Teaching with Technology Microsoft Instructional Resources Find lesson plans, tutorials and other resources to help you bring technology into your classroom.   Microsoft Virtual Classroom Tours The tours are designed by today's top schools of education and innovative districts around the country to meet the needs of various age groups and cover a wide range of subjects.   Lesson Plans  Looking for some great ideas on how to integrate technology into your curriculum? Search our collection of learning resources that make it easy to combine technology with key classroom learning objectives.   Microsoft Education News Subscription to this email-based newsletter includes top headlines from Microsoft Classroom Teacher Network and TechNet for Education.   Technology & Education Links to online resources and materials addressing the application of technology in diverse classrooms.   CALL Class Activities & Techniques   CNN Newsroom World English exercises to accompany newscasts developed by ESL instructors at Brigham Young U-Hawaii.   NY Times Learning Network Offers (among other things) a range of lesson plans linked to newspaper articles in their lesson plan archive. At the end of each lesson plan, they include the following Academic Content Standards.   English as a Second Language This site links you to those good and free ESL places. Learning Oral English Online An online conversation book with ten lessons including Meeting Friends, Apartment Hunting, and Shopping in USA. Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab One of the largest ESL listening training resources on the Web with various interesting topics for three different levels. Focus English A conversation site created by John Liang, University of California, Riverside, with contents added frequently. NPR Listening Exercises Current and archived news and human interest stories from National Public Radio. Foreign Languages for Travelers An excellent site for people who want to quickly learn some useful English or other foreign language phrases. ComAudio A program you can download and set up to listen to news, stories, and songs with text displayed. Integration of Listening, Reading and Speaking Skills A pioneer ESL website which is the earliest in using Web audio. Using Idioms in Conversations Listening to a dialogue in which an idiom is used. Voice of America RealAudio Programs Listening to VOA English programs including Dateline, Issues in the News, Music Mix, and Special English. CNN Streaming Video News Watching CNN headline news online with your real player. BBC Online English Learning Listening to news and learning English in your own language. KXTV News Stories. Selected news stories for educational use. You can choose to listen to the news, read the text, or watch the video. About ESL A wide range of exercises for all language skills and levels.