The site I found is The Internet TESL Journal. This site seems to have it all: articles on different methods of teaching, lesson plans by different teachers, and actual lessons that one can copy and use. There are techniques and questions to ask learners about various aspects of life (which can stimulate a conversation).
I am finding it quite easy to navigate through this site. Everything is a link! If there is anything negative about it, it may be that it is just too hard to settle on where to begin. One page I found shows how to find a restaurant and read a menu. There is a link to restaurantrow.com, which has thousands of listings of restaurants all over the U.S. From there, there are specific instructions for the students to navigate through the site to find various information about specific restaurants. I followed some of the instructions and found myself quite bogged down in the amount of offerings, and actually lost a couple of times. But this is on an outside link, not the iteslj.org site.
Overall, I give this an A. I'll be back to use some of the material. One word of advice: open new tabs or windows. Sometimes it's hard to find where you left off.
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Because this is such a massive site, is there a certain place/link where we should begin?
ReplyDeleteI can definitely get on board with opening tabs! When I find a good site like this, I always end up with 5-7 open tabs from interesting links when I don't want to lose my original spot.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like this is a very comprehensive resource, which can be extremely helpful when looking for ideas, and can also sometimes be overwhelming. I like the example you gave of the restaurant locating and menu-reading exercise. It sounds almost like a web-quest, if not fully developed. Have you ever checked out Trackstar? It's one of the sites on 4teachers.org, and you can search web "tracks" posted by other teachers. Some are just collections of links on a topic, but many of them are webquests, which I just love.
Thanks for sharing!