World+Languages

media type="custom" key="7990254" align="right" **Flicker Spancon** After reading a post from Tech & Learning regarding a teacher using Flickr to teach Spanish vocabulary, I decided to check it out. The teacher created an account at Flickr, had students take pictures of over 500 objects, then he posted the photos up to Flickr and categorized the photos. You can access the photos to use with your students by going to Flickr (Spancon). The explanations for how to search Flickr for his photos is explained in the blog article. ** Lots of Interactive Games ** The site was developed by Manchester Metropolitan University. Even though many games are referencing a specific set of French textbooks, the games are useful to anyone learning French who has in interactive whiteboard. Games include Tic-Tac-Toe, Millionaire, Flashcards, Word Search, Spelling Test, Hangman, Matching Game, and Memory Game. There is also a Spanish site. **Best Languages Websites** ​

Webmaster, Jim Becker, Professor Emeritus, University of Northern Iowa has a website that links to websites he has created for Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Italian, Hebrew, Arabic, Hindi, Bengali, Portuguese, German, TESOL/ESL and Latin. Each website is loaded with links that will assist students and teachers. Great ideas for IWB. His websites are heralded as 5-star websites.

**Extensive Resources**

Dr. Arlys E. Peterson, Education Department, University of Sioux Falls, University of Sioux Falls, South Dakota has a couple of websites I would like to share with you. Check out the link to many resources for World Language sites.



Digital Dialects

Fifty-nine languages (see below) are available with interactives resources to help students learn. All for FREE!!!! Games to help them learn vocabulary, numbers, colors, animals, fruits and vegetables, phrases and greetings. Pretty awesome!



Teacher's Discovery This website offers over 10,000 items to choose from. Good resource for World Languages, English, Social Studies, and Science. Most interactives can be purchased at minimal cost.



Handwriting Recognition with Other Languages

TEQ's blog has TeqCast, episode 6 that explains how to convert handwriting to another language, please watch the video. You might want to check out some of the other TeqCasts at their website. Very good information.

** ABC Teach **



I was searching for more interactives for World Language teachers (found a nice French Verb Usage review Notebook Lesson) and found the site has some free (and some by subscription) interactive lessons. There is some good stuff here for different grade levels/different content.


 * Internet Picture Dictionary **

Practice Spanish, French, Italian, or German. Includes some online games. To get an idea of the site, look at the example of one of the games below. In this game, the student inserts the missing vowels.




 * French Graphic Organizers **

Opening this gallery file will automatically add 22 French graphic organizers to the My Content section of the Gallery in the Notebook Software. Thanks to Sheri's Smartboard Smarts website.