Useful+Online+Resources

**Toondoo.com** **Vocaroo.com** **Voki.com** **Google Docs** **Prezi.com** **Delicious.com** **Realebooks.com** **Storybird.com** **Quizlet.com** **Arounder.com** **PhotoPeach.com** **Books for Sale** **Wikimedia Commons: Images, Audio, and Video for Educational Use ** **CultureTalk on LangMedia ** **Global Digital Media: Project Ideas** **﻿ ** **Photovoice: digital photo-sharing﻿** **﻿ ** **eduTecher: Find Useful Web Tools** **Publications for Educators from the Metropolitan Museum of Art**
 * == Here are some useful resources for teachers. Some are great for language instructors, some for all faculty. I will update this posting regularly . ﻿ == ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Contents:**
 * Wiki for Sharing Authentic Language Resources**
 * Two Visual Dictionaries**
 * One Day on Earth: FreeTech4Teachers.com**
 * World Language Tech**
 * Create Your Own Online Games at Purpose Games**
 * Draw It Live**
 * Xtranormal**

Source: Authentic-Resources
 * Wiki for Sharing Authentic Language Resources **

From http://authentic-resources.wikispaces.com

Authentic Resources are one of our greatest needs when teaching our students language proficiency. This site was made to create a hub for authentic readings, signage, audio, video and other resources that fit this description: Authentic language resources are created by native speakers for native speakers of French, Spanish and German. Resources are being added every day. Check for resources for the language you teach by choosing the tab that corresponds to your language.

Learn more and join in at http://authentic-resources.wikispaces.com

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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Source: LangCanada
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Two Visual Dictionaries **

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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Here are two more sources of images to aid communication in the target language <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">__The Visual Dictionary__ – [] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">The Visual Dictionary is different from an encyclopedia or from traditional online dictionaries, thesauri and glossaries because the images replace the words. Search for words or explore the thematic pages.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">__Simple Photographic Dictionary__ – [|http://photographicdictionary.com] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">The photographic dictionary illustrates thousands of common nouns and simple concepts with beautiful photographs. This dictionary differs from other dictionaries in several ways: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Language that is simpler and easier to understand than sites like Wikipedia <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Short, to the point definitions of words <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Every entry illustrated by a photograph <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">All names are given for concepts or nouns that are known by a different name in different parts of the world.

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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Source: Free Technology for Teachers <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">From []One Day on Earth is a global collaborative project that launched last fall for the purpose of documenting 24 hours of life around the world. On October 10, 2010 (10.10.10) people around the world filmed life in their parts of the world. Those recordings were then contributed to a massive film project that will eventually be edited down to showcase the diversity, conflicts, tragedies, and triumphs that take place in a 24 hour period across the globe. The film is not ready yet, but you can explore many of the contributed videos by visiting the One Day on Earth map at []
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">One Day on Earth - Mapped Videos of Life Around the World **

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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Source: WorldLanguageTech.com
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">WorldLanguageTech.com ： <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">New Website for Technology and World Languages: **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">From [|http://www.worldlanguagetech.com]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">WorldLanguageTech.com is a new site for tutorials and resources on using technology in the world language classroom. The site is divided into several sections:

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Sites: Sites that are useful for teachers in general, even if they aren’t tools to help teach a language <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Lessons: Worksheets and webquests that can be done by students to learn cultural items. Not language-specific, divided by topic or theme. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Organization: ways to help you organize your information, plan your lessons, etc. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Presentation: ways to help you present information to students, to make input activities, etc. Can also be used for students to make presentations. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Practice: ways to help your students practice the target language. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">TL Input: Sites with video, audio, text, etc. using the target language. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Blog: Miscellaneous items – interesting things about teaching, education, learning, etc.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Browse the new website at [|http://www.worldlanguagetech.com]

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Create and publish online ﻿graphic novels or comics. It's a lot of fun and very easy to use. Free. [|www.toondoo.com]
 * Toondoo.com**

This free application allows recording of voices messages, which can be sent to teachers or students via email, or which can be posted on the internet. Good resource for language teachers. Free. [|www.vocaroo.com]
 * Vocaroo.com**

**Voki.com** Voki.com allows you or a student to create a speaking avatar which can be emailed to students or teacher. Great for teaching languages. Free. [|www.voki.com]

If you don't know about this, you should, since many of your students are already using it. Google provides the ability to create documents utilizing word processing, powerpoint, and spreadsheets. Works much better if you access it through Google Chrome. Free at [|www.google.com]
 * Google Docs**

This is a very cool presentation application which can be saved on the web. It is fairly easy to learn, and it is visually stunning. Free. [|www.prezi.com]
 * Prezi.com**

Used for social bookmarking. You can locate almost any bookmark and you can save your own bookmarks to share. Free. [|www.delicious.com]
 * Delicious.com**

You can use this site to make Realebooks, using your own pictures to tell stories. Free. [|http://realewriter.com]
 * Realebooks.com**

Students can create short, art-inspired stories to share, read or print. Good for making short picture books. Free. [|www.storybird.com]
 * Storybird.com**

This site is great for students to reviewing almost any subject: languages, history, math, etc. Students can create their own flashcard sets, and can quiz themselves on the material. There are also online tests. Free (though Quizlet Plus is $10 per year). [|www.quizlet.com]
 * Quizlet.com**


 * <span style="color: #ff0045; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Arounder.com **

<span style="color: #ff0045; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">This is an excellent site for viewing museums and cultural and historical sites worldwide, including 360 degree views. Free. [|www.arounder.com]

Create and upload slideshows and share via email, IM, Facebook; or you can embed in blogs or websites. You can music, which is included. Very easy to use. Free. [|www.photopeach.com]
 * PhotoPeach.com**

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Books for Sale ** <span style="color: #ff0045; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Source: Teachers.net

<span style="color: #ff0045; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Are you retiring and looking for a place to sell some of your books? Would you like to buy used books that you can use in your teaching? Teachers.net has an online classified section where teachers can sell books, available at []

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||  ||   || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Wikimedia Commons: Images, Audio, and Video for Educational Use ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Source: Wikimedia Commons <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">From [] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Launched on 7 September 2004, Wikimedia Commons hit the 1,000,000 uploaded media file milestone on 30 November 2006 and currently contains 7,579,255 files and 99,182 media collections. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Unlike traditional media repositories, Wikimedia Commons is free. Everyone is allowed to copy, use and modify any files here freely as long as they follow the terms specified by the author; this often means crediting the source and author(s) appropriately and releasing copies/improvements under the same freedom to others. The license conditions of each individual media file can be found on their description page. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Browse the resources on Wikimedia Commons at [] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">BlogUrl: [] ||  ||



||  ||   || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">CultureTalk on LangMedia ** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Source: LangMedia <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">From [] <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">CultureTalk features video clips of interviews and discussions with people from many different countries and of many different ages and walks of life. Some interviews and discussions are in English; more are in the language(s) of the countries involved. Translations and/or transcripts are given for all non-English video clips. Topics include family, food, education, religious and cultural customs, work, art, sport, travel, and more. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Access CultureTalk at [] <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">BlogUrl: [] ||  ||

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">**Global Digital Media: Project Ideas** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Source: Asia Society <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Here are some real-world global digital media projects that engage students on many different levels: []

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||  ||   || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Create Your Own Online Games at Purpose Games ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Source: Purpose Games <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">PurposeGames.com is host to educational quiz and trivia games created by its members. In just a few minutes, you can create your very own game to share with your students. Explore existing games and create your own at [|http://www.purposegames.com] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">BlogUrl: [] ||  ||

Teachers interested in finding a way to connect their students with students in East Asia may be interested in EASC's new Photovoice Web page: @http://www.iu.edu/~easc/outreach/educators/photovoice/index.shtml.
 * Photovoice: digital photo-sharing**

This page provides step-by-step instructions for using Photovoice, a teaching methodology based on digital photo-sharing, to connect students across cultures. Check it out!

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">**eduTecher: Find Useful Web Tools** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Source: eduTecher <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">From []

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">eduTecher was founded in late 2007 as a way to keep track of the growing number of web tools that could be used in the classroom setting. The website�s mission is to help educators and schools around the world effectively integrate technology and web tools into the classroom. eduTecher currently provides links to thousands of web tools and provides concise information on how these tools may be useful in the classroom setting.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Besides the wealth of links to Web Tools, users can also find self-produced webisodes of eduTecherTV with walkthroughs and demonstrations on how to use specific Web Tools for educational purposes. Users can create a free account and get access to wealth of features that make exploring and sharing sites on eduTecher fast and simple.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Currently a search for tools relevant to foreign language teaching yields 89 results, some general and some specific to language teaching. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">eduTecher is available at [] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">BlogUrl: []

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">**Publications for Educators from the Metropolitan Museum of Art** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art

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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Designed for use in the classroom, these online features and printable files (PDFs) help educators introduce to their students the richness and diversity of works in various collections of the Metropolitan Museum. Publications include a variety of illustrations and descriptions of selected works of art, historical and cultural background, classroom applications in the form of lesson plans and activities, and other useful material.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Materials include the following: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">-China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200�750 AD: A Resource for Teachers and Students <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">-The Art of Africa: A Resource for Educators <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">-The Art of Renaissance Europe <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">-The Art of South and Southeast Asia <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">-The Arts of Korea: A Resource for Educators <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">-Greek Art from Prehistoric to Classical <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">-Islamic Art and Geometric Design: Activities for Learning <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">-Nature Within Walls: The Chinese Garden Court at The Metropolitan Museum of Art <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">-Roman Art: A Resource for Educators

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Access these resources and more at []

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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">From [|http://www.drawitlive.com]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Draw it Live is a free application that allows you to work together with other people to draw in real time; the collaborative drawing space is accompanied by a text chat area. You simply create a whiteboard and share its URL to allow other people to join in.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">You could dictate, via chat, what students should draw, or you could describe what you and they draw as items appear for comprehensible input. Alternatively, your students could work on a collaborative drawing, using the text chat to communicate about what they’re doing in the target language.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">This application is available at [|http://www.drawitlive.com]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Do you have more ideas for how to use this application for language teaching? Share them in the comments at our blog.

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Xtranormal.com **

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