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Teacher’s Internet Notebook

Slide 1: Teacher’s Internet Notebook

Teacher’s Internet Notebook

Dominik Lukeš

for Language Assistants

September 1999

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Slide 2: What it’s all about

What it’s all about

  • What is on the internet now
  • What we can put on the internet ourselves
  • Other uses of computers for use by us academics

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Slide 3: What teachers can find on the Internet

What teachers can find on the Internet

Language materials

  • Dictionaries
  • Grammars
  • Information about the language
  • Corpora
  • Linguistic information

Other resources

  • Newspapers
  • Company information
  • Computer fonts
  • Computer programs

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Slide 4: How to find it

How to find it

Search!

  • Don’t try just one
  • Combine your searches

http://www.go.com

http://www.altavista.com

http://www.yahoo.com

http://www.excite.com

http://www.local.xx

Sample search queries:

  • “Estonian fonts”
  • “Czech dictionary”
  • “Polish history”
  • “Serbian grammar”

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Slide 5: Best place for…

Best place for…

Language Phrasebooks

http://www.travlang.com

Grammars

http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/grammars.html

Corpora

Software

  • Summer Institute of Linguistics http://www.sil.org

Dictionaries

http://www.dictionary.com

http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html

Newspapers

http://dmoz.org/News/Regional/Europe

Lesson Plans

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Slide 6: How to use the internet to better interact with your students

How to use the internet to better interact with your students

http://www.cuni.cz/teaching99

My teaching at SSEES this year

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Slide 7: How to publish your work on the Internet?

How to publish your work on the Internet?

What you need

  • Space on a web server to have an address like: http://www.ssees.ac.uk/dholowiak
  • HTML Editor: Front Page Express or Netscape Composer are free but Front Page 2000 is easier to use

Example

  • http://www.cuni.cz/~dlukes

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Slide 8: What will the language materials of the future look like?

What will the language materials of the future look like?

http://www.cuni.cz/~dlukes/czechlanguagematerials

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Slide 9: What we can do for the world and each other

What we can do for the world and each other

  • Collection of Internet resources for all our languages
    • Dictionaries and corpora
    • Grammars, course books, info about languages
    • Main newspapers and radios broadcast over the net
    • Local portals (Yahoo like search engines)
  • Email: [email protected] and check http://www.cuni.cz/~dlukes for results

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