• Newspapers and Magazines
  • MediaInfo LinksLists of newspapers and magazines from throughout the world.
  • ABC from Madrid
  • Berliner Zeitung
  • Le Monde
  • Elle
  • Libération
  • Pariscope
• Television and Radio Broadcasts To access these, you'll need RealPlayer .
  • International Internet Radio Directory
  • International Internet TV Directory
  • SCOLA broadcasts are now on-line.
• Web Cameras
  • International WebCam Directory
• Government sites from around the world
  • Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
  • Government Information Office of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China
• Other:
  • Literature On-Line
    • ABU Bibliothèque universelle from CNAM (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers)
    • Club des Poètes
    • Literature links from LANIC Literature from Latin America. Check out the rest of LANIC. Much information categorized by topic and by country.
    • Japanese Text Initiative
    • Projekt Gutenberg-DE
  • Lyrics to music: Use a target language search engine, type in the name of the artist for whose song you are looking, and voilà! Some good multi-language search engines are: AltaVista and Google
  • Maps! See this great resource from the University of Texas:Perry-Castenada Library Map Collection
  • World Weather Reports in the target language. Some examples:Chinese (simplified), French, German, Italian, Japanese, or Spanish.
  • Yahoo! Go to the Yahoo site. Scroll to the bottom of the page. Choose a Yahoo! site for the language you teach. Choose a category... There's no limit to what you'll find.
  • CCSF WWW Language Links Links to multi-language and language specific resources. You will also find links to language software review sites.

And here are some ways teachers have used them:

• Web Exercises to accompany Allons-y
• Web Exercises for any Languageby Laura Rosen
• IMSAForeign Language Dept. of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. Many wonderful web exercises and quizzes! See especially German,I,II, and IV and French
• Lecturas en Español designed by Sheryl Coleman
• 19th-Century German StoriesWeb versions prepared by Robert Godwin-Jones of Virginia Commonwealth University. Hans Huckebein (by Wilhelm Busch, also prepared by Robert Godwin-Jones) includes audio!
• Surf's Up!,Website Workbook Series Editor: Linda Moehle-Vieregge. Versions are available for French, German, Spanish. Published by AudioForum. Instructors may borrow copies of these from the CCSF Language Lab.

• Syllabus and other course and instructor contact information (See my course information page.)
• Handouts and presentations (See my Unofficial French MOO Information Page)
• Create databases for easy access of information by students or other instructors. e.g.
  • Sounds of the World's Animals
  • "Un vocabulaire pour la famille"Tennessee Bob's Family Vocabulary List
  • French Language Resources from the University of Virginia Electronic Text Center
• Interactive exercises and tutorials for language learning (can use sound, video, images, text). Frees up class time for more communicative activities. Also gives student immediate feedback, frees student from time constraints for completion, and may increase student time on task. Here are some examples:
  • French Online Grammar Quiz to accompany Allons-y
  • Russian Grammar Tutorials by George Mitrevski
  • Exercises to accompany Golosa by George Mitrevski
  • Animated Chinese Characters Chinese Writing Tutorial
  • My Favorite Chinese Language Lab On Line

• Newsgroups and Mailing Lists
  • discfranc! Not so successful experiment at CCSF.
• MOO
  • More about MOOs by Steve Thorne.
  • PuebloLindo Virtual world all in Spanish with images. Sponsored by Heinle&Heinle.
  • Unofficial French MOO Information
  • See basic MOO commands in English.
• Various chat environments such as CCSF's ESL Chat Rooms