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Academic Word List Highlighter
Paste in any text, and words appearing in the Academic Word List (AWL) will be highlighted.
URL: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~alzsh3/
acvocab/awlhighlighter.htm

Comics in the Classroom: 100 Tips, Tools and Resources for Teachers
A great collection of resources for teachers who want to use comics in their classes.
URL: http://www.teachingdegree.org/2009/07/05/comics-in-the-classroom-100-tips-tools-and-resources-for-teachers/

Good Teaching: The Top 10 Requirements
Interesting list of what makes a good teacher: food for thought!
URL: http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/
FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/topten.htm

Rubrics for Educators
A very good list of rubrics for writing, oral presentations, research, teamwork and links to help you make your own.
URL: http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/rubrics.shtml

English Teaching Forum Online
Back issues of the English Teaching FORUM
URL: http://www.exchanges.state.gov/forum  

TESOL
TESOL: Check out the $25 annual global membership!
URL: http://www.tesol.org/ 

MIT OpenCourseWare
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s  OpenCourseWare
URL: http://ocw.mit.edu/index

Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
The world's largest digital library of education literature—free access to more than 1.2 million documents
URL: http://www.eric.ed.gov/  

Critical Thinking Web
A superb collection of critical thinking exercises and links to other websites by two respected Hong Kong U. professors. 
URL: http://philosophy.hku.hk/think/

The Learning Page
Library of Congress—over 7 million documents intended for teachers
URL: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/

Online English Language Center
A huge collection of resources for students and teachers, developed with  a grant from the U.S. Department of State
URL: http://oelp.uoregon.edu/ 

Librarians' Internet Index
The Librarians’ Internet Index—how librarians search the Internet via safe websites
URL: http://lii.org/ 

Online Writing Lab
Resource pages, handouts and exercises for ESL/EFL teachers, including some great links
URL: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/ 

TESL-L
The TESL-L listserve provides information to teachers around the globe; free membership, too (currently from 175 countries)
URL: http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/~tesl-l/about.html 

[Last update on September 1, 2009]