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By Shannon Donnally Spasova, Michigan State University DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/UPCL5971 For those of us who normally teach face-to-face or hybrid, finding ways to replicate games that we normally play in class in the online environment has been one of our challenges.
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By Sherry A. Maggin, United States Military Academy DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/SEBY8728 Introduction Microsoft Teams is a cloud-based meeting and collaboration space, originally intended as a workplace tool. With the onset of the pandemic, it quickly became adopted as an additional remote
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By Lauren Taylor, Spanish Teacher, Frisco Independent School District, Frisco, TX DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/EZIX3643 Introduction Given the increased pressure that teachers are under to develop interactive virtual tools for language instruction, it is no surprise that digital creation platforms like Genial.ly
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By Shannon Donnally Spasova, Michigan State University DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/EJXT6038 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
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By Anna Dyer, Lecturer, University of Iowa DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/AZSI9456 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,
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By Betsy Lavolette, Kyoto Sangyo University DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/AUIW5279 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
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By Robert Remmerswaal, Sojo University, Japan DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/QWFL9718 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
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By Jody Converse, ASL Educator at Brainerd High School in Brainerd, Minnesota DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/YHDX1921 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
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By Rachel Mamiya Hernandez, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/RHUG8570 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,
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By Budimka Uskokovic, PhD Candidate at The Ohio State University in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/BPVY7967 StoryJumper is a web-based tool that allows students to design their own stories, to collaborate with other students, and to
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By Shannon Donnally Spasova, Michigan State University, and Betsy Lavolette, Kyoto Sangyo University DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/PGJL4670 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
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By Ekaterina Shutenko, Fulbright Teaching Fellow in Russian, Lehigh University DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/XHPL3800 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,
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By José Manuel Suárez, Teacher of French at IES Mata Jove High School (Gijón, Spain) DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/JSAN5802 Storyboard That is a web-based tool that allows students (and teachers as well!) to create digital storyboards. Its users are able to develop
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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. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/YGFT8680 [Update: After
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