Creating CALL Activities for Online Learning
Instructor: Gail Shuster-Bouskila

HTML ACTIVITIES

Since you will be making your own web pages, take a look at the sites below.  View these sites and choose part of one to recommend to the group through email.  Your computer at home and at school should be able to save your work as webpages (html) in WORD.  If your school does not have a web site, consider putting your pages on Geocities or Lycos or Fortune City

Sites Created by English Teachers:

Gail's EFL website - look at online activities for EFL students

S. Tzur's English Online (Israeli High School students)
Jack Pillemer's Homepage (Israeli High School students)
Adele's Site (Israeli High School students)
Radio Days Webquest (ESL webquest for upper levels)
English at the Beach (Australian ESL site for upper levels)
Corinne's ESL Homepage on various levels
 

Professionally made sites to link to:

All levels
Web Quests
THINK Quests


Junior and Senior High School

EnglishSpace - free English language course on the Internet
LiteracyNet Reading exercises
AMALNET - Global English Village
Interesting Things for ESL Students
WritingDen
Thirty Days of Poetry - writing project

Elementary level

Starfall - Learn to read English
For learning the ABC, numbers and colors
MoMaMedia for young kids
ALFY - The Kids Portal Playground for young kids
Arthur at PBS Kids Online

Resources for web page development by English Teachers:

Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources - very important
Guidelines for Designing a Good Web Site for ESL Students


Use of online resources to create online activities for students

Hot Potatoes - tool for creating interactive exercises
Blackboard.com - create online courses for free
Discover School's Puzzlemaker

Sites that assist students with online learning

Google SAFE Search for Kids and
YAHOO KIDS Search for Kids
MORFIX translation online,
Atomica - answers to almost everything! (formerly Gurunet)
Online dictionaries - WordCentral and  Webster Online
READPLEASE - free text reader - program that reads webpages to LD students

Some excellent graphics for websites:

Animation Factory
Celine's Graphics
Clip Art Universe

(Don't forget you can scanning material to be placed on your website.)


 

Take me back please to the site map

Final assignment ideas

Main page of this CALL Course

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