Resource Directories

• Aardvark's English Forum http://englishforum.com/ looks crowded. Information is fairly usual, a bit repetitive and not very appealing for students. For teachers it has more or less the same as usual, nothing special.
• Abcteach- The Educator's Online Center http://www.abcteach.com/. It has a great layout but it requires subscription. Powerpoints are free.
• Barry Fun English http://barryfunenglish.com/index.php . It's one of the best in terms of language resource room with Worksheets, Games Vocbulary, Flashcards, Powerpoint Viewer and Tools. You have resources ready to print or you may make your owns and print them. It's good for beginners and not very high levels.
• BBC Learning English http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/. It's extremely reliable, very-well organized with a huge range of information. The homepage is very attractive.It's totally free.
• Busy Teachers' Café http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/ . It's quite a disappointment because it looks very interesting but doesn't have many resources.

 We critically analised :

• MapZones http://www.mapzones.com/home.php . Its homepage is very colourful. In the central area we have a map according to continents. On the left there is world info. with 21 different topics.When we click on the left section, introduction, we have a very boring presentation of the names of the countries. When we click on the name of the country we get information related to it. It gives us very complete and useful information but it's disappointing because some information is out of date.

• NASA students http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/index.html. It has 6 folders:

1. Home
2. News
3. Missions
4. Multimedia
5. Connect
6. About NASA

They are directed to different publics: 7 different receptors:

1. for public
2. for educators http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/index.html
3. for students http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/index.html
4. for media
5. for policymakers
6. for employees
7. MyNASA

For Students - we may search by grade, information is up to date with lots of multimedia resources (videos gallery and images gallery, NASA TV and picture dictionary)
For Educators- we have educator features and articles, education image galleries and career information. We also find teaching materials.

• School Discovery http://www.discoveryeducation.com/teachers/ . It has 4 folders:

1. Administrators
2. Teachers http://www.discoveryeducation.com/teachers/index.cfm?campaign=flyout_teachers
3. Parents
4. Students http://www.discoveryeducation.com/students/index.cfm?campaign=flyout_students

It has free resources , which are printable by grade and subject.
Students have games, webmath, homework help and videos.

• School Express http://www.schoolexpress.com/. It requires payment for most resources and has 9 folders. You can download thematic units and eworkbooks if you pay. It gives access to sample pages.