Glastonbury Language Program

create your own free speaking avatar

This is a great website. I think our students will enjoy making their own speaking avatars in the language they are studying.

Useful tool to communicate with the world.

Photos and description of the Monteverde Cloud Forest in Costa Rica

"Doki, Discovery kids la mascota, Doki Descubre, Mezclar colores, Videos que gustan a bebes y niños pequeños" Doki the cartoon dog talks about mixing colors of paint in Spanish

Doki also has other videos on YouTube with other subjects besides colors!

"The WordReference Dictionaries are free online translation dictionaries. The most popular dictionaries are the Spanish Dictionary, French Dictionary and the Italian Dictionary."

This is an interesting resource to use to discover the origin and meaning of words.

"This 30 second public service announcements features young children telling why learning languages is important"

a fun interactive game to help students learn Chinese

Watch videos from youtube and other video hosting sites without all of the other "stuff" around them

Turn your photos & videos into pure amazing. Animoto automatically produces beautifully orchestrated, completely unique video pieces from your photos, video clips and music. Fast, free and shockingly easy.

The iSchool Initiative's mission is to advocate, support and implement technological advancement for students and educators in the 21st century. In order to accomplish this, we have three primary objectives: raising awareness for the technological needs of the classroom, providing collaborative research on the use of technology in the classroom, and guiding schools in the implementation of this technology. We are a partnership between students, teachers, school administrators, and software application developers, providing a platform for each to comprehend the other's needs. We produce newsletters, blogs, videos and seminars to further spread the word, as well as conduct our own research and test new apps and other forms of technology to be used in the modern classroom. To enhance their learning, we also encourage students to become advocates for the greater use of technology in their education.

The Starter Sheets are resources for the classroom teacher. The intention of each sheet is to introduce a tool, technology or activity that could be easily adapted for use in the classroom. Each sheet is created to a template design and should have the following features: must be two pages must have pictures that illustrate process and outcomes process must be straight forward must be simple to read and understand must have clear benefits for the teacher in the classroom, the exemplar should be easy to adapt to a variety of classroom settings must have an alternative - web based or application must be linked to Bloom's Digital Taxonomy and Sensory learning styles using VARK

CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning.

A meeting place where students share, distribute and discuss their digital work online

In this episode, we highlight three great resources for teaching primary MFL. Judy Hawker, NACELL regional support co-ordinator and primary MFL teacher, recommends: Uki books - fun French-learning books Sing and Learn German - CD and book combination Animales y Contraries - colourful Spanish-learning book

From Toni Theisen, ACTFL TOY.

for safety reasons, all students should use an avatar (rather than a real picture) when using the internet. thanks for this tutorial!

A video tutorial on how to use Google Maps' new Street View feature to spice up your languages lessons!

With Google Earth 5.0, you can now travel back in time to see historical imagery, dive below the surface of the ocean and record a tour of your journeys.