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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By Marina Buratti, French and Italian Teacher, Sewickley Academy (PA) 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 similar to
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By Lisa Katzenstein, Tutor Coordinator-Language Corner, Richland College, Dallas, TX. This is the story of a collection of 500+ books scattered around the language lab at Richland College in Dallas, Texas and how I organized the collection using
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By Kristin M Marena, Spanish Teacher at Ringgold High School, PA. “Music is life, that’s why our hearts have beats.” Cecily Morgan. This quote expresses how much music is part of the human race and beats within
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by Shannon Donnally Spasova, Michigan State University The International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALLT) conference (IALLT 2019) took place June 19-22, 2019 at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. The theme was “crafting communities of learners”
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Maria Alley, Senior Lecturer in Foreign Languages, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Molly Peeney, Lecturer in Foreign Languages, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Authenticity of language, language tasks, and assessment have been key principles of language teaching and learning in
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by Beth O’Connor, Spanish Teacher, Essex High School and Vermont Virtual Learning Cooperative ABOUT SCAVENGER HUNTS When I was young, the party games that were the most fun were the scavenger hunts. We were given a list of things
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By Peggy Veal, French Teacher & World Language Department Chair, STEM School and Academy, Highlands Ranch, CO. In 2017, STEM School Highlands Ranch introduced The SYNK into its building. Lead by Dr. Cannady, the SYNK offers an interactive whiteboard, connected to
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Andie Faber, lecturer, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University, NJ Anais Holgado-Lage, lecturer, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University, NJ Adriana Merino, lecturer, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University, NJ Jovana Zujevic, lecturer, Department of Spanish and
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By Edwige Simon, Faculty Director of the Graduate Certificate in Language Teaching with Technology, the University of Colorado Boulder. WHAT IS BLENDED LEARNING? The term blended learning can be used to define a wide range of instructional models. In this
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by Shannon Donnally Spasova, Michigan State University Virtual and augmented reality facilities are becoming a reality in many universities across the country. At Michigan State University, the library recently installed a digital scholarship lab that includes a 360
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Seth Killian, Founder of Lingco Labs By Shannon Spasova, University of Michigan Shannon Spasova: Hi, can you tell us a little about yourself? Seth Killian: I’m Seth, the founder of Lingco Language Labs. I’m an undergraduate student at Michigan
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by Carlos Torres, Spanish teacher and department Head in Birmingham, MI. I am fortunate to work in a school district where the use of social media for instructional and extracurricular purposes is relatively commonplace. Teachers, sponsors, and
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Marlene Johnshoy (University of Minnesota) Jonathan Perkins (University of Kansas) Dan Soneson (University of Minnesota) Shannon Donnally Spasova (Michigan State University) With shrinking travel budgets and difficulties taking extended time away from work, many language faculty and
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