The Linguistic Funland and the University
of Nevada, Reno Present:

Language Teaching and the Internet

June 18: Using Email and Newsgroups with students

Handout information and background to consider

Connecting with Email Keypals
Using mailing lists with students
Communication issues unique to email: Reduced forms, "netiquette," "flaming"
What are newsgroups?

Assignment:

Send a "list global" message to listserv@cunyvm.cuny.edu and try to find appropriate lists for your students, then answer these questions:
1. Did you find any lists that your students could use?
2. If the lists could be used, would they be more appropriately moderated by you and distributed to the class, or would it be better to have your students subscribe.
3. What are some of the benefits and disadvantages of both having your students subscribe, and moderating the lists yourself?

Next: Finding stuff!

Basic Vocabulary

Short Internet Glossary

Email

This is an email link

What are these: (emoticons)

	:)	:-)	:P

	:(	:^) 	;-}
	
	:^0

Searching:

Finding Websites

AltaVista (Remember: + means it *has* to have the word, - means it should NOT have the word, and anything in "" is treated like a single word -- e.g. "fuzzy bear".)

Yahoo! is very user-friendly, but doesn't have as many sites indexed.

Finding People and Places

InfoSpace has lists of phone numbers and other public information, street maps, etc. Wow!

Files and Programs

Shareware.com is a place to find software, games, internet stuff, educational programs, etc. Also, you can search the Linguistic Funland particularly for CELIA, the Computer Enhanced Language Instruction Archive.