So, what exactly IS …
ZOHO CALL Facility Bookmarks?
Well, here goes!
NOTE: Unfortunately, I recently discovered that ZOHO is no longer free, at least for the purposes that The CALL Facility used it for. I still have access as an Admin, but I am researching how I might be able to continue to provide the same resources in perhaps a slightly different format. Options such as a website, pdf, Word, Excel or other kind of document, but so far, they are not as easy to use, create, support and maintain. But I am hopeful and optimistic!
MANY THANKS to everyone who supported The CALL Facility (& me!) in offering this very unique resource over the past many years, probably dating back about 15 years or more! ZOHO came about as a response to needing a quick way to access Language bookmarks in CALL! Way back when, and this is BEFORE GOOGLE, I would email an attached bookmark file for specific browsers such as Explorer (Mac!), Safari and even Netscape Navigator! Good times, good times!
ALL the bookmarks are still ‘at’ ZOHO, and I can access them, and export them into a simple .pdf document if anyone wants them. I can subsort, or include them all in one document. Please let me know! But for now, I won’t be updating ZOHO on a regular basis while I research other, if any, similar resources for Instructors and students.
In the meantime, probably the best strategy, for Instructors, would be to Copy/Paste website inks directly into Brightspace for students. Yeah, cludgy and inelegant, but … sometimes old school works! The first shift I had in the CALL Facility – was bulk erasing and then making copies of Spanish lessons .. on cassette tapes! Good times, good times!
AND, if you DO CLICK HERE or on the icon of a PDF to the left, then you can view and download a .PDF version of ALL of The CALL Facility ZOHO Bookmarks in alphabetical order. Yeah, not ideal, but … at least they are all in one document.
And many thanks to Mark vH who helped me set it up so very long ago!
Zoho CALL Facility Bookmarks, is an on-line database of over 1100+ useful Language sites as well as utilities, orientations, copyright information, digital media access and world news sites. Yes, you could look some things up at Google, but … I (& many others too!) have done that already and you might just find some very interesting sites and information, based on what students and Instructors think is helpful. In fact, most of the links have been suggested by students and Instructors and might not show up high on a Google search! Diamonds in the rough!
You can CLICK (by Language or Topic), sort by LANGUAGE, CATEGORY, KEYWORD and then CLICK BELOW to go to that site in a new browser tab. There is no ‘Best’ or ‘First’, just a huge collection (1186 links as of October 20, 2020) to browse and discover. TOTALLY FREE TOO! And if you find a great link, just contact me and I will include it. There is a new Search feature by clicking on the magnifying glass, top right hand corner.
I do not include overly commercial or blatantly non-private sites that want to harvest out any data. There are some scattered commercial sites, but only for review, not full access.
The best thing to do is treat this like Google has already done some language searches for you and see what is there! You can’t hurt it, can’t edit any data and maybe you will find something that will be helpful to your courses.
So, to give it a go …. try and find … KLINGON at ZOHO CALL Facility Bookmarks!
And just yesterday, I did some major edits and additions to ZOHO German sites. And that would also include a new favourite from the University of Texas and one of my ALL TIME FAVOURITE FRENCH SITES, Tex’s French Grammar! And they have a GERMAN site too, Grimm Grammar, amongst so many, many others! A great resource for everyone! And a special, overwhelming thanks to MvH when he worked in CALL and helped me set this up! This post also appears as a Page and will be updated regularly.
Tex’s French Grammar Grimm Grammar
