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Mission We surface authentic voices around the world through group process and participatory media creation. Our programs support people in sharing and bearing witness to stories that lead to learning, action, and positive change. What We Do For nearly twenty years, the Center has been supporting people in sharing meaningful stories from their lives. Our unique workshops assist participants in producing short, first-person narratives that can be presented in a variety of traditional and social media formats. We provide non-threatening production environments in which the process of creation is valued as much as the stories created. Through partnerships with a range of organizations, institutions, and funders, we offer story making and story distribution services that prioritize the power of individual voices. Whether you're interested in storytelling for professional development, as a reflective practice, as a pedagogical strategy, or as a vehicle for education, community mobilization, or advocacy, we are recognized globally as experts in all things digital storytelling.

The Goals of this Website The primary goal of the Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling website is to serve as a useful resource for educators and students who are interested in how digital storytelling can be integrated into a variety of educational activities. The site was originally created in 2004 and faculty members and graduate students in the Instructional Technology Program at the University of Houston College of Education continue to maintain the site and add new content. 

Storytelling is an age-old art form. With Web 2.0 and the tools already available on most computers, students can use text, music, sound effects, videos, and more to create a multimedia presentation that links them to the world beyond the classroom. Storytelling has the potential to unleash creativity, engage, and motivate. Applicable across the curriculum, digital storytelling teaches students to work collaboratively and use new technologies, skills they will be required to have in the workforce of the future. This book offers an overview of digital storytelling as well as its variations, including e-portfolios, digital photo essays, and scrapblogs. The many recommendations, overviews, and explanations of digital storytelling tools, along with lists of additional digital storytelling resources, will help educators to apply this exciting technology in their classrooms. Educators will also discover the ways digital storytelling can be used for their own professional development. Digital Storytelling Guide for Educators provides detailed directions to preparation, production, and presentation, and rounds out with a discussion on creating rubrics and evaluating student work. Readers will come away with an understanding of digital stories and the tools needed to create them.

Good review from #PBLWorld about driving questions, and links to more resources, including from BIE and Edutopia

Tons of resources collected by our good friend and ACTFL President, Toni Theisen.

Integrating digital storytelling with instruction becomes a creative opportunity for both novice and technologically experienced educators when using Jason Ohler's Digital Storytelling in the Classroom. Ohler links digital storytelling to improving traditional, digital, and media literacy, and guides teachers on how to empower students to tell stories in their own native language: new media and multimedia. Aligned with NCTE standards and covering important copyright and fair use information, this text provides information on integrating storytelling into curriculum design and using the principles of storytelling as a measurement of learning and literacies. Implementation tips and visual aids abound, giving teachers an exciting new resource.

un site pour valoriser les ressources informatives et culturelles du monde insulaire francophone

"Digital Storytelling is the modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling. Throughout history, storytelling has been used to share knowledge, wisdom, and values. Stories have taken many different forms. Stories have been adapted to each successive medium that has emerged, from the circle of the campfire to the silver screen, and now the computer screen." 

If you find a link that is not working, please let me know the title and I will fix it. And, if you have another great digital storytelling site to share, let me know as well!

A slideshare by Midge Frazel

How can language educators effectively transition students from language "learning" to language "acquisition"? This is a question to focus on as all language educators try to create classroom experiences that meet the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages' (ACTFL) guidelines. ACTFL is calling for a shift in all language classes. Students and teachers need to use the second language (L2) at least 90% of the time. This amount of target language (TL) use will only create success for students if the teacher uses Comprehensible Input (CI). L2, TL and CI are three must-know acronyms for language educators today. Language "acquisition" is a key concept to our journey towards using research-based methods to update our language teaching practices.

Entre l'invention de la machine à calculer (1645) et celle du Minitel (1982), 350 années se sont écoulées au cours desquelles la France a fait avancer les lignes grâce à de multiples inventions : dans les transports (automobile, aérostat, avion, TGV, Concorde), en médecine (Braille, pasteurisation et vaccination, BCG, radiologie et radiothérapie), en physique (machine à vapeur, électromagnétisme, radioactivité, mécanique ondulatoire, détecteurs de particules), dans les arts visuels (photographie, cinématographe), dans les arts de la table (Champagne, conservation des aliments), dans les hautes technologies (carte à puce, Minitel)… Au fil du temps, ces inventions ont contribué à changer le monde.

Great article! We could share with students new to learning a WL!

BIENVENUE Bienvenue sur le site "FLE self-learning". Ce site vous permettra de pratiquer,selon votre niveau, votre apprentissage du français en toute autonomie. Vous pourrez via diverses activités ou exercices pratiquer la grammaire, la compréhension orale, la compréhension écrite, la phonétique, le vocabulaire, l'orthographe et bien d'autres choses encore. Chaque activité est divisée en 4 niveaux : 1à 2 - 2 à 3 - 3 à 4 - 4 à 5

le site Comme une Française - des vidéos etc pour les cours de FLE

Un site avec beaucoup de textes, vidéos et podcasts pour les cours de FLE.

le blog de l'Institut français de Florence - plain d'idées pour le #FLE

AAPPL Measures and IPAS I think tests are stupid. A test can't tell you how well I do my job or live my life--or anything you really need to know about me. Now, I'm really good at taking tests, and if you were to look at various test scores I've accumulated in my life, I daresay you'd be impressed with me. But do you know how much bearing the ACT, SAT, or GRE has had on any of my roles since college or grad school application time? Do you know how much impact that Issues in Teaching Foreign Languages or  Masterpieces of Hispanic Art and Literature exam has had on me as a teacher, mother, wife, or friend--or even as a speaker of Spanish?