By Heidi Trude, M.Ed, French Teacher at Skyline High School, Front Royal, VA and Certificate Student at the University of Colorado Boulder. Adobe Spark is a free web-based tool that allows for the creation of graphics, stories, and videos
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By Margot Riemer, Former Upper School World Languages Department Chair, Harvard-Westlake School, California. Recently, while doing some research about new tools for a graduate course in technology integration in the language classroom, I came across an intriguing and useful tool
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By Peggy Veal, French Teacher & World Language Department Chair, STEM School and Academy, Highlands Ranch, CO. If you teach a world language, you have undoubtedly heard about Quizlet. Quizlet.com is essentially a web based vocabulary learning tool that uses word banks
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By Shannon Spasova, Assistant Professor of Russian and Technology Specialist in the Center for Language Teaching Advancement, Michigan State University. The AAPPL Conversation Builder (http://aapplcb.actfl.org/) is a tool that can be used to create oral assignments or tests. The tests
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By Peggy Veal, French Teacher & World Language Department Chair, STEM School and Academy, Highlands Ranch, CO. As I was walking through the vendor booths at ISTE, I noticed a young boy playing a game in French on an IPad. I
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Dr. Dan Nickolai, Saint Louis University, iSpraak Developer and Director of the Language Resource Center iSpraak is a new web application developed at Saint Louis University that allows language teachers to create pronunciation exercises for their students. This
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By Cécile Rebolledo, PhD Candidate and GPTI in the French & Italian Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder. ThingLink is a web-based tool that allows users to make any image or video clip interactive. In other words, items within the
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By Shannon Spasova, Assistant Professor of Russian and Technology Specialist in the Center for Language Teaching Advancement, Michigan State University. Explain Everything is a whiteboard/screencasting app for iPad, iPhone, Windows tablets and desktop (not for Windows phone yet), Chrome devices,
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By Stefano Maranzana, Ph.D. candidate in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, Graduate Associate in Teaching Italian at the University of Arizona. According to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, an earworm is “a song or melody that keeps repeating
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Betsy Lavolette, PhD, Director, Language Resource Center, Gettysburg College. Angelika Kraemer, PhD, Executive Associate Director, Center for Language Teaching Advancement, MSU. Daniel Trego, MA, Foreign Language Technology Specialist, Dept of Romance and Classical Studies, MSU. Welcome to our third Tech
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By Arianne Margolin, PhD Candidate, Université d’Aix-Marseille 1/University of Colorado-Boulder, Adjunct Instructor at the University of Denver. YouSeeU, a Colorado-based educational technology company, is a new learning interface that uses uploaded, YouTube-like video in a secured environment to facilitate
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Daniel Trego, MA, Foreign Language Technology Specialist, Dept of Romance and Classical Studies, MSU. Betsy Lavolette, PhD, Director, Language Resource Center, Gettysburg College. Angelika Kraemer, PhD, Executive Associate Director, Center for Language Teaching Advancement, MSU. Welcome to our second Tech
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Angelika Kraemer, PhD, Executive Associate Director, Center for Language Teaching Advancement, MSU. Daniel Trego, MA, Foreign Language Technology Specialist, Dept of Romance and Classical Studies, MSU. Betsy Lavolette, PhD, Director, Language Resource Center, Gettysburg College. The Rich Internet Applications
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By Stefano Maranzana, Ph.D student in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, Graduate Associate in Teaching Italian at the University of Arizona. PBworks is a wiki, i.e., it is an online workspace that allows users to collaborate in
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