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title: "Teacher’s Internet Notebook"
author: "Dominik Lukeš"
date: "September 1999"
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## Teacher’s Internet Notebook
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Dominik Lukeš

for Language Assistants

September 1999

## What it’s all about
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- What is on the internet now
- What we can put on the internet ourselves
- Other uses of computers for use by us academics

## What teachers can find on the Internet
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**Language materials**

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

**Other resources**

- Newspapers
- Company information
- Computer fonts
- Computer programs

## How to find it
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**Search!**

- Don’t try just one
- Combine your searches

[http://www.go.com](http://www.go.com/)

[http://www.altavista.com](http://www.altavista.com/)

[http://www.yahoo.com](http://www.yahoo.com/)

[http://www.excite.com](http://www.excite.com/)

[http://www.local.xx](http://www.local.xx/)

**Sample search queries:**

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

## Best place for…
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**Language Phrasebooks**

[http://www.travlang.com](http://www.travlang.com/)

**Grammars**

[http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/grammars.html](http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/grammars.html)

**Corpora**

- **Barlow’s corpus linguistics** [http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~barlow](http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~barlow)
- **British National Corpus** [http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc](http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc)

**Software**

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

**Dictionaries**

[http://www.dictionary.com](http://www.dictionary.com/)

[http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html](http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html)

**Newspapers**

[http://dmoz.org/News/Regional/Europe](http://dmoz.org/News/Regional/Europe)

**Lesson Plans**

- **Dave’s ESL Café** [http://www.eslcafe.com](http://www.eslcafe.com/)
- **New York Times** http://www.nytimes.com/learning

## How to use the internet to better interact with your students
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[http://www.cuni.cz/teaching99](http://www.cuni.cz/teaching99)

My teaching at SSEES this year

## How to publish your work on the Internet?
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**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

## What will the language materials of the future look like?
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[http://www.cuni.cz/~dlukes/czechlanguagematerials](http://www.cuni.cz/~dlukes/czechlanguagematerials)

## What we can do for the world and each other
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- 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: dlukes@ssees.ac.uk and check http://www.cuni.cz/~dlukes for results