UMUC-EDTC-WL

Spanish audio phrases, dialogues, myths, legends, comics, pronunciation, and cultural activities with audio and transcripts.

Thanks Tiffany. I believe that this is a good site for students who need more independent practice.

Account is free; find collaborative projects with students around the world. Has a limited number of free student epals account too.

ePals is a free web 2.0 resource that provides language classes the opportunity to connect with target language speakers around the globe. Communication can range from simple email messages to wiki and blog collaboration to multimedia presentations and even Skype video chat. Teachers can monitor all activity, for the sake of student security. A potential project would be for both groups - advanced level students in the local L2 group - to read the same story or poem and then use the ePals blog tool to share opinions (targeting writing skills) and later the Skype video chat to discuss (or perhaps debate) the text (targeting oral skills).

Some fun, simple visuals and resources for novice or elementary learners of French.

This project is listed on the ePals website and is my choice for the Global Networks activity. The languages listed in the project description are French and English, however, I think this kind of project could work in just about any language setting.

Make a Video. Amazing Animated Video Maker.

Just saw this in the other class; looks great for engaging students

Making comic strips in the TL - fun for writing practice

Deutsche Welle

The Defense Language Institute has many language learning products available for world language teachers to use.

German holidays

Goethe Institute website with music and other helps

I chose to use this tool to explore Connections and Media Literacy.

Create and publish online surveys in minutes, and view results graphically and in real time. SurveyMonkey provides free online questionnaire and survey software.

Used for making professional looking videos in a short amount of time.

This website contains ideas and resources not only for mind-mapping but also creating classroom activities and games.

This website translates technology terms into French.

Are you inspired to create amazing interactive courses, but don't know how to code? Versal is a simple publishing platform with everything you need. Add text, videos, images, quizzes and interactive learning gadgets and bring your expertise to life.  I could see using this as a means for differentiating instruction within my class, as a means to support learning, and more. 

This is a "master" list of all kinds of educational technology tools in the areas of social netowrking, teacher's web resources, educational apps for the iPad, 21st-century teaching resources, google tools, and content area resources. Lots of things to see and review!

Duolingo is a free language-learning website and crowd-sourced text translation platform. The service is designed so that, as users progress through the lessons, they simultaneously help to translate websites and other documents. It is a way that teachers can provide an additional language learning source to their students, and once each lesson is completed, students read authentic sources and complete activities on the Internet from authentic web-based sources.