Global Excite has a menu of countries in which to search, including
Excite France, Excite Germany, and Excite Italy.
Yahoo has many international sites, including
Yahoo France,
Yahoo Canada
Yahoo
Germany
Spanish Yahoo with links to many Spanish-speaking countries.
Click on Alta Vista and Hot Bot
for a pull-up menu of countries in which to search.
Click on Magellan site then on countries to bring up countries beyond the US.
Click on
Lycos for information relating to other places, including foreign travel, government and specific topics.
Putnam teaching suggestions:
Scroll to the following:
1. FLTEACH Academic Discussion List: click to read recent e-mail newsgroups, noting topics of interest.
2. Subscribing: click then follow simple directions to subscribe free by e-mail.
3. Scroll to A FEW FAVORITE WWW RESOURCES for collections of resources for specific languages. Devise specific class activities for each Web site then share with colleagues on e-mail newsgroups. Save useful addresses to your Bookmark then save to your hard drive.
Lists for Language Learning: A useful site with many lists for language learning created and updated by David Betell.
1. FILELIST: click to read files with discussions of FL teaching, noting topics from FLTEACH newsgroups.
2. REVIEW OF BITNET/INTERNET LISTS FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING: save pages 1 and 2 with directions on how to subscribe (via WWW and email) to lists concerning ESL, Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Middle Eastern, African, Asian, and Pacific Rim languages. Research specific FL lists and subscribe to join discussions. Share findings with other newsgroups.
3. A Communications Technology Module for the FL Methods Course: An invaluable on-line focused Teaching Module for all FL teachers seeking to integrate technology into their FL classrooms created by Jean W. LeLoup, SUNY, Cortland, co-founder of FLTeach. Read through LeLoup's rationale and organization, and lesson outlines and 4 outcomes including inservice teachers in the intended audience. Select outcomes for your specific teaching situation and level before proceeding through the lesson outlines. Creat teaching units, sharing your insights and plans with colleagues before you attempt to teach units. Afterwards, edit plans based on class results and set up your own in-service technology Module using this Communications Technology Module and your own teaching units as the point of departure.
The ACTFL Home page: the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign languages has links to specific language organizations and offers information on all aspects of foreign language teaching. Click on area of choice in this extensive menu.
Academic Organizations for FL Teachers: click column One of Agora, a Language Marketplace, for basic information about FL Organizations including AATF, AATSP, AATG and AATI in North America and throughout the world or column Two to link directly with their Web site. There is even a column noting next Conference! Scroll down to link with US state and local Language organizations.
Classroom Connect a practical guide to using the Internet should be a first stop for all K-12 teachers, including FL. Find projects, teaching units, and help of all sorts, whatever your teaching area. Learn how to order a year's subscription to their guide, how to attend CConnect Conferences then enjoy browsing their vast Web site.
Swarthmore Language Lab on the Web: M Jones offers an excellent site with useful links to many languages, especially French, German and Spanish.
CVA Global Village: this is the Home page for CVaNet and Janice Paulsen's Global Village site with links to The Global Village French Quarter, the Multilingual Circus (games), a German Studies site and the Red Educativa Uruguya collection of Spanish WWW sites. Pull up each link for a vast array of useful addresses!
Eurolink: a useful site in French with thorough lists of Internet links for 16 European countries. Each country is arranged alphabetically. Scroll to bottom of page for a key word search feature.
Foreign Language Resources on the Web: select Steve Thorne 's site for a useful index to many Foreign language data bases and other Web sites for FL teaching.
(IECC) Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections: one of the first sites of its kind, this site at St. Olaf's College provides a good overview with its information on five kinds of free classroom pen-pal resources. Browse:
1. IECC-HE: for Higher Education mail exchanges.
2. IECC-K-12: to find partners for K-12 class-to-class projects.
3. IECC Projects (for teachers only): to learn about specific cross-cultural or international e-mail projects.
4. IECC Surveys (for individual students and teachers): to post requests for help with surveys.
5. IECC Discussions: for general views and implications of e-mail class room connections.
Virtual Connections: this is the table of contents for a text specifying lessons and projects for on-line language learning activities. It is helpful to note the range of activities developed and available for purchase in this book. Information on ordering is included.
L.L. Activities for the WWW: Many types of useful activities for language learning using the World Wide Web, from Rosen and Bowers. Of special note for FL teachers seeking interactive projects with a lag between exchanges (non-synchronic)is the list of alternatives to Home Pages. Click on Alternatives or scroll down to this section for a list of 36 project types for groups to share. Teachers can select one type then collaborate to develop specific activities for traffic rules, serialized stories, quotations, local menus, how-to pages, questionnaires and more. Before brainstorming activities for the types of alternatives to a Home Page, click on specific activities such as Talking heads, Cooks Corner, My Frig is Empty, for details on how to preplan short-term exchange FL projects.
International E-Mail Tandem Network: click here to learn how Universities in many countries use e-mail as a way to enable students to learn language together in tandem, hence the title. Select your language of choice for a description of how tandem operates at the university level. A useful discussion would specify how the Tandem Network might be adapted to the different computer realities of K-12 classrooms around the world.
Global Schoolnet Network Projects Registry: read through this vast registry for global projects to replicate to adapt for your classes, and to join yourself. Scroll down to learn of on-going projects, to add a project to the registry or to link to other helpful resources, especially the K12 Opportunities site.
World Cultures Information Exchange Project (WCIEP): read about the purpose of the project, how to join and about assessment of the WCIEP: email exchanges among elementary and Middle school classes. Click on participant pages for ideas on arranging projects for your classes.
Fast Food Activities Menu(for e-mail projects): a collection of ten short-term projects written by members of the Small Schools Telecomputing Network in Québec. An excellent place to read (in English) about shorter e-mail activities and projects going beyond the vaguaries of open-ended pen-pal activities. The format is helpful for teachers planning e-mail projects since each entry includes a description of the project, a suggested target group, the subject area, level of technical difficulty, software and equipment needed, and time line. Projects include Math challenges (easily adapted to a FL); a Québec Rally ( geography lesson format; great for large groups; Puzzles, Jokes and Charades to share with another school( this is excellent since teachers can monitor the jokes; I find most L2 jokes sites currently on Internet much too scatological for K-12 students: the few sites clean enough for school settings are in my newspapers section); an on-line magazine with themes suggested by on-line readers.
Nos Activités: a simple yet effective Home Page written and maintained by french-speaking elementary school students (7 to 10 years old). The format includes a summary of the school's events by month as well as a penpal corner where kids write up short descriptions about themselves!
Ma Région an excellent French-language guide about a telecommunication geography project, "My Region". Practicioners wishing to adapt this guide for FL classes will appreciate the detailed description of activities throughout and will find the format helpful for writing up variations on this project. In this activity, student groups share information with groups from afar about their town, their school and the economy of their region. A fine point-of-departure for planning FL telecommunication projects.
Ron's Online ESOL Classroom: click on Ron Corio's Internet Projects: A Slide presentation and Computers in the Writing Classroom for excellent ideas for FL classes. Having trouble linking to this for now, but worth a try!
MLA Style for Online and Printed Citations: click on Parent Directory at Debbie's Library Help page then on citbook for information on citing books; citcdrom for citing CD Roms; citwww for making a bibliography using Web sites and so on.
Library help: Researching Internet for Topics: click on advicengine to go to site that gives general advice from Debby on how to use the Interent for K-12 research. Check out advicedepth for specialized resources to develop variety and depth of research and on enganalbib for a a bibliography of Evaluations of Search Engines.
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