 12 Rugged Adventures Through Exquisite National Parks
12 Rugged Adventures Through Exquisite National Parks has some beautiful pictures and short text. For others, see The Best Sites For Learning About Yosemite & Other U.S. National Parks. Breaking News English.com
EFL / ESL/ English Lesson Plans for Teaching Current Events News Clipmarks
A user-created page of most interesting current news clips. Join free and add your own to the collage! With your free account, you can: Pop your favorite clips to the top or Create your own page of clips; Collect and Comment on other people's clips; and Follow your favorite clippers and topics.
NEWSPAPERS AROUND THE WORLD
Paper Boy
ThePaperboy.com deliveries any online Newspaper in any language you'd like to read that has one!
NewsShow Wizard
Google AJAX Search API - Google Code NewsShow Wizard - Put Google News on Your Web Page. Embed a NewsShow on your web page and let your users see rotating headlines and previews about themes you choose.
Google Notebook Video Demo
Breaking News English.com
ESL / EFL Current Events Lesson Plans: November 2004 - February 2009 See 1,000+ earlier current events lessons (listed by month). All free! News Sites, Larry Ferlazzo’s Best Listed
The Best Visually Engaging New Sites Include:
1. Doodlebuzz 2. Spectra Visual Newsreader 3. Yahoo News Globe 4. Visual Headlines 5. News Map 6. World News Map 7. Reverbiage 8. Newsmap Virtual Earth 9. Interceder 10. Newsline 11. World News Today 12. Discovery Earth Live 13. Breaking News Map 14. Newser Best News/Current Events Websites For English Language Learners Include:
1. BBC Learning English News 2. Voice Of America Special English News 3. International Herald Tribune (click on headline, then click on "Listen to Article") 4. Reuter's Slideshows 5. CBBC News Round 6. Breaking News English 7. Voice Of American Special English Webcasts 8. English Club
Best "Today In History" Sites 1. The History Channel: This Day In History 2. BBC’s On This Day 3. MSN Encarta On This Day 4. The New York Times: On This Day 5. Jump Back In Time BBC One-Minute News Clip
Includes these PRODUCTS & SERVICES: • E-mail news • Mobiles • Alerts • News feeds • Podcasts
NEWS IN ENGLISH LINKS
WORLDNEWS.com
A global news service providing the latest in business, politics, sport, technology and current events. With news available in 20 languages, they offer instant access to most of the world's leading news sources as well as a number of specialist publications and radio channels. Stay up-to-date with the latest news in Afrikaans, Czech, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish . World News
from Australia with great photo-journalism Extensive Reading - News
Explains how to use English News pages to improve your reading skills. ABC News
Assist News
News Links: VOA CM UPI ABC CBS NBC FOX CNN BBC CBC MNN - news in more than 50 languages Bos News Life
Excellent alternative world news source covering many human rights abuses not revealed in most major media. Breaking News in English
with great reading and vocabulary lessons with answers provided. It allows students to study using current news articles. He paraphrases current news into a one-page Word or PDF along with various activities for teachers to create a lesson with. Maintained by Sean Banville, who also supplies an audio file of him reading the article allowing each lesson to be made into either a listening or reading focus. The official BBC homepage
BBC News and Audio in 33 Languages
Give it a listen in your native or Target Language! CBS
CNN
Crayon
Create your own free newspaper! FOX News
Google News Site
MSNBC
English Language Media Online
Newspapers Online
The Times
VOA News
VOA Special English
VOA SE online quizzes
by Charles Kelly VOA Special English
(great for those aiming at TOEIC 300~500) CNN Student News
(Transcripts with Podcasts) Quick Guide and Transcripts Easy English News
from Voice of America Learner Pages Yahoo News
Yahoo and ABC News Links
Kelly HP
Aichi Institute ofTechnology BBC / Words in the News
Extensive teacher and learner sections. Japan Times Shukan ST
Pulse of the Planet
(National Geographic) Learning Resources
CNN San Francisco - ideal for self-paced learning. PBS / Online News Hour
National Public Radio (NPR)
Earth Sky Radio Series
California Distance Learning Project
(similar to CNN SF) Family Research Council
Washington Watch CNN Newsroom
History Channel / Great Speeches
audio archives of 20th century speeches (no text) Drew's Script-O-Rama
text archives ofpopular movie scripts World Net Daily
Challenging editorials on real news behind the news. Excellent online bookstore. NY Times Online
Newscom
Newscom.com offers a lot of Video Content together with Reuters. Their Entertainment Subscription contains a comprehensive collection of images from international providers including Ace Pictures, AdMedia, Fashion Wire Daily and PhotoLink. Coverage includes celebrity sightings, red carpet stars, musicians and concerts, the latest in fashion, and much more. Sina.com News
One of China’s top sites for news in English, Chinese or with Yahoo translation. Bilingual News in English and Japanese
Parallel Version of The Nikkei Weekly Global News
Often not covered in the US, Mapped by Alisa Miller on Public Radio.
ALTERNATIVE NEWS SOURCES
OhmyNews International
An online newspaper with the motto "every citizen is a reporter". The majority of articles are written by freelance contributors. RFC Net.org
Covers Issues of Persecution and Political Pressure Pixcetra
Pixcetra has a huge amount of photos and slideshows about current news and other topics. Their images are great and the captions are accessible to English Language Learners. For lack of a better place, there is a link under Multimedia Resources From News Outlets.
ENGLISH VERSIONS OF JAPANESE NEWSPAPERS
Asahi News
NEWS BROWSERS
Del.icio.us
Digg
Reddit
Technorati
The Green Ribbon
Title Pending
Washington Post
BBNBI NEWS INSPIRATIONAL RADIO
BBNBI News Inspirational Radio Online
BBNBI News Inspirational Radio English
BBNBI News Inspirational Radio Espanol
BBNBI News Inspirational Radio Portuguese
BBNBI News Inspirational Radio German
BBNBI News Inspirational Radio Russian
BBNBI News Inspirational Radio Chinese Simplified
BBNBI News Inspirational Radio Chinese Traditional
BBNBI News Inspirational Radio Japanese
BBNBI News Inspirational Radio Korean
ENGLISH NEWS READING TO IMPROVE READING SKILLS
Phone English Links
Links to several British English newspapers and cultural websites at different levels. Try reading real news online to improve your English reading skills! Pure Directory Software
Software for Language Learning with free demos.
ESL-RELATED SITES WITH STREAMING MULTIMEDIA AND TEXT SCRIPTS
Rong-Chang Li
English as a Second Language Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
(University of Utah) Focus English
(UC Riverside) The ESL Wonderland
(University of Florida) LinguaCenter
(University of Illinois) The Comenius Group
English idioms EFL.net
uses Microsoft's audio streaming format The English Listening Lounge
free guest areas
NEWS READING PRACTICE
Yahoo Headlines
Use for speed-reading or practice in getting the gist of news stories quickly. Rikai News Stories
Easy News Stories with full bilingual Support in Japanese, Chinese or Spanish. Crayon
Students design their own newspapers and can write their own stories. Note-taking Programs Online Remember everything. | Evernote Corporation
What is Evernote? | Evernote Corporation Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information available from anywhere. On the web. Create, clip, and share notes on the web and see them everywhere. Create account • Sign In. Use Evernote on Mobile Phones too. Connotea.org
A free online reference management system. Zotero
Zotero runs in your Firefox web browser, which must be open in order for you to access your research collection. You do not have to be online, however to use Zotero; features such as notes, search, organization will work perfectly well offline, although obviously you will not be able to view some online items in your collection or to acquire other online materials. The Zotero window contains your entire collection: bibliographic references and whole documents and files, your notes, and other items like images and snapshots of web pages.
JAPAN-RELATED LINKS OF INTEREST
Japan Reference Page
News on Japan
Japan Times
(English Newspaper). Japan Travel Guide
from Kampo in Japanese. Look Japan
Nipponia
Japan Today
The Japan Zone
Japan photos
by Frantisek Staud Key Aspects of Japan
Quirky Japan Homepage
Japan Echo (10/99)
Articles on English Education:
ALTERNATIVE NEWS SOURCES
Free news sources from non-free countries and peoples ANS
AssistNews.Net great international news service (ANS) for free World News that you won't get elsewhere. Alternative networks. Barnabas Fund
Good alternative news source for Muslim majority countries. Indonesia Watch
for free Indonesian news in English or Bahasa Indonesia. Acts Web
Helpful links comparing faiths Book of Hope
Free counsel about life's deepest questions from Book of Hope Leadership University
Debates on philosophical religious questions This site is part of the Telling the Truth Project: telling the truth at the speed of life! EveryStudent
Explores essential questions about life. Deals with college life questions like: sex, relationships, binge drinking,meaning in life, eating disorders, stress, pornography, security in the face ofterrorism; compares religious faiths and experiences, etc. Tsunami and God
Problem of suffering and evil: where is God when it hurts? Disasters,tsunami, earthquakes, war and more: why do people suffer so? Find some answers here!
POLITICS, GOVERNMENTS
The BritishParliament
The British Monarchy
UK Public Sector Information
The White House
LIVE AGAPEPRESS.ORG NEWS FEED
OneNews.com
A division of the American Family News Network.
OTHER
Notaland
Nota is casual collaboration. Nota is a unique, cutting-edge collaborative web platform that allows users to create, share and collaborate on presentations and virtually any other form of online material. Using Nota’s proprietary toolset, users can instantly integrate text, video, maps, clip art, photos from web album or on the local computer, or license-free images from Flickr, and material from an ever-expanding array of sources. Users can then instantly embed their work in Facebook or blogs, and can share and collaborate with friends. Mash your ideas and media together with friends in a dynamic whiteboard wiki. Using photos, videos, and other web content you can instantly create brainstorms, presentations, scrapbooks, and enjoy an interactive chat with more than 50 friends. NHKOnlineEnglish
(Online English Transcripts, TOEFL 450~600) N’VIVO
Possibly the best known of qualitative analysis packages. Handles vast quantities of data. Supports Japanese and Mandarin Chinese. Free 30 day download. Best to download the free 30-page Guide to Get Started. Network Science
Many examples of Visualizing Network Dynamics from Queens, NY competition. NAJAS
National Association of Japan-American Studies World News Daily Editorials
Nellies English Projects
An educational website for students and teachers whose aim is to motivate students for lifelong learning. It provides resources for teachers on how to integrate technology into the classroom by means of project based and experiential learning using WebQuests. The site provides many educational resources, articles, lesson plans, evaluation rubrics, reading practice and collaborative writing ideas. Edu.blogs.com
How blogs and podcasts can be used to provide powerful learning. News from God?
Negroponte
Negroponte, Nicholas. Founder of MIT’s Media Lab and One Laptop Per Child. Persecution
Persecution.in covers human rights abuses in India. Ning
Create your own Social Networks! An online service to create, customize, and share a social network. Nonstop English
Learn English vocabulary and grammar while having fun! (explained in 10 languages!) You can test your English grammar and vocabulary with online exercises. The tests are intended to practice English vocabulary and grammar not only to test your English but to have fun while using the internet and educating yourself using the internet. Instant scores are available for all exercises, which are all grouped into 7 Levels. After submitting a page for evaluation you can go to the keys page to see the answers to vocabulary and grammar tests. Practicing English as a Second/Foreign Language (ESL/EFL) has never been easier and more fun. You can quickly improve your English grammar, vocabulary knowledge and skills. NFL Football
Football: America's #1 Game! History of College and NFL Football. Nagoya University of Commerce and Business Slide Show
(JALT CALL 2008 Venue) Netvibes
All Widgets available are filed and categorized here. Netvibes lets individuals assemble their favorite widgets, websites, blogs, email accounts, social networks, search engines, instant messengers, photos, videos, podcasts, and everything else they enjoy on the web - all in one place. Multimedia Resources from News Outlets
Listen-and-Write.com
Audio practice to help you improve your listening skills as you hear about the news. Listen-and-write.com is free listening practice. NHK English Level Tests 1 & 2
(for Japanese students) NHK Language Study books
for Japanese students of foreign languages. Nik Peachey’s Ning
for use with teacher trainers in Morocco - Moroccan Learning Technology and ELT Network for developing expertise in ELT and learning technology. Nik Peachey
Learning Technology Consultant, Writer, Trainer, Teacher Development News and Tips
Nick’s Daily Activities for Students
Nik's Daily English Activities site is for EFL | ESL students. Each day you can find a new simple online activity to help you improve your English. Notebook computers
ComputersFile.com is a blog updated daily with desktop computers, notebooks, laptops news and reviews by Dell, Apple, HP and more.
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http://CALL4ALLUS.en101.com
Internet-based, interactive audio-visual English learning center with instructions in 21 languages.
Free Demo and great online Business Opportunity!
Click on a flag to choose a language.
online electronic translation tools
ESL Lounge
Free ESL Lesson Materials for teachers. Grammar, worksheets, song lyrics, board games, pronunciation and more. All free and printable.
Online Conference/Classroom
Nellies English Projects is an educational website for students and teachers whose aim is to motivate students for lifelong learning. It provides resources for teachers on how to integrate technology into the classroom by means of project based and experiential learning using WebQuests. The site provides many educational resources, articles, lesson plans, evaluation rubrics, reading practice and collaborative writing ideas.
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FoxLingo – The Ultimate Language Tool!
(works only with Firefox)
Web Page Translation, Translated Search, Auto Translation, Text Translation, Language Resources, Learning Languages, etc.
Main Features
- Page Translation - Translates full web pages (over 1,000 different language pairs)
- Translated Search - Searches foreign pages using terms written in your language
- Auto Translation - Automatically translates websites by recognizing their domain
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- Language Resources - Over 90 language services (encyclopedias, text-to-speech, etc.)
- Ixquick - Metasearch engine with unique features, language search and complete privacy
- Learning Languages - Over 100 links to language learning sites for a variety of languages
- Freeware - FoxLingo is completely free and contains no adware or spyware
- Complete Privacy - FoxLingo does not take any information from its users
Supports 45 languages & over 1,000 different language pairs
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Uses 35 free online web page translator services
Worldlingo.com,
Tranexp.com,
Google.com,
Abacho.co.uk,
Altavista.com,
Apertium.org,
Eigo-navi.com,
Elmundo.es,
Excite.co.jp,
Freetranslation.com,
Gencat.cat,
Gts-translation.com,
Ibm.com,
Imtranslator.com,
Internostrum.com,
Interpret.co.za,
Linguamatix.com,
Lingro.com/,
Lingvo.org,
Nazgol.co.il,
Nifty.amikai.com
Ocn.ne.jp,
Oesi.cervantes.es,
Online-Translator.com,
Opentrad.org,
Sli.uvigo.es,
Solvingmaze.com,
Toggletext.com,
Tr.voila.fr,
Translatica.pwn.pl,
Translator.live.com,
Translendium.es,
Vil-net.dyndns.org
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