By Shannon Donnally Spasova, Michigan State University Many language teachers, especially those of us who teach languages with a different alphabet, have remained dependent on paper and pencil assignments for student homework. And, while there are a lot of good
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By Anna Dyer, Lecturer, University of Iowa Meet LearningApps.Org LearningApps.org is a free online platform that allows educators to create a wide variety of online learning activities: matching, fill-in-the-blanks, word grids (word search) and crosswords, maps, voting, ordering, to name
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By Betsy Lavolette, Kyoto Sangyo University Language teachers use video conferencing tools such as Zoom and Teams for many purposes, including teaching, meetings, professional development, and socializing. At times, it is more convenient to use a gesture to communicate, rather
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By Robert Remmerswaal, Sojo University, Japan Introduction With TeacherTools.Digital you can quickly make robust learning activities for your students to practice and improve their language skills in English, French, German, and Spanish. Other languages may work with only limited functionality
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By Jody Converse, ASL Educator at Brainerd High School in Brainerd, Minnesota About SignAll Lab SignAll Lab is an interactive workstation for learning and practicing American Sign Language (ASL). It supplements our classes, giving students countless hours of independent study
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By Rachel Mamiya Hernandez, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Introduction With the abrupt shift to online learning brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, hyperdocs such as Google Docs have garnered a lot of attention due to their ubiquity, ease of
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By Budimka Uskokovic, PhD Candidate at The Ohio State University in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures StoryJumper is a web-based tool that allows students to design their own stories, to collaborate with other students, and to become published
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By Shannon Donnally Spasova, Michigan State University, and Betsy Lavolette, Kyoto Sangyo University While Zoom and other video conferencing tools have worked well for pair and small group work, language teachers have struggled to find a tool that could simulate
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By Ekaterina Shutenko, Fulbright Teaching Fellow in Russian, Lehigh University The Miro team claims their product to be a visual collaboration platform: not just another online whiteboard, but rather an interactive tool that allows you to create, collaborate, share, and
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By José Manuel Suárez, Teacher of French at IES Mata Jove High School (Gijón, Spain) Storyboard That is a web-based tool that allows students (and teachers as well!) to create digital storyboards. Its users are able to develop their creativity
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We invite you to try out a new format and engage with our “asynchronous webinar”. This webinar, created by Shannon Donnally Spasova, introduces you to using Flipgrid either for class discussions or for speaking assessments. [Update: After a change
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By Adam Gacs, Instructor & Technology Specialist, Michigan State University The name Audiolingua might immediately bring to many language teachers’ mind the once-popular but today largely shunned teaching method of the late 50s and 60s called Audiolingualism
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By Irina Kogel, Five College Lecturer in Russian at Mount Holyoke College, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Smith College. Extempore is a web-based platform designed to let language teachers assign and grade oral assessments. The app allows
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Elizabeth Caspari, French Teacher, Clayton High School, MO Recently launched, FluentKey is designed to gamify the use of videos for comprehension. FluentKey is currently in beta testing, but open to all. Edpuzzle already allows teachers to design online quizzes
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