This author has found, through various encounters, that many teachers often have difficulty navigating themselves around the Internet and getting productive results from it. The purpose of this series of three articles is to outline some of the potential that can be exploited by language teachers. This current offering, the first of three, will describe some of the better resources available to instructors, explore some specific ESL media, and finally encourage teachers to create their own online materials. It is intended to be written in the descriptive and fairly straightforward manner of a guidebook. Subsequent articles will look at specific sites online that may be of interest to language instructors, and the creation of a Web Pages that can be used in class. Given the nature of the Internet, especially its rapid development since inception and the increased rate of change, readers are warned that statistics, sites and information are liable to become outdated at Internet speed.
