Resource Directories

- Aardvark's English Forum  http://www.englishforum.com/ looks crowded. Information is fairly a bit repetitive and not very appealing for students. For teachers it has more or less the same, as usual, nothing special.
-Abteach-The Educators Online Centre http://www.abcteach.com/ .It has a great layout but it requires subscription.Powerpoints are free.
- Barry Fun English  http://www.barryfunenglish.com/index.php . It's one of the best in terms of language resourse room with Worksheets, Games Vocabulary, Flashcards, Powerpoint Viewer and tools.You have resourse ready to print or you may make your owns and print them. It's good for beginners and not very high level.
- BBC Learning English http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/ It's extremely reliable, very well organised, huge range of information, the homepage is very attractive, totally free.
- Busy Techers' café  http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/ It's quite a disapointment because it looks very interesting but doesn't have many resources.
We critically analised :
- Mapzones http://www.mapzones.com/home.php Its homepage is colourful. In the central area we have a map in different colours according to the different 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 It gives us very complete and useful information but it's disapointing because some information is out of date.
- NASA http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/index.html It has six folders :

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

They are directed to different publics.Seven 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 Employee
7- My NASA

For students - we search by grade, information is up to date with lots of multimedia resourses (videos and images galleries, 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 four 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.