Jesus Alonso-Regalado

Exploring English-Language Resources for

Mexican EFL Community College Teachers

July 7, 2014

Workshop Outline

1. Digital Libraries/Archives

2. Library of Congress Digital Collections

3. Searching Tools & Search Engines

4. Useful Websites: National & International

5. Images, Sounds, Video

6. ESL Websites

7. Webquests

8. Free English Dictionaries

9. Websites & Databases Specialized in the Sciences

10. Data Depositories & E-Print Archives

11. Science Literacy

Digital Libraries/Archives

World Digital Library http://www.wdl.org/en/

Digital Public Library of America http://dp.la/

Digital Comic Museumhttp://digitalcomicmuseum.com/

Library of Congress Digital Collections

Teacher Resources http://www.loc.gov/teachers/ Classroom Materials http://

www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials

Other Useful LC Resources: Science Reference Services. Library of Congress

(LC) http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/ Science, Technology, Business. Digital

Collections. LC http://www.loc.gov/topics/science.php

Everyday Mysteries. Fun Science Facto from the Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/

Searching Tools & Search Engines

Internet Public Library. http://www.ipl.org

Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org

Search Creative Commons http://search.creativecommons.org/

Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/

Images, Sound, Video

REALIA project http://www.realiaproject.org/

Panoramio http://www.panoramio.com/

TED Talks - Engineering http://www.ted.com/watch/topics/engineering

Smithsonian Folkways http://www.folkways.si.edu

Specialized EFL Websites (I)

Teaching English (British Council/BBC) http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/

English Central http://www.englishcentral.com/

Specialized EFL Websites (II)

Internet TESL Journal Links Page http://iteslj.org/links/

ESL Gold http://www.eslgold.com/

Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab http://www.esl-lab.com/

English as a Second Language Online http://www.usingenglish.com/

EverythingESL.net http://www.everythingesl.net/

Learn English Using Online Resources. NYPL http://www.nypl.org/help/community-outreach/immigrant-services/learn-esol-online-resources

Webquests

Zunalhttp://www.zunal.com/

Free English Dictionaries

Learners Dictionary – Merriam Webster http://www.learnersdictionary.com/

Forvo http://www.forvo.com Offers pronunciations for over 1 million words in many languages

Pronny http://www.rightpronunciation.com Pronny gives you the right pronunciation of important names belonging to the major languages of the world

Engineering http://dictionary.babylon.com/science/engineering/

Websites Specialized in the Sciences

Public Library of Science http://www.plos.org/

Science.gov Gateway to U.S. Federal Science. It “searches over 60 databases and over 2200 selected websites from 15 federal agencies, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information including research and development results”

UAlbany Databases by Subscription http://library.albany.edu/db/subject?n=nano

Data Depositories & E-Print Archives Sciences

Specialized in Engineering: http://libguides.lib.uci.edu/content.php?pid=226364&sid=1874263#engineering

Find repositories: Registry of Open Access Repositories http

://roar.eprints.org/

Databib http://databib.org/

Databib is a searchable catalog / registry / directory / bibliography of research data repositories.

Figshare http://figshare.com/

A repository where users can make all of their research outputs available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner.

E-Print Network http://www.osti.gov/eprints/

Science Literacy

The Information Literacy User’s Guide http://opensuny.org/omp/index.php/SUNYOpenTextbooks/catalog/book/170 Read chapter 9. Science Literacy