Helpful Links for World Language Teachers

The links below are great resources for World Language teachers with the goal of integrating more of the Internet and computers into their classrooms.

FLTeach The Foreign Language Teaching Forum is an integrated service for FL teachers including the WWW Page, the email (FLTEACH@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu) LISTSERV Academic Discussion List, and the FLTEACH Gopher at the State University of New York College at Cortland. The topic of the site and LISTERV is foreign language teaching methods including school/college articulation, training of student teachers, classroom activities, curriculum, and syllabus design. Students in teacher training programs, teachers both new and experienced, administrators, and other professionals interested in any aspect of foreign language teaching are invited to participate in the discussions.

Quia! Create your own on-line learning activities or explore thousands of activities in over 40 subject areas. Quia has added lots of options recently: class page; matching, concentration, flash cards, and/or word search games; hangman game; jumbled words game; pop-ups game; challenge board game; quiz (basic type); quiz (Java type). Have Fun!

Pat Pecoy's Teachers Aides site consists of links to web sites that help take the technical out of technology for busy teachers. Teachers can wow their students and create marvelous online activities with very little technical knowledge using the sites listed here. The sites have been divided into three levels: beginning, intermediate and advanced.

Create your own on-line interactive crossword puzzles at the Crossword Online site. Scroll down the page and click on "Generator" to get started.

eBoard is a free service that allows you to create your very own "virtual" corkboard where you can post assignments, messages and photos online in seconds. eBoard is perfect for anyone who would like to put information online but doesn't have the need for a website.

eGroups is another service that provides free tools to help you post class information on-line! Services for teachers include integrated email list hosting, shared calendars with automatic email reminders, customizable database for contact lists, homework assignments, and more!

Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet sites, and turning Web resources into activities appropriate for learners. So it helps you combine the Filaments of the Web with a learner's mentality (get it?). Support is built in through Mentality Tips, so you'll be guided right along the way and end up with a Web-based activity you can share with others even if you don't know anything about HTML, Web servers, or all that www-dot stuff. (Click here for an example.)

Here's a handy tool:The Glossmaker from the Swarthmore Language Department. Cut-and-paste your text into the Glossmaker, mark the words you want glossed and click! That's all there is to it! Students can read the text on web, and simply click on a word to get a handy definition. Click here for other interactive exercises makers from Swarthmore.

The Half-Baked Software team creates authoring programs that enable you to make Web-based interactice teaching materials. It's great stuff - and it's free! Click here to take a look at some simple vocabulary review & practice exercises created with this software.

Puzzlemaker: A site that allows you to create puzzles and games for your newsletters, flyers, handouts, or classroom assignments. If you are doing a CrissCross puzzle, the following settings will produce a puzzle that will fit on a single sheet: width 25, height 30, cell-size 25.

FunBrain's Quizlab allows teachers to (easily!) create their own on-line quizzes. When a student takes a quiz, it is automatically graded and the results are e-mailed to the teacher! There are also lots of ready-made quizzes available in various subject areas.

Schoolnotes.com provides a website where teachers can post announcements and class assignments -- free of charge. You don't have to know html and you will be able to access your account at any time from either school or home computers. You can also link to your page from your school's web pages. Give your students the address of your page and they and their parents can check on their daily and long range assignments at any time. Students can also e-mail you from the Schoolnotes site, but your e-mail address does not show, and is not revealed to the student. You can now post digital flashcards for your students at the Schoolnotes site!

Many thanks to Duveen Penner for a great deal of these links and to the individual sites for helping to bring the Internet into the classroom.

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