helps you create online quizzes (5 different kinds) for free, and you can export the quizzes to their website! This is amazingly easy.  http://www.hotpotatoes.info/

• Discovery.com has Puzzlemaker that you can use for free, but I'm not sure if you can use it online. You can make crosswords, word search, etc. http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/

• For $49 US a year, you can create different kinds of quizzes for your students, and have their scores tallied automatically. I haven't used it yet, but I'm thinking about it. http://www.quia.com/servlets/quia.web.QuiaWebManager
   

    Just for Fun

• I knew there would be one! Magnetic Poetry site. http://www.magneticpoetry.com/magnet/

• And there is also Shakespeare Magnetic Poetry site. I know some friends who would go nuts here.  http://www.shakespeare.com/Poetry/ieindex.html

• Discovery.com has great games - one of them being "whizzball". It's addictive. I played several games with my husband, and when we solved them, we felt true sense of achievement... http://kids.discovery.com/games/whizzball/whizzball.html

• This is also Discovery.com. It has cute word search, etc. http://kids.discovery.com/games/chomp/chomp.html

• Discovery.com. Junkyard wars (I love the program). http://tlc.discovery.com/fansites/junkyard/game/game.html#

• ... and bunch more at Discovery.com. http://kids.discovery.com/KIDS/space/games/games.html

• Discovery.com game for adults. What would you do if you were a shark? http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/sharkweek2002/sharkgame/sharkgame.html
   

     Building Websites

• Hosting for free, but you can upgrade your sites to banner-free for $60 a year. This is one of the cheapest, and it supports FrontPage even if you're a free member. http://www.netfirms.com/home
• Geocities.com is a great site where you can build what-you-see-is-what-you-get online for free. It's very easy and friendly, but everything you make is online including your folders, so when you want to move the folders to other hosting services, it could be challenging. www.geocities.com
• Microsoft FrontPage is a very beginner-friendly software for building websites. I used this :-) http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage
• Yahoo BB! for fast, inexpensive connections for those of us in Japan. http://bbpromo.yahoo.co.jp
• You can host discussion boards here. It's free, but to upgrade to banner free, it's only $1 for a while depending on how much traffic you have. http://www.boards2go.com/
• Educational clipart. http://www.hellasmultimedia.com/webimages/education/
• Cute Japanese educational clipart (Japanese). http://www.schoolicons.com/web/icon/icon.html
   

   Software Reviews

• This is a paper on how to select a software for your students. It also has pages of recommended softwares. http://oregonstate.edu/~healeyd/cj_software_selection.html

• TESL-EJ online. There is a media-review section with detailed reviews. http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/ejtitle.html#media
   

    Online CALL Journals

• The Journal of Technology, Learning, and Assessment. http://www.bc.edu/research/intasc/jtla.html

• Language Learning & Technology. http://llt.msu.edu/default.html

• The Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium. http://calico.org/

• Nikkei e-Learning Solution Net. (Japanese) http://elearning.nikkei.co.jp/index.cfm
   

    Online CALL Courses (as of March, 2003, this section will NOT be updated)

• Simon Fraser University - Certificate in Web-based Instruction. This is the course I am taking. This is one of the most intense and informative ones available. It also covers many different areas of online distance education. $1900 Canadian. http://www.sfu.ca/lidc/telestraining/
• University of Washington. Distance Learning Design & Development. $660 for the first term. http://www.outreach.washington.edu/extinfo/certprog/dld/dld_main.asp
• UCLA - you can take bunch of different courses on distance education.  http://www.onlinelearning.net/CourseCatalog/ProgramDetail.cfm?s=128.w070w534s.0339226m80
• University of Wisconsin. Pretty expensive. http://www.uwex.edu/disted/depd/oview.htm
• Indiana University - Certificate in Distance Education. $1077. http://scs.indiana.edu/nc/decert.html#top
• Penn State - Distance Education Certificate. $1074. http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/pub/de/afs_costs.shtml
• University of Nebraska - Certificate for Distance Education. $472. http://advance.unl.edu/distance/degrees/edtech_certificate.html
   

     Language Management System

• This is the most comprehensive site on distance education using the Internet. It has reviews of LMS, ideas and suggestions about creating courses for your students, where to go for resources, etc. I highly recommend you visit this site first.  http://www.ibritt.com/resources/
• If you have a generous budget from your school, WebCT can be great. It's one of the most popular LMS today. http://www.webct.com/
• Another one that is very popular is Blackboard. http://www.blackboard.com/
• For the rest of us who can't spend any money on this project, there are several options. The one I'm thinking about using is Jones e-education. The application process seems to be rather mendokusai/time-consuming, but the interface and functions look very professional.  http://www.jonesadvisorygroup.com/standard.php
• Claroline. http://www.claroline.net/index.htm
• Moodle. http://moodle.org/ Both Claroline & Moodle require more computer knowledge than I actually have, unfortunately.