Pictolang© is the application side of the CAPL project, featuring language and cultural learning content through authentic imagery. The games in Pictolang© are generated dynamically, meaning the collections with more content will have more options.

Find flashcards from the best flashcard sites. Today there are many websites that allow users to create flashcards and share them with others. The purpose of the FlashCardFlash site is to help students find flashcards on any of these sites by entering a single query.

It's Google's world, we're just teaching in it. Now, we can use it a little more easily. With classes, homework, and projects-not to mention your social life-time is truly at a premium for all teachers, so why not take advantage of the wide world that Google has to offer? From super-effective search tricks to Google tools specifically for education to tricks and tips for using Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar, these tricks will surely save you some precious time.

The lottery of birth is responsible for much of who we are. If you were not born in the country you were, what would your life be like? Would you be the same person? IfItWereMyHome.com is your gateway to understanding life outside your home. Use our country comparison tool to compare living conditions in your own country to those of another. Start by selecting a region to compare on the map to the right, and begin your exploration. You can also use our visualization tool to help understand the impact of a disaster. The Pakistan Flood and BP Oil Spill are currently featured. Check out the individual pages to gain some perspective on these awful tragedies.

Please!!!!.....be very careful about the bottom of the page called "Talking About..." It is not censored!

The Free Rice site has language learning games in French, German, English, Italian and Spanish. Clicking on a correct answer gives you a harder question, and clicking on a wrong answer gives you an easier question. What makes the site so special is that for each correct answer given, 10 grains of rice are donated to the United Nations World Food Program. Jump on, try an new language and fight hunger around the world.

"PestWorld.org is the official Web site of the National Pest Management Association (NPMA), a non-profit organization committed to the protection of public health, food and property. This Web site serves as a comprehensive resource for consumers, media, educators and pest control professionals. From common household pests to handy pest control tips, utilize PestWorld.org as your main resource for information on bugs, rodents, pest control, and the growing professional pest management industry." FLES - think G2 "los insectos". Use the translator for English to Spanish/French/Chinese/Russian

Learn languages and connect with people around the world. Free! Though a nominal charge gets you additional benefits. Bilingual flashcards both written and oral are already available or make your own. Oral flashcards can be downloaded as an MP3.The BEST part is the Web Reader which helps in reading authentic material also part of the site. The help is in the form of either written or oral mouse-over translation. WordChamp also has numerous other activities for the teacher to use to create supplemental practice. The Course Management feature allows a teacher to track classes or individual students.

Connecting everyone to everything Hispanic. HispanicSURF (www.hispanicsurf.com) is an independent directory listing of the best Hispanic/Latino web sites on the Internet. This directory was created to give Internet users, quick and easy access to the best Latino web sites on the Internet.

Loads of FREE stuff here. I especially like the "Cultural Notes" section. There are both long and short versions/written in English next to Spanish Some have a native speaker reading the Spanish version. The "Pronunciation" section uses native speakers from throughout the Spanish-speaking countries. Found it from Discovery Education site.

A print or digital periodical, published 10x/year. Billed as "transforming education through technology". It was in the June/July issue where I found the information re: Apple's iPAD. Sign up FREE for either format

Journalists from Spain and Latin America write interesting reports and articles about everyday life and culture in their homelands. Alongside, Latinos tell us about their experiences in Europe, and Europeans and Americans about their experiences and travels in Spain and Latin America -all in Spanish, of course. The texts are accompanied by key vocabulary and are written in varying degrees of difficulty, so that you can practice and refresh your Spanish in an efficient and enjoyable way.

Cool Text is a free graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of design work. Simply choose what kind of image you would like. Then fill out a form and you'll have your own custom image created on the fly. You will then need to save it and upload it to your portal page. I have used it on a few of my portal pages.

The development of Journey to El Yunque was supported by grants DRL-9908438 from the National Science Foundation to the NASA Classroom of the Future and DRL-0535942 from the National Science Foundation to The Learning Partnership. The development of Journey to El Yunque was also supported by grants #BSR-8811902, DEB-9411973, DEB-OO8538, DEB-0218039 from the National Science Foundation to the Institute of Tropical Ecosystem Studies (IEET), University of Puerto Rico, and the International Institute of Tropical Forestry (IITFR) as part of the Long-Term Ecological Research Program in the Luquillo Experimental Forest. Additional support was provided by the Forest Service (U.S. Department of Agriculture) and the University of Puerto Rico. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the developer and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Might be a good link to place on your teacher page for kids to walk through at home or for one of the long Wednesdays.

This free online Word to PDF converter converts Microsoft Word documents (.doc/.docx) to Adobe Acrobat PDF (.pdf) documents with a single click.

Fun with words. All in Spanish.