This is a free website, and it offers multiple types of technological resources specifically designed for English teachers. It includes categories in poetry, prose, commonly taught books etc, but it also incorporates ESL and EFL resources, which are extremely useful. When you click on one of these categories, the site lists various authors or sources for information relevant to teaching English with technology. For example, when you click on the commonly taught books category, the website produces a list of books traditionally taught in high school classrooms (the problem here is that it is a pretty limited list of only forty book choices). Next, when you click on the book for your class, the website provides a list of links that teachers have posted, which include lesson plans, movie clips, and/or documentaries that help facilitate teaching the book choice.
Aside from giving example lesson plans for English categories, it also includes links for other teaching websites that the authors found effective, interesting blog articles, and “wiki” entries to supplement the material that they provide on Teaching English with Technology. The most useful aspect of this website is the large number of links that it provides because if you do not find it on their website, you can find it on another one that they provide. I also found that the grammar category was extremely useful because I think that it will be difficult to come up with interesting lesson plans for grammar, and this website provides good ideas and techniques.
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