Welcome to H.O.W. . . HOT On the WEB. . .
On this page I will update you with internet sites that have interest to foreign language teachers and students. Be sure to visit often as it will be updated frequently! Don’t miss out!
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This LiveBinders page by Maureen Tumenas is filled with Tools for World Language Teachers. Plan to spend a lot of time exploring.
Visit the World Language Café which provides teachers with a variety of examples of apps and websites that will inspire students to find themselves in another corner of the world, speaking other languages, experiencing new cultures and customs while still feeling at home in the comfort of their favorite teacher’s classroom.
Definitely check out this site MFL Sunderland. It is a site created by MFL teachers for MFL teachers and is packed with over 4000 language resources. Amazing work.
Do you need resources for Global and and Mobile Teaching? Check out World Language Cafe.
Don’t miss out on Lookbook – a new activity to practice clothing vocabulary from Zachary Jones.
Need pictures to use a prompts for speaking. Try pechaflickr. Type in a tag (vocabulary) and 20 pictures will appear for 20 seconds. You can change the time if needed.
Looking for foreign language rubrics? Click here and check out this resource with numerous public foreign language rubrics.
Check out Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy Wheel and Knowledge Dimension. This is a great resource for lesson planning and assessment.
Visit Wendy Brownell’s Wikispace for great resources for world language teachers.
This site has a phenomal list of animal sounds in many languages. Definitely an interesting resource. Visit it here.
Six points of advice on learning your next language from Middlebury language professors. Great to share with your students. Read the advice here.
French teachers! Here is a podcast of Le Petit Chaperon Rouge.
Check out the materials available from the NECTFL New Teacher Webinar. Lots of goodies here. Don’t miss out.
Here is a great link for information to offer during Foreign Language Week - About World Languages.
MaFLA’s friend Zachary Jones has developed a webpage with more than 150 menus from Spanish speaking countries. Definitely visit Plato del día and let us know how you are using this great resource.
This is a great resource for using Voice Thread as a Tool for Language Learning. Definitely explore this!
Check out the NEW ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines for Speaking, Writing, Listening, and Reading made interactive through the inclusion of glossed terms and multimedia exemplars. You can explore the Guidelines by skill or by level, listen to and read samples in English that represent abilities at each of the major proficiency levels.
Free Webinar on Assessing Listening in the world language classroom with Dr. Vandergrif on 2/23/12 at 2:30 PST. Sign up at LARC (Language Acquisition Resource Center).
Don’t miss this interesting article and video on understanding Latino unpunctuatlity/concept of time on Veinte Mundos.
French teachers – check out Les activités de musique de nos BLOGS . . . music and exercises.
Looking for authentic images for your language class? Check out LESCANT Photo Database from COERLL.
The idea behind the LESCANT Photo Database is to give students experience in identifying and analyzing cultural differences that come up whenever they deal with people from other cultures. Student contributors add photos to the database (categorized by the LESCANT model topics) and then they include a brief analysis to describe the cultural features in the photo. In some cases this may be with the person who lives across the street, other times it will be related to those we encounter while traveling abroad. Visitors to the website can view the photos by topic, location, or author.
Check out and Explore the Best Educational Wikis of 2011. There are a lot of apps which may be of interest and some resources for language teachers.
¿Conoces “the real” taco mexicano? Here you will find an article, and audio and video on how to make them.
French teachers! Here is something for you – Resources for French Class. Don’t forget to let us know how YOU are using them.
Hey German teachers! Check out this great resource page for materials.
Practicopedia is a great resource for authentic materials for teachers of Spanish. Take some time and explore. Let us know how you are using it.
This site has excellent images for mind maps of complex French grammar points. Check it out here.
Do you know what Transliteracy is? If you don’t, or even if you do, you have to read this interesting post on the topic which includes some lessons incorporating this concept. This is a must read! Click here.
Check out this blog about Free Online Drawing Tools which you or your students might incorporate into lessons.
Hey check out Tagxedo, word clouds with styles. There are lots of ways to use it in the classroom. Don’t miss out. Click here.
If you missed the Webinar on Writing Assessment hosted by LARC and CALPER, you can still see it. It has been recorded. The guest speaker was Dr. Sara Weigle. Click here to see the description of the Webinar and find the recorded resource.
Bitesize is a great resource for foreign languge materials. Check out the main page here. Here you can check out the Spanish topics. Here are the French topics. Here are the German topics.
Check out Developing Assessment Tasks: A Template - from The Language Resource.
This article – Listening: the starting point for successful language learning – from The Language Resource is relevant for all foreign language teachers. Check it out here.
Hey French Teachers. Check out Bonjour de France. Click here.
Another Great Resource for French Teachers. Civilisation français – created by Marie Ponterio.z
German Teachers might want to check out Cultural Interviews with German Speaking Professionals.
12 Ways to Use Twitter in Spanish Class. Click here.
Check out these láminas on many topics. I know I purchased many of these when I was in Mexico but now I can find them right on the web. Click here to browse.
French Teachers – Check out this Petit Prince playlist.
Hey Teachers of Portuguese. There is a Portuguese Language Wiki to Share Lessons and Ideas. Why not join. Just click here and see what is there.
Check out this article entitled Use Technology to Develop Global Competence at Asia Society. This definitely supports those 21st Century Skills.
I am currently focusing on better Integrating 21st Century Skills into my classes next year. Check out this video on 21st Century Skills by Zachary Jones. Here is another video on 21st Century Skills. Click here to view a 21st Century Skills Map for World Languages.
Learn Any Language By Treating It As Music is a must read by Susanna Zaraysky.
Here are some great training videos on How to Use Vocaroo . . . the Simplest Way to do Online Recordings. Very informative for Language Teachers. Click here.
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