more+useful+links

__**The newest additions to this page:**__
__**1/21/14:**__ __**web sight with tons of links to online practice games **__ __**musicuentos: a great blog with lots of ideas!**__

__**ver-taal.com: This site has authentic material for listening practice. There are exercises that go along with the listening**__

__**10/6/2013:**__


 * Bablingua: some free stuff - they have good videos to prompt speaking and cultural understanding. IF you sign up for their newsletter, they will send you 2 free videos.**

__**9/25/2013:**__ __**This newsletter is great!! it has lots of good culture information that can be read in either Spanish or English and you can also LISTEN to the narrative. The mini lessons on grammar concepts are good too.**__ __**[|Don Qujote newslatter]**__

__**6/20/2013:**__ __**this is a list of link and ideas to use while teaching the themes in the Realidades 1 textbook It comes from the blog called The Comprehensible Classroom (the link to the blog is the second one down)**__



__**The Comprehensible Classroom a blog about TPRS**__

__**This websight has TONS of children's stories in Spanish!**__ __**cuentos infantiles cortos**__

PREZI: Meet Darcy Rogers, the founder of OLA . She explains the concept well!
==link is a forum of sorts where teachers who are using OLA share ideas, questions, documents, etc.: ==

This is an on-line bookstore that has hundreds of titles in all levels
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__**Animoto**__ This is an example of Animoto. You upload videos and/or pictures to create a video slideshow. I think you can upload your own music, rather than choose one of the songs offered. little mini demonstration video

The link is: @http://animoto.com/play/JpnmBnZMdst3rihYjeqo0A

__**Bitstrips**__

This looks like something that you have to use with facebook. You create an Avatar and then personally design a cartoon starring you and your friends. here's the link: @http://bitstrips.com/

__**Dropbox**__

Dropbox is basically "the cloud". You can organize everything you have on an electronic device (phone/computer/ipod) in one place so that you don't have to email things to yourself or others. It is something you have to //download//, so it's basically and "app". (I think that this is probably a lot like //Livebinders.// Here is the link: @https://www.dropbox.com/

__**Edmodo**__ This is kind of like an education //facebook.// You can post info, create groups (aka your classes), create polls, connect with other teachers and share word docs and stuff the link: @http://www.edmodo.com/home

__**Doppelme**__ [|www.doppelme.com]: free dynamic avatar maker; can be used as a visual online identity; can be downloaded for use in documents, etc.

__**Tumblr**__ [|www.tumblr.com]: free way to share text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos from your browser, phone, desktop, email or wherever you happen to be. You can customize everything, from colors to your theme's HTML.

__**Epals**__ []: connect with other classrooms around the world to engage in project-based collaborative work; search for teachers in target language countries who are looking for an English-speaking class to link up with

[]: database of diverse authentic and cultural activities and resources for use in the Spanish classroom
 * __Zachary Jones__**

__**Wordle**__ [|www.wordle.net]: create a “word cloud” in which words that appear most frequently will grow larger and little-mentioned words will be smaller. Use to visually demonstrate the importance of various elements to an particular concept.

[|www.keepass.info.com] Pros: //-//helps manage and secure passwords. - All in one database which is locked with one master key or a key-disk Cons: It’s something you have to download

[|www.creativelanguageclass.wordpress.com] - People are sharing their ideas, it’s mostly a blog. - Good if you are looking for new ideas - Good for new teachers (class routines, class décor..) - A lot of Spanish Cons: Not good if you are looking for something specific and want to get right to the point. The search section is a disaster

[|www.xtranormal.com] - Make your own cartoon or animation (choose your characters, background, music, add voices and text..) - Easy to use, easy sign up - Students can learn how to use it on their own - Free (but you can pay as well, there is one for educator) - Seems to be a lot of fun No cons: I cannot wait to try

[|www.freerice.com] - Interactive vocabulary games and learning tools - Good to review vocabulary - For each point you make, they give rice to fight world hunger - Good for student self assessment - Easy to use

[|www.delicious.com] I know delicious.com is not mine but it is a great tool to keep all the websites you like in one place. I use it all the time.