My toolbox mainly consists of resources for learning English as a Second Language. I believe it would be very helpful for other teachers to get ideas from my toolbox for activities and games in their classroom through online resources.
My first and favorite website is livemocha. It is an online resource to FREE language learning. It is very similar to the Rosetta Stone programs. There are many languages to choose from and it does not matter what your native language is. The website adapts to your personal settings. You select your native language and the language you wish to learn, and then you begin an online tutorial. I highly recommend this website for any students wishing to practice another language.
Another website that I was very impressed with is Free Rice. Free Rice is a fun website that quizzes you on vocabulary words, and for every word you answer correctly 10 grains of rice are donated to the World Food Program to help end hunger. I believe this online game would get students excited about learning. I found myself hooked into playing as I began to fill up my bowl with rice grains to be donated.
This final site, lingro, has been a favorite of mine since I learned of it a few months ago. This website will be useful for me as a teacher, for students, and for parents. This website allows you to access any website with the ability to translate it into any language that you need. This will allow the teacher to communicate technologically with all students.
Hey Alice! Thanks so much for mentioning the websites that you discovered and really enjoyed within this assignment. I'm so glad you shared them. I'm also interested in languages and technology that enhances the learning of languages, I'd love to help translate or teach to foreign students someday. Several of these sites will also be very useful in communicating with parents who do not speak my same language. As the teacher of their students, I may need to refer to sites such a lingro to better communicate with them. Thanks so much for the tips!
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