Here you will find different links to online projects, ideas, suggestions and templates to use with your class.
IMPORTANT!
When working with online projects you will be covering important aspects from your syllabus such as:
- Compositions
- Oral production such as:
o Interviews
o Oral presentations
o Dialogs
o Questions and Answers among others
Project 1: GoogleTreks
Use Google Treks with your students to journal in the target language using: audio, video, images, pictures, podcasting and much more!
Click on the link LINK to go to Project 1 student version (drag mouse over)(updated 8/31/11)
2nd link LINK to go to Project 1 instructor version (drag mouse over)
Click on the link LINK to download important information on your GoogleTrek Project.
(updated 8/30/11)
Project 2: Blogging
Use blogging with your students to have them write:
- Compositions
- Learn Vocabulary
- Practice Oral production
- Interviews
- Dialogs among others
Here are some good examples:
Dr. Torres-Calderon’s class created these two blogs in 2010.
Blog 2: click on the LINK
Students from the Summer Language Institute, 2011, created these three blogs:
Blog 3: click on the LINK (drag mouse over to see the link)
Blog 4: click on the LINK (drag mouse over to see the link)
Blog 5: click on the LINK (drag mouse over to see the link)
Blog 5: click on the LINK (drag mouse over to see the link)
Project 3: Podcasting
Use the NGSCU to upload lectures, quizzes, questions, and topics for discussions, video tutorials.
Have the students podcast for you using Podbean account.
Here is an example using the NGSCU podcasting tool:
Here is an example using the NGSCU podcasting tool:
**In order to get a podcasting channel contact Enes Aganovic. The link will look like this:
You can send your podcasting as a link (streaming video) or send them as itunes so the students can save it and listen to it as many times they want (this will depend on each teacher).
Project 4: Collaborations around the Planet
Find people like-minded for creating language and cultural exchange.
Project 5: Service Learning
Have your college students become mentors of elementary students while they practice their second language (applicable for Spanish and Chinese only).
This is a great pioneer activity that can bring many good aspects such us:
College student’s gain:
- Awareness and the importance of learning a second language
- Opportunity to interact with bilingual students who have been immersed in the bilingual system for 3 or more years
-Opportunity to interact with native students
-Opportunity to help elementary students in their projects (give feedback)
- Bring awareness on how technology can be used to link with others.
- Acquire technology skills that later on can be applied to their future job.
Elementary Student’s gain:
- Inspiration of achieving higher education
- Opportunity to interact with college students (get to know them)
- Opportunity to practice their second language with other people from the community and not just in the school atmosphere.
- Opportunity for the students to use technology such as blogs, webcams, among others.
- Bring awareness on how technology can be used to link with others.
