Foreign+Lang+-+Special+Ed

Content Level Session Foreign Lang - Special Ed

** TOP SITES & TOOLS FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE, Health & SPECIAL SERVICES ** 1. Ning/grou.ps – social networking provides a real audience for their thoughts and projects. Safe because you control the privacy settings. Can provide oral directions along with written directions [|Spanish 2 honors Ning] [|My grou.ps home page] 2. Nano Gong within Moodle [] voice threads The ability to use technology to record one's voice and upload it to the internet has significant implications for both foreign languages and special services class rooms. [|Instructional video] Nanogong

3. You Tube - Students love it when music videos, commercials are integrated into the curriculum. 4. [|photo story 3 purpose and set up] Extremely user friendly - The only thing that students have to be careful about is that when they go to safe they have to progress all the way to the end before they can save it to where it can be uploaded to a Ning, etc. 5. Moodle – vocab. quizzes, Great for objective quizzes and tests and posting handouts/homework 6. Curriculum Pathways 7. I-google 8. http://www.wordle.net/ [|wordle example - basic adjectives] ** SITES FOR FOREIGN LANG ** ** UAGE ** 1. Interactive websites – [|Spanish culture and grammar] http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/SLC/ [|create vocabulary and grammar exercises] [|www.wordreference.com] & [|www.spanishdict.com] [|bbcmundo] http://www.donquijote.org/pdd/ BEWARE Usage of online translators. Plagiarism

SPECIAL SERVICES 1. [] math, language arts, behavioral plans

[]has a variety of categories features text reading downloads for English and Spanish FMD 1. Unique curriculum – cost $1,000 The site provides a monthly curriculum on a topic such as money or cooking. It is tied to the core content. 2. News4u - $145 can choose from elementary, middle, or high HEALTH 1. mypyramid.gov – Can input individual data such as age, height, etc. and it gives you your personal food pyramid, has games and printable log sheets. **__Very__** user friendly 2. cdc.gov – great resource for stats - # of people in KY with AIDS 3. United Streaming – great health videos Only negative – You have to wait for the videos to download. Need to start downloads then go teach and then come back to show it to the class. 4. Web MD – some quizzes – have to be careful of some of the ads. Need to preview it before you use it. 5. Discovery Education/Health – Great videos and has articles. For example videos of the internal organs of the digestive system with audio to explain it. Seems to be a charge for this site - $1,695 a year per building. MATH 1. [|video tour of bigbrainz] 2. [|times memorization] really good graphics - some students may tire of it easily.

Diigo - Read later feature http://help.diigo.com/how-to-guide/read-later