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Most sites on this page were mined from (or linked from mined sites) the textbook Teaching with the Internet K-12: New Literacies for New Times by Donald J. Leu, Deborah Diadiun Leu, and Julie Coiro (2004) in conjunction with the Walden Class Integrating Technology into the Curriculum Part I with instructor Dr. Timothy Green.

 

Copyright 2009, Beth McDavid. All Rights Reserved.                                     This page created 6/05/09, updated 10/16/09

Helpful ELL sites

 

Text Reader

http://www.readplease.com/  

 

Sister sites f0r kids in English, French, Italian and Spanish.

http://elbalero.gob.mx/index_esp.html  and  http://www.elbalero.gob.mx/index_kids.html 

 

Modifying teaching strategies for ELL students

http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/sec_tapestry.asp?CID=1585&DID=8920 

 

Directory of ESL links

http://iteslj.org/links/

 

Dave’s ESL Café

http://eslcafe.com/search/Games/index.html

 

 

 

Language acquisition info

http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/elp/

 

Interactive!  world cultures w/teacher guides.etc http://www.humanities-interactive.org/a_base_UD.html

 

Links to world electronic resources:

http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html

 

Southeast Asia cultural awareness

http://international.ucla.edu/cseas/

 

Asia by subject, file type or time.  Has excellent search tools.

http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/

Same site teaching guides

http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/main/guides.htm

 

Knowledge network explorer

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/

 

Hotlist of Spanish resources

http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listquiagampa.html#cat2

 

African Studies with plenty of k12 resources

http://www.africa.upenn.edu/AS.html

 

Native American sites & American Indian Library Association

http://www.nativeculturelinks.com/indians.html

 

Find a school that speaks a different language

http://www.kidlink.org/kidspace/index.php

Or

http://www.britishcouncil.org/wotw/

 

International newspapers

http://www.ipl.org/div/news/

 

Radio stations around the world

http://dir.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/Radio/By_Region?Countries

 

Multicultural links for a variety of purposes—

http://eleaston.com/

 

Directory of ESL links

http://iteslj.org/links/

 

34 categories for students to practice English

http://towerofenglish.com/

 

Leveled grammar, reading & writing activities.

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Social Action

 

Hunger

http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=1

 

Rain forest

http://rainforest.care2.com/

 

Unicef Voices of Youth

http://www.unicef.org/voy/index.php

 

Project America (volunteer at home)

http://www.project.org/

 

Internet Inquiry

 

Explains concept & contains ideas

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/dhip/wip.htm

 

Stamping Out Injustices

http://www.biopoint.com/traversecity/stand_up2.htm

 

Digital Divide

http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/lessons/digitaldivide/

 

Internet Project

 

About planning internet projects

http://www.2learn.ca/Projects/projectdesign.html

 

Registry

http://www.globalschoolnet.org/gsh/pr/

 

http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/

 

Australian online projects

http://www.ozprojects.edu.au/

 

For worldwide contacts

http://www.globalgateway.org.uk/default.aspx?page=4705

 

International projects

http://www.iearn.org.au/projects.htm

 

Hiroshima

http://www.cranesforpeace.org/

 

Native American cultural exchange

http://www.kidsfromkanata.ca/

 

http://www.cradleboard.org/main.html

 

Internet Workshops

 

Explores 8 countries on the meridian line (in 3 languages)

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/ontheline/index.html 

 

Chinese Zodiac

http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow1/apr99/calendar/index.html

 

Chinese Zodiac for older students

http://www.c-c-c.org/chineseculture/zodiac/zodiac.html

 

 

Social Studies

 

John D Rockefeller (by 2nd graders)

 http://www.pocanticohills.org/rockefeller/jdr.htm

 

Ben Franklin

http://www.pocanticohills.org/franklin/franklin.htm

 

Wright Brothers (by 2nd graders)

http://www.pocanticohills.org/wright/wright.htm

 

Art History Resources

Photos of artifacts

http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html

 

Civil Rights issues

http://civilrights.org/

 

 

Holocaust

http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=gvKVLcMVIuG&b=358201

 

Martin Luther King Jr

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/special/mlk/index.html

 

PBS series on immigrants and refugees seeking the American Dream

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/newamericans/

 

 

 

 

Reading/Language Arts

 

Pocohantis (by 2nd graders)

http://www.pocanticohills.org/charlotte/index.htm

 

Recommended young childrens’ books about Native Americans

http://www.nativeculturelinks.com/ailabib.htm

 

 

Collaborative and Interactive online projects, lots of literature/technology links

http://eduscapes.com/ladders/themes/interactive.htm

Math

 

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

Great visuals for math

http://nlvm.usu.edu/

Interactive Resources for teaching math prek-12

http://illuminations.nctm.org/

 

Math Maven’s Mysteries

Solve mysteries using math skills.  Audio available

http://teacher.scholastic.com/maven/

 

 

 

 

 

Multiple subjects

 

Interactive site for teachers and students

http://www.quia.com/web

 

Interactive site for K-8 teachers and students

http://www.funbrain.com/

 

Collaborative education site for teachers, parents and students

http://eduscapes.com/

Software

 

Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds (great for creating podcasts)

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Informational Sites by Geographical Area:

 

Africa

 

Africa for kids

http://www.calacademy.org/exhibits/africa/kids.htm

 

Amazon

Interactive

http://www.eduweb.com/amazon.html

 

Asia

http://www.asiasource.org/

 

Plenty of k12 resources

http://www.askasia.org/

 

South Asia information

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/southasia/cuvl/

 

 

 

Indigenous people worldwide

 

http://www.nativeweb.org/resources/

 

Musical instruments

http://www.nativeweb.org/resources/performance_music_dance_etc_/music/musical_instruments/

 

 

 

Jewish Culture and Tour of Israel

http://ddickerson.igc.org/judaica.html

 

Latin America

 

http://www1.lanic.utexas.edu/

 

Music

http://www1.lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/music/

 

Explore Latino culture in the virtual world of second life

http://latino.si.edu/education/LVM_Main.htm

 

Experience music in second life

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Smithsonian%20Latino%20Music/121/190/35

 

Latin American Children Resources

http://www.zonalatina.com/Zlchild.htm

 

 

 

Native American

 

Contemporary authors:

http://www.nativewiki.org/Storytellers:_Native_American_Authors_Online

 

Resources:

http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/

 

American Indian Resource Directory

http://indians.org/index.html

 

American Indian Sports Team Mascots, deals with stereotyping issues

http://www.aistm.org/1indexpage.htm

 

http://www.pbs.org/circleofstories/

 

 

 

US Ethnic Groups

http://www.free.ed.gov/subjects.cfm?subject_id=171&toplvl=178

 

African American History http://nmaahc.si.edu/

 

Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad (By 2nd graders)

http://www.pocanticohills.org/tubman/tubman.html

 

African American Mosaic containing many primary documents

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html

 

Alaska

Alaskan Native Knowledge Network

http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/index.html

 

Asian-American info

http://www.asian-nation.org/index.shtml

 

Women

http://www.assumption.edu/whw/

 

 

Vietnam

 

By 2nd graders

http://www.pocanticohills.org/vietnam/vietnam.htm

 

 

World cultures

http://www.ala.org/gwstemplate.cfm?section=greatwebsites&template=/cfapps/gws/displaysection.cfm&sec=36

 

Interactive! 

http://www.humanities-interactive.org/a_base_UD.html

 

 

 

Multiple

 

Languages

http://www.geocities.com/~oberoi/language.html

 

Cultural Diversity Calendar

http://www3.kumc.edu/diversity/

http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/MCC/

 

40 virtual picture books in English, Spanish, & French

http://www.miscositas.com/

 

Say hello in over 35 languages

http://www.ipl.org/youth/hello/