Examples of good practice

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This section provides some examples of good practice in web support for teaching and learning.

Language sites

Mini Lesson Plans for Foreign Language Websites

International E-Mail Tandem Network

On-line courses for Spanish, University of Toronto

Communiqué
Communiqué is the French Studies homepage and information gateway for undergraduates at the University of Sunderland and beyond.

ESL Lesson Plans and Resources

Un'esperienza di apprendimento dell'italiano a distanza

LinguaNET
Quality-assured information and materials for language teachers and learners

Study Spanish
The main features of this website are the free online TUTORIAL to help you learn Spanish, and the FREE SERVICE that allows teachers to monitor their students' progress

CiLT

Knowledge Design
The aim of these pages is to illustrate creative pedagogical uses of the Web and Internet technologies that can be adapted to the teaching of any foreign language.

Campus World


Distance learning through telematics: institutions, services, information

Mailbase - mail list service

A French School on-line

How the Web is used in the Irish Classroom

California Virtual University

Diversity University
Diversity University is extraordinary and unique as the first MOO to be designed specifically for classroom use. Diversity University is a non-profit instructional organization dedicated to meeting the on-line distance education learning needs of individuals and institutions.

NetLearn
NetLearn: Internet Learning Resources NetLearn is a directory of resources for learning and teaching Internet skills, including resources for WWW, email and other formats.

The Top Ten Reasons Why Teachers Use the Internet

Wellspring
The WELLSPRING is a collaborative project from Instructional Systems Inc. and Teachers College, Columbia University. It is devoted to the needs of Distance Educators using the World Wide Web to deliver post-secondary courses to their students.

WebTeach
WebTeach is a web based package designed to support teacher - student interactions for class teaching on the web. Unlike most other packages it does not focus on supporting the development and uploading of web pages, nor on student administration. Rather WebTeach is designed to facilitate discussions and the use of familiar classroom teaching strategies within a virtual classroom.

Digital Diploma Mills - The Automation of Higher Education
Powerful essay on some potential abuses of new technologies, leading to a debased and standardised learning environment.

Cornell Grand Rounds Project
Not an example from language teaching, but a useful generic illustration of how to present a lecture on-line with the support of video, audio and slides.