What makes learning compelling?
21st Century
Teaching and Learning Tools
Toni Theisen
Loveland High School
Thompson School District
Loveland, CO
970-482-2606
dakar95@verinet.com
http://lhsfrenchclasses.wikispaces.com
http://tonitheisen.wikispaces.com
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What makes learning compelling?
21st Century Teaching and Learning: Useful websites for teachers and students
You can download this document here and then it will be easier to click on the document:
http://tonitheisen.wikispaces.com/
Using Web 2.0-Sites for teachers to learn more about tech 2.0 web and 21st century resources.
 Educational Origami: http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/
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Educational Origami is a blog, and a wiki, about the integration of technology into the classroom.
Classroom web 2.0 http://www.classroom20.com/
The social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in education.
21St century Skills: http://umstrategicplan.wikispaces.com/Research
The Connected Classroom: http://theconnectedclassroom.wikispaces.com/Classroom
Collaboration Nation: http://collaborationnation.wikispaces.com/
This is a collaborative wiki integrating many different digital tools.
Globalization 101: http://www.globalization101.org/ provides students and teachers with
information about interdisciplinary learning opportunities on this complex phenomenon. Check
out the resources that include lesson plans, issue briefs, expert interviews, and news analyses.
Featured also are the World Bank and IMF issue brief in Chinese and the Culture Issue Brief in
Spanish.
International Affairs Issues Resources: http://www2.etown.edu/vl/
Language Learning and web: http://www.teachertube.com/ Check out the World Languages
Channel-plenty of videos for class or places for your classes to upload videos (of course with
appropriate permission)
 Michigan State University Rich Internet Applications for Language Learning:
http://clear.msu.edu/clear/store/products.php?product_category=online Innovative tools to enhance
language learning. Create, embed, share. How about adding an audio dropbox. Mashup (put a bunch of
 things together) and have students watch a video, add some questions, students answer online and write a
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Wikispaces-a course management or collaborative tool. Use it also as a place to host (load
up/embed)
 Wikispaces: www.wikispaces.com This site shows how to make and use wikispaces. There is also
a search in order to look for other wikis.
 Working with wikispaces: http://umtechresources.wikispaces.com/Wikispaces
 LHS French classes: http://lhsfrenchclasses.wikispaces.com
This wikispace shows how to use a wiki as a course management system and collaborative
workspace for a French class. (Toni Theisen’s wikispace)
Resources for podcasting/podcasts
 Gcast: http://www.gcast.com/
These free sites lets the user upload audio files or make a podcast using a cell phone and a toll free
numbers. Podcasts can be stored on the site or a widget can be embedded on a website, wikispace
or blog.
 Odeo: http://odeo.com/categories/27-Education :This site has variety of audio files including audio
books and podcasts in many languages on many subjects.
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 Podomatic: http://www.podomatic.com/index.html
This site provides a free service to make podcasts.
 Voicethread: http://voicethread.com/#home
Group discussion around images, documents and videos. Great for digital storytelling.
Blog sites, Videos sites, video converters
 Blogger: http://www.blogger.com/ This online blogging tool is an easy tool to use to start
blogging.
 TeacherTube: http://www.teachertube.com/ The goal of this site to provide an online community
for sharing instructional teacher videos. Upload lesson plan videos or watch student videos. There
are also instructional videos to help teacher learn more about using technology. Go to World
Languages Channel.
 Zamzar: http://www.zamzar.com/ This is an online free video conversion site. Here videos from
sites like YouTube can be converted and downloaded.
 TubeSock: http://stinkbot.com/Tubesock/ This is an online video conversion site. Here videos
from sites like YouTube can be converted and downloaded. There is a $15 yearly fee.
Online Photo Galleries and resources for pictures
 Flickr: http://www.flickr.com This is a digital photo sharing website. It is also a great site to find
pictures of many places in the world.
 Flickr Creative Commons License Search: http://flickr.com/creativecommons/
Fun tools
 Read the Words: http://www.readthewords.com/ Add text, choose a reader from among 15 in
French, Spanish and English. Avatar reader reads document. Download as MP3. Helps students
with listening, reading and pronunciation. Amazing.
 Voki: http://www.voki.com/ Make your own talking avatar in many languages for your blog or
wikispace,
 Comic strips and comic books: http://www.toondoo.com/
Check out an easy way for students to write or create. Look at the mini books on the Amendments,
see how students synthesize science projects.
 Make comic strips using characters on the site: http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/
 Bubbleshare: http://www.bubbleshare.com/ Make a slideshow of pictures and add captions and
comments with sound.
 Gloster: http://www.glogster.com/ Make a poster/blog. Poster yourself.
 Wordle: http://wordle.net/ Make a word cloud collage-great for students to study voc.
 OneTrueMedia: http://www.onetruemedia.com/
Mix photos, video and sound to create a new slideshow.
 Slide Show: http://www.slide.com/
Make your own slide show by uploading your pictures.
 Animoto: http://animoto.com/
Load up pictures and/or add music and then Animoto syncs music and images to make a video like
a movie trailer.
 Slideshare: http://slideshare.net :
Share our powerpoint presentations with the world and view what other are doing.
 Dabbleboard: http://www.dabbleboard.com/ Dabbleboard is a powerful yet easy-to-use digital
whiteboard. Draw with flexible tools. Reuse previously-made drawings. Share and collaborate in
real-time.
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 Photocube:Make a photcube for speaking practice:
http://www.tabblo.com/studio/productinfo/cube
 Searchcrystal: http://www.searchcrystal.com/home.html
It is a search visualization tool that lets you search and compare multiple engines in one place.
World Languages websites
 Learn French in Boston Podcasts: http://www.learnfrenchinboston.com
Podcasts including explanations of French poetry and practice sessions.
 Lit Gloss: http://wings.buffalo.edu/litgloss/list-of-texts.shtml
This site has a connection to original selections of literature in many different languages. Also
included is the context of the piece and additional resources to better understand it.
 Tex’s French grammar: http://www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/gr/overview.html
 Extraits de la littérature française en texte avec audio: http://www.archivox.com/
 BBC French: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/mafrance/
This sites has many French resources and activities that students can do on their own.
 BBC Spanish: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/
This sites has many Spanish resources and activities that students can do on their own.
 BBC German: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/german/
This sites has many German resources and activities that students can do on their own.
 BBC Italian: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/italian/
This sites has many Italian resources and activities that students can do on their own.
 Italian resources: http://butlerlibrary.wikispaces.com/Italian
 Italian activities: http://webgerman.com/languages/italian.htm
 Russian Resources and websites: http://flacademy.wikispaces.com/Russian
 Interactive games for kids in Russian: http://vkids.km.ru/
 Digital Media Archive: http://larcdma.sdsu.edu/
Language Acquisition Resource Center-Digital Media resources for many languages.
 Picasso webquest: http://www.webquest.org/questgarden/lessons/36507-061002164745/tindex.htm Webquest and activities about Picasso
 Folktales: http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=91
Exploring World Cultures through Folktales.
 Read, Write, Think: http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/persuasion_map/
This site has an interactive map to help students to begin to write a persuasive essay.
 Olga’s Gallery: http://www.abcgallery.com/ An online art museum.
 Chinese resources: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/chinese/real_chinese/
 Mona Lisa: www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/ala_cite/expo/explora/image/mona/
(What’s Mona Lisa up to-in many languages-fun and good for description)
 Self-Portrait Picasso: http://www.mrpicassohead.com/create.html
(Make your own self-portrait à la Picasso)
 Matisse: http://artbma.org/families/activities.html Matisse for kids
 Parts of the face: http://www.apples4theteacher.com/mi-cara.html
Drag the parts of the face to picture.
 Biblioteca Virtual: http://www.bibliotecasvirtuales.com/
 Chinese characters: http://www.usc.edu/dept/ealc/chinese/newweb/character_page.html
Animated Chinese characters.
 White Rose-Sophie School-student production:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NXW4ir7Mlc
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 The White Rose-pictures-German: http://www.images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclientff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-31,GGGL:en&q=the%20white%20rose&oe=UTF8&sa=N&tab=wi
 Die Weisse Rose video-google video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4408392973805153808&q=sophie+scholl
 SOPHIE SCHOLL-THE FINAL DAYS: The trailer-In German with English subtitles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM5A4ETW_Io&feature=related
 Lots of resources for lots of languages: http://webgerman.com/languages/
 Learn 35 languages for free in ITunes: http://www.lifeclever.com/learn-35-languages-for-freein-itunes/
 Native Languages from Alaska Index: http://www.alaskool.org/Language/languageindex.htm
 Native Web Language Resources:
http://www.nativeweb.org/resources/languages_linguistics/native_american_languages/
 Surviving Sounds of Haida: Kaasan, Alaska:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBjx5_cMPpw
 Chief Marie Smith Jones Prays for the Eyaks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqxGB0lR2Gc On Monday, January 21, 2008, Chief Marie
Smith Jones, the last native speaker of Alaska's Eyak language died. In this excerpt from the 1995
Documentary, More Than Words, Chief Marie prays that her people can recover their culture. This
took place in Cordova, Alaska - a small fishing community along Prince William Sound.
 Oral stories and activities in Korean: http://story.lg.co.kr:3000/index.jsp http://vkids.km.ru/
Science websites for World Languages
 Globe Center: http://www.globe.gov/r?lang=en&nav=1
This site is a worldwide hands-on interactive science program in English with navigation
available in Dutch, English, French, German, Russian, & Spanish.
 La Cité: http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/web_cite_fs.htm Lots of science activities in
French.
Digital Storytelling
 Center for Digital Storytelling: http://www.storycenter.org/index1.html
The Center for Digital Storytelling is an arts organization rooted in the art of personal
storytelling. They assist people of all ages in using the tools of digital media to craft, record,
share, and value the stories of individuals and communities.
 Educational uses of digital Storytelling: http://www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling
This is a website devoted to the educational uses of digital storytelling with guidelines to create
digital stories.
Project-based Learning
 Project-based learning: http://www.edutopia.org/projectbasedlearning
In project-based learning, students work in teams to explore real-world problems and create
presentations to share what they have learned. Sample projects and directions are included.
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Teacher Resources
 ITunesU: www.apple.com/itunesu/
This site gives higher education institutions an ingenious way to get audio and video content
out to the world. Want to hear conversations with contemporary artists, listen to a lecture from
a professor from Stanford University, science and engineering courses from MIT, a movie clip
on how to protect civil liberties from Penn State or see a music clip from the world on the
Smithsonian Global Sound Project.
 Copyright-friendly: http://copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com/
This site has Copyright-Friendly Images and Sound for Use in Media Projects and Web Pages,
Blogs, Wikis, etc.
 Differentiated Instruction: http://www.internet4classrooms.com/di.htm
List of resources to use when differentiating instruction.
 GoToQuiz: http://www.gotoquiz.com/create.html
Create quizzes, surveys and polls.
 Royality-free music for projects:
http://mrsmaineswiki.wikispaces.com/Free+music+for+projects
 International directory of search engines: http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/
 A visual search engine
 World Mapper-Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on
each map according to the subject of interest. From mobile phone usage to literacy and
mortality rates, there is a great range of maps here:
http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/index.html
 Here are some useful resources and sites that you can can for class activities, projects
and/or research. http://lhsfrenchclasses.wikispaces.com/Resources+for+classes
 Language Links:Teaching with the Web: http://www.langlink.net/langlink/
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