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Technology in the Foreign Language Classroom
Sra. Maggi G. Acket

Online Resources
Copyright in Schools
http://www.slideshare.net/Andreatej/copyright-for-the21stcentury-4852771

http://www.21things4teachers.net/index.html

Moodle

http://bubbl.us/ (thinking maps for moodle)
http://www.polleverywhere.com/
http://groups.diigo.com/group/resources-for-languages
http://www.360cities.net/map#lat=45&lng=19&zoom=2 (great tool to search for cities/countries)
http://www.voki.com (create your own voki-register)
http://www.widgetbox.com/ (find widgets in the target language)
www.extranormal.com (great for creating 3d movies-for adults- create a greeting for students in the target language)
www.teachertube.com (videos)
www.slideshare.com (great for tutorials to put into moodle)
http://www.epals.com. (Find friends abroad)
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ (music-podcast in classroom)
www.langwitches.org. (Project ideas)
http://www.hippocampus.org/ (great for all subjects except. Spanish)
www.univision.com (Spanish-videos music, etc)
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/South_America_Geography.htm (geography games-Spanish speaking countries)
http://blabberize.com/ (pictures can be manipulate it and students can add voice to them)

Radio-pop Latino
http://www.cadenatop.com/ (copy embedded code into moodle)
Video-song (Somos El Mundo)
http://www.univision.com/content/videoplayer.jhtml?cid=2307168

Picture/Grammar-Audio-Writing/Listening/Reading skills (awesome)

http://www.trentu.ca/academic/modernlanguages/spanish/masarriba/ (Picture dictionary-grammar)
http://cvc.cervantes.es/ensenanza/mimundo/default.htm (Centro virtual Cervantes)
www.linguascope.com (paid subscription-$599) awesome!

Listening skills-Quizzes
http://www.quiz-tree.com/index.html (home)
http://www.quiz-tree.com/Spanish_Language_main.html

Grammar in Spanish
http://www.studyspanish.com/. (grammar-free online quizzes)
http://www.conjuguemos.com/home/index.html. (Vocabulary per book tittle)

Reading:
http://en.childrenslibrary.org/ (books in all languages)
http://pacomova.eresmas.net/ (awesome resource for reading)
http://www.storybird.com (great for reading and creating stories)
http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/SLC/index.php (guided reading)

Writing
www.glogster.com (13 years of age or older)
www.edu.glogster.com (sign in to create your own account. You can sign 100 students as your classrooms' accounts)

Listening-Lyrics, tongue twisters & songs
http://www.mamalisa.com/?t=el&lang=Spanish. (Songs, lyrics, music, MP3)
http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/ (tongue twister for all languages)
http://www.elhuevodechocolate.com/cancion1.htm. (songs)
http://pbskids.org/buster/songs/dr_dominican_sng.html (Dominican song)
http://pbskids.org/buster/songs/mx_guanajuato_sng.html.( Guanajuato song)
http://pbskids.org/buster/videos/tx_sanantonio_vid.html. (Sanantonio song)
http://pbskids.org/buster/songs/ct_hartford_sng.html. (Bomba plena song)

Culture-Hispanic heritage-October 12th
http://www.biography.com/hispanic-heritage-espanol/index.jsp
http://teacher.scholastic.com/hispanic/index.htm.

El 5 de Mayo
http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=27159&title=Cinco_de_Mayo_
http://www.history.com/genericContent.do?id=53343.
http://www.history.com/topics/cinco-de-mayo

The day of the Dead-November 2nd
http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=51099&title=Day_of_the_Dead_Classroom_Video___
http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=57593&title=Dia_de_los_muertos_historia
http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=57585&title=El_dia_de_los_muertos_Miguel_Jackson

Listening, writing & viewing skills
http://pacomova.eresmas.net/ (audio books- videos-etc.)
http://www.en.eyeplorer.com/show/ (great tool for culture search project-Spanish Speaking countries)
http://www.maps.google.com (great tool for culture search project)
http://www.360cities.net/ (great tool to upload your virtual tour/classroom)
www.esp.brainpop.com (great source but it is paid)
http://www.audio-lingua.eu/?lang=en (audio recordings many languages)
http://www.123teachme.com/learn_spanish/spanish_for_children (games, podcast, videos)
http://zachary-jones.com/spanish/ (Book “Actualidades” videos, art galleries, etc.)
http://www.edhelper.com/Spanish.htm
http://zachary-jones.com/french/ (fFrench)

Speaking & Writing

http://www.photopeach.com(great for story telling project)
http://www.animoto.com (great for photo video projects)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx (story telling download)
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/AllDownloads.aspx?displang=en&qstechnology= (video editing-download)
http://www.jakesonline.org/blankslides.htm (blank slides for photo story)

Creating your own songs ($29)
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/songsmith/index.html

Interactive communication: (free/adults)
http://www.livemocha.com (learning other langauges)
http://www.skype.com (free video conference)

Associations
http://www.aatsp.org
http://www.hispaniajournal.org
http://www.nysaflt.org

Lesson Plans/ Smartboard- workshops

http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/Ed+Resource/Lesson+activities/Notebook+activities/Browse+Notebook/America+Latina/
http://www.coe.uh.edu/digitalstorytelling. (Power Point)
http://www.learner.org/resources/series201.html. (workshops-videos)
www.mylearningplan.com (free workshops through Boces)
http://www.slideshare.net/kbrooks/presentations (great resources-videos)
http://technolanguages.ning.com/ (conversational-share educators)
http://www.enciclomedia.edu.mx/ (teacher resources)

ESL
http://www.usingenglish.com/

Students with LD
http://udltechtoolkit.wikispaces.com/

50 top Media
http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools

3D Books
http://alpha.zooburst.com/
Spanish
http://alpha.zooburst.com/index.php?viewbook=4810

Grants
http://www.digitalwish.com/dw/digitalwish/home

Karen Brooks links and media
https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=10333&I=780829&H=1
 

Power Points
calameo (publish power points on a book)
http://www.calameo.com/
Playlists
http://embedr.com/ (embed a play list of varios sites or links for kids)

Power Point at prezi
http://prezi.com/your/
videos-chat 3e learning
http://www.synchtube.com/

Resources for all languages

http://smartboardresources.pbworks.com/LOTE
http://www.cortland.edu/flteach/flteach-res.html#spanish

Copyright
http://www.halldavidson.net/downloads.html
What should a teacher do?
FOR STUDENTS
Copyright Cartoon-Copyright's for the People
Copyright for Kids
Copyright Quiz
Interactive Questions
Cyberbee (lesson plan)
Hall Davidson's Material (look down the page for Copyright-Includes a VERY helpful chart)-print the chart and put it by your work computer.
Images and the Law
Copywrite brochures from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education in Missouri (download .pdf)
NECC Presentation by Tony Jongejan-Contains a thorough history and many other resources.
DECIDE YOUR OWN LEVEL OF COPYRIGHT
Creative Commons


Cyberbulling
http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/tweens/are_you_a_cyberbully.html
http://www.wiredkids.org/ktt_universal/games/javascript/cyberbullying_quiz_1/index.html

Digital story telling
http://moodle.ucboces.org/course/view.php?id=559
 

 

 


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