The Origami Forum

see topic. thanks

http://www.origami.com
click diagrams
view all simple models (leave the search-field empty and click onto display)
done with seearching for simple models.

Peter Budai has a wonderful basic-folds pdf, downloadable at his webpage http://peterbudai.tripod.com/
(click onto basics)

David Petty's page has many easy traditional diagrams http://members.aol.com/ukpetd/

thanks these will be great for my students.

origami-club.com has loads of easy diagrams in flash and the normal layout its in english and japanese but the japanese site has more diagrams, if you want a simple trick to figure out what links go where (in firefox probably similar in ie) look in the bottom right hand corner when your mouse is over a link its in english!