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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.

A collection of youth-oriented French mini-books in podcast form

A digital collection of formative assessment tools embedded in a Smore page.

Determine the reading level of a page by adding a URL at The Readability Test Tool site.

Web 2.0 tools that are useful to teachers and students by classification and category

Thematic unit on cooking with links throughout page to full lesson plans, unit overview, rubrics, and more.

A well made Mandarin resource for kids. Choose a topic page then hover over the objects to see the characters and pinyin and hear the pronunciation.

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."

58 pages of interesting writing prompts. While these are in English, they could be translated/modified for use in the World Language classroom.

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

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

Spanish language video collection of Irma Torres, World Language Consultant, Oakland Schools