French Teacher At Shelburne Community School and Graduate Student in the M.A. TESOL program at St. Michael's College
A site for students, parents, and World Language colleagues to share resources, learn about each other, and practice French!

Teaching Resources and CALL Projects



Vocabulary
Learn10: Learn 10 new words per day in the target language.


Grammar
Interesting Things For ESL Students : Quizzes, word games, word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams, a random-sentence generator and other computer assisted language learning activities for ESL students

Listening
Viewpoint: Viewpoint is an audio and video repository that allows you to record your audio/video online using your microphone or webcam, or upload existing media. These media items can then be linked from other sites or embedded inside your own web pages.
ClipNabber: Copy and past the URL of an online video you want to download and it will give you a download link. 
Channel One News: Teen-oriented news site with teacher tools and activities.

Reading
VOA English: World news in simple American English.
Project Gutenberg:  Download free ebooks.
Natural Reader:  Reads text files aloud on your computer.



Writing 
Wallwisher: An Online Notice Board Maker - Pose a question to students and let them post their answers including text and media from the web. 
Edmodo: Microblogging tool created specifically for schools.
BubblePLY: Add in talk bubbles to online videos.
Young Writers Project:  Collaborate online and improve writing skills with students from VT and NH.

Speaking
Tinycast:  Make a video of yourself with your webcam and post it to your site or share it through twitter.
Audacity:  Free Tool For Audiorecording
VoiceThread : Upload pictures, video, or documents.  Allow others to comment using text, audio, or video.

CALL Projects


page last updated 06/17/10

This page was created by Gretchen Wilson for:
GSL 520 St. Michael's College
Summer 2010