Tecnologa para Hispanohablantes:

Share Spanish-language Resources

Dr. Rita Oates, Oates Associates and ePals

Session Description
Sample sites, strategies and technology-based assignments for teaching in Spanish to native speakers or second language learners. What Spanish websites and collaborations with non-U.S. students have worked? Learn about resources in Spanish (NASA en espaol), online Spanish teacher communities (Aula 2.0, Eduteka) and worldwide resources for your Spanish-speaking classroom (International Children's Digital Library, Tumblebooks, BrainPop en espaol, ePals).

BrainPOP en espaol
http://esp.brainpop.com Some of the movies on each topic are free Developed in Mexico City Focused on Latin American schools and content BrainPOPjr and BrainPOP en espaol are included in some licenses

NASA en espaol: www.lanasa.net

Developed by Hispanic NASA engineers

Smithsonian has Spanish content

Online teacher community in Spanish U.S. based

http://www.aula20.com

www.aula20.com

Online teacher community in Spanish from Colombia

www.eduteka.org

Online teacher community in Spanish - global

www.ePals.com K12 teachers from across Latin America and Spain Teachers of Spanish in France, China, South Korea, Oman Free to join: http://www.epals.com/join Partner with Eduteka on projects, localization

Spanish Language Practice: ePals

Videos made by Mexican elementary students and posted in ePals

La Panadera de Don Javier

(Don Javiers Bakery)

Mexican Student Reporters Made Movies and PPTs of Their Community

The Day of the Dead: PPT

FL teacher Angelica Cruikshank finds class through ePals Teacher Forum

AP Spanish practice through ePals

Michele Dobrin, AP Spanish, Tallahassee

International Children's Digital Library

http://en.childrenslibrary.org in English http://es.childrenslibrary.org in Spanish Search in English or Spanish 175 Spanish-language books Picture books, no audio Ask students to write own story to go with illustrations of book in Spanish, project on whiteboard and share their story

International Children's Digital Library

Tumblebooks http://www.tumblebooks.com
About 50 books in Spanish Ask public library to license Quiz at end Audio

Spanish-language media in USA

El Nuevo Herald (Miami): http://www.elnuevoherald.com (videos and multimedia)

Spanish-language media from Spain, Latin America

El Pas (Madrid): http://www.elpais.com

Use audio, movies from news sites

BBC in Spanish http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/

CNN en espaol

Spanish-language Childrens Magazine: Iguana

Print (digital too) Focus on American students speaking Spanish Sample issue:
http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f050f37c

Broward Schools Favorites

Discovery Education search for Spanish Nettreker
Licensed by Broward for their schools and have many Spanish-language resources

Exprsate!
Accompanies textbook with lots of practice exercises; recommended in Broward

Exprsate! From Holt Textbooks

Diccionario de la lengua espaola

http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/

Palabra Virtual - recordings

Makebeliefscomix.com
http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/ Students can write own comic strips using Spanish dialog

Voki
http://www.voki.com Students can add own voices to online character and practice Spanish, listen to others

Wikispaces
http://diariosdemotocicleta3.wikispaces.com/ message/view/home/46164918 Example from Gainesville media specialist of working with a teacher to create a wiki for the Spanish class

How can your students participate in ePals?

Join global community of teachers in 200 countries Use SchoolMail for communication between classes Use projects from Smithsonian, National Geographic, and other teachers View student work Post your students work for worldwide viewing audience All these are free at http://www.epals.com

 Enter your school email address; ePals replies to that address with instructions Free for teacher to join Free for teacher-supervised student SchoolMail accounts Free projects NEW * Free workspaces for projects *

To join ePals: http://www.epals.com/join

How do you get an ePals profile?

You fill out some basic contact info You write your profile ePals has real people who read and approve themor ask for revisions! Teachers cant contact other classrooms without having a profile submitted and approved.

ePals collects information such as school address and teachers school telephone number but does not publicize that information.

Include interesting information about your school details on what collaboration tools you use what activities you would like students to do length and frequency of collaboration

Suggestions for other sites and activities

Following slides were contributed at FETC2013 from the audience

Pinterest
Spanish, teaching Spanish, culture
worldlangtech

From Michelle Olah, classroom teacher in Seminole County, FL Also French language has 6,000 pins

Oleo Apps
Oleoapps.com Seeking Spanish teachers to be involved in development of game to teach language Based in Silicon Valley, met at FETC 2013

Blabberize.com
Add own dialog to pictures to practice speaking Free, use own photo

Babelzone
British site, 99 pounds/year license for 20 users Vocabulary lists 300+ songs, stories and activities in French and Spanish Downloadable mp3 soundbites in the target language with transcripts IWB compatible, SMART approved Covers all 24 units of the QCA scheme of work for KS2

Put links on your website

Sra. Lopez in Tallahassee, FL (Leon Co. Schools) and links she recommends to her students on next two slides She also uses Quia for online quizzes

Leon Co. teachers website

Quia
Quia to construct quizzes www.quia.com

Contact info
Dr. Rita Oates
President, Oates Associates ritaoates@aol.com 305 669 9090 VP, Education Markets, ePals roates@corp.epals.com 305 788 4302

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