Great+Resources+for+teachers

Resources for student teachers

 * LHS French Student Teacher: Info good for all student teachers in a world language
 * ACTFL Tech 2009: Lots of tech and language resources
 * LHS Mentor Teacher
 * World Languages and Special Ed
 * [|Madeline Hunter Lesson Plan Guide]

21st century learning

 * sites for new approaches to teaching
 * Bloom's Taxonomy and tech
 * [|Blooming in the 21st century]
 * Thompson School District Colorado World Languages Tech workshop
 * [|Learn How to do Digital Storytelling]: a free online curriculum designed to bring Digital Storytelling training to the widest possible population. This powerful new medium allows ordinary people, with little computer experience and with readily available electronic tools, to create three- to four-minute video clips that can be played on a computer, shared as an email or played on a television.
 * [|LangoLab]: LangoLAB is a new website where users can watch captioned videos or read text in the target language. They can click on words to get their definitions. Afterwards they can select words to add to an online flashcard set.
 * [|Handbook of Emerging Technologies]
 * World Languages and Special Ed
 * [|Teacher TV-Modern Foreign Languages]- (a tv series for languages from the United Kingdom)

Resources for class

 * [|Games and Icebreakers for class]
 * [|Interdisciplinary French resources for classes]
 * World Languages Resources-[|Merlot Project long list of]
 * [|Convert pdf files to word]
 * [|Pictures of the Madrid Art Cow parade]
 * [|16 lesson plans and presentations for teaching Spanish and French in grades K-12]are available for download from the Garden City Public Schools Technology Integration Project Sharing website
 * [|Tools for Teachers]
 * [|MFL Image Bank]
 * [|Tales and Short Stories in Spanish]
 * [|LES CHANSONS DE KARAOKÉ]
 * [|Vikidia-Vikidia is like Wikipedia, except only in French and intended for children.]

Tools for classroom creating

 * [|BigHugeLabs]: Make interesting projects with pictures and text such as trading cards, movie posters, badges and much more!
 * [|USteamtv]: Experience live video. In just minutes, you can broadcast and chat online with a global audience. Free.
 * [|99Polls]: Creat survey and polls. Embed. Comments can be added. Free.
 * [|Euronews] in many languages. Latest world news (streaming video too) from a European perspective.
 * [|Go animate]-make animated stories
 * [|Piclits]- write a poem, use an exisiting one do creative writing, add picture
 * [|Our Story]-storytelling
 * [|Sing with Juanes]-Upload your photo, and choose one on the site, play the song, and sing along via telephone or computer microphone.
 * [[image:Picture_1.png width="283" height="177" link="http://www.batanga.com/singwithjuanes/"]]
 * [|Bookbuilder]: Look up photos, add text, make a book.
 * [|Speechable]: **Speechable ™ is a free photo service** that lets you easily upload and add speech bubbles to your photos.
 * [|Photocube]: Personalize speaking activities or writing prompts by using our pictures and creating a printable photocube.
 * [|Phlook]: Upload pictures, write a narrative, publish like a storyboard.
 * [|Fifty ways to tell the same story:] tools to create a digital story-includes samples, tutorials, etc.
 * [|Stixy]: An online, free, collaborative environment.
 * [|PhotoPeach]: Create a lively and vivid way slideshow by moving your photos like a video with your choice of background music, captions on each photo.
 * [|Screentoaster]: Free online screen recorder to make screencasts
 * [|Yodio]: Use Yodio to add your stories to your photos or presentations by recording to your phone and then uploading pictures.
 * [|Jeopardy Labs]-build a jeopardy game with a Powerpoint template
 * [|Speechable]-photo captioning
 * [|Vocaroo]-voice recording service
 * [|Wiggio]- a free online toolkit that makes it easier to work in groups
 * [|How to use Voicethread slide tutorial]

Images/Sound Resources for Projects

 * [|Image Bank]
 * [|Pictures for projects]
 * [|Flickr pictures you can use for projects, etc.]
 * Copyright-Friendly and Copyleft Images and Sound (Mostly!) for Use in Media Projects and Web Pages, Blogs, Wikis, etc.
 * [|Flickr: Creative Common Licensed Photos for VoiceThread]
 * Royality-free music for projects
 * [|Free music for projects]
 * [|More free music for projects]
 * [|Excellent general resources]
 * [|International directory of search engines]

**Differentiation**

 * [|Differentiation Toolbox]-Tomlinson site