Discussion of Reading
- Students are going to use online translators anyway. Better to teach them how to use them properly (use shorter sentences, being aware of nuances of language)
- Jeff's blog post: giving up one self; not translating word for word from the native language
- Interesting idea suggested in the article: inserting a passage from the target language into babelfish and help students become aware of the potential pitfalls
- Analogy of Judo: not becoming stronger than your opponents, but knowing your opponents' weaknesses
Vocabulary
- Languages with pronunciation on mp3 - IE languages
- WorldBook has some visual vocabulary things - pick the French version and once inside, there's a Spanish tab to change everything into Spanish
- Visuwords - ESL only. Can be used to teach etymology
- Visual Dictionary (Merriam - Webber) with 3D pictures - ESL only
- IB Realia - Photos from native country for authentic language teaching (no Spanish yet) [Google "images from Spain"] :)
- Alternative realia source - The Realia Project (search Spain)
- Create flash cards on Quizlet - Ways of using: 1. Free account allows maximum 8 people per group where they can compete against each other 2. apps for most device
*** useful embed code for any webpage: <iframe src="http://www.google.com" style="width: 90%; height: 300px"></iframe> " Make it big enough so the flashcard shows, and students can play the thing on your blog! ***
- Build a Jeopardy game or browse through other people's
- Rather elementary vocabulary, but different ways of testing good for perhaps time filler. A word is read out, we click on the object the word was referring to, the object disappear. Digital Dialects.
- IMAGES
- Search by a text, bookr then scour publicly available images from Flickr and create a book for you
- Live Mocha - free membership for all benefits?
- TRANSLATION
- A list of bookmarklets from google translate to embed on browser. Pick the language to be translated into
- Spanish spellchecker - still work without signing up
