Ohio Foreign Language Association
Toledo
March 24, 2000
Using the Internet
to Bring the World to Your Classroom
Bev Larson
Ohio Foreign Language Association
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Toledo |
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March 24, 2000
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Using the Internetto Bring the World to Your Classroom |
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Bev Larson |
Franz-Joseph Wehage |
Olentangy High School |
Muskingum College |
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Teachers and students have access to authentic resources (print, images, audio and video) that they would not have otherwise. |
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Students can learn how to acquire and evaluate information from multiple resources. |
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Interactive sites can help students practice and learn vocabulary and language. |
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Teachers can post the syllabus, homework, and links. |
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Teachers can showcase student work on class pages. |
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Tutorials: Search the web effectively
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Where to Search?
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Meta Searches (search search engines; don't start here!)
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Search in French
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Search in Spanish
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Evaluating Web Sites
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Rubrics
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Creating Web Based Lessons
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Jean LeLoup asks preservice teachers to consider the following basic questions when creating web based lessons:
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Activites created by publishers
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Jean LeLoup suggests these models for standards-based web lessons:
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Teachers' Sites, including WebQuests
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Interactive Web Activities: E-mail, Quizzes, Games
These Internet activities can add another dimension to your class:
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E-Board [Post private or public messages and pictures for student response. Write your reaction to this site on the OFLA e-Board] |
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E-Group [Teacher-created invitation-only e-mail groups] |
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Quia.com [teacher-created online flash cards, matching games, word searches, hang-the-man; multiple choice quizzes; can also create simple class pages] |
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Funbrain.com [teacher-created online and printable quizzes, calendar, "post office"] |
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Hot Baked Potatoes [Half Baked Software; teacher-created online quizzes] |
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Web Author [Create interactive web lessons] |
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SchoolNotes [Post homework and
links, student automatically notified when updated] |
Assessing Students' Web Projects
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Nancy Pickett gives guidelines for developing rubrics:
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Resources
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Joyce Dustin Demientieff: How I Use/Want to Use Technology in My Spanish Class |
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Lewis Johnson: Internet Options in the Classroom |
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Jean LeLoup: A Communications Technology Module for the Foreign Language Methods Course |
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Online Educator: Online and Loving It |
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Pat Pecoy: Integrating Technology into Foreign Language Education |
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Pat Pecoy: Teachers' Aides |
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Pat Pecoy: Teaching with the Internet (links) |
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Pat Pecoy: Web Based Activities for Foreign Languages |
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Nancy Pickett: Guidelines for Rubric Development |
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Thomas N. Robb: The Web as a Tool for Language Learning |
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Lauren Rosen: Teaching with the Web |
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