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World Language standards

Includes a database called "CultureGrams". This includes information about countries all over the world. Interviews with citizens of the country (some are children) tell more about aspects of daily life, including food and school.

Very hi-def views from around the world. Good for all languages.

Several languages. Geared towards elementary

Online resources for World Language teachers

Beautiful photos and video of cities and places around the world.

Useful world data displayed as distorted world maps. Great for showing different data and ideas in a visual way.

Shows live statistics for world population, economics, the Environment, and more.

Website with ads from all over the world. Searchable by country.

Intriguing site which transports users to places all over the world with a Google StreetMap mashup. Good for speaking or writing prompts for students.

Some good ideas for World Language teachers.

From Netspeak: "To write in a foreign language is a difficult task, even for an experienced author. Problems include choosing the right word or preposition in a given context, finding a wording which is commonly used, and avoiding the use of grammatical forms which reflect the author's native language. The Netspeak Web service assists authors to overcome these issues by using the World Wide Web as a source of common language. The service can be queried with short text phrases to determine their customariness on the Web. Wildcard characters can be added to the query to search for variations and synonyms of the query phrase, which will be returned as ranked list with respect to their occurence frequency on the Web."

Find news from any part of the world.

In the middle of this long list of WhiteBoard resources, is a section for languages!

Flickr Commons is a collection of institutions around the world that make media content available on Flickr. The content is in the public domain or Creative Commons permission to use is given by the institution--so it's all easy for educators and students to legally use.

This is from the Oakland Schools Nov 2012 Information Center Newsletter, by Judy Hauser: CultureGrams Do you know that you have free access to CultureGrams? All Michigan citizens have access to commercial resources and databases provided through MeL - the Michigan Electronic Library - via the Library of Michigan. CultureGrams from ProQuest is a resource that schools have used for years in all grades starting in upper elementary. And now… it is available to all educators, students and parents via MeL. To access CultureGrams go to: http://mel.org and click on "MeL Databases." Scroll down and click on "CultureGrams." At the top of the page and in the large boxes on the page you will see World Edition, 2 States Edition, Kid's Edition and Provinces Edition. If, for example, you click on the States Edition and click on any state on the map you have many choices for information.Everything from current information to history to recipes is included. This is a great resource for students to use when researching a state, province, country or culture.

Oakland Schools Curriculum for World Languages in Atlas. This is the public site.

From the video collection of Irma Torres, World Language Consultant, Oakland Schools