I am so glad to be with you today. I look forward to working with you this year. We will be blogging this year.
This is "your" spot on the web with resources to help you this year.Thanks for being here and for "All" you do for the kids of Madison County.
Tina Barrett
High School Arts & Humanities
Just for You!
TeacherTube - We know that pictures are worth a thousand words. What about videos? A million words? http://www.teachertube.com/
Apple Learning Interchange
Great site. Sign up. There are videos that demonstrate the classroom instruction. You can print the lesson. There are usually rubrics or handouts in PDF form that you can print out and use in your classroom today. There is so much information here that can be beneficial for you to grow as a professional and that will be useful for your students.
TICK (Technology in Classroom of Kentucky)http://coekate.murraystate.edu/kate/
TrackStar: is your starting point for online lessons and activities
Rubistar - Great place to make your own rubrics - easy to customize for content areas, specific projects
Apple Learning Interchange
Great site. Sign up. There are videos that demonstrate the classroom instruction. You can print the lesson. There are usually rubrics or handouts in PDF form that you can print out and use in your classroom today. There is so much information here that can be beneficial for you to grow as a professional and that will be useful for your students.
TICK (Technology in Classroom of Kentucky)http://coekate.murraystate.edu/kate/
TrackStar: is your starting point for online lessons and activities
Rubistar - Great place to make your own rubrics - easy to customize for content areas, specific projects
Virtual Tours
Sistine Chapel
National Gallery
Virtual Tours Cyber Sites of Latin America
Utley Virtual Gallery - Treasures from the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Brass Instrument Collection
Pressler Gallery -Musical Treasures from the Age of Louis XIV
Rawlins Gallery - The Genius of North Italian Stringed Instrument Making 1540-1793
The Music Man Exhibition - Ya Gotta Know the Territory: The Musical Journey of Meredith Willson, a permanent exhibition designed and installed in 2002 by the National Music Museum at the Meredith Willson Museum in Mason City, Iowa
Lewison Gallery - Nineteenth-century American Reed Organs, Pianos, and a Grand Harmonicon
Everist Gallery - The American Music Industry
Beethoven & Berlioz, Paris & Vienna: Musical Treasures from the Age of Revolution & Romance 1789-1848 - Highlights of a major exhibition designed by the National Music Museum for the Washington Pavilion, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, September 1-November 2, 2003
National Gallery
Virtual Tours Cyber Sites of Latin America
Utley Virtual Gallery - Treasures from the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Brass Instrument Collection
Pressler Gallery -Musical Treasures from the Age of Louis XIV
Rawlins Gallery - The Genius of North Italian Stringed Instrument Making 1540-1793
The Music Man Exhibition - Ya Gotta Know the Territory: The Musical Journey of Meredith Willson, a permanent exhibition designed and installed in 2002 by the National Music Museum at the Meredith Willson Museum in Mason City, Iowa
Lewison Gallery - Nineteenth-century American Reed Organs, Pianos, and a Grand Harmonicon
Everist Gallery - The American Music Industry
Beethoven & Berlioz, Paris & Vienna: Musical Treasures from the Age of Revolution & Romance 1789-1848 - Highlights of a major exhibition designed by the National Music Museum for the Washington Pavilion, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, September 1-November 2, 2003
Beede Gallery - Musical Instruments from the Great Civilizations of Africa, Asia, and the Pacific Islands
Abell Gallery - European Keyboard Instruments from the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries
http://2k.si.edu/
National Civil Rights Museum
http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/gallery/movement.asp
LeLourve-Paris
http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home.jsp?bmLocale=en
The state Hermitage Museum
http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/index.html
National gallery of art
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/vgwel.shtm
Virtual Tour of the Museum of Oxford
http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/OxfordTour/oxfordcitytours/museum.asp#
The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
http://oi.uchicago.edu/museum/virtual/me/
Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_Art/vr/index.asp
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Scope Gallery: New York's First Virtual Gallery
Historical Gallery of San Jose State University
Vatican Museums Vatican City, Italy
Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History) http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm
3D Exploration of Picasso’s
http://www.lena-gieseke.com/guernica/movie.html
Visual Arts Resources - [this link opens on a new page] interactive web sites on various topics
World Artists Directory - accomplished artists worldwide
World Wide Arts Resources provides the definitive gateway to arts information and culture since 1995. Simply select any of the categories or premiere links to begin your exciting adventure.
Interactive Color Wheel - experiment with saturation, intensity, hue, and luma
Real Color Wheel - Use this Real Color Wheel to match and find pigments that are the correct color oppositions for mixing neutral dark shadow colors with out using black pigment. Designed for a natural artist painting on location
ArchNet A virtual library of images and field data for archaeological study.
Some Ideas about Composition and Design http://www.goshen.edu/art/ed/Compose.htm
Reading a work of Art
http://interactives.mped.org/view_interactive.aspx?id=526&title=
ART HISTORY:
http://artcyclopedia.com
http://artchive.com
http://artnet.com
The master's Index
http://wwar.com/arthistory/
Source list for Art History
http://www.arthistory-famousartists-paintings.com/Sources.html
Master painters
http://www.linkism.com/visual_artists/famous-artists/index.htm
CERAMICS:
Throwing on the wheel
http://www.bonnieclayart.com/POTTERS-WHEEL-DEMO.html
Origins of the potter's wheel
http://www.ceramicstoday.com/articles/potters_wheel.htm
The potter's wheel tutorial
http://www.ceramicstudies.me.uk/histx102.html
Full list of Ceramic Tutorials
http://www.ceramicstudies.me.uk/index.html
DRAWING PORTRAITS:
Drawing hair
http://drawsketch.about.com/library/weekly/aa032303a.htm
Proportions of the human head
http://drawsketch.about.com/library/weekly/aa121202a.htm
How to draw eyes
http://drawsketch.about.com/library/weekly/aa010503a.htm
Drawing Children
http://drawsketch.about.com/library/bl_drawing-children.htm
Pencil how to: tutorials
http://www.jdhillberry.com/how_to_draw_pg2.htm
Pencil and forms
http://www.mmwindowtoart.com/drawing/valuesintro.html
3D Exploration of Picasso’s
http://www.lena-gieseke.com/guernica/movie.html
Visual Arts Resources - [this link opens on a new page] interactive web sites on various topics
World Artists Directory - accomplished artists worldwide
World Wide Arts Resources provides the definitive gateway to arts information and culture since 1995. Simply select any of the categories or premiere links to begin your exciting adventure.
Interactive Color Wheel - experiment with saturation, intensity, hue, and luma
Real Color Wheel - Use this Real Color Wheel to match and find pigments that are the correct color oppositions for mixing neutral dark shadow colors with out using black pigment. Designed for a natural artist painting on location
ArchNet A virtual library of images and field data for archaeological study.
Some Ideas about Composition and Design http://www.goshen.edu/art/ed/Compose.htm
Reading a work of Art
http://interactives.mped.org/view_interactive.aspx?id=526&title=
ART HISTORY:
http://artcyclopedia.com
http://artchive.com
http://artnet.com
The master's Index
http://wwar.com/arthistory/
Source list for Art History
http://www.arthistory-famousartists-paintings.com/Sources.html
Master painters
http://www.linkism.com/visual_artists/famous-artists/index.htm
CERAMICS:
Throwing on the wheel
http://www.bonnieclayart.com/POTTERS-WHEEL-DEMO.html
Origins of the potter's wheel
http://www.ceramicstoday.com/articles/potters_wheel.htm
The potter's wheel tutorial
http://www.ceramicstudies.me.uk/histx102.html
Full list of Ceramic Tutorials
http://www.ceramicstudies.me.uk/index.html
DRAWING PORTRAITS:
Drawing hair
http://drawsketch.about.com/library/weekly/aa032303a.htm
Proportions of the human head
http://drawsketch.about.com/library/weekly/aa121202a.htm
How to draw eyes
http://drawsketch.about.com/library/weekly/aa010503a.htm
Drawing Children
http://drawsketch.about.com/library/bl_drawing-children.htm
Pencil how to: tutorials
http://www.jdhillberry.com/how_to_draw_pg2.htm
Pencil and forms
http://www.mmwindowtoart.com/drawing/valuesintro.html
Drawing Tutorials
How to Draw a Dog - progressing from circles to the dog drawing
How to Draw Ears - human ears as well as manga (Japanese cartoon style) ears
How to Draw Eyes - human eyes as well as manga (Japanese cartoon style) eyes
How to Draw Faces - basic methods to draw general anime faces
How to Draw Hands - human hands as well as manga (Japanese cartoon style) hands
How to Draw a Hamster - progressing from circles to the hamster drawing
How to Draw a Jumping Man - progressing from circles to the jumping man drawing
How to Draw a Stretching Woman - progressing from circles to the stretching woman drawing
How to Draw It - how to make stylized cartoon type drawings of lots of animals [47 on the day we found this page]
How to Draw Ears - human ears as well as manga (Japanese cartoon style) ears
How to Draw Eyes - human eyes as well as manga (Japanese cartoon style) eyes
How to Draw Faces - basic methods to draw general anime faces
How to Draw Hands - human hands as well as manga (Japanese cartoon style) hands
How to Draw a Hamster - progressing from circles to the hamster drawing
How to Draw a Jumping Man - progressing from circles to the jumping man drawing
How to Draw a Stretching Woman - progressing from circles to the stretching woman drawing
How to Draw It - how to make stylized cartoon type drawings of lots of animals [47 on the day we found this page]
Theatre and Drama
Arts and Entertainment - Over 7,000 websites created by students around the world who have participated in a Think Quest Competition
Performing Zone - lesson plans in MSWord format
Plays to Download - large selection
Theatre Central
http://www.playbill.com/theatrecentral/sites.html
From Playbill Online, a large compendium of contemporary theatre links, geared toward the performer, the practitioner, the audience member, the devotee. Many of the sites are from individuals, reflecting their enthusiasms.
WWW Virtual Library for Theatre and DramaPointers to resources in over 50 countries for professionals, amateurs, academics and students. Includes a keyword search.
Kennedy Center for the Arts
American Alliance for Theatre and Education
Performing Zone - lesson plans in MSWord format
Plays to Download - large selection
Theatre Central
http://www.playbill.com/theatrecentral/sites.html
From Playbill Online, a large compendium of contemporary theatre links, geared toward the performer, the practitioner, the audience member, the devotee. Many of the sites are from individuals, reflecting their enthusiasms.
WWW Virtual Library for Theatre and DramaPointers to resources in over 50 countries for professionals, amateurs, academics and students. Includes a keyword search.
Kennedy Center for the Arts
American Alliance for Theatre and Education
Music
Broadway
American Music Therapy Association
Interactive Music Dictionary
Essentials of Music
Digital Composer - Making digital music can be a matter of putting to use some basic programming skills (knowing the computer's "language") and then writing a series of commands for the computer to follow.
Drums and Percussion - drum lessons database online
DrumPad - a downloadable program using Excel; Play the drums on your computer
Enjoyment of Music - "selection of more than 250 musical excerpts as you take the quizzes, review transitions between eras, or learn more about 80 composers"
Essentials Of Music - Whether you're a casual listener or a serious music student, here's a site for basic information about classical music.
Finale NotePad® 2006 - free music notation software - other software to download, some are free and some are fee-based
Glossary of Musical Terms
Historic American Sheet Music: 1850-1920 - from the American Memory section of the Library of Congress
Instruments - large list of links from the William and Gayle Cook Music Library at Indiana University School of Music
Fortissimo - a ThinkQuest site with a music dictionary, composer pictures and biographies, instrument pictures, and instrument sounds
Mozart's Musikalisches Würfelspiel - A musical dice game for composing a minuet. This is cool! Give it a try
Opera
Houston Grand Opera
Los Angeles Opera
San Diego Opera
San Francisco Opera
Seattle Opera
La Scala - The most famous Opera house in the world
Classical
Essentials of Music
Classical Composer Bios
Karadar Classical Music
20th Century Composers
New England Philharmonic
Jazz
Jazz Roots
Lush Lives: Ladies of Jazz from 1930-1990
The Red Hot Jazz Archive: A History of Jazz Before 1930
The Ghosts of Harlem
Gregorian Chant
Gregorian Chant Home Page
Miscellaneous
Celtic Music
Salsa Stories
Brazilian Music
The History of Arab Music
African Music
Afro-Caribbean Music
The Chinese Music Society of North America
Baroque Music Defined
Stearns Collection - one of the largest accumulations of such artifacts housed in a North American university.
The Stearns Collection of Keyboards - [this link opens on a new page] a virtual tour through the Collection to see a sampling of keyboards
Virtual Keyboard - several drum beats available to accompany the selected instrument; piano, organ, saxophone, flute, pan pipes, strings, guitar, steel drums, or double bass
The Voice
· Caring for the Voice, body and mind
· Caring for your voice
· Secrets of Sound
· The Human Voice
Music History
· http://www.ipl.org/div/mushist/
· http://www.artsalive.ca/en/mus/index.asp
· Symphonie Fantastique
Musical Theatre
· Musicals 101
· Broadway
· Theatre History
American Music Therapy Association
Interactive Music Dictionary
Essentials of Music
Digital Composer - Making digital music can be a matter of putting to use some basic programming skills (knowing the computer's "language") and then writing a series of commands for the computer to follow.
Drums and Percussion - drum lessons database online
DrumPad - a downloadable program using Excel; Play the drums on your computer
Enjoyment of Music - "selection of more than 250 musical excerpts as you take the quizzes, review transitions between eras, or learn more about 80 composers"
Essentials Of Music - Whether you're a casual listener or a serious music student, here's a site for basic information about classical music.
Finale NotePad® 2006 - free music notation software - other software to download, some are free and some are fee-based
Glossary of Musical Terms
Historic American Sheet Music: 1850-1920 - from the American Memory section of the Library of Congress
Instruments - large list of links from the William and Gayle Cook Music Library at Indiana University School of Music
Fortissimo - a ThinkQuest site with a music dictionary, composer pictures and biographies, instrument pictures, and instrument sounds
Mozart's Musikalisches Würfelspiel - A musical dice game for composing a minuet. This is cool! Give it a try
Opera
Houston Grand Opera
Los Angeles Opera
San Diego Opera
San Francisco Opera
Seattle Opera
La Scala - The most famous Opera house in the world
Classical
Essentials of Music
Classical Composer Bios
Karadar Classical Music
20th Century Composers
New England Philharmonic
Jazz
Jazz Roots
Lush Lives: Ladies of Jazz from 1930-1990
The Red Hot Jazz Archive: A History of Jazz Before 1930
The Ghosts of Harlem
Gregorian Chant
Gregorian Chant Home Page
Miscellaneous
Celtic Music
Salsa Stories
Brazilian Music
The History of Arab Music
African Music
Afro-Caribbean Music
The Chinese Music Society of North America
Baroque Music Defined
Stearns Collection - one of the largest accumulations of such artifacts housed in a North American university.
The Stearns Collection of Keyboards - [this link opens on a new page] a virtual tour through the Collection to see a sampling of keyboards
Virtual Keyboard - several drum beats available to accompany the selected instrument; piano, organ, saxophone, flute, pan pipes, strings, guitar, steel drums, or double bass
The Voice
· Caring for the Voice, body and mind
· Caring for your voice
· Secrets of Sound
· The Human Voice
Music History
· http://www.ipl.org/div/mushist/
· http://www.artsalive.ca/en/mus/index.asp
· Symphonie Fantastique
Musical Theatre
· Musicals 101
· Broadway
· Theatre History
Dance
Dance Style Locator - [this link opens on a new page] a growing Online Encyclopedia of World Dance - Use this section to find out background and features of the dance styles represented in performances by People Like Me.
Dance Styles - a more general list of styles
How to do the Macarena motions which go with each beat
Performance Skills - Video on how to perform on stage, facial, special awareness and technique
Resources For Teaching and Learning Dance - on the DanceArt.com web sites.
Turning Techniques in Dance - Video shows technique of turning and how to turn without getting dizzy.
Humanities
National Association for Humanities Education
Edsitement - National Endowment for the Humanities
Expeditions (National Geographic Magazine)
National Council for the Social Studies
National Endowment for the Humanities:
http://edsitement.neh.gov/
African Voices Explore African art, history, and political and social themes through essays, timelines, images, and games.
American Centuries: View form New England This website is unique in many design features that facilitate successful use by educators and students. It includes a large library of primary resources, curricula, and interactive student activities; most of them presented in age-appropriate, user-friendly formats.
American Collection: An Educator's Site Highlighting the works of six great authors—Henry James, Langston Hughes, Esmeralda Santiago, James Agee, Willa Cather, and Eudora Welty—the site provides primary and secondary source information. Resources include lesson plans related to each of the authors; links to peer-reviewed websites; and on-line teacher guides.
Edsitement - National Endowment for the Humanities
Expeditions (National Geographic Magazine)
National Council for the Social Studies
National Endowment for the Humanities:
http://edsitement.neh.gov/
African Voices Explore African art, history, and political and social themes through essays, timelines, images, and games.
American Centuries: View form New England This website is unique in many design features that facilitate successful use by educators and students. It includes a large library of primary resources, curricula, and interactive student activities; most of them presented in age-appropriate, user-friendly formats.
American Collection: An Educator's Site Highlighting the works of six great authors—Henry James, Langston Hughes, Esmeralda Santiago, James Agee, Willa Cather, and Eudora Welty—the site provides primary and secondary source information. Resources include lesson plans related to each of the authors; links to peer-reviewed websites; and on-line teacher guides.
Foreign Languages
French Language
About French - lessons on grammar, vocabulary, verb usage. Archive easy to navigate
BBC French Resources
Jim Becker's French Resources - many useful sites to help you learn French and about French culture
French - English Translation Activities - Basic nouns and verbs vocabulary interactive activities.
Interactive Games in French
Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links
The Language Bank
Students practice reading, listening to, and writing in a foreign language by making Internet excursions to foreign language web sites.
French Connections
Take a virtual tour of Paris, create an English language guide to French Internet resources, and compare journalistic practices in the United States and France.
FREE TRANSLATOR
http://www.freetranslation.com/
Translate to French, Spanish, and many other languages.
FRENCH - VERB CONJUGATION
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/forms_unrest/inflect.query.html
FRENCH - ENGLISH DICTIONARY
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/forms_unrest/FR-ENG.html
Translate from English to French or from French to English.
FRENCH - LEARN NUMBERS
http://www.kameleo.com/french/JEU-Ch0-Chiffres0a20.html
Interactive game for learning numbers in French.
FRENCH LEARNING WEB SITE
http://www.kameleo.com/french/index.html
Site offers ways to learn the language and the culture.
FRENCH - LEARN FRENCH
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/index.shtml
FRENCH VIRTUAL MUSEUMS
http://www.richmond.edu/~jpaulsen/musees.html
A Day in Paris
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=279
Paris Monuments
· Arc de Triomphe
· Eiffel Tower - 3-D tour
· Louvre Museum
· Sacre Coeur
· Musee d'Orsay
· Les Invalides
· Notre Dame
Medieval France
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1m.html
E-pals Around the World
· Parlez-vous?
· Tex's French Grammar
· Francais Interactif
· BBC: Test Your French
· Creating French Treasures
· LesCapetiens-Les Croisades
Latin
Latin positive/comparative/superlative forms - "review cards provide one form of an adjective and spaces for you to fill in the other positive/comparative/superlative forms"
Latin Tutorials - The tutorial covers the period between 1086 and 1733, when Latin was the official language of documents written in England
Chinese
Chinese - Free Mandarin Chinese Flash cards - available both online and as printable PDF files
Chinese Grammar and Lessons
Chinese resources - many sites that can be helpful in learning Chinese and about the culture
Chinese - Get your own Chinese Name! - tool that creates names based on your English name
Chinese - Mandarin Learning Tools - Flashcards, listening practice, dictionary.
Chinese - Mandarin Tone Drill - test your knowledge of Mandarin tones
Chinese Savvy - Dictionary of phrases.
Online Chinese Tools - tools to assist people in learning and using the beautiful Chinese language
Chinese Grammar and Lessons
Chinese resources - many sites that can be helpful in learning Chinese and about the culture
Chinese - Get your own Chinese Name! - tool that creates names based on your English name
Chinese - Mandarin Learning Tools - Flashcards, listening practice, dictionary.
Chinese - Mandarin Tone Drill - test your knowledge of Mandarin tones
Chinese Savvy - Dictionary of phrases.
Online Chinese Tools - tools to assist people in learning and using the beautiful Chinese language
Spanish
Basic Vocabulary - Spanish Vocabulary Builder - Click on the picture and hear the word or action in Spanish.
Count to Twenty - click on the dots one at a time to hear the numbers pronounced
Count Backwards from Twenty - click on the dots one at a time to hear the numbers pronounced
E-Spanyol - online language resource; interactive word practice tool for several vocabulary topics; online vocabulary and grammar tests and more.
Interactive Games in Spanish
Learn Spanish - Authentic pronunciation tutorials along with many more such as grammar drills, verb drills and idioms.
Music - Spanish songs - some animated
Spanish - 100 Tests - English to Spanish - online interactive.
Spanish Vocabulary Practice for Beginners - Vocabulary drills and interactive games to reinforce vocabulary. Sponsored by the Oklahoma State Dept. of Education.
SPANISH - LEARN SPANISH
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/
SPANISH - WELCOME TO SPAIN
http://www.spain.info/
The official web site for tourism in Spain. Includes virtual tours of Barcelona, Madrid, and The Road to Santiago.
SPANISH RESOURCES
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/spanish.html
Links to many sites to aid in learning the Spanish language and the Spanish culture.
SPANISH RESOURCES
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/spanish.html
Links to many sites to aid in learning the Spanish language and the Spanish culture.
SPANISH RESOURCES
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/spanish.html
Links to many sites to aid in learning the Spanish language and the Spanish culture.
Spanish Tutorial
Spanish Grammar Exercises
Learn Spanish
Gale Hispanic Heritage - Links
Gale Hispanic Heritage - Timeline
Spanish Festivals
April Fool's Day - Mexico
Mexican Holidays
Mexican Candelmas
Columbus Day Info
Latin American Studies
National Geographic
Resources for Teaching about the Americas
Internet Activities for Foreign Language Classes
Count to Twenty - click on the dots one at a time to hear the numbers pronounced
Count Backwards from Twenty - click on the dots one at a time to hear the numbers pronounced
E-Spanyol - online language resource; interactive word practice tool for several vocabulary topics; online vocabulary and grammar tests and more.
Interactive Games in Spanish
Learn Spanish - Authentic pronunciation tutorials along with many more such as grammar drills, verb drills and idioms.
Music - Spanish songs - some animated
Spanish - 100 Tests - English to Spanish - online interactive.
Spanish Vocabulary Practice for Beginners - Vocabulary drills and interactive games to reinforce vocabulary. Sponsored by the Oklahoma State Dept. of Education.
SPANISH - LEARN SPANISH
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/
SPANISH - WELCOME TO SPAIN
http://www.spain.info/
The official web site for tourism in Spain. Includes virtual tours of Barcelona, Madrid, and The Road to Santiago.
SPANISH RESOURCES
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/spanish.html
Links to many sites to aid in learning the Spanish language and the Spanish culture.
SPANISH RESOURCES
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/spanish.html
Links to many sites to aid in learning the Spanish language and the Spanish culture.
SPANISH RESOURCES
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/spanish.html
Links to many sites to aid in learning the Spanish language and the Spanish culture.
Spanish Tutorial
Spanish Grammar Exercises
Learn Spanish
Gale Hispanic Heritage - Links
Gale Hispanic Heritage - Timeline
Spanish Festivals
April Fool's Day - Mexico
Mexican Holidays
Mexican Candelmas
Columbus Day Info
Latin American Studies
National Geographic
Resources for Teaching about the Americas
Internet Activities for Foreign Language Classes
Teaching Foreign Language
Using Technology in the Foreign Language Classroom
I Love Languages - Comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources.
Listen to the News - Pick from 43 languages to read and hear World News
Parlo is a language and culture site that wants to sell language courses to you. Wait! Don't go away. They offer some fantastic free resources. In their index along the left side you will find a free Diagnostic Test. At the end they suggest which course you might want to buy, but use this test to evaluate where your students are. In the Teachers portion of Parlo's index, select Teacher's Corner Materials and then select the English archive. There you will find beginner, intermediate and advanced lesson plans. Not enough for you? OK, visit Spanish World, French World, Italian World or German World.
· ACTFL
· Bilingual Education Professional Organizations
· TFLTA
Webquest
All About Webquests
Bernie Dodge Webquest Page
Many webquests available on this site.
Richmond.Edu site with webquests.
Spartanburg County Web Page
Tech Trekers - includes Va. SOL connections
Variety of Webquests
Wonderful site with many webquest links.
Cultural Travel
Foods
Travel Extensive
Capitals of the Spanish Speaking World
Bernie Dodge Webquest Page
Many webquests available on this site.
Richmond.Edu site with webquests.
Spartanburg County Web Page
Tech Trekers - includes Va. SOL connections
Variety of Webquests
Wonderful site with many webquest links.
Cultural Travel
Foods
Travel Extensive
Capitals of the Spanish Speaking World