Thursday, September 27, 2007

New Language Learning Website!

Check out Mango, a new language teaching tool. There are 100 lessons for the French course and many language courses, including English for ESL learners. Just sign up for a free account and you can view the courses. The lessons are in the form of slideshows with audio. It would be a great tool for the beginning levels to embed into lessons, but also a good review for the upper levels as supplementary activities. I am going to link it off of my Moodle pages for extra practice, and I may use some of the later lessons as I teach Units in my textbooks.

Here's the URL: http://www.trymango.com/

Here's a picture of a slide in the French course:

Saturday, September 22, 2007

New Tool - Animoto!

You can make cool slideshows with music, with Animoto!

Check out the one I did for my Back to School night intro..

Monday, September 3, 2007

2007-2008 School Year, Here we come!!!!

Hello again all! I've just spent a few minutes inviting those department members from the middle school who have not yet set up their accounts here to be authors of the blog. If you have already responded and become authors of the blog, you can post too! This blog is meant to be a space in which we ALL share ideas, activities, thoughts, etc. If we get this going it can be a great resource for us as we collaborate and communicate amongst ourselves.

Got a great game idea? What about a lesson that went really well? Did you find a great podcast or video for languages? Have you always wanted to try something and weren't sure if it would 'fly' with the students? Have a few questions about how to implement something? This is the place to post and share!

I encourage all of you to put this blog in your bookmarks and visit often to see what others are up to, lend a helping hand, or ask a question yourself.

Good luck to all this year!!!