Filed Under German, French, Spanish, Best Bytes
LINGUASCOPE has a nice collection of online radio stations in French, Spanish, German, and Italian-o. Listening to these streams is an EXCELLENT way to help the ear decipher native speaker input. Note: if you use a mac, I suggest downloading the VLC media player to listen to these streams instead of the Windows Media Player they suggest.
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YouTube: A popular video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. YouTube was created in mid February 2005 by three former PayPal employees and was acquired in November 2006 by Google, Inc. Other similar services include TeacherTube, Google Video, and Yahoo! Video.
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Last Friday, I had the opportunity to attend my first conference in Second Life. I logged in, changed my avatar’s appearance, mingled with some other folks in “THE CLUB” at EduNation (even danced while flying in the air), and then listened to the Plenary session before getting busy with other stuff in the lab. A good experience, overall. Unfortunately many of the sessions were during the night time, but with an international audience of over 300, you can’t really please everyone. Good news is presentation slides will be posted here: http://www.slanguages.net/archive.php
Here’s a pic of one of the gathering places for presentations. You can see how full the room was!
Here’s a shot of me dancing. If you clicked on the DANCE sphere, it gave you the option of selecting one of ten different dance modes.
And this is what my avatar, BeverLee Clary, looks like (for now, anyway).
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Filed Under Latin
A new feature has been added to the Latin class videos. View them both and vote for your favorite Caesar!
Filed Under World Languages, German, French, Spanish, Best Bytes
The department has just subscribed to a fantastic little service from Essex, England for language learners in the Lower School. Contact your language teacher or visit the Lab for information about the user name and password. This service can be used at home as well as school. We hope our learners will take full advantage of these services!
http://linguascope.com (Languages for All)
http://linguaprime.com (Languages for Early Learners)
http://linguastars.com (Languages for GCSE Students in the UK - Intermediate Learners)
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Wiki: A collaborative website which can be directly edited by anyone with access to it. Ward Cunningham, developer of the first wiki WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as “the simplest online database that could possibly work”. Wikipedia is one of the best-known wikis and is the source for many of the definitions in this glossary. A defining characteristic of wiki technology is the ease with which pages can be created and updated. Generally, there is no review before modifications are accepted. Many wikis are open to the general public without the need to register any user account. Sometimes session log-in is requested to acquire a “wiki-signature” cookie for autosigning edits. Many edits, however, can be made in real-time, and appear almost instantaneously online. This can lead to abuse of the system, but it can also lead to up-to-the minute information contributed by those who take ownership over a particular piece of knowledge. Wikis can be powerful tools for collaborating on projects and sharing information.
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Ms. Pelliteri has been working with with two of her Latin 3/4 classes on iFlash decks. Thanks to Ms. Spaltro for training Ms. Pelliteri. It’s a pretty sweet day when a teacher walks in here all ready to go with something new!
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Filed Under World Languages, French
Every year, Mme. Jackson writes and adapts a fun play based on television shows and commercials. It’s quite entertaining.
