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Teachers Shake Up Shakespeare with Digital Media
http://www.edutopia.org/teaching-shakespeare-digital-media
Teachers Shake Up Shakespeare with Digital Media
Raps, podcasts, and short films are perfect vehicles for teaching Hamlet and Macbeth, says Peggy O'Brien, the former director of education at the Folger Shakespeare Library, in Washington, DC. "Kids have been handed these plays like they're sacrosanct, holy things, when actually they're gritty and alive."

The English Language Garden
http://www.elgweb.net/
Articles, links and quizzes for English teachers and learners. On spelling, homework, classroom language, vocabulary, IWBs and more.

Second Life English
http://slenglish.ning.com/
Second Life English is a free resource and open community for language learners and teachers in the virtual world of Second Life.

Academic Earth: English video lectures
http://www.academicearth.org/subjects/english
Academic Earth, 1,000s of video lectures from the world's top scholars.
We are building a user-friendly educational ecosystem that will give internet users around the world the ability to easily find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world’s leading scholars.
Our goal is to bring the best content together in one place and create an environment in which that content is remarkably easy to use and in which user contributions make existing content increasingly valuable.

Second Life English Blog
http://esl-secondlife.blogspot.com/
Second Life English Blog .. 3D Virtual World
This blog is not intended to be like a traditional blog. It's actually more of a collage of random reflection on Second Life & virtual worlds, language learning and teaching .....

Second Life English
http://www.secondlifeenglish.com/
Second Life English
The Second Life English group has been helping language learners and teachers in the virtual world of Second Life since 2006. Our past activities were mainly held at the English Village where we organized weekly team-teaching events and assisted learners and teachers in various ways.
The Second Life English SIM is a free resource for language learners and teachers.
We are not a school. We are a community of language learners and teachers who share the desire to use the virtual world of Second Life for the learning and teaching of foreign languages.

Virtual Macbeth ... in Second Life
http://virtualmacbeth.wikispaces.com/
Virtual Macbeth ... in Second Life, 3D online virtual world
A Second Life Treatment of Macbeth
Virtual Macbeth is an island in Second Life which is dedicated to the exploration, adaptation and performance of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
The island is designed with target audiences of Shakespeare afficionados, Secondary and Tertiary educators and their students. This wiki is designed for both the general audience and educators. Please feel welcome to join the wiki and add in thoughts and resources.

Lesson Writer (English language skills)
http://www.lessonwriter.com
Lesson Writer
Plan Lessons, Create Teaching Materials and Track Classes - Automatically!
A web application that creates lesson plans and instructional materials for teaching English language skills from any reading passage
Analyzes any text for vocabulary, grammar and usage, pronunciation, and word roots and stems..
Creates a lesson plan and a lesson designed to teach any, some, or all of these skills in the context of the passage - automatically.

Comic Books and Graphic Novels : Area on Shambles
http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/EnglishP/comics/
Comic Books and Graphic Novels : Area on Shambles dedicated to this topic.

Second Life English
http://secondlifeenglish.com/
Second Life English
A Free Resource for Language Learners and Teachers ...in the Virtual World of Second Life.

Every Author
http://www.everyauthor.com/
Online books, writers' resources and a writer's workshop featuring critical commentary and discussion of original stories, flash fiction, non-fiction, challenges, and more.

English Maze
http://www.englishmaze.com
A unique website for students, teachers and schools learning English.
The English Maze contains hundreds of dynamic Speaking, Listening, Reading, Writing & Grammar activities.
Plus Chat, E-pals, Discussion boards, lesson plans + many other free resources.
Available in a number of different languages ... including some Asian.
Business English

Q&A Resources
http://www.qaresources.co.uk
Q&A Resources Ltd provides free downloadable samples of their secondary teaching resources in English, Business Studies and Politics.
The full resources are emailed to schools and colleges. These can be printed and copied or used onscreen. Most are tailored to individual exam specifications. Q&A Resources is a Curriculum Online Registered Content Provider.

Harry Potter Lesson Plans
http://www.harrypotter-lessons.com/lesson-plans.htm
Harry Potter Lesson Plans

Teachits library of free English teaching resources
http://www.teachit.co.uk/
Teachit's library of free English teaching resources
Specialising in English, Drama and Media Studies from primary to post-16, the online Teachit library offers over 4,000 pages of classroom materials, schemes of work, lesson plans and teaching tools, all created by working teachers and constantly growing.
A phenomenal success since its launch in 1999, Teachit now represents a huge online community of teachers sharing resources to help focus their efforts in planning lessons.

Teacher Help
http://www.onestopenglish.com/ProfessionalSupport/Travellog/teacher_help.htm
Questions from teachers planning to work around the world
This page is for teachers with questions about teaching around the world. It is meant as a forum where teachers can get answers to practical questions.
If you have any questions you would like answered or would like to help out another teacher with an answer please write to Web Editor. We will categorise all questions by country. there is a book prize for very useful answers provided by Macmillan.

Teaching English around the world
http://www.onestopenglish.com/ProfessionalSupport/Travellog/travellog.htm
Teaching English around the world : Letters from teachers of English
Tell us what teaching English is like in the country and sector you work in.
For each letter that we publish we will send you a library of books.

Web English Teacher
http://www.webenglishteacher.com
Web English Teacher
At Web English Teacher educators can take advantage of online technology to share ideas and to benefit from the work of others. Beginning teachers can find guidance; experienced teachers can find inspiration. Think of it as the faculty library and faculty workroom on a global scale.

English Online (New Zealand)
http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/
English Online (New Zealand) contains fully resourced English teaching resources for English teachers (years 1-13). Developed by Unitec Institute of Technology and funded by the New Zealand Ministry of Education.

The Works Of William Shakespeare
http://www.adders.org/freeware/shakespeare.html
The Works Of William Shakespeare ... free downloadable program

English Online - English around the World
http://eleaston.com/materials.html
English Online - English around the World

Read Write Lesson Plans
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/index.asp
Read Write Lesson Plans
Sort ReadWriteThink Lessons by Title, Grade, or Date by clicking on the appropriate header. You may also use the Lesson Plan Selector

English department of the Virtual School
http://www.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/en/vs-english/entry_page.cfm?id_area=32
English In the English department of the Virtual School you find a big collection of lesson plans, projects, activities and other resources for teaching English as a foreign language.
There is a dedicated community for teachers of English.

English Language A Level Listserv
http://www.markboardman.com/
The Language List (English Listserv) - aimed at teachers (in schools, colleges, universities) of English language: hundreds of members (including the world's leading academic authorities in some fields), lots of message activity and real help for those who post queries.
The English Language List is a discussion community for teachers of A-Level English Language, with particular reference to AQA Specification B. It has the full support of the Chief Examiner, and there is no cost.
Also, many professional linguists have subscribed and kindly agreed to offer some input on aspects of subject knowledge and up-to-date research.

WordNet - online lexical reference system
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/
WordNet?is an online lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym sets.
WordNet 2.0 is now available for Unix and Windows platforms! WordNet 2.0 includes more than 42,000 new links between nouns and verbs that are morphologically related, a topical organization for many areas that classifies synsets by category, region, or usage, gloss and synset fixes, and new terminology, mostly in the terrorism domain.

Literacy Plans - Key Stage 1
http://www.literacyplans.co.uk
Free medium term plans and weekly plans at a minimal cost - all in line with recent DfES/QCA advice and recommendations - includes ideas for support, IT, differentiation, plenary etc.

Libraries are Obsolete - or are they ?
http://www.ala.org/alonline/news/10reasons.html
10 Reasons Why the Internet Is No Substitute for a Library
In an effort to save our culture, strike a blow for reading, and, above all, correct the well-intentioned but horribly misguided notions about what is fast becoming Intertopia among many nonlibrarian bean counters, here are 10 reasons why the Internet is no substitute for a library.

Big Books Presentations using PowerPoint
http://www.cleo.net.uk/subject.cfm?group=2&subject=13&kidMode=1
Big Books Presentations using PowerPoint
KS1 | The Race | The Leopard at the Pond | The Picnic at the Park | http://tinyurl.com/69p0

English Language & Linguistics - AS/A Level
http://www.putlearningfirst.com/language/index.html
English Language & Linguistics
These materials have been developed to give you an overview of AS/A Level English Language, its course requirements, specification content, and standards.
The material available includes content to help students learn about and teachers teach the study of language. There are tasks to help work through the material, expert advice and strategies for identifying unknown texts.
Essay writing and text analysis are vital skills which can only be fully developed with a tutor, but the information and tasks provided here complement work with a tutor and allow students to work at their own pace.
Working independently improves study skills and is an important skill in itself.

Shakespeare on the Net - Virtual Field Trip
http://www.field-trips.org/lit/shake/index.htm
A field trip created with TourMaker guides you through a sequence of Web pages on any given topic. For each page, there is simultaneous commentary in an accompanying frame. You move forward and back through the Field Trip using the tour Control Panel and you can leave the Tour to explore links and return to it whenever you want.
If you are assigned Shakespeare, you are ready for advanced thinking. The language is not the same as yours, but Shakespeare targets personalities and describes complex personal issues that are as important today as they were in the 16th century. His work has survived because it accurately describes human reactions to the world.
This period of history was called the Renaissance because of the reawakening of interest in the arts and sciences. During Shakespeare's time, Queen Elizabeth and James I reigned in England, enthusiastically supporting the theatre.
The Liberties, an area outside of London across the Thames River, housed Elizabethan theatres.
Each of the sites included in this module is very deep, so resist the temptation to wander through them. Follow the directions to get an overview, and then come back. A good reader makes connections using what is known to make sense of a piece of writing. This module will include sites relating to 16th century England and Shakespeare's work, showing you some of the resources available on the Internet.

English Teaching Listserv
http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/english.teaching
Forum for users of English teaching Web sites | English Teaching Listserv | listserv |

The English Language List
http://www.englanglist.f9.co.uk/
The English Language List is a discussion community for teachers of A-Level English Language, with particular reference to AQA Specification B. It has the full support of the Chief Examiner, and there is no cost. Also, many professional linguists have subscribed and kindly agreed to offer some input on aspects of subject knowledge and up-to-date research.
We exist to share: teaching materials | methodology | secondary sources | investigation ideas | subject knowledge | information about events and conferences |
We?e especially interested in ending world-wide weariness and providing focus for web based resources. We?e all come across good sites but they?e often buried in dusty corners of unwieldy favourites folders. If we had an instant way of sharing our finds, life would get a whole lot easier.
English | listserv |

ICT in the English curriculum (UK)
http://curriculum.becta.org.uk/docserver.php?temid=84
The purpose of this site is to promote and support the use of ICT within English. The site is managed by Becta and contains information and material in five sections, to help you integrate ICT effectively.
'Teaching and Learning with ICT in English' | ICT Requirements of the National Curriculum | References to the use of ICT in the National Strategy Framework for Teaching English at KS3 |

TALK: Technology Assisting Literacy Knowledge
http://itech.fcps.net/talk/
Have you asked, “What reading software is available that meets my students needs;” “What reading activities are available on the web;” or “What computer programs or activities are available to help my struggling readers?”
This website is designed based on the Classroom Literacy Guide to give classroom teachers specific practical activities to use in the classroom or in the lab with a whole class, small groups or individual students.
The Classroom Literacy Guide is a rollup of best practices in literacy, consistent for all grade levels, that is put into a form useful for instructional planning, self-evaluation, peer-mentorship and staff development. It is the "how to" for a good literacy-based program.
literacy | english | IT | ICT | lesson plans |

Free Spelling - freespeling
http://www.freespeling.com/
'Freespeling aims to encourage flexibility within English speling similar to the language's versatility of expression and innovation of vocabulary so that, year by year, a new consensus on preferd spelings wil emerge to enable greater ease of comunication and wider literacy'
spelling | speling | writing |

SFE: Stands for Education (UK)
http://www.sfe.co.uk/resources/default.cfm
SfE has collected some of the best resources on the internet and organised them into the easy to use Freeware Bank, Linkbank and Infobank.
Choose Freeware Bank for access a wide selection of free software and other IT tools related to the use of ICT in schools. All the resources have been sorted by subject relevance and assessed by our staff.
Choose Linkbank to begin your research and find useful online teaching resources. SfE has reviewed and assessed thousands of websites useful to school staff and all have been categorised to make them easy to find.
Choose Infobank for links to hundreds of official educational documents from central government, LEAs, universities, unions and associations.
websites | website | education | educational | review | reviewed | teachers | students | subjects | cross-curriculum | curriculum | english | drama | poetry |

UK National Literacy Strategy
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/literacy/
The National Literacy Strategy is at the heart of the drive to raise standards in UK schools. This site supports teachers and others working to improve literacy in our schools. It makes available guidance and documents about the National Literacy Strategy. It provides direct access to professional development materials as well as information about new initiatives and events to support improvements in literacy.

English at the Beach
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~prace/beach
Good site for learners to practise English language skills, while reading stories about the beach, learning about beach safety, and doing fun activities.

Markin : Marking Student Compositions
http://www.cict.co.uk/software/markin/
New technology requires new tools, and teachers working on-line need facilities which are just not available in a standard web browser or word-processor.
Students submit their work as email attachments or word-processor documents, and teachers need to be able to mark and return these documents as quickly and easily as they can mark work submitted on paper.
Markin is the latest in marking and annotation software for on-line and electronic teaching environments. It can import text material from the clipboard, or from an RTF or text file, and provides all the tools you need to mark and annotate this text.
When you have finished, you can export the marked text as an RTF file for loading into a word-processor, or as a web page so that your students can view the marked text in a web browser - and you can email this file directly back to the student, all without leaving the Markin program.

BIELT : British Institute of English Lang Teaching
http://www.bielt.org/
British Institiute of English Language Teaching
A two year period of wide consultation throughout the ELT profession showed that there is wide support for a professional institute. A questionnaire sent out to approximately 6000 ELT professionals in June 1997 showed that 83% of respondents agreed that a new body to represent the British ELT profession is necessary.
ELT | EAL | ESL | TEFL |

Internet information skills for English.
http://www.humbul.ac.uk/vts/english/index.htm
The Internet is a rich source of information and resources for students, lecturers, researchers and professionals. This tutorial covers the key information skills for the Internet environment. Learn how to use the Internet to help with your coursework, literature searching, teaching or research.

Web English Teacher
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/
Web English Teacher presents the best of online English/Language Arts teaching resources: lesson plans, biography, e-texts, online criticism, videos, Webquests, jokes, puzzles, and classroom activities. Bookmark this site and visit often!

Key Framework For teaching English: Years 7, 8 and 9
http://www.easea.co.uk/downloads/DLCurriculum.asp?doc=040401
Key Stage 3 National Strategy: Framework For teaching English: Years 7, 8 and 9
Full details of Framework for teaching English. Aimed at KS3 schools, and includes teaching objectives, guidance on inclusion etc...

Getting a Read on E-Books (ebooks)
http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/TL/200104/ebook.html
For all the talk of digital books in the consumer world, however, many believe their greatest potential lies in education. In fact, the market for digitized educational materials is predicted to grow much faster than retail books. By 2005, according to Forrester Research, 25 percent of college textbook sales will be digital, providing students with a high-tech alternative to lugging around a heavy set of books.

Nabokov tutorials
http://www.mantex.co.uk/ou/a319/nab-000.htm
For those who don't know him, Nabokov is the Russian novelist who switched to writing in English. He writes in a very entertaining style; his best-known work is "Lolita", and he is very funny.
We've posted a new series of tutorials in literary studies. There are fifty web pages covering the whole of the "Collected Stories" of Vladimir Nabokov.

Read In Lesson Plans
http://www.readin.org/Educator/Lessons/main.htm
Literacy-based Lesson Plans aligned to California standards
Click one of Guy Gilchrist's cartoon characters to go to your choice of grade level. Each level can be printed via your web browser.

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