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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
Read MoreBy 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
Read MoreBy 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
Read MoreBy 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,
Read MoreBy 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
Read MoreBy 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
Read MoreBy 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,
Read MoreBy 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
Read MoreWe 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
Read MoreBy Adam Gacs, Instructor & Technology Specialist, Michigan State University DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/QXVD4963 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
Read MoreBy Irina Kogel, Five College Lecturer in Russian at Mount Holyoke College, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Smith College. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/IOCF4540 Extempore is a web-based platform designed to let language teachers assign and grade oral assessments. The app
Read MoreElizabeth Caspari, French Teacher, Clayton High School, MO DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/TSKP6405 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
Read MoreBy Marina Buratti, French and Italian Teacher, Sewickley Academy (PA) DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/GIRP2017 Wakelet is a free web-based tool that allows you to curate and share multimedia resources from around the web: webpages, videos, tweets, images, PDFs and a whole lot more. It seems
Read Moreby Megan MacNicol, Spanish teacher in Hershey, PA DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/VSEQ9349 Formative, which is also known as GoFormative, is a web-based tool that allows teachers to create digital formative assessments, tasks, or assignments that are easily accessible from any electronic
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