Videos for Integrating Technology Into the Classroom
www.intime.uni.edu

Integrating New Technologies Into the Methods of Education
(InTime) enables educators to watch online video vignettes of
preK–12 teachers integrating technology into their classrooms.
The project is the result of a grant from the U.S. Department
of Education’s PT3 (Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use
Technology). The Multicultural Education section of the site
addresses multicultural considerations in teacher pedagogy.
There are Spanish, Portuguese, French, Swahili, Romanian,
Russian, and Chinese versions of InTime.

Distance Education Spanish Modules for Teachers
http://seeds.coedu.usf.edu/index.htm

Support for Elementary Educators through Distance Education
in Spanish (SEEDS) features three modules designed for
current practicing generalist elementary school teachers who
have a desire to learn or improve their Spanish language
skill and use it in the classroom. SEEDS is a Title VI Federal
Grant project, and it is comprised of three modules: Spanish
Enhancement, Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language, and
Internationalizing the Elementary Curriculum. The director of
the program, which is based at the University of South Florida,
is ACTFL member Dr. Tony Erben, who also provides the introductory
video on the site.

Vocational Languages Resource Bank
www.vlrb.org.uk/index.asp?p=home

The Vocational Languages Resource Bank, based in the United
Kingdom, offers free resources and ideas for teachers to use in their
classrooms when delivering courses with a vocational focus. The resources
are text-based, visual, and include sound, and the languages
currently featured on the site include Arabic, Chinese, French, German,
Italian, Japanese, Panjabi, Spanish, Turkish, and Urdu. The site
anticipates that it will continue to grow as more teachers add their
own resources.

Russian Grammar PowerPoint
http://community.middlebury.edu/~beyer/RussGram/index.htm

This PowerPoint presentation includes 19 slides that make up a basic
Russian grammar book. In addition to PowerPoints of nouns, adjectives,
pronouns, verbs, and prepositions, there are also slides on the
Russian alphabet, the gender of Russian words, the case system, and
spelling rules.

Virtual Tour of the Eiffel Tower
www.tour-eiffel.fr/index.html

The official site of the Eiffel Tower not only offers information and a
virtual tour, but it is available in English, German, Italian, Spanish,
Portuguese, Arabic, and, of course, French. The Children’s Corner section
features a discovery game in which kids follow a character named
“Gus” and learn about Gustave Eiffel’s tower. The pedagogical file
in the Children’s Corner provides support materials for teachers that
include historical information and exercises for their students.

Chinese Signs
http://chinesesigns.wikispaces.com

This collection of photos of signs from China includes schools, traffic
signs, stores, places, roads, maps, directions, warnings, “dos and
don’ts,” and miscellaneous other signs. According to the site, it is
intended to help students learn Chinese characters as well as negotiate
signs.

All About Oktoberfest
www.oktoberfest.de/en/index.php

The Oktoberfest website offers a wealth of information about
Oktoberfest in Munich (admission, accommodations, the music, the
amusement rides and, of course, the beer). There are also answers to
frequently asked questions and an Oktoberfest dictionary to help
non-Bavarians communicate with the local residents.

Japanese Reward Stickers
www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/materials/sticker.html

Younger children love stickers, and these can be created by printing
them onto a full sheet of label paper on your computer. Keiko
Schneider, who teaches Japanese at Southern Methodist University,
offers these for free to other teachers of Japanese, and only asks
that you not claim them as your own or resell them.

Wiktionary
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page

Designed as the lexical companion to Wikipedia, Wiktionary is a collaborative
project to produce a free-content multilingual dictionary. It
now includes a thesaurus, a rhyme guide, phrase books, language statistics,
and appendices. As a wiki, it can be edited by its users, and
therefore comes with the same benefits—and caveats—as Wikipedia.
This link is for the English version, but the language index lists 108
languages for which indexing has begun.

Making a Papier-Maché Piñata
http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/do/papiermachpiata.html

This project is for a piñata in the form of a dog, and it includes the
materials you will need as well as step-by-step directions for creating
the arts-and-crafts project with your students.

Digital Library of Latin Literature
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/vdl

Published by the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at
the University of Virginia, the Vivarium Digital Library of Latin Literature
is an online library of texts that, according to the site, will act as portals,
putting the user in instant contact with “a universe of digital tools
for interdisciplinary research, interpretation, study, and teaching.”

Hindi Language Website
www.hindilanguage.org

This site includes resources on Hindi dialects, dictionaries,
grammar, phrases, slang, history, and literature. There is
also a section on teaching Hindi, Hindi schools, and a Hindi
language forum.

French Culture Online
www.frenchculture.org

The Cultural Services of the French Embassy promote the
best of French arts, literature, and education to cultural and
academic institutions across the United States, with a strong
focus on the contemporary.

TIME for Kids Around the World
www.timeforkids.com/TFK/kids/hh/goplaces/0,28374,,00.html

Explore new places with TIME for Kids Around the World. Each
eight-page magazine and companion website celebrates the
culture, people, landmarks, and geography of places around
the world through photographs, maps, diagrams, charts, folktales,
language, and activities. The magazine is available for
$1 per student, while the website is free.