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Chinese websites

Chinese teachers Blog @ http://chineseteachersblog.com.au/

Echinese @http://www.echineselearning.com/

Cracking the Code @ http://charactercatalogue.thelearningfederation.edu.au/cc/index.php

Chinese Language Teachers Association@ http://clta-us.org

How the web works in Chinese @ http://www.findingdulcinea.com/guides/Foreign-Language/Chinese/Simplified-Chinese/Guide-to-Web-Search.xa_1.html http://www.chinese-course.com/ http://chinalinks.osu.edu/ http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/mandarin1/4535 Chinese Course & Flashcards

Spanish web sites

Silvina’s Wiki @ http://kiskispanish.wikispaces.com/ (constantly under construction!)

My Spanish Lab @http://www.myspanishlab.com

Podcasts in Spanish @Spanishpod- lessons for learning spanish

Becker’s Spanish Site @ Tons of Spanish Resources

French Websites

Websites for everyone Cy Braryman cite http://www.cybraryman.com/foreign.html That has list of other great sites Lang 8 @ http://lang-8.com/ Learn for Native speakers

MIT Open source @http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/foreign-languages-and-literatures/ Coursework and class notes from MIT

Shambles @ http://www.shambles.net/pages/staff/MFL/ A must website that has many links for modern language learning

Alibela - Free online language classes

Babbel - more free online language courses

Word2Word - free online world language lessons

Forvo - Many of the best translations online, add your own as well.

Ebiwrite - tools for translations

Lingro- an online comprehensive dictionary

Diaglo- smart talking multimedia for world language studies

Literacy Center for World Languages - interactive and fun while learning foreign languages

Multilingual Dictionary - get meanings in any language 100 Language Learning Sites

Lanugage Aps - learn languages Free with these resources

Ajax translator- translate in an instant

Web 2.0 Tools for Everyone Quizlet @ http://www.quizlet.com is a free web 2.0 tool to create flashcards, practice with them, and share with others

Overstream @ http://www.overstream.net/ A free tool that allows you to overdub a movie

ToonDoo A web application that allows students to create their own comic strips. Highly motivational, it allows students to express themselves in a more creative way Diigo Education Any annotations you make on a web page can be saved and sent to students or colleagues. This tool is popular among teachers because it offers the ability to create accounts for a whole class and it protects the students’ privacy Gabcast Use this application for podcast creation and hosting sites. You or your students can even use your cell phone to record the podcast. Anki This is what is called a spaced repetition system (SRS). It can help students remember things by intelligently scheduling flashcards. This helps when trying to learn a lot of information at one time Go!Animate Takes story telling using online cartoon strip makers a little bit further by allowing students to spark life into characters and create short animations. A super tool to foster creativity and engage students. EtherPad It’s easy to use and no password is needed. A shared notepad that lets you store your revisions and synchronize with others. Delicious Social bookmarking site where users can save bookmarks and organize them with tags. Add friends to your account and keep track of bookmarks left by each friend.

Wallwisher @ http://www.wallwisher.com A way to put post notes and movies and voice messages

Wordle@http://www.wordle.net/ is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text

Testmoz @ http://testmoz.com/ Create online tests and have them graded and sent to you.

Hot Potato@ http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web

Woices @ http://woices.com Free geolozalized audioguides

Wikispaces is a free web 2.0 tool that allows users to add and update content on a websiteusing their own web browser. .

Glogster @ http://www.glogster.com/edu is a free web 2.0 tool that allows you to create interactive posters with text, images, audio, and video.

My Language Labs @ http://www.mylanguagelabs.com are dedicated learning management systems for language classes.

Blabberize @ http://www.blabberize.com is a free web 2.0 tool that allows you to create a talking picture, basically a moving mouth on a still image.

Xtranormal @ http://www.xtranormal.com is a free web 2.0 tool that allows you to create movies with one or two actors, and in many languages. You can change many things such as the set, soundtrack, and actors. You can also change camera angles, add animations, change expressions and looks, make actors point at things, add pauses and sounds, etc. And, you can also add your own voice!

Voice Thread @ http://www.voicethread.com is a free web 2.0 tool that allows you to create slide shows with comments in the form of audio/video/text, and share them with others.

Animoto @ http://www.animoto.com is a free web 2.0 tool that automatically produces orchestrated and unique video pieces from your photos, video clips and music.

Voki @ http://www.voki.com is a free web 2.0 tool that allows you to create a talking character or “avatar”. You can customize your avatar to look like you or take on the identity of other characters. Your avatar can even speak with your own voice which is added via microphone, upload, or phone.

Flashcarder @ http://www.ediscio.com/ a free web 2.0 tool to create flashcards, practice with them, and share with others

Twitter @ http://www.twitter.com connect with MFL teachers from around the world

Yugma A free web collaboration device that lets you instantly connect to students and colleagues all over the internet. A way to communicate and share content and ideas using any type of application or software.