Acceso is a bundle of digital learning materials for intermediate-level Spanish learners (2 really good semesters of college or 2 good years of high school). It's meant to replace textbooks. I'll have to evaluate this before next school year; I already have people asking me about Spanish 4. If this isn't too underneath their ability level, I might try to use it. (Found here. http://www.oercommons.org/courses/acceso.)
National Novel Writing Month starts in November. Their website is here: http://www.nanowrimo.org/en I don't know if I have a point with this, but every year, I think, "It's NaNoWriMo in November. Maybe I'll write a novel." So I'm noting it here in case I want to do somthing about it; maybe I'll judge student interest in having some sort of novel-writing support group.
Showing posts with label online tools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label online tools. Show all posts
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Sunday, December 19, 2010
Free WL resources
These come courtesy of Carrie C. on the ACTFL listserv. (Not that Carrie C.)
Learner.org seems to have a variety of free video sources for different school subjects. For Spanish, they have the video for the textbook series "Destinos." They also have a college-themed version. That, combined with some scaffolding, would go a long way to help a learner find comprehensible input. (Ray, if you read this....)
For the teacher, they also have a seminar on K-12 language teaching and some arts instruction methods courses that look really interesting.
Also on the free video front, the BBC has a whole host of language tools. The Spanish video was insufferably slow-going for my taste--it felt like "Dora the Explorer" for adults. ("Can you say 'largo?' [pause] ¡Muy bien!) But maybe it's just what some learners need. And maybe later lessons focus on providing comprehensible input.
Learner.org seems to have a variety of free video sources for different school subjects. For Spanish, they have the video for the textbook series "Destinos." They also have a college-themed version. That, combined with some scaffolding, would go a long way to help a learner find comprehensible input. (Ray, if you read this....)
For the teacher, they also have a seminar on K-12 language teaching and some arts instruction methods courses that look really interesting.
Also on the free video front, the BBC has a whole host of language tools. The Spanish video was insufferably slow-going for my taste--it felt like "Dora the Explorer" for adults. ("Can you say 'largo?' [pause] ¡Muy bien!) But maybe it's just what some learners need. And maybe later lessons focus on providing comprehensible input.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Stealing other peoples' links
Online MP3-editing software? Sweet!
http://cutmp3.net/
I can do it in Garage Band to a certain extent, but unless I want to pass my laptop around the classroom every time I want a student to fiddle with a song, I'm the only one.
Great thanks and hat tip to Larry Ferlazzo for pointing it out.
http://cutmp3.net/
I can do it in Garage Band to a certain extent, but unless I want to pass my laptop around the classroom every time I want a student to fiddle with a song, I'm the only one.
Great thanks and hat tip to Larry Ferlazzo for pointing it out.
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