21st Century Teaching and Learning: Useful websites for teachers and students
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http://tonitheisen.wikispaces.com/
Using Web 2.0-Sites for teachers to learn more about tech 2.0 web and 21st century resources.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 Podomatic: http://www.podomatic.com/index.html
This site provides a free service to make podcasts.
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.
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.
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/
 Wordle: http://wordle.net/ Make a word cloud collage-great for students to study voc.
 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.
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.
 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/
 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.
 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)
 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
 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-forfree-in-itunes/
 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.
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.
 Royality-free music for projects:
http://mrsmaineswiki.wikispaces.com/Free+music+for+projects
 Language Links:Teaching with the Web: http://www.langlink.net/langlink/