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Information & Communication Technologies
  • http://www.deutscheinmelbourne.net - Your Gateway to the German Community in Melbourne
  • http://www.goethe.de:80/z/jetzt/dejwiki/dejwiki.htm - make writing fun with the interactive writing workshop Wiki-Web.
  • Patricia Pecoy's links for Learning Technologies. Web sites that help take the technical out of technology for busy teachers who are trying to integrate technology into the curriculum. Categorised into beginning, intermediate and advanced.
  • Reinhard Donath: Deutsch als Fremdsprache & das Internet (Info on E-Mail-Projekte, WWW-Projekte, Projektbeispiele, Literaturtipps and more)
  • ICT in LOTE - LOTE Centre for Language Excellence, Berwick SC. Includes info on: webquests; multimedia activities; interactive whiteboards; internet-based technologies; working with film, and podcasting.
  • technoLOTE.com - a blog by Jess McCulloch ("Conversations about language teaching, learning, technology...")
  • The technoLanguages network: a 'ning' network open to LOTE teachers all over the world for exchanging ideas on LOTE teaching and learning and ICT.
  • Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom - Joe Dale's blog offering practical tips and advice on using ICT in LOTE (UK).
  • Languages Online - online materials for young learners (Department of Education, Victoria). Additions to the facilities include: Comprehension Task Maker, the Cartoon Story Maker and the LOTE Rubric Maker.
  • Wordle - a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in your source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. An alternative aid to remembering key vocab.
  • Blogging and teaching/learning: intro info and tips for teachers from the Victorian Education Channel.
    Make a blog easily yourself as a teacher through globalteacher.org.au (where there is a mass of useful info and tips on exploiting new Web possibilities in education).
    Get your students making blogs in their LOTE learning, through globalstudent.org.au [supported by the Department of Education].
    edublogs.org is another blogging tool that allows student accounts to be created by the teacher.
  • www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers – a great place to build a wiki. Offers different levels of privacy and advertising can be removed on the education version.
  • ed.voicethread.com ‐ Voicethread for educators is a great collaborative tool. Put up pictures and give them voiceover. Then students can comment on each others’ work – even by phone!
  • quizlet.com ‐ vocab learning games – students can develop their own topic-based vocab lists and visit each others' pages to try out the games and test themselves. Games can be embedded in wikis.
  • dipity.com ‐ create and share timelines using pictures, video, text, links and more. You can embed them in wikis and other webpages.
  • bubbl.us – create a mindmap. You can embed them in wikis and other webpages.
  • www.scribd.com – upload your MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-Powerpoint files and other documents. You can embed them in wikis and other webpages.
  • Telecollaboration - developing Intercultural Language Learning through On-line Exchanges (Robert O'Dowd)
  • "Das Bild der Anderen" is an international email project for teenagers with a year or two of learning German behind them (now coordinated by Goethe Institut Krakau).
  • Internet in the Classroom (BBC Languages). Tips for teachers, presented according to different technology availability scenarios.
  • Using the Internet for Language Teaching (Language Centre, University of Minnesota)
  • Learning and Teaching Languages using ICT - includes classroom suggestions, studies and articles (University of Uppsala)
  • www.rollyo.com - roll-your-own search engine - you specify the websites, and your students' websearch can be narrowed down to just those sites.
  • "Get the most out of video" for teachers (BBC Languages)
  • "4teachers.de - von Lehrern für Lehrer" [Unterrichtsentwürfe und Referate für Lehrer, Studenten und Referendare] (see "Computereinsatz")
  • ICT and eLearning (Department of Education, Victoria) - includes sections on resources, a planning guide, and professional learning
  • Global Classroom Projects - excellent selection of programs involving email and collaboration with students
  • Victorian School of Languages (click on "Prof Dev") - at various times the VSL offers a range of professional development sessions in LOTE methodology and use of technology in LOTE.