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"Five Two Zero So Much"

Here, native Mandarin speakers teach you Chinese as a second language. Audio and transcripts are available on the website. The lessons also place an emphasis on understanding Chinese culture.

I like to share this blog with teachers who are teaching Chinese.  It has many great apps and creative tools to help students learning Pinyin, which can be the most difficult initial hurdle to get over in learning Chinese.

Awesome website, thanks for sharing. :D

"Tips and Strategies for Learning to Speak Mandarin Chinese"

If you miss this year, keep it in mind for coming years! A workshop for Chinese teachers who teach online.

ACTFL 2012 tech presentation with ppt - some are Chinese-specific, many could be used by all langs.

"Learn Chinese with Tasks: Implementing a Task Chain to Improve Integrated Language Skills - Part One"

There is a "course tour" from FVS for a Chinese class.

A flipped classroom is a classroom that swaps the arrangement of knowledge imparting and knowledge internalization comparing to traditional classroom.In the flipped classroom,the roles of teachers and students have been changed and the class time should have a new plan.Information technology and activity learning construct an individuation and cooperative learning environment for learners to create new learning culture.Based on the analysis of literature of flipped classroom and some typical cases,we summarize a flipped classroom teaching model.We also describe the challenges in the implementation of the flipped classroom teaching.The paper provides an innovative way to reform teaching in Chinese schools.

This article is on the subject of the flipped classroom applied to Chinese language.

From the website: "NOVASTARTALK website, [is] an online resource that supports workshops and webinars designed to help teachers use technology tools and 21st century language pedagogy in the official STARTALK languages. In the face-to-face program, teachers of less-commonly-taught languages (Arabic, Chinese, Dari, Hindi, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, Urdu) create technology-enhanced activities [..]"

Description - from the website "VoiceThread can be used to teach Chinese in a high school setting. Students have to repeat the words and then make sentences with the new vocabulary. They record themselves and they have to be creative. I show the end project in the class and the students love it!"

This easy-to-read introduction to SAMR (standing for "Substitution," "Augmentation," "Modification" and "Redefinition"), a model for helping integrate "technology tools into foreign-language classrooms," is blogged by a Chinese content and technology specialist who, I trust, has a lot of experience of incorporating media into Chinese learning activities. Besides clearly explaining how the SAMR model works for a L2 class via really useful tech tools such as Google Docs and Flipgrid, this blog also reveals a fact that our students "are not all 'digital natives,'" and encourages us, 21st-century educators, to "meet our students halfway to use tech for learning." I found the first two SAMR stages, namely, "Substitution" and "Augmentation," are very helpful for evaluating the interpretive mode implemented with appropriate media.

Using Twitter for a 10 minute verb activity.

This is so cool! I know it would keep my students more engaged and focused on what could potentially be boring grammatical exercises. I do not currently use an on-line notebook and want to use Google docs more often. Lots to think about!

"This complimentary course features a number of all time favorite ChinesePod lessons from each academic level. Users are welcomed to try all the content and tools available for each lesson including full lesson podcast, lesson dialogue, audio review, PDF transcript, annotated dialogue, vocabulary, expansion, grammar and exercises."

Thank you for sharing such a useful tool that allows the students to explore the resource of learning Chinese.

Links upon Links for language teachers/ learners from Foreign Language Teaching Forum by State University of New York College at Cortland

Saving this for later too. Lots of info here- thanks for sharing. This will continue to be a great resource.

Great catch, I am bookmarking this one and adding to my resource library. Merci beaucoup!