The ESL Resource Center

This site was designed for teachers and students who like to have all of their resources in one place. If you are tired of searching the web for all your favorite tools, or forgetting what the URL for a particular online resource is when you are in the classroom or in a corporate learning environment, you will like this.

Click on any logo and you will be taken to that resource's website.

Every image on this website is clickable and leads directly to the resource it refers to. If you see a face you do not recognize, click on it to discover who it is.

Digital Learning

Also known as Technology Assisted Learning (TAL) or Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL). Here you will find interactive tools, such as online dictionaries, interactive phonetic charts, and web based apps and games that enhance the classroom experience, or offer some sort of self-help resource for students outside of the classroom.

News Media

Under this tab you will find a collection of the best sources for digital and printed media, as well as broadcast media news. Whether it's Rolling Stone Magazine, or the New York Stock Exchange, or CNN and Fox News, you will find them here with direct links to their websites. If you spend time curating authentic content about current events, breaking news, or human interest stories, you will love this page.

Grammar

English Incorporated gives you additional tools that make it easier to explain difficult grammatical themes and constructs to your students.

Science

Since English is the official language of the global scientific community, we have included some tools and content for those students who are also part of the global scientific community. There are also links to sites that might be of interest to anyone:

• The NASA site has many articles, animated models, and photo galleries that will grab the interest of the inner astronomer in you.
• The Biodigital Human is a free tool that gives three dimensional multilayered renderings of the human body. You can view every system from skeleton to skin, layer by layer, with official medical terminology.
• See Youtube videos of today's most prominent scientists and theoretical physicists explaining the deepest mysteries of our day.

TED Talks

Here you will find some of my favorite TED Talks accompanied by transcripts with synopses in Google Docs that you can download for free.