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Remote teaching and learning resources and guidance
 
Feeling lost and don't know where to begin? Have a look at this NYSAIS eSeminar "Teaching World Languages online - Tech tips, tools, and togetherness during troubling times" for some ideas. The accompanying Google Slides can be viewed here.
 
   

Webtools for bringing your language classroom online
  • Amazing Educational Resources: Education companies offering free subscriptions due to school closings; this is a huge list that is updated regularly
  • BitMoji: make your own avatar!
  • ClassKick: see all your students working and provide feedback
  • Conjuguemos: verbs, vocabulary and grammar practice tied to textbooks
  • GoogleDocs: make folders and keep student work
  • EdPuzzle: create interactive tasks using existing videos (or your own) by embedding voiceovers, quizzes, and other tools
  • Extempore: oral language assessment tools
  • Flipgrid: students respond to prompts via short videos
  • GoogleDocs: make folders and keep student work
  • Newsela: non-fiction Spanish and English reading available in different difficulty levels
  • PearDeck for Google Slides - create interactive slides
  • Pinterest: Lori’s collection of images "Speaking/writing prompts"; Leslie Grahn's board: "Online Teaching and Learning in Languages"
  • Powtoon: make your own video presentations
  • PuppetED: Puppet making tutorials, lesson ideas, and more for using puppets in a virtual space
  • VoiceThread: online interaction around a visual prompt
  • Websites to teach Spanish organized by category (interactive learning, tools, vocabulary and grammar, videos, reading, listening, culture, and more)
  • Yale Center for Language Study: Online teaching tools and resources

Articles, tutorials, and PLNs

  • ACTFL: resources in response to COVID-19 and application for a free one-year membership
  • Article: "Going Online in a Hurry: What to Do and Where to Start," Chronicle of Higher Education
  • Blog: "5 Tips to Help you Become the Best Online Language Teacher Ever," FluentU
  • ListServs: FLTeach  and Ñandutí; sign up and join the conversation around teaching online with our professional community
  • Podcast: "Teaching Languages Online - Strategies and Pitfalls," Language Latte interview 
  • Tutorial: "Getting Started with Breakout Rooms," Zoom help center page

 

Teaching videos

Not sure what to do with your FLES students in the remote learning space? Check out this wonderful short video from NYC FLES Spanish teacher, Dana Comenitz: