Edutopia
www.edutopia.org
The George Lucas Educational Foundation created Edutopia to help improve the K–12 learning process by documenting, disseminating, and advocating for innovative, replicable, and evidence-based strategies. The core strategies include integrated studies, project learning, technology integration, teacher development, social and emotional learning, and comprehensive assessment. The website provides articles, classroom projects organized by grade level, videos, blogs, and research. The Edutopia community includes a world languages group (www.edutopia.org/groups/world-languages) facilitated by Don Doehla, a high school French teacher, and Elvira Deyamport, an elementary school gifted/talented teacher. The discussions focus on “student learning using project-based approaches to language acquisition, helping students become world citizens who communicate in more than one language, with cross-cultural competence, and who seek to make the world a better place.”

Teaching French Using Web 2.0
www.frenchified.com
Frenchified Teaching and Learning 2.0 calls itself a site for anyone trying to learn French or teach French who “gets bored with textbooks” and tells visitors: “Feel free to send us ideas for topics, cool French videos, articles, commercials, etc . . . anything to help Frenchify your world!” The site has sections on cinema, humor, culture, music, and language.

Language Study and the Brain
www.flbrain.org
Dr. Teresa Kennedy has done a great deal of work in the area of language study and the brain, and this website features her research and publications, as well as that of other experts in the field. There are
also activities for use in the language classroom.

Spanish Proficiency Exercises
www.laits.utexas.edu/spe/index.html
This site from the University of Texas at Austin Department of Spanish and Portuguese is a compilation of video clips in which native speakers of Spanish from various locations demonstrate different language tasks. The videos are organized by Beginning, Intermediate A and B, Advanced A and B, and Superior. Each video includes an exercise in grammar, vocabulary, and phrases. According to Orlando R. Kelm’s introduction, the objective of the exercises is to provide students of Spanish with the necessary tools to be able to talk about the same
topics in Spanish.

German Short Stories
www.germanreaders.com
This site has four German short story readers, including a beginning reader intended for new students of German, one intended for German 1 high school students, one for German 2 high school students, and one for German 3 and 4 classes. Audio CDs are available, or will be soon. The readers are not free, but the site does provide excerpts for each one.

National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
www.kokken.go.jp
Japan’s National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics conducts large-scale theoretical and empirical studies as an international research hub in collaboration with domestic and overseas universities and research organizations, and disseminates collaborative research results and related research reports to the public. Its databases include research on Japanese as a second language.

Newspapers from Around the World
www.prensaescrita.com/newspapers
Language teachers looking for newspaper articles to use in their classrooms may want to visit this site, which has links to daily newspapers from cities around the world. They are grouped into the countries of America (including Central and South America), Africa, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. Clicking on a country will bring up a list of cities’ daily papers and their websites.

Science News in Many Languages
scienceindex.com
ScienceIndex.com is a social network offering news headlines, references, and resources from science journals, books, and websites worldwide. The areas covered include biology, geography, chemistry,
health sciences, engineering, mathematics, and sciences associated with business and society. Not only do the stories come from all over the world, but the site can be accessed in, and therefore the stories
translated into, more than 50 different languages.

Spanish Resources for Different Levels
www.123teachme.com
The 123TeachMe site has free resources for kids learning Spanish, and among these are games and activities for spelling and vocabulary building, videos for learning, and information about culture, food, places, and people. The website also has free self-study courses for students of all levels, and a section for teachers with worksheets, quizzes, and other resources.

Chinese Crafts Projects for Kids
www.historyforkids.org/crafts/china.htm
The projects on this site include making an abacus, Chinese coins, a Chinese paper scroll, a terracotta warrior, a Chinese dragon, and papermaking. There is also information about the clothes of ancient China and Chinese food. In addition, a teacher’s guide is provided.

Creating Interactive Posters
www.edu.glogster.com
Glogster EDU is a Web 2.0 platform that allows teachers to easily upload photos, videos, text, graphics, drawings, audio, and data attachments to create GLOGS—online multimedia posters. A single free account is available as an individual account for one teacher or student; however, the student account generator is only available for paid subscribers. With Teacher Light, teachers can register up to 50 student accounts. All 50 may be added during the initial registration, or accounts can be added later to bring the total number of accounts up to 50. Premium License subscribers can register up to 200 students, and with a Premium School License they can register an unlimited number of students.

Ukrainian Culture and Language Source
www.arts.ualberta.ca/~ukrfolk/main-about.htm
Based in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Edmonton in Alberta, the Kule Folklore Centre has research and publications about Ukrainian folklore and culture. There are also 200 hours of digitized recordings made from interviews with Ukrainian villagers. These can be accessed in the multimedia resources of the research section of the website.