WHAT THE TECH!?: world language

Showing posts with label world language. Show all posts

Showing posts with label world language. Show all posts

Thursday, April 10, 2014

4-10-14 Show What You Know!

TECHING THE CCCS

WORLD LANGUAGE

GRADES 5-8

7.1c presentational MODE

20 Presentation tools

1. Audio Pal

2. Yodio

3. Toondoo

4. PicLit

5. World Language Assessment

6. Trading Cards

7. Vocaroo

8. QR Voice

9. Voki

10. Greetings From the World

12. Voice Thread

13. Glogster

14. Nota

15. Animoto

16. Weebly

17. Storybird

18. Pod-o-Matic

19. PodBean

20. Screencast O-Matic

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

4-9-14 Have a Conversation in a New Language

TECHING THE CCCS

WORLD LANGUAGE

GRADES 5-8

7.1.b Interpersonal mode

20 ways to start a conversation

1. Lexxing

2. My Language Exchange

3. Verbling

4. You Speak It

5. Conversation Exchange

6. Language for Exchange

7. Language Exchange Network

8. Schools Online

9. Project Pen Pal

11. My Happy Planet

12. Voxopop

13. Skype

14. ePals

15. Second Life

16. Beginner Spanish 101

17. Spanish Keyboard

19. Lyrics Gaps

20. Students of the World

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

4-8-14 Learn a Language FREE!

TECHING THE CCCS

world language

GRADES 5-8

7.1A interpretive mode

1. FREE RICE

2. BABBEL

3. LIVE MOCHA

4. MANGO

5. MEMRISE

6. IMENDI

7. LINGRO

8. LINGT

9. BUSUU

10. BBC LANGUAGES

11. HELLO WORLD

12. LEARN A LANGUAGE

13. LANGUAGE COURSES

14. OPEN CULTURE

15. CULTURE CROSSING

16. PICTOLANG

17. INTERNET POLYGLOT

18. LANGUAGE GUIDE

19. OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES IN WORLD LANGUAGES

20. INTERACTIVE WEBSITES FOR THE WORLD LANGUAGE TEACHER SLIDESHARE

21. MIT OPEN COURSEWARE

22. DUOLINGO

23. SURFACE LANGUAGES

24. WORD TO WORD

25. LANGUAGES ONLINE

26. DIGITAL DIALECTS

27. ABOUT WORLD LANGUAGES

28. LESSONS BY PASCAL

29. SPANISH WEBSITES

30. STUDY SPANISH

31. SPANISH IS YOUR AMIGO

32. FRENCH WEBSITES

33. LATIN LANGUAGE RESOURCES

34. FORVO

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

9-21 to 9-28 Latest News, Updates, and Cool Finds

Careers and World Languages

Science and Math Resources

Anatomy and Biology videos - http://www.youtube.com/user/bullharrier?feature=mhum

Financial and Career Readiness

Lemonade Stand - http://www.omsi.edu/exhibits/moneyville/activities/lemonade/lemonadestand.htm
Financial Fitness for Life - http://fffl.ncee.net/activities/6-8/6-8.htm
Personal Finances - http://www.omsi.edu/exhibits/moneyville/activities/getreal/getreal.htm
Savings Quest - http://www.mysavingsquest.com/
Start a comic shop - http://disney.go.com/hotshot/hsb2/
What’s Up in Finance - http://www.thirteen.org/finance/
Everyday Life Project - http://www.gcflearnfree.org/everydaylife
Kids Work! – Virtual workplaces - http://www.knowitall.org/kidswork/index.html
Education Wizard - https://www.vawizard.org/vccs/Main.action
Salary.com - http://www.salary.com/mysalary.asp
Resume builder - http://www.emurse.com/

Language Arts and Social Studies

Similar to a Flat Stanley project - http://langwitches.org/blog/2011/09/10/why-and-how-to-participate-in-teddy-bears-around-the-world-project/
http://education.usgs.gov/common/lessons/teaching_with_topographic_maps.html Great map resources
Find the Lat and Long of anywhere in the world - http://itouchmap.com/latlong.html
Go Social Studies Go - http://www.gosocialstudiesgo.com/
Thumbscribes (13) - http://www.thumbscribes.com

Related Arts

Early Photographs of Musicians Around the World - http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/08/02/vintage-music-archival-photographs/
Breaking Bread Everywhere - http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/01/breaking-bread-everywhere-plentifully-or-pitifully/?src=daypPictures of what people around the world eat in a day.
Other world cultures links from Larry Ferlazzo - http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2010/08/11/the-best-sites-for-learning-about-the-worlds-different-cultures/
Transmitti – Downloadable translator app - http://www.transmiti.org/en/index.html
Karaoke for ELL - http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2008/10/15/the-best-online-karaoke-sites-for-english-language-learners/

Teacher Resources:

http://edudemic.com/
Games for every subject area - http://www.mrwylie.com/

Cool Techie Tools

AMAZING - http://www.sidevibe.com/ Unfortunately, only allows for 50 student accounts per teacher.
http://www.pageflip-flap.com/ - Turn your text files in to page flipping books!
http://www.jotform.com/ - Seems like a robust program but haven’t had enough time to play with it to see if it is better than Google forms.
http://magazinify.com/ - Convert your Bookmarks and favorite articles into a pdf and mail it to yourself.

9-14 to 9-21 Latest News, Updates, and Cool Finds

9-11

Science and Math Resources

Symphony of Science - http://symphonyofscience.com/
Eyes on the Solar System - http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/eyes/

Language Arts and Social Studies

More on 911 - http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2011/09/08/new-911-resources-are-coming-online-pretty-darn-quickly/
Story Corps - http://storycorps.org/animation/ - animated videos of radio stories. “Our mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives.”
Boom Writer - http://www.boomwriter.com/home/Schools - BoomWriter is a supremely engaging creative writing website that has students reading, writing and assessing content in ways they’ve never done before!
http://teachinghistory.org/teaching-materials - free online and print materials
LA Teachers’ Wiki - http://drwalsh.wikispaces.com/General+Information

Related Arts

Art - http://www.whiteboardblog.co.uk/2011/09/10-great-art-resources-for-your-interactive-whiteboard/
World Language - http://en.educaplay.com/index.php
Teacher Resources:
1. http://edudemic.com/

Cool Techie Tools

http://www.pageflip-flap.com/ - Turn your text files in to page flipping books!
http://flisti.com/19665 - Example of a Flisti, no sign-up, one question poll maker
http://popplet.com/ - Brainstorming, graphic organizers, mind maps

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