July 1:    

Twenty-first Century Technologies:  Tools for Transforming Language Teaching & Learning      (url: http://www.nflrc.iastate.edu/news/200603/homepage.html)

National Foreing Language Resource Center Newsletter (url: http://www.nflrc.iastate.edu/news/homepage.html) A terrific resource for authentic materials. 

The Standards Movement
What role can technology play in the world language class?

Links:

• Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century. (url: http://www.actfl.org/files/public/execsumm.pdf)
• National Educational Technology Standards for Students. (url: http://cnets.iste.org/)

Ready made plans

Links:

• California Language Teacher's Association Ready-made Tech plans (url: http://www.clta.net/lessons/)
• Merlot (url: http://www.merlot.org/Home.po)
• Web Activities for Any Language is compiled by Lauren Rosen and is featured in The Online Educator. (url: http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/teach.html)
• Marie Ponterio: Civilisation française   (url: http://www.cortland.edu/flteach/civ/)
• Super French Web Site (http://www.uni.edu/becker/newfrench.html)
• Barbara Nelson: Spanish Grammar Exercises  (url: http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/exercises/)
• Juan Ramón Arana: Spanish Language Exercises (url: http://mld.ursinus.edu/~jarana/Ejercicios/)
• Spanish Extra (url: http://espanol-extra.co.uk/)
• Jean LeLoup: Taller hispano  (url: http://www.cortland.edu/flteach/usafa/taller.html )
• Bev Larson:  FLTEACH teacher pages (url: http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/9806/flteacherspgs.html)
• Eva Easton:  Materials for teaching and learning   (url: http://eleaston.com/)
• Janet Paulsen :  Le quartier français du village   (url: http://www.richmond.edu/~jpaulsen/gvfrench.html)
• AATG : GROW -> German Resources on the Web  (url: http://grow.aatg.org/index.html)   
• Andreas Lixl: German Internet Project (including German Studies Trails & Netzspiegel) (url: http://www.uncg.edu/~lixlpurc/GIP/index.html)
• FLES
  • Lori Langer de Ramírez : http ://www.columbia.edu/~ljl17/

July 2:

Listservs:  Teachers share ideas, suggestions, and questions

Links:

·         FLTeach - Search the archives (url: http://www.cortland.edu/flteach/flteach.html)

·         Ñandutí - Early Language Network  (url: http://www.cal.org/earlylang/index.html)

Plans from Publishers

Links:

Most major publishing companies have web-sites with suggested activities. Here are just a few:

• McGraw Hill   (url: http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/foreignlang/)
• Paso a Paso   (url: http://members.aol.com/maestro12/web/paso.html)
• Houghton Mifflin Bilingual Activities   (url: http://www.eduplace.com/bil/)
• EMC Paradign (url: http://www.emcp.com/product_catalog/index.php?GroupID=1077)
• Little Explorers (url: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Dictionary.html)
• McDougall Littell ClassZone (url: http://www.classzone.com/index.cfm)
• Spanish Elementary ResourcesForeign Language Units for All Proficiency Levels.(url: http://www.geocities.com/sra_rk/worldlang_resources0.htm)
• Spanish Elementary Resources - Publishers (url: http://www.geocities.com/sra_rk/worldlang_resources3.htm#Publishers)

Readings:

• Introduction and Chapters 1-5 in Foreign Language Units for All Proficiency Levels. (pp 1-58)

July 3:

Critique of Ready-made Plans

The Internet in the world language class:

Searching on the Web

Search Engine Math has 'the basic commands that are all most people need to improve their searches'

For more information on searching: Finding Information on the Internet:  A Tutorial  

General Search engines

Meta-search engines

Target Language Search Engines:

Search Engine Colossus - an international directory of search engines - choose your country!

Many of the general search engines above also have language choices if you look for them...

Readings:

• Internet article (pdf File listed in course resources.)
• Introduction to Content-Based Instruction in Spanish in Foreign Language Units for All Proficiency Levels. (pp 61-64)
• Review one of the Units in Foreign Language Units for All Proficiency

July 7:

The Internet in the world language class: Web Quests (Interpretive, Presentational and Interpersonal activities)

Links:

• Create your own Webquest
  • Go to Trackstar and follow the directions to Make your own Track! (url: http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/index.jsp)
  • Register as a new user (url: http://trackstar.hprtec.org/main/category.php3)
  • See tracks by subject or ca tegory  (url: http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/ts/startBrowse.do)
  • Work through the tutorial to create or view a track (url: http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/help/tutorial/main.jsp 
• A Rubric for Evaluating Webquests:  (url: http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquestrubric.html)
• Thinkquest: (url: http://www.thinkquest.org)
• WebQuest Process Checklist: (url: http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/staffdev/tpss99/processchecker.html
• Sample Web Quest - (url: 5 de mayo - http://www.zianet.com/cjcox/edutech4learning/cinco.html
• Webquests - Search for webquests in a variety of languages. (http://www.webquest.org/index.php)
• QuestGarden - An inexpensive ($20 for 2 years) subscription service for creating Webquests.  (http://questgarden.com)
  

Readings:

• Technology Lessons - Internet      (url: www.globalteachinglearning.com)

July 8:

Second Life - Virtual Realities to get students communicating

The Internet in the world language class, continued.

Readings:

• Digital Students at Analog Schools  (http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=b5c8973ade16764156be)
• Spodark, Edwina. The changing role of the teacher: A technology-enhanced, student-centered lesson in French Fashion. FL Annals. 2001.
• TeacherTube video (http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=40c570a322f1b0b65909)

July 9:

Email Connections

Links:

• Clases Gemelas - information on setting up e-mail exchanges in Spanish with a class from another part of the world  (url: http://www.nuevaalejandria.com/maestros/clases/)
• EPALS Classroom Exchange - penpals  (url: http://www.epals.com/) 
• KidLink - information available on web in variety of languages  (url: http://www.kidlink.org/index.html) 
• My Language Exchange - a site for finding a person to practice your developing language skills (http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/)

• THE MIXXER: The Mixxer is a free educational community for language learners and teachers to find a language partner for a language exchange.    http://www.language-exchanges.org/login.aspx
  SKYPE:  Make Skype more than just another desktop icon   http://www.skype.com/

Creating interactive games, puzzles and evaluations.

Links:

• Quia - Online interactive games, quizzes, flashcards, activities created by teachers for every subject (url: http://www.quia.com/)
• Create Your Own Quizzes and Exercises:  (url: http://eleaston.com/quizzes.html#CreateQuizzes
• Game-o-Matic:   (url:  http://clear.msu.edu/dennie/matic/)
• Hot Potatoes: (url:  http://hotpot.uvic.ca/)   This site allows you to create multiplie choice, short answer, jumbled sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the internet.
• Armored Penguin:  (url: http://www.armoredpenguin.com/)  This site allows you to make a varietyof word puzzles. 
• PuzzleMaker:  (url: http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/) 
• Language Games:  (url: http://languagegames.org/)
• PowerPoint Templates for various games  (http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/PPT-games/)
• Additional PowerPoint Template for various games
• (http://www.murray.k12.ga.us/teacher/kara%20leonard/Mini%20T's/March%20Mini%20T-Games/Games.htm)

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