GN 101 and GN 102 Web resources and online exercises
Search Engines
MetaGer is a meta search engine which conducts simultanous searches in other German and international search engines. Saves time and is thorough!
DINO (Deutsches InterNet-Organisationssystem) includes a comprehensive catalog, links to search engines, games, and chat rooms.
German Media
German News Current German news, contains also an archive of news articles (1993 and later), search engine (Volltext-Suche) and a glossary. (German/English)
Der SPIEGEL Online version of the internationally most recognized German magazine (German)
Stern Online version of German magazine Stern. (German)
FOCUS Online version of German magazine FOCUS. (German)
Der Standard Online version of German periodical Der Standard. (German)
Pepperoni , an online student newpaper from a German Gymnasium, contains software reviews, interviews and Leserbriefe (German and English)
German Resources on the Web
German Study Trails on the Web offer perhaps the most comprehensive site for German WWW resources.
AATG Homepage with links to Inter Nationes, AATG Materials Center, AATG chapters, AATG programs and services, jobs a.o.
Kassandra Project German Links Server and Resource Indices, Libraries, Dictionaries and an encyclopedia, News Services and Publications, History, Literature, Philosophy, Religion and the arts, German Feminist Resources, Practicalities and Miscellanies. (English)
AATG Homepage with links to Inter Nationes, AATG Materials Center, AATG chapters, AATG programs and services, jobs a.o.
UniversitçÕ Karlsruhe German Resources This German site has many links pertaining to Germanistik, including some more unusual ones like Parodien and Travestien.
German Studies Resources on the Internet is a good all-around site with major links of interests.
Willkommen zu Deutsch links with the German website of Vestavia Hills High School.
Software and Web Tools
The Foreign Language Software Database contains hundreds of software titles with detailed reviews.
Michael Shaughnessy's site contains an annotated bibliography about German language learning software.
This software review site evaluates and ranks German language learning software.
Software can be purchased (online) from The World of Reading .
The Institut für deutsche Sprache provides links for diverse German software available for downloading from the internet.
PracTest , by Prof. Gary Smith, is a template for creating fill-in-the-blank exercises or tests with the capability to add help text to specific items a student use of the program. (Instructions for how to obtain and install PracTest on your computer)
The Vocabulary Tutor , a shareware product for Win95, practices German vocabulary by association.
eWeb is a commercial site which allows teachers to create their own interactive web exercises. No knowledge of HTML etc. is needed to quickly create high-quality exercises.
Puzzlemaker creates crossword puzzles and word searches on-line.
The German Electronic Textbook by Professor Gary Smith includes explanations of German grammar for the beginning level. It also contains a pronounciation component.
Internet Exercises
German Internet Exercises provides a compilation of links with web-based lessons (language, culture and literature) by German teachers.
Inge DiBella's Web Exercises in German Web exercises, such as "Tanzstunde", "TV", for beginning and intermediate students of German. Each exercise comes with a ready-made student worksheet and teaching suggestions.
Peter Yang's interactive German lessons
Web-based Courses
G erman Cultural Studies at the University of Virginia: This website and its hypertext links have been assembled for the participants in GERM 335, the Weimar Republic, an interdisciplinary course in the culture of Germany in the years 1918 to 1933.
Peter Gölz has developed a distance learning course with interactive grammar exercises based on Treffpunkt Deutsch: Deutsch online
Texthaus is a commercial site which offers a variety of on-line, interactive German courses for German students. The exercises are glossed and evaluated.
Paperball is a meta search engine which will conduct searches by topic/categories in a number of on-line newspapers.
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
German-English Dictionary Ein einfaches Wörterbuch mit ca. 1.000.000 EintrçÈen (English and German)
LEO - German-English Dictionary with more than 140.000 entries. (English and German)
Meyers Lexikon German Encyclopedia: Das Wissen A - Z
English- German Dictionary of Computer Terms by Inge DiBella provides a comprehensive listing of German terms for keyboarding and computing.
Miscellaneous
Information on Theodor Storm in English
Anne Green's site contains an overwiew about the books "Ein Sommer, ein Anfang", "Damals war es Friedrich", and "Brandstiftung", plus word lists, questions and further links. Damals war es Friedrich is the tragic story of a young Jewish boy in Germany during the thirties, as seen through the eyes of a friend. In candid, simple words, this modern classic of juvenile fiction tells of a single Jewish family's destruction during the Holocaust. A chronology traces German anti-Jewish laws and regulations announced from 1933 to the end of World War II. - The material website contains detailed suggestionss for a variety of activities, as well as guidelines for teaching about the Holocaust.
Jugendinfo is a site which contains sections on subjects such as friendship, relationships, money, and school. Julia Cooley, a HS teacher in Hampton, VA, wrote, "The text is not too difficult to read, and my students enjoy reading the articles and learning idioms that aren't in their boring old textbook."