Language Learning Tools

Google: to search anything up!

Free Websites: Google Site, Weebly, Wix, Pbworks

Other Resources:

• Puzzles: to create puzzles

• Kahoot: to create formative assessment with immediate feedback. Students love it!!!

• Gimkit: to create formative assessments; like Kahoot!

• GeoGuesser: to locate where places are located. Great to describe real places using colors

• Lingtlanguage: to complete speaking and writing assignments on line

• Textivate: to create fill-blanks from a text

• Tagxedo: to create word clouds

• Wordle: to make word cloud text from any texts

• Wordclouds: to make word clouds from any texts with figures

• Diigo: to assign readings on line

• DoppelMe: to design your own avatar

• Jing: to capture pictures and short videos and add visual elements before sharing

• Whats Due: it's an app for homework assignments

• CommonLit (5-12): text to speech, articles, stories, reads text (English only!)

• https://www.retrievalpractice.org/

Spanish Only:

• National Spanish Exam: to have students take the NSE

• En marcha

• Spanish Sounds

• Spanish Exercises

• Hispanic Holidays

• Hispanic Heritage Month

• Mis Cositas

• PBS: various cool videos using vocabulary and explaining cultura

• Carla: Strategies for Enhancing Spanish Grammar

• acast: podcost on WL

• Realidades 1: Core Practice

Technology:

• https://alicekeeler.com/

• TED Talks: https://www.teachthought.com/pedagogy/students-create-ted-talks/

• https://www.edutopia.org/article/3-tools-creating-digital-portfolios

• https://www.superteachertools.us/

• https://hyperdocs.co/

Spanish Teachers' Sites and Blogs:

• TalkinL2withVBP: Previous

• http://misclaseslocas.blogspot.com/

• Ms. Bartolo

Assessments:

• PARCC Library

• PARCC Assessment

• WL Rubrics

• Rubrics

• Rubrics

• Online Assessments

• Next Gen - Assessment Tasks

• https://quizizz.com/signup/occupation

Problem/Project Based Learning:

• PBL: Comprehensive site to learn and start doing PBL

• Problem vs. Project Based Learning

• http://www.rosscoops31.com/

Curriculum Resources:

• Digital Curriculum (Tech & Learning)

• https://learninglab.si.edu/

Other Cool Resources:

• QR Codes:

  • QR Code Generator

  • https://www.qrstuff.com/

  • Lay ar: (AR Aumented Reality) to create a url from any picture!

• Coding:

  • http://www.bootstrapworld.org/

  • Google CS

  • https://code.org/educate/applab (to create apps e.g. bingo game...)

  • CS Principles Widgets: https://code.org/educate/csp/widgets (text compression, pixelation, color pixelation, etc.)

  • https://www.symbaloo.com/login

Cool Resources:

• ClipGrab: to download MPEG4 & MP3 Youtube or other online videos

• Plotly: For Data

• PBS: pbslearningmedia

• Apowersoft: convert videos and audios to any format

• American Psychological Association

• Models of Excellence

• www.bie.org

• http://www.thegoodproject.org/

• http://multipleintelligencesoasis.org/

• http://modelsofexcellence.eleducation.org/

• https://testmybrain.org/

• http://www.brainhealth.utdallas.edu/

• https://apstudent.collegeboard.org/apcourse/ap-seminar

• https://www.bie.org/object/video/assessing_the_4_cs

• http://humaneeducation.org/

• https://games.breakoutedu.com/:showyourwork

• https://www.theescapeclassroom.com/

• http://freerice.com/#/english-vocabulary/1511

• https://www.mentimeter.com/powerpoint

English Only:

• Manythings: to self assess English pronunciation

• Wordandphrases: to count and see academic words in English; the Corpus of Contemporary American English.

Professional Websites:

• AATSP

• ACTFL

• NYTESOL

• FLENJ

• IALLT

• NEALLT

• NABE

• OELA

• Professional Online Support

Readings Resources:

Gradual Release:

• ASCD: http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/113006/chapters/Learning,-or-Not-Learning,-in-School.aspx

• ACPS: http://www.acpsk12.org/pl/coachs-cuts/gradual-release-model/

DOK:

• https://www.edutopia.org/blog/webbs-depth-knowledge-increase-rigor-gerald-aungst

Writing Resources:

• https://owl.purdue.edu/