Useful resources for English-Language teachers in Technical Community Colleges. Learning English language as well as exploring science and literacy.

1. Jesus Alonso-Regalado
Exploring English-Language
Resources for
Mexican EFL Community
College Teachers
July 7, 2014

2. 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

3. Digital Libraries/Archives
 World Digital Library
http://www.wdl.org/en/
 Digital Public Library of America
http://dp.la/
 Digital Comic Museum
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/

4. 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

5. 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/

6. 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

7. Specialized EFL Websites (I)
 Teaching English (British Council/BBC)
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/
 English Central
http://www.englishcentral.com/

8. 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

9. Webquests
 Zunal
http://www.zunal.com/

10. 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/

11. 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

12. 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/

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