Literary Website # 3

 

Perihsa Moya

Effective Literary Website # 3

https://www.starfall.com/h/

Starfall was opened in September 2002 as a free public service to teach children to read. Since then it has expanded to include language arts and mathematics for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and third grade. Starfall emphasis on phonemic awareness, systematic sequential phonics, and common sight words in conjunction with audiovisual interactivity has proven effective in teaching emergent readers. Starfall activities are research-based and align with individual and Common Core Standards in English language arts and mathematics.

This program emphasizes exploration, play, and positive reinforcement, encouraging children to become confident and intrinsically motivated. Starfall is an educational alternative to other entertainment choices for children especially effective for special education, homeschooling, and English language art development. It is widely used in schools that serve children with special needs and learning difficulties. No child should be left behind so this website is important for teachers so they can know interesting strategies that can boost up students with special needs.

Students from a variety of learning backgrounds (ELLs, those with language delays, etc.) can use Starfall to explore literacy concepts at their own pace. The earliest readers can explore well-paced videos that introduce each letter and can actively discover letter sounds and usages; while more advanced readers can enjoy the "I'm Reading" section, with short books on subjects from comics to Greek mythology and Chinese fables. The "It's Fun to Read" section, in which kids learn about how reading can help them investigate anything that interests them, offers a nice way to tie together different classroom subjects under the overarching theme of reading and literacy. Teachers can also project the site on an interactive whiteboard to introduce new concepts (letters, letter sounds, phonemes, blending sounds, and more) to the whole class. For teachers who are ready to go all in, the Parent-Teacher Center is a must. It offers an impressive amount of additional ideas, printable worksheets, and pre-K and kindergarten curricula.

I recommend that teachers should refer to this website since it provides many useful resources that can enhance their lesson in literacy. I found this website very useful because it addresses the basic skills for students to develop their knowledge in English reading and writing.

Effective Literary Website # 2

 

Perihsa Moya

IRA Newsletter Project:

Effective Literary Website # 2

Flocabulary (https://www.flocabulary.com) is a learning program for all grades that uses educational hip-hop music to engage students and increase achievement across the curriculum. Teachers use Flocabulary’s standards-based videos, instructional activities and student creativity tools to supplement instruction and develop core literacy skills. The Flocabulary is a great website to help develop core literacy skills with its standard-based videos, instructional activities, and student creativity tools to supplement instruction. The Flocabulary provides lessons for all the subject areas which are language art, math, science, social study, life skills, vocabulary and current events. The lessons on language arts provide different reading and writing activities along with interesting videos that can help teachers provide engaging  lessons to students through songs, videos, and exercises that are both engaging and fun for the students and everyone participating. Using this website as a supplement resource can increase student learning for it combines all kinds of learning styles for students.

The Flocabulary provides hundreds of standard-aligned lessons, which includes videos and activities for all subjects, printable quizzes and activities to accompany each lesson, activity assignment for entire class or individual students, visibility into student activity results, dashboard to track student performance, and building-wide or district-wide access for all teachers and students. The inclusion of hip-hop music as a learning tool in the classroom is one way to help students recognize that they already possess many capabilities that can be used to develop positive identities. These identities and connections in the classroom help students develop into high achievers.

There are three ways Flocabulary engages your students. The three branches of engagement includes behavioral engagement which measure of persistence and participation, and of complying with classroom rules. The second branch is emotional engagement which measure of students feeling about school, their teachers, and their class work. The last branch is the cognitive engagement which is to measure how student feel about their abilities to complete work and how hard they’re willing to focus. Because student engagement is, in part, a measure of how invested a student is in learning and applying knowledge, it has strong ties to academic outcomes. As examples: a behaviorally engaged student is more likely to listen and participate in classroom discussions; an emotionally engaged student is less likely to skip school and more likely to respond to teacher directions; a cognitively engaged student is more likely to focus on and work through tasks he or she perceives as difficult.

The Flocabulary website is a great online resource for everyone who wants to improve student literacy skills with the tools provided and can help increase student’s learning. I recommend everyone to use this website because it provides useful strategies and can provide you with all the information to learn about what Flocabulary has to offer.

 

 

Nickita Gilmete

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #3

Storynory

URL: https://www.storynory.com/

            Storynory has been giving free audio stories to the world since November 2005. We are a podcast and a website with audio streaming. All contents in Storynory are free. Storynory aims for audio stories to showcase imagination, good writing, and great narrations. This website is also starting to produce more factual content including history and interviews. The aim of the factual programming is to stimulate a curiosity about the world, and the ability to think critically. It takes a lot of time to produce the stories in Storynory. Most of the stories in this site are aimed at an age group around 7 to 11 years. However, Storynory have nursery stories and rhymes for preschool, and some quite sophisticated stories.

            Storynory is another website that provides free audio stories. In Storynory, there are original stories, fairytales, classic audio books, myths and world stories, junior stories, and poems and music. When clicking on the stories on this website, the stories will be narrated to you and the actual story was there on the website for you to read along with the narrator. The voice of characters are changing in the narration of the stories.

            Storynory is an effective literacy website because it can help students learn to read and write. When students will read along with the narrator in this website, students will learn how to pronounced words that are unfamiliar with them. They will become fluent readers when they are reading along with the narrator. Teachers should visit this website and encourage students to visit this website because it will help students a lot.

 

 

Effective Literacy Website #2

 

Victoria Braiel

ED 638 Fall Intersession

Dr. Rivera

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy #2

 

 

Have you ever heard about FUNBRAIN? Now you will be thinking about what is Funbrain? Let me tell you more about FUNBRAIN. Funbrain is an educational website that is created to make learning fun. The website is www.funbrain.com and it is free. Funbrain is published by Funbrain Holding LLC. It is created for kids in grades Pre-K to 8. The website has been the leader for educational game since 1997.

The interesting thing about this website, FUNBRAIN is that it offers hundreds of books, comics, games, and videos that develop skills in reading, math, problem-solving and literacy. When you visit this site, you will be amaze at the wonderful layout of it. The colorful site that will capture children’s attention, the easy way to explore what they have, and the grade levels are for them to choose. The books, games, comics, and videos are also label with grade levels that they can use. It is extremely easy for children to go on and search for their grade level games, books and comics to read and videos to watch.

The books that are on the website are right for the grade levels. They also carry popular books for kids that they can read it online. For instance, the popular children’s book entitled, “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” I like to read that book because it is hilarious. The games are educational games and fun for kids to have fun and learn at the same time. The games are mostly about problem solving and that is how children build their critical thinking. The videos are created by kids who are helping other kids to be problem solvers as well.

I am suggesting parents and teachers to trust this site for your kids to go on and have fun and at the same time they will be learning so much from it. The games are fun, the books are amazing, they are not boring, they have good pictures exactly right for them. The books, games and videos have grade levels, it is easy for our children to identify what they need. Go to www.funbrain.com to discover the treasure of learning. Where kids have fun learning.

 

Anderson Ponapart

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #3

            My third Effective Literacy Website is “ young explorer magazine ” in which the teachers bring the world into the classroom with connections, explorations, and digital transformation. National Geographic Learning is a part of Cengage Learning.  It was the leading educational publisher of Pre K–12 School and English Language Teaching. At National Geographic Learning, they believe that an engaged and motivated learner will be a successful one and they design their materials with a highly interactive storytelling approach which was a great way to raise the connections.

            Through the learning programs, they wanted learners to experience the excitement and joy of learning the National Geographic explorers, scientists, writers and photographers experience. They shared real stories from National Geographic that increase learners’ knowledge of the world and everything in it. They illustrated the materials with eye-catching National Geographic photography, video, and illustrations that bring the world to the classroom and the classroom to life.  They believed that intersection of education and exploration can make a profound difference for the learners and the educators who reach them. This program had an inspiring community of National Geographic Explorers cutting-edge scientists, researchers, and powerful storytellers from around the globe who would love to connect with your students. 

            The goal for this site was to show the educational materials they publish with photographs and video that enables learners and educators to celebrate their own cultures and everyday lived experiences.  Through the photographic expeditions, they send creative teams of the very best photographers and videographers in the field to record life and create photography and video that students and teachers will recognize as reflective of their own lives and experiences.  This program believe that Life as Lived Collection is the most engaging photography and video archive in the field of education for its accuracy, and the respect for local culture and global diversity.   The video archive helps them achieve their mission by bringing the world to the classroom and the classroom to life.

 

 

 

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #2

 

DeBrum T. Melander

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy #2

Book Seer

          Book Seer is one of several Effective Literacy in a blogging website called http://blog.whooosreading.org/reading-websites-that-engage-students/. In the homepage, a banner on the top of this website reads, “In a world where choices are not A, B, C, and D, make reading authentic again. Bring WhooosReading.org to your school”. Such catchy slogan should encourage more of us, educators, to start using these types of sites to encourage and enhance our students reading habits and skills.

          Book Seer.com is a free and simple website that anybody can use to find their favorite books to read. Because of its great variety of information of books gathered from Amazon.com, children and adults can find their favorite story book or novel in this website. More importantly, the website is free and you do not have to fill out any membership requirements that can be so tiresome to fill out. All you need to do is type in the website and it will get you to the homepage, (WhooosReading.org), where it will give you a list of effective reading sites including the Book Seer.

          Book Seer.com encourages children of all ages to become proactive readers. Its simple and quick way to get a book, allows readers to get a list of recommended books when they type in the title and author of the book that they are searching for. The recommended books are from book collection from other users. In addition, a user can create and customize their own book collection using photos of books that they have read and collected for others to read as well.

          Book Seer.com should be useful in the classroom where educators can encourage students to use the site to search for books for their pleasure reading as well as their book report assignment. The convenience of not visiting the library to borrow books will encourage students to search for the book that they desire to read right at their fingertips. In addition, readers do not have to get a library membership card to read their favorite story book or novel. Readers can also keep the books for their collection with no charge for overdue books.

          With this type of literacy websites available for readers at their fingertips, readers do not have to leave their homes to visit bookstores or libraries just to pick up a book to read. Book Seer.com and other similar websites are great tools that we can use to help our community to become “hooked on phonics”.

 

Anderson Ponapart

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #2

            My second Effective Literacy Website is www.readingbear.org (reading bear).   Reading bear was an American website containing free phonics and vocabulary activities and it is free.  The aims of reading bear are from ages 4 to 7.  Users can either register to monitor progress or use the site without logging.  Learners can use to learn letters, vowel sounds, watch video, and many more.  I belief that this site can help slow learners and struggling readers to learn the concepts needed in reading.  This program also provides pictures and quizzes.

            Reading Bear was the first free reading program online to teach beginning readers concepts and vocabularies by introducing all the main phonetic patterns of written English.  They spent a big time putting together 50 presentations, covering more phonemic principles and over 1200 vocabulary times. 

            In each presentation, a video or an interactive slide show was introduced in which they introduced one or few related topics on phonic rules.  Presentations in this program are introduced in seven different versions.   In the fullest version, they sound out a word slowly and quickly, then blend it slowly, and finally blend it quickly. As sounds are pronounced, the corresponding letters are highlighted. Then they display a picture illustrating the word, show a sentence and finally show a video illustrating the sentence. Presentations give this treatment to around 25 words, though some have more and some have less. The result is a thorough yet painless introduction to phonics principles, while at the same time teaching vocabulary. There are many other features, which they encourage you to explore by clicking on our Getting Started page.  The projects are free and you can contact St. Charles Place Education Foundation or Walt Henry @whenly@memphis.edu.

            Reading Bear combines matched text and audio with pictures and videos to show the student how each letter was sounded out and what words mean correctly.  They hope, “unlock the mystery” of reading for young students both in terms of phonics and comprehension.

            Steps to follow when using Reading Bear, Reading Bear can be used in a whole class setting but to make it capable, use Reading Bear individually.  Follow the following steps when using Reading Bear:

1.      Introduce Reading bear to the student.

2.      Start the first presentation and choose “sound it out slowly”, asked student to read it.

3.      Play the “sound it out slowly” again with the “can you read this? This should not be difficult because the words are blended slowly for the students and all the student has to say the words.

4.      If the students can sound it out slowly with no difficulty, move on t. the sound it out quickly.

5.      Once the students can sound it out quickly, move to the “let me sound it out”

6.      If the students can read the words, try the audio flashcards for quick review.

7.      Then try the quiz, be sure to review and do quizzes over older word set aside.

8.      If he students mastered the rule, move to the next presentation.

9.      To learn more about READING BEAR, VISIST WWW.readingbear.org/ to learn the concepts and uses of this program.

 

Nickita Gilmete

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #2

 

Reading Eggs

 

URL: https://readingeggs.com.au/

 

        ABC Reading Eggs makes learning to read interesting and engaging for kids, with great online reading games and activities. Children love the games, songs, golden eggs and other rewards which, along with feeling proud of their reading, really motivate children to keep exploring and learning. The lessons in Reading Eggs use colourful animation, fun characters, songs, and rewards to keep children motivated. The program is completely interactive to keep children on task. Parents can access detailed progress reports as well as hundreds of full-colour downloadable activity sheets that correspond with the lessons in the program. The program includes over 2000 online books for kids – each ending with a comprehension quiz that assesses your child’s understanding.

        Reading Eggs can surely helps students enhance their reading abilities and students will enjoy the activities in Reading Eggs. Just by visiting the home page of Reading Eggs will motivate students to read the reading materials and even do the activities in the site. Going through the activities helps me as a teacher in learning about new ways to teach reading to children.

Teachers will benefit from visiting Reading Eggs site. There are downloadable activities that teachers can download and use it in their classrooms. Teachers can even use the lessons that are in the program in their classrooms because the lessons are completely interactive and will keeps students or children on task. I would recommend this site to many teachers here on the island. Not only teachers will benefit from this site, but parents can benefit a lot from this site too. Reading Eggs was designed to help teachers, parents, but mostly students.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kamleen Sam

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy #2

 

    ReadWriteThink (http://www.readwritethink.org/) is a website that created for teachers and students to enhance their essential readings and writings skills. This site mainly focused on students from K-12. Teachers like us who are not using online technology tools needs to apply these skills for the benefit of our students. This will enable us to boost student’s skills and knowledge to another level. In this site student can do printing press, trading card creator, write poems, and do time line summary.
            Students can access this site, ReadWriteThink from their homes using various devices which make learning possible everywhere. Printing Press is designed to assist students in creating newspaper, brochure or flyers. Teachers and students can work together to do publishing after gathering ideas and information’s together. Students can also demonstrate their literacy knowledge and skills when writing popular culture texts or real world examples. They can create their own trading card using fictions, places, objects etc.
            This website provides an effective tool for teachers and students to use. It supports their literacy in teaching and navigating to stay motivated. Teachers can also teach students to write poetry or their favorite poems so that they can recognize the power of making poetry and reading them. Poems and poetry inspires emotions or feelings of people and behind it students can find meaning.
            In addition, many sites are very useful for having or conducting online classes in literacy and this is one of them. Teachers and students will enjoy because resources are set up already and ready for use. It is well prepared for educators who are ready to learn online.

Effective Literacy Website #2

 

Ketruth Resepwil

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #2

Effective Literacy Website #2

            Learning Library site- https://education.com is a website that is full of teaching resources in different subjects. This Learning Library site is applicable for kids, preschool to elementary ages. This website has two options for a user to create an account for free or do monthly payment. If a user upgrades his account to Premium, he will pay for using it, but he will get more teaching resources.

             Learning Library site, teachers and homeschooler, like parents, could find it helpful and useful for their teaching because it provides different learning activities for teachers and students. Learning Library site- https://education.com has different sources that could address any student with different learning intelligence. I believe the teachers and students will enjoy the activities. Based on my exploration of this website, I, myself, found it interesting and I could imagine myself using the activities in my classroom.

Furthermore, teachers, homeschooler, tutor, and parents should explore this website to find more teaching resources, such as lesson plans, worksheets, games, songs, short videos, and other activities to use in teaching a child, especially lower grades and struggling learners. These activities on the website could help the children to be active in learning. Therefore, please visit https://education.com to learn more about the Learning Library for Kids.

IRA Newsletter Project 1

Ketruth Resepwil 

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy #1

Effective Literacy #1

 “This Reading Mama" site- http://thisreadingmama.com, is a created site by Becky Spence. This is a free site with different sources for preschooler to elementary ages of students. Becky Spence created this site or blog to share her goal on helping struggling learners. In this site, she shared her way of hands-on learning activities and helpful tips and resources. 

This Reading Mama blog, the parents, homeschoolers, classroom teachers, or tutor in preschool and elementary would find it helpful and useful. It provides so many different sources to use in order to address the struggling learners in literacy. It provides teaching strategies, printable worksheets and teaching materials, and how to apply the strategies in teaching.

Furthermore, this blog, This Reading Mama, teachers and parents could use it to find teaching materials and strategies to help with their children., especially during this pandemic. The teaching materials are created with passion and experience. Becky Spence found these teaching strategies and materials helpful and useful for her struggling learners, especially her children who are struggling in learning languages. Therefore, she created this blog along with the contents based on her passion and experience. 

Moreover, I am grateful and thankful that I was able to see this site. I will be using this site or blog to find the teaching strategies and student’s activities for my class. I believe this site or blog will be helpful for me since I am teaching class that are still developing languages. If you want to know more about This Reading Mama blog, visit http://thisreadingmama.com 

Assignment 1

 

Anderson Ponapart

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #1

 

            My Effective Literacy Website #1 is “into the book.” (https://reading.ecb.org/index.html). Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for elementary students and teachers. It focuses on eight research-based strategies, Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Students will register so all works completed can be save and continue. It’s an online activity with different activities and engaging videos that students will enjoy.

            It’s a free multimedia resource for students from grade K1 to grade 12.  This website uses pictures, videos that will help readers to connect to themselves.  It helped readers to connect the reading to own life and connecting the reading helps them understand and enjoy what they read.  This website is easy to use because the organization is easy to follow.  One thing that I really liked about this site because it provided audio that will help student with unfamiliar words. Another fascinating thing about this site, it helped readers to evaluate text and websites. This website was mainly on reading but in almost every subject area like social studies, science, health, and so on.

            Into the book was designed to help improve elementary reading comprehension skills, their ability to think and learn the curriculum.  The reading resources that provided by this program are online activities, videos, lesson plans and many more. The academic standards for “In to the book” focused on common core state standards for English Language Arts. Common core standards focused on fundamental skills, literature, informational text, writing, language, and listening and speaking.

            Resources that are available in “Into the book” include the following:  prior knowledge, making connection, questioning, visualizing, inferring, summarizing, evaluating, synthesizing, and strategies together. In each resource, it provided lesson plans, teacher guide, downloads, videos and more. It also includes student websites, teacher websites for featuring video clips, posters, teacher guides, lesson plans and matrix linking the activities with common core state standards, information on how to use Into the Book and professional learning websites.
            Into the Book was developed by PBS Wisconsin Education, with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and a team of experienced educators. The videos were produced by PBS Wisconsin and the Agency for Instructional Technology. The website was created by Eduweb and the project was supported by Wisconsin's Reading First U.S. Department of Education funding.   To learn or discover the cross-curricular K to 12 grades, visit pbswisconsineducation.org  to learn more.

 

IRA Newsletter Project #1

 

Victoria Braiel

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Project #1

ReadWriteThink Student Interactives (www.readwritethink.org ) was published by International Literacy Association and National Council of Teachers of English (ILA/NCTE). This website is free. You do not need to pay or sign up for it. You are welcome to roam around and try all the activities in it. It is for all grade levels. The website has classroom resources which includes lesson plans that are align with the IRA/NCTE and to the standards for each state in the Unites States of America. If you are an educator, you can always go on this site www.readwritethink.org and search type of a lesson plans you want to use in your classrooms. This website integrate the other subject areas such as Math, Science and Social Studies. Basically, it is based on Literacy development. It has a lot of worksheets that can be printout for the students and teachers to use in the classroom. The first incredible resources is the Student Interactives, these are activities like games to play on the internet to have the students learn and have fun at the same time. It includes matching letters with the sound for lower grades and upper grades playing with figure of speech. Moreover, the Calendar Activity which students can participate in involving with teachers, parents and other kids who are using the website for learning literacy and other subjects. For instance, writing essays or making videos, listening to presentation from educators around the world and so forth.

The second useful resource is the Professional Development. It has the Strategy Guides which helps develop skills in professional teaching mostly in literacy. It provides teaching strategies for different grade levels. For instance, it guides you in how to use differentiate instruction and how to teach writing for beginners. Furthermore, there is also an online professional development which the courses are not accredited but it helps on furthering your professional teaching. There is also library that has literacy for kids and adolescent, articles for teacher, books, and other sources which you can always use the search button to do a selection on what you want to read.

The Third amazing resources there is the Videos. There are a lot of videos you can search for or just view. The presentation videos for teaching, guiding, learning and just for fun. These videos are educational learning where you an educator can watch how other educators demonstrate how they implement their teaching strategies. Or a student can learn by watching the classroom activities provided in this website.

Last but not the least is the  Parents and After School Resources section where parents that help their kids at home can always refer to, to continue their learning at home. Or teachers can use it for cushion activities. These activities are divided in grade levels. They are mostly likely fun for kids and at the same time they are learning as well.

This website teaches a lot of things to teachers, students, and parents. It has many resources to develop professional teachings and help the students to learn more in Literacy. There are a lot of games, worksheets, books, and videos for kids to learn and have fun at the same time. I will recommend this website to visit if you are an educator please to visit this site and see what it can surprise you with. Students from Kindergarten to 12^th grades can always learn a lot from it. Especially at this time of pandemic this website is right for you.

 

Kamleen Sam

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy #1

    ABC Reading Eggs (https://readingeggs.com.au/schools/) is a website that created for teachers and students to enhance student’s essential reading and phonics skills. Their aims are for beginning readers, emerging readers and early readers. Educators need to adapt technologies for learning for the benefit of our students to be aware that lots of materials are available out there online for them that can boost students’ knowledge and skills.

    Students can access ABC Reading Eggs at schools, homes using various devices which make learning possible everywhere. It can build their spellings, and readings and comprehension skills. This website has books, movies, games, songs and much more for motivation. Students can have direct access or explore all areas within the program with parents helping them.

    How does it help teachers? It provides an effective learning tools for teachers to use for students. It supports their literacy in teaching and navigating to help students stay motivated. Teachers also have effective curriculum and guided practice to follow with students. They have assessment on this site to differentiate learning levels of students along with training themselves to from feedback from parents.

    In addition, many sites are very useful for having or conducting online classes and this is one of the best sites for starting readers. This site has many tools for beginners and new strategies for literacy. Teachers and students will enjoy because resources are set up already and ready for use. It is well prepared for educators who want to extend their students learning skills online. 

 

DeBrum T. Melander

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy #1

Common sense education (https://www.commonsense.org) is a website that is designed to help nurture our children to participate fully in their communities by helping them in their digital skills and knowledge. As it is stated in the homepage of this website, “Our award winning K – 12 Digital Citizenship Curriculum addresses top concerns for schools, prepares students with critical 21 – century skills, supports educators with training and recognition, and engages the whole community through family outreach.

The Digital Citizenship can help ease the hassles of searching and adapting their curriculum to incorporate technology into their own. This website arranges and groups timely topics and lesson plans according to grade levels. For example, in grades K,1,2, a topic is Media Balance and Well Being. In this topic for kindergarten, the students will be able to “know when to take breaks from device time”. If schools and educators implement and incorporate this curriculum, students will become more aware of the importance of technological ethics. It also supports educators by having classroom advises and professional development trainings.

Not only does this website benefit the schools and educators, it can also positively impact the students’ skills in using the internet resourcefully. This website also contains educational video games and interactive activities. These games and activities are created for every type of learners.

Finally, the website also offers a multifarious collection of reviews regarding significant ways to monitor what their children are doing on their devices and online. In addition it contains a collection of suggested movies for kids to watch and online games that may help the kids with their technology skills. It also communicates with parents and the community on issues regarding the well – being of the children in the digital age.

Being developed by experts from one of the most prominent universities in the United States, Harvard University, common sense education can surely make common sense common again. The resources and assistance from these experts are handy for any learner or educator who is willing to use the internet as a learning and teaching tool.