Educational Resource List

http://www.theconferencecalendar.com/default.cfm

From the website: “Our directory provides up-to-date conference information that allows you to choose conferences that best meet your needs. We will continue to include conferences with both a strong technology track and participation by those who influence the use of technology.”

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2008/09/29/06budget-2.h28.html?tmp=845379866

EdWeek article considering the impact of the current financial climate and future funding of US education.

http://www.english-adventure.net/

A website for Teachers, Students, and Parents, relevant to Longman’s English Adventure series.

http://www.etprofessional.com/

From the website: “Each issue is packed with a wide range of feature articles covering practical techniques for teaching, written by leading authors, experts and professionals. In each issue, we also provide reviews of the latest books and products, competitions, practical tips, and advice on personal and professional development.”

http://edublogs.org/

Blog hosting service for Education.

From the website: “Edublogs hosts hundreds of thousands of blogs for teachers, students, researchers, professors, librarians, administrators and anyone and everyone else involved in education.

“Edublogs are completely free, without any advertising, and come with 100MB of free upload space (easily extended to 3 Gig) and a heap of great features”

http://www.chinesesavvy.com

From the website: “Chinese Savvy is a comprehensive and efficient new web-based tool for Chinese language learning.”

http://creativechalk.com/

From the website: “Our mission is to provide free online tools to ESL teachers that enable them to connect and share ideas and teaching materials online.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/books/reading-extra.html?ref=books

From the website: “It is impossible to write about any one piece of research at great length, so for those interested in more in-depth information [about reading, online and off], here are links to some studies, speeches, reading tests — old and new — and other resources.”

http://cdextras.cambridge.org/VocabTrainer/intlegalenglish/

Online activities for the practice of International Legal English

Disclosure: The post author works for Cambridge University Press at the time of posting. The opinions expressed here are my own and are not necessarily those of my employer. This blog is not sponsored nor endorsed by my employer.

http://www.mychineseclass.com/mianmian/authors.htm

The textbook series is “ideal for intermediate-high to advanced-low students”. The linked page is to a bio for the authors (at the time of posting, the bare domain URL was not resolving.) There are sample lessons and other materials.