Tech Tips!
Pic Lit!
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VOKIs!
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Links
Create teacher materials (puzzles, rubrics, etc.)
Dictionaries
Word Reference
Discussion boards
Email exchange
Glogster
Make interactive posters
Google tools
Create virtual visits; actually see monuments, street layouts of places around the globe
Google docs - Create and share work online
Online practice/online quizzes
Quia
Online language-learning sites
Mango
Online newspapers
Newseum - see the front pages of newspapers from around the world
Online stopwatch
Overall technology: http://www.carla.umn.edu/technology/ - The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition. This site includes links to professional development, technology integration modules, and professional research articles.
Podcasts/Audacity/Digital Storytelling
Radio & Songs
NRJ (French-speaking countries
Great website for using French songs to teach concepts and vocabulary
Smartboard
Teacher Collaboration
Join the CT NING for world language teachers - Languages for Life. Moderated by Barbara Lindsay
French teachers - online collaboration
Technology integration in all subjects: Click here to see videos and other information from www.edutopia.org
Verb conjugators
Word reference
Videos
Free videos on Youtube (may be blocked at some schools
Teacher tube (not usually blocked at schools)
French videos from France5
French videos from TF1
Videos on WL Instruction (and technology):
Click here to see videos from the Annenberg Foundation about effective world language instruction.
Virtual visits
Webpages/Building a webpage
Free websites, user-friendly (this website built on weebly!)
Webquests
A variety of French webquests
Wikis
Great, free wikis for educators. Wikis can be invite only, so only you and your students can see and access the materials. PBworks Wikis.
Wordles - great for putting in a text you will use with students; it can be a great pre-reading strategy to discuss the purpose of the text and the meaning of the most used words.
Dictionaries
Word Reference
Discussion boards
Email exchange
Glogster
Make interactive posters
Google tools
Create virtual visits; actually see monuments, street layouts of places around the globe
Google docs - Create and share work online
Online practice/online quizzes
Quia
Online language-learning sites
Mango
Online newspapers
Newseum - see the front pages of newspapers from around the world
Online stopwatch
Overall technology: http://www.carla.umn.edu/technology/ - The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition. This site includes links to professional development, technology integration modules, and professional research articles.
Podcasts/Audacity/Digital Storytelling
Radio & Songs
NRJ (French-speaking countries
Great website for using French songs to teach concepts and vocabulary
Smartboard
Teacher Collaboration
Join the CT NING for world language teachers - Languages for Life. Moderated by Barbara Lindsay
French teachers - online collaboration
Technology integration in all subjects: Click here to see videos and other information from www.edutopia.org
Verb conjugators
Word reference
Videos
Free videos on Youtube (may be blocked at some schools
Teacher tube (not usually blocked at schools)
French videos from France5
French videos from TF1
Videos on WL Instruction (and technology):
Click here to see videos from the Annenberg Foundation about effective world language instruction.
Virtual visits
Webpages/Building a webpage
Free websites, user-friendly (this website built on weebly!)
Webquests
A variety of French webquests
Wikis
Great, free wikis for educators. Wikis can be invite only, so only you and your students can see and access the materials. PBworks Wikis.
Wordles - great for putting in a text you will use with students; it can be a great pre-reading strategy to discuss the purpose of the text and the meaning of the most used words.
