Part 2. Tools for Designing Activities for FL and ESL

A. SEARCHING THE WEB

1. Google

http://www.google.com

2. Language Tools

http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en

3. Preferences (Safe Search Filtering)

http://www.google.com/preferences?hl=en

4. Special Searches

http://www.google.com/options/specialsearches.html

5. Advanced Search

http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en

6. Directory Search

http://directory.google.com/

7. Searches for Kids & Teens

http://directory.google.com/Top/Kids_and_Teens/Directories/

8. Ask Jeeves

http://www.ask.com/

9. Ask Jeeves Kids

http://www.ajkids.com/index.asp?origin=0&meta=1

10. Yahoo

http://www.yahoo.com

11. Yahooligans (For kids)

http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/

12. Yahoo All-in-One Search

http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/Searching_the_Web/Search_Engines_and_Directories/All_in_One_Search_Pages/

13. WWW Search Engines - Internet Search Engines and Search Guide Sites - Links to 2400+ Search or Guide Sites (26 pages long!)

http://www.csgnetwork.com/srchengsa.html

14. Foreign Language Internet Search Engines (Don’t buy anything!)

http://www.bizforms.com/search.htm

15. Search Engine Colossus – International Directory of Search Engines

http://www.searchenginecolossus.com

B. LANGUAGE SPECIFIC SEARCH ENGINES

1. Chinese

http://www.whitelines.nl/html/cn-list.html

2. French

http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/DIS/OHSICS/forlang/french/07_searc.htm

3. Volterrep - Fr – Language Resources

http://www.wfi.fr/volterre/search.html

4. Volterre Search Tips

http://www.wfi.fr/volterre/searchtips.html

5. German

http://www.ir-ware.biz/gerse/geadden.html

6. Italian

http://www.tcd.ie/CLCS/italian/italianengines.html

7. Korean

http://home.inter.net/takakuwa/search/korea.html

8. Spanish

http://lonestar.utsa.edu/jbarnett/busqueda/engines.html

9. Buscadores en español

http://www.imk.es/netstudio/buscadores/buscafA2.htm

C. METASEARCH ENGINES

Meta Search Engine

http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/search/

MetaCrawler

http://www.metacrawler.com/

D. OFFICE ONLINE GRAPHICS & TEMPLATES

1. Clip Art and Media

http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/default.aspx?lc=en.us

2. Templates

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/default.aspx

3. Office Online Home

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx

E. POWERPOINT

1. PowerPoint Tutorial 1

http://tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca/~skarsten/SK/SKsession5.html

2. PowerPoint Tutorial 2

http://einstein.cs.uri.edu/tutorials/csc101/powerpoint/ppt.html

F. PLUG INS AND BROWSERS

1. Adobe Reader (needed to read .pdf files)

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

2. Internet Explorer Service 6 Service Pack 1

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1e1550cb-5e5d-48f5-b02b-20b602228de6&displaylang=en

3. Macromedia Shockwave Player

http://sdc.shockwave.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi

4. Macromedia Flash Player

http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash

5. Netscape 7.2

http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp

6. Power Point 2003 Reader

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=428d5727-43ab-4f24-90b7-a94784af71a4&displaylang=en

7. Quick Time Player

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

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