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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Interpretive: Listening/ Video Resources / p. 2
Interpretive: Reading Resources / p.3
Interpersonal and Presentational :Speaking Resources / p. 4
Interpersonal and Presentational: Writing / p.5
Other Resources: PBL / p.6
Other Resources: Flipped Classrooms / pp. 6-7
Other Resources: Cultural and Content (including images) / pp. 8-10
Other Resources: Technology Specific / p. 11
Interpretive: Listening/ Video
Resource / Website / Online Tutorial (if Available) / Possible Content Uses / Other
Interviews from COERLL for int. high school Spanish listeners / Communicative functions, examples of grammar in context, as a warm up activity, formative assessment, as a springboard for discussion. / Specifically designed for educators. Free, okay to re-use and remix. Tagged for possible uses. There are lesson plans, activity templates and full texts of transcripts.
Podcasts from Educate / Listening practice and comprehension, entry activity, warm up activity, culture, formative assessments, etc.
Free Open Resource Materials for all 6 languages offered in CCPS / COERLL is an Open Educational Resource. Materials are being added continuously. You will also find practice for the other communication modes and culture.
iTunes U Languages
French videos with Quizzes / FLEVideo integrates listening (video) and reading in their activities.

Interpretive: Reading
Resource / Website / Online Tutorial (if Available) / Possible Content Uses / Other
Online edition of major Roman authors / Comparative literature, Roman history and geography / Not appropriate for an exploratory class.
Front pages from the world’s newspapers / Scanning for gist, cognate study, finding the main idea, current events, collaborative strategic reading, directed reading activity, QFT activity, paraphrasing, prediction, entry activity for a new chapter, etc. / Once you click on a front page, you can either save a pdf of the day’s front page for future use or go to the paper’s website to access additional articles,
Dynamic Activity Templates / Too many to list! There are 24 common categories, with reading, writing and speaking activities. / Resources are Available in Japanese, Spanish and Mandarin

Interpersonal and Presentational :Speaking
Resource / Website / Tutorial (if Available) / Possible Content Uses / Other
Voicethread / Video Tutorials
FAQs / Classroom discussion starter; debate,
Engage in a conversation with others from the class or around the world.
Use as the framework for a multimedia presentation. / The teacher is able to add comments to the assessment.
People must be directed to the Voicethread via the URL, so they can’t just stumble upon it. This makes it a safer tool for students.
Google Voice / Google Voice is free with a google account. Create a unique phone number through google that students can call. Calls placed to a google voice account are stored in an email-like inbox that can then be downloaded as an mp3 file, or embedded. Unique Feature: Google Voice allows students to use their cell phones to create audio files.
(description from EdTechTeacher)
Audacity / CCPS Resources
Creating a
Podcast / Step-by-Step Directions / Consider having the students follow a process similar to this:

Interpersonal and Presentational: Writing
Resource / Website / Online Tutorial (if Available) / Possible Content Uses / Other
Storybirds and MFL Storybirds / and / You can create stories for the students to read. Students can create stories to share with the class. Students can go to MFL Storybirds and read target language stories that have been created by others. / Storybirds is especially useful for K-8.
Teachers can sign up for a free account; students access the site through you.
Google Docs / PDF or YouTube Tutorial
Glogster / You Tube Tutorial / Sample Glog Rubric

Other Resources
PBL Resources
Resource / Website / Online Tutorial (if Available) / Possible Content Uses / Other
Buck’s PBL site / Planning forms, repository of projects, research and rationale.
PBL WL Wiki / The resources on the left scrollbar are especially helpful – check out the project list near the bottom for ideas. The infographics at the bottom are interesting, too.
PBL WL Blog
Flipped Classroom Resources
Resource / Website / Tutorial (if Available) / Possible Content Uses / Other
Edutopia: Flipping the WL classroom / One-stop shopping for flipped classroom resources. If you have time to investigate only one resource on flipping in the WL course, start here. There are a number of links with additional information at the bottom.
Instructional Design Blog / Part of a series of blog posts on flipping the classroom, this post has a valuable graphic that shows how Bloom’s Taxonomy correlates to the flipped classroom philosophy.
What learning cycles look like in the flipped classroom / This blog post details what learning cycles look like in the flipped classroom.
Ted Ed Tool for flipping a lesson / Tutorial (Scroll down about halfway to the tutorial.) / Create a flipped lesson using this tool. It allows you to select a video clip from You Tube and create questions around the clip on the same screenshot. No need for students to toggle back and forth.
Flipped Learning Network / Tutorial / Includes an archived webinar on flipping the wl classroom. Free, but registration is required to view the webinar.
Research on flipped learning
MOOC for designing a wl course online / Are you interested in going deeper into the blended learning world? This resource provides teachers the opportunity to participate in an online open course focused on online learning. Currently free. Also, the elements of this course will be available through our PD this year.

Cultural and Cross-Content Resources
Resource / Website / Tutorial (if Available) / Possible Content Uses / Other
Large Scale Projects with Images
Visuals for WL Instruction / Terrific conversation starters or warm ups.
Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon / PowerPoint Tutorial / A comprehensive resource of authentic images from a variety of global cultures.
Images from Museums and other Internet Sites
Resource / Website / Tutorial (if Available) / Possible Content Uses / Other
Google Advanced Image Search / Insert into any presentation to illustrate the culture, history or current events.
Spark discussion about topics, cultural perspectives, etc.
Use for inspiration when students need to describe things.
Curate a collection of “safe” images the students can use in presentations.
Insert into any presentation to illustrate the culture, history or current events.
Spark discussion about topics, cultural perspectives, etc.
Use for inspiration when students need to describe things.
Curate a collection of “safe” images the students can use in presentations.
Insert into any presentation to illustrate the culture, history or current events.
Spark discussion about topics, cultural perspectives, etc.
Use for inspiration when students need to describe things.
Curate a collection of “safe” images the students can use in presentations. / Fill out the form; Google will take it from there!
Free Foto / For the most part, Free Foto’s images are limited to Europe and U.S.A.
Art Museums Around the World
Smithsonian’s various museums / The Smithsonian also has cultural centers with a lot of information at http://www.si.edu/CulturalPrograms
VMFA: a hometown favorite / The Virginia Museum of fine arts also offers resources and a teacher workshop series and throughout the school year
15,000 works of art in Spanish museums / There are many works that apply to French and Latin classes, too.
Links to museums in France and throughout the world / To link to other museums throughout the world, click on “Musées du Monde” at the top right.
Links to resources with Japanese art throughout the world / / The Art Institute of Chicago (the first link) also has the première collection of French Impressionist art, as well as art from around the world.

Links to museums with German art
Links to museums with Chinese art / / Both also have outstanding collections of Japanese and European art.
Image-driven scholarship for Asian languages / MIT’s units on visualizing Japanese and Chinese cultures and history has lesson plans

Technology Specific
Resource / Website / Tutorial (if Available) / Possible Content Uses / Other
Google Earth and Google Maps / Already loaded on your computer / website with tutorials for Google Earth and Google Maps
PDF Quickguide / Google Earth and Google Maps can be incorporated into warm ups , as part of a webquest, as an intro or part of geography lessons, as background for narration of a trip, as part of a Google Lit project, etc. / If you don’t have all the functions, check to make sure the most recent version has been installed.
The resources are updated on a regular basis, so if you haven’t been here lately, it’s worth another peek.
Merlot / Interpretive and Interpersonal materials for presentations, culture, skills practice, etc. / This is an Open Educational Resource with constant additions being made. Careful! You can get lost in here!
Flip cameras / Ten flip cameras belonging to CCPS world language department are housed in the FCMS library. Any wl teacher can check them out to use with classes.

http://pbl-wl.wikispaces.com/

August 6, 2013