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By Wenjing Huang, Mandarin Teacher, Wildwood School Introduction Gimkit is a website and a digital game-based platform for both students and teachers. Gimkit was created by a public high school student in his junior year as a school project, and
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By Wenjing Huang, Mandarin Teacher, Wildwood School Introduction Classkick is a tool that teachers can use to replace paper assignments. Students can work on these assignments with their laptops, Chromebooks, or iPads, while getting help from teachers and peers instantly.
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By Maureen Lamb, M.Ed., Kingswood Oxford School In spring 2020, on a tight budget, I had to figure out a way to replicate the many activities I did with students in my Latin classes using individual mini whiteboards in class,
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By Wenjing Huang, Mandarin Teacher, Wildwood School Introduction Lingt is a website and a tool for language teachers to create various assignments about any topic for all levels of learners. It was originally founded by two college students in Boston
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By Megan Jeffrey, National Foreign Language Center With the market already heavily saturated with language learning apps, why create another? This was the first question that the National Foreign Language Center asked when developing Lectica, a new free language app
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By Amanda Romjue, Emory & Henry College, and Bhavya Singh, Teacher Training Institute, New York University. Hindi Facilitator, California Language Teachers’ Association (CLTA) Introduction Mote is a Chrome browser extension that promises “fast, friendly voice messaging” and it really
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By Melissa Fiori, Associate Professor of Spanish, Daemen College, Amherst, NY Introduction Gradekeeper is a grade tracking program that facilitates the administrative and educational duties of instructors, for on-campus, hybrid, or online courses. It is quick and easy to set
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By Ilaria Compagnoni – Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy izi.TRAVEL (“easy travel”) is an open-course digital travel guide with audio tours, multi-media content available in 13 languages with storytelling capabilities. Devised by a team of Dutch innovators, it allows
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By Shannon Donnally Quinn, Michigan State University Students benefit from receiving feedback on their pronunciation and writing, but instructors only have a limited amount of time to devote to it. Yask is a mobile app that allows students to receive
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By Sherry A. Maggin & Rebecca Jones-Kellogg, The United States Military Academy Introduction Book Creator is an online platform for the creation of digital books. Instructors and students alike can read, create, and publish using a wide variety of
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By Joseph Fees, Delaware State University Loom is a browser-based program to create sharable screencast videos for classes or training. Users can access the website directly or add a Loom extension to Chrome. The website allows users to record a
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By Richard Medina, Center for Language & Technology, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa About AMPLIFY Amplify is a web application that collects and distributes information about professional learning events specifically from language centers, departments, or other organizational units that provide
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By Melissa Fiori, Associate Professor of Spanish, Daemen College, Amherst, NY Introduction Music moves us all and is especially motivational in language learning. With the intersection of music and language, the web platform Lyricstraining makes acquiring a language even more
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By Rachel Mamiya Hernandez, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Introduction Perhaps one particularly challenging aspect of teaching over the past year and a half has been how to break the monotony of online classes. Video Conferencing tools can at times
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