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Picture 9 - Assignment that was annotated in Zoom
Articles March 2021 Technology 

One Cheap (And One Even Cheaper!) Way to Annotate Homework

January 31, 2021 205 Views 1 Comment notability, zoom

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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Picture 3: Example of a synchronous activity using Zoom Annotate and a word grid app.
November 2020 Technology 

LearningApps.org – A Tool to Engage

November 2, 2020 196 Views 3 Comments

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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November 2020 Technology 

Snap Camera – Use Gestures to Communicate in Any Video Conference System

October 4, 2020October 4, 2020 69 Views 0 Comments Video conferencing

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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Picture 1 – Dashboard when you first log into TeacherTools.Digital with the types of activities available
November 2020 Technology 

Quickly Create Content for your Language Classroom with TeacherTools

September 30, 2020 123 Views 0 Comments text-to-speech

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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Picture 8 - SignAll Learn Lab Game Space Man
November 2020 Technology 

SignAll Lab: Boosting Students’ Interest in Learning ASL

September 12, 2020 429 Views 0 Comments ASL, sign language

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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Photo 1 - Jamboard group task from an intermediate Spanish class comparing life before COVID-19 vs. now.
November 2020 Technology 

Getting out of a Jam with Google Jamboards

September 8, 2020 1166 Views 3 Comments Google, whiteboard

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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the world and books
November 2020 Technology 

StoryJumper: Students Publish Their Own Books

August 25, 2020 799 Views 1 Comment

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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These avatars are close to each other, so they would be able to hear each other well.
July 2020 Technology 

SpatialChat – Mingle Activities and Virtual Parties

July 3, 2020February 4, 2021 4053 Views 0 Comments group work, mingle activities, online teaching, synchronous communication

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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Playing an Interactive Board Game in Miro
July 2020 Technology 

Miro: the Visual Collaboration Platform You Need In Your Online Classroom

June 15, 2020 1626 Views 3 Comments whiteboard

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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Introducing balloons
July 2020 Technology 

Storyboard That: Creating Digital Storyboards

May 26, 2020 976 Views 4 Comments characters, comics, storyboards

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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world flags
IALLT webinars July 2020 Technology 

Asynchronous Webinar: Using Flipgrid in World Language Classes

April 6, 2020August 10, 2020 2744 Views 8 Comments

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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audiolingua
March 2020 Technology 

Audio-Lingua: Searchable Audio Database of Native Speaker Recordings for Your Language Class

March 14, 2020May 15, 2020 2114 Views 0 Comments

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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March 2020 Technology 

Extempore: A Speaking Practice App

March 10, 2020 1562 Views 0 Comments

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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screencapture of Fluent key homepage
November 2019 Technology 

FluentKey: Making Listening Fun

November 1, 2019November 4, 2019 1756 Views 1 Comment

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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