TECHNOLOGY   SHARE HOW YOU ARE USING IT IN YOUR CLASSROOMS

 

Integrating technology into our classrooms is a challenge to us all. Please share with us your successes and suggestions

Try these links to sites focusing on using technology in foreign language instruction.

Anacleta's Spanish and World Language Links Kathleen Siddons says, " My site is a collection of resources for children, their parents, and their teachers about Spanish and its many cultures and also about other world languages and cultures. The teachers' section contains useful links and practical pointers for world language instruction. The parent/child section is especially useful as supplementary/complementary/enrichment material for those parents/teachers who wish their child/class to go beyond the regular classroom curriculum."       http://anacleta.homestead.com

Free online level test, free Spanish language classes, free vocabulary builder, free language games, thousands of pages with information on the Hispano culture .. for free. The content has been made by the number one organization for Spanish language instruction. http://www.spanishunlimited.com/

A module has been designed to facilitate the integration of technology education in the Foreign Language Methods curriculum.         http://www.cortland.edu/flteach/methods/

Does Technology Have a Role in the Foreign Language Curriculum? Read what Prof. Jennifer Powers has written. http://home.nycap.rr.com/jpowers/papers/language.html

Facilitating Education Through New Media Technologies http://www.technologyintegrators.org

The Center for Applied Linguistics, in collaboration with Brown U, has a website focusing on FL learning for grades K-8, in addition to a lively listserv.     http://www.cal.org/earlylang

Discovery's Quiz Center: A great way to incorporate technology in the classroom. Sounds to good to be true but if you sign up with discovery you can create online quizzes etc and they will store them in a secure place with password protection for your class use. You can have the kids take the test at home and they can be scored and the results emailed to you. Essays and short answer will automatically be emailed to you. How much easier does it get? Though there are other tools out there similar to Quiz Center, none is as complete or offers you more options. Once you join My Discovery and set up your Custom Classroom, you can begin taking advantage of Quiz Center's main features: * Quiz generation: Make online quizzes using a simple, step-by-step process. Quiz Center uses your input to generate a generic quiz file and answer key, which are stored in your Custom Classroom for easy web access. The Quiz Center User Guide and Tutorial will show you how easy it is. * Test-taking at home: * Automatic quiz correction:* Privacy protection: • File management: Not only does Quiz Center store your quizzes on our server in your Custom Classroom account, it also gives you control of those quizzes. Quiz files can be edited after they are created and deleted once they are no longer needed. All this is done exclusively over the web.                http://school.discovery.com/teachingtools/teachingtools.html

Participants in the course "Methods of Teaching FL" at UMaine have compiled a list of links useful for teachers. This is a great site!                        http://www.umit.maine.edu/class/teachlinks

NERALLD - New England Regional Association of Language Laboratory Directors are language lab and technology personnel, teachers, professors, and interested administrators from various secondary and post-secondary school in new England and eastern New York. Their members deal with the use and development of language media centers, as well as issues surrounding the integration of technology of all types in the foreign language classroom. They would like to share their experience with the K-12 community. Visit them at http://akbar.marlboro.edu/~neralld/info/index.html

From Nova Scotia Department of Education, many informative links on integrating technology; under "Assessment" are rubrics for several projects. http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/thyperstu.htm

MARCO POLO Through its free, discipline-specific web sites, MarcoPolo provides high quality and easily accessible Internet Content for the Classroom to K-12 teachers across the country. The MarcoPolo Web Site (http://www.marcopolo-education.org) offers teachers a powerful search engine to search throughout all content web sites and other valuable resources for teachers to help them integrate the internet into their classroom. MarcoPolo also offers professional development training and materials on Internet integration. To learn how to apply to receive training, go to: http://www.marcopolo-education.org/pd/request_training.aspx

From MarcoPolo comes news of this fun site to practice Spanish Numbers. http://www.jvlnet.com/~liliana/Spanish_Numbers.html

For ESL teachers. Some very helpful links.                                        http://www.eslwonderland.com