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Awesome rubrics and conversion charts at Fairfax County's Site: evaluates all skills at all levels.1313705897

In an attempt to help you keep up with all that's new and possibly an asset to your teaching, I curate up-to-date topics of interest here: media type="custom" key="10046957"

Merlot A classy repository of potential digital learning objects for the language classroomuser:ensenyo

Authentic Resources Join this wiki to add to their growing collections of Tweets, Pictures and other Realia user:ensenyo

http://www.teachforjune.com/resources/posters/ Posters you can use in the classroom for English, French, German and Italian. Also, a good brief intro to TPRS. 1312307304

http://larryferlazzo.com/ At this site you can see what a 21st century educator is using the Internet and Web 2.0 applications for with ESL students. However, the applications here are not merely limited to ESL. I suggest that you look at the student work page. Maybe you will consider having your students create a flipbook, or a movie, or a karaoke recording. These applications are free and available for you and your students. You don't have to learn how they work; let the students do that. Continually updated. Signup for eletter or Twitter conncection. user:ensenyo

[|Mi Vida Loca] This is a great way to learn Spanish. Notice the pedagogy involved in these lessons. Very 21st Century!1212539829

**Links to resources for teaching languages to __students with special needs or learning disabilities__:** The following info is from Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS) at the University of Oregon: -An article, “Learning Disabilities and Foreign Language Learning” at [|http://www.ldonline.org /article/6065-An] article, “Foreign Language Requirements And Students With Learning Disabilities” at [|http://www.cal.org/resources /Digest/barr0001.html] -The Foreign Language Teacher's Guide to Learning Disabilities is organized by topic at [|http://www.fln.vcu.edu/ld/ld .html] -A website, Diversity and inclusion in modern foreign languages, is available at [|http://www.specialeducationaln eeds.com/Case/Index.html] -An article, “Learning Disabilities: Teaching and Reaching All Learners” is available at [|http://www.phschool.com /professional_development /teaching_tools/foreign _languages/learning_disabiliti es.html] -A narrative, “Dyslexia and learning a foreign language: A personal experience” is available at [|http://findarticles.com/p /articles/mi_qa3809/is_200001 /ai_n8882589-Resources] organized under the title Foreign Language Learning and Special Needs Children are available at [|http://www.cal.org/earlylang /benefits/special_needs.html] -A language teacher’s narrative, “Special Education Students” is available at [|http://www.anacleta.com /specialeducationstudents.html] 1213664341

[|Information Gap Activities] Learn about information gap activities at this site and their role in the classroom. For example, the first idea is for setting up an information gap pre-reading activity that revolves around vocabulary. user:ensenyo

[|La Web para el profe de español] "Con este blog esperamos poder ayudar a los profesores en general, y a los de Español Lengua Extranjera en particular." Incluye videos, ejercicios, etc. 1222449121

[|CALS] Subscribe to their weekly newsletter and keep up-to-date about language teaching happenings, choosing your interests. You'll hear about new websites that will specifically address your needs as a language teacher. They offer job postings, teaching ideas, etc., all based on what you are interested in. 1222779718

[|Pam Kaatz's site] The inventor of the Verb Wall, Pam has graciously put some great lessons for teaching the preterit and imperfect, numbers, the subjunctive, etc. It's not traditional but creative and her ideas work. Check it out under "lessons". 1223641971

[|What 21st Century World Languages Teachers Should Know and Be Able to Do] A resources for sites for many technolgoy aspects of sound teaching today 1225724019][[image:img-1.php.png

[|Free Images to Use] 1229535503

[|Getting Around YouTube Blocks] Written by Joyce Valenza, a leading librarian/educator. 1231168505

[|Spanish Lesson Plans and Technology Blog] In this blog you can get ideas to add to your lessons or use lesson plans suggested. Not all ideas are about technology. 1234792339

[|Guide to Cross Cultural Understanding] More than 200 countries are represented. Learn about etiquette, business negotiations, being a student in the country, etc. 1236014677

[|Excellent Image Source] CAPL, the Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon 1241662388

[|EduBlogs Worth Reading] References are made to more than 25 worth reading educational blogs. Some are for new teachers. Others are for inspiration, suggestions, motivation.1246032543

[|Master List: Free Language Learning Resources] So how is language learning online going? Also check this post to see how [|these tools] could be use with you students.1246032691

For many language learners, flashcards are indispensable. [|This site] lets students work collaboratively and interactively on flashcards they design. From a standard individual flashcard use to using Skype or telephone to "test" one another, this site allows for pictorial aids, etc., in developing the flashcards.1246454093
 * Vocabulary Flashcard Builder **

Interested in ** Twitter **? Follow foreign language teachers as suggested [|here]1246721421

Why and How you can use ** portfolio assessment ** in your classroom [|click here]1248276121

[|The Magic of Learning]ideas, suggestions, visions for a global learning experience 1250435830

" __The Language Pronunciation and Comprehension Learning Tool__ (LPCLT) is a revolutionary linguistics toolkit designed to enhance a student's comprehension and pronunciation of a particular language. This new learning tool developed by Arts Instructional Support (Arts IS) allows professors to author vocabulary and sentence structures into an oral component, to aid students in learning to hear and speak a new language." Check out the pronunciation tool!!!`1259610681

"En línea es un banco de recursos que reúne sugerencias para trabajar en el aula de español. En formato de ficha, se reseñan explotaciones didácticas de libros, poemas, películas, dificultades gramaticales, vocabulario, propuestas para la conmemoración de fechas emblemáticas, etc. Es, pues, un compendio, que trata de presentar de manera organizada parte de la ingente cantidad de materiales para la enseñanza del español disponibles en la Red. El compendio de fichas irá actualizándose y renovándose progresivamente. El acceso a las fichas puede hacerse desde el índice de contenidos o desde la fecha de publicación." @http://www.educacion.es/exterior/be/es/publicaciones/enlinea/banco.shtml

The meaning of words. At this site you can choose the language and plug-in your word and it will diagram antonyms, synonyms, nouns, adjectives, meaning in English, etc. Pretty cool!1268673328

Developing Autonomy In Language Learnersuser:ensenyo

Thematic Units: for French (3) and for Spanish (6). They are awesome (imho) 1269895635

Hypermedia: Create Learning Units with a bit of magic in them at this site.1278979209