Teaching Tools
Teaching Ideas
for your consideration
http://ctl.unc.edu/fyc.html
A resource from the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that provides suggestions, reflections and practical advice on implementing specific teaching strategies and methods.
Handling Office Hours
http://tep.uoregon.edu/workshops/teachertraining/beginnings/onlinebeginnings/officehours.html
Terrific tips from the Teaching Effectiveness Program at the University of Oregon on how to effectively conduct your office hours.
Teaching Ideas from the Center for Teaching, University of Iowa
http://www.uiowa.edu/~centeach/resources/ideas/index.html
A nice set of practical resources designed to address common classroom issues.
Troubleshooting Your Class
http://tep.uoregon.edu/resources/faqs/index.html
From the Teaching Effectiveness Program at the University of Oregon. A series of answers and suggestions based on teachers FAQs organized under headings such as "Managing the Class Climate" and "Preparing to Teach".
Didacticized Materials for Languages
Ask Eric Lesson Plans
http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/
Content-based language teaching through technology (COBALLT)
http://carla.acad.umn.edu/cobaltt/lessonplans/search.html
Foreign Language Lesson Plans from about.com (Warning: Lots and lots of advertising on this site!)
http://7-12educators.tqn.com/msub1plnlang.htm?pid=2812&cob=home
Language Learning Activities for the Web
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/nflrc.html
Scola Instaclass Home Page: Audio and Text of Daily News Programs
http://www.scola.org/eoneCommerce/Portal?Dsp=60&PCR=1:60
Teaching with the Web
http://langlink.net/langlink/teach.htm
Duke Online Database of Foreign Language Activities for Instructors
http://cit.duke.edu/ideas/profile.do?id=38
Interactive Resources
CARLA's Virtual Assessment Center
http://www.carla.umn.edu/assessment/vac/index.html
Provides rationale and resources to create your own classroom assessments.
Exercises, Quizzes, Tests
http://eleaston.com/quizzes.html
Although this site is focused on English as a Second Language, many of the resources can be used quite effectively in the foreign language classroom.
Filamentality
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/
Create your own treasure hunts, scrapbook, webquest.
Game-O-Matic
http://clear.msu.edu/dennie/matic/
A suite of wizards that you can use to create web-based language learning activities
IECC
http://www.stolaf.edu/network/iecc/
"The IECC (Intercultural E-mail Classroom Connections) mailing lists are provided by St. Olaf College as a free service to help teachers and classes link with partners in other countries and cultures for e-mail classroom pen-pal and project exchanges."
Surveys
http://www.zoomerang.com
Design an evaluative survey or have your students design one!
Tommy’s List of Live Cam Worldwide
http://www.rt66.com/~ozone/cam.htm
See live shots from a city from around the world
Quia!
http://www.quia.com/dir/
A directory of quizzes and games created with Quia! To create your own, you will have to pay.
Quizzes
http://www.funbrain.com/teachers/index.html
Create simple quizzes for your students to take online (geared more for K-8). To create your own, you will have to pay.
Weather
http://www.wunderground.com/
Find out what the weather is like all over the world. Students can also chart various meteorological indices in a variety of languages.
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