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Using
Technology As a Tool in the Classroom:
Making Connections Training
Teachers
Curriculum Links and Teaching Resources
ESL
& Bilingual
- Alta Vista Translation
Service
- http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate?
- Submit text or a URL for a webpage and this tool will
translate it from English to Spanish or Spanish to
English with the click of the mouse! Grammar and accent
marks are not perfect but a surprisingly understandable
translation appears. Also translates from English to
French, Portuguese, German, or Italian.
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- The K-8 Aeronautics Internet
Textbook
- http://wings.ucdavis.edu
- NASA's Learning Technologies Project and Cislunar
Aerospace have taken a
- potentially dry subject, The Principals of
Aeronautics, and created this outstanding educational web
site. The illustrated textbook includes sections on
history, mythology, fundamentals and more. Before
"opening" a chapter, visitors select a reading level,
from beginner to instructor. The text is also available
in Spanish. Other highlights of the site include
curriculum bridges, lesson plans, activities, and an
Internet guide.
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- ART Capades
- http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/capades/
- This site has easy, fun, educational activities for
young students (K-3), including monolingual Spanish
speakers. The site distributes the activity to the
student without linking to external sites. Hypertext
links provide flexible navigation within the application
for browsing and art selection and elaboration.
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- Charles Bauer's ESL Projects and
Resource Page
- http://www.mind.net/pes/cuarto/bauer/bauer3.html
- This site is a Bilingual, ESL, CALL, Listserv, and
Internet Projects Resource Page provided by Charles Bauer
of Phoenix Elementary, a dual language program in
southern Oregon.
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- Hot Internet Sites en
Espanol!
- http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listspanish.html
- Created by educator Beth Bustamante with
Filamentality, this hotlist includes elementary,
secondary, and teacher resource links.
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- KIDLINK
- English:
http://www.kidlink.org/english/index.html
- Spanish:
http://www.kidlink.org/spanish/general/index.html
- Kidlink is a non-profit grassroots organization aimed
at getting as many youth through the age 15 as possible
involved in a global dialog. The work is supported by 50
public mailing lists for conferencing, a private network
for Real-Time Interactions (like chats), an online art
exhibition site, and volunteers living throughout the
world. Most of our volunteers are teachers and parents.
Since the start on May 25, 1990, over 110,000 kids from
120 countries on all continents have participated in our
activities. Their primary means of communication is
electronic mail (email), but Real-Time Interactions (like
"chats"), various types of web-based dialogs, ordinary
mail, fax, video conferencing, and ham radio are also
being used. Kidlink has activities in English, French,
German, Hebrew, Icelandic, Japanese, Norwegian,
Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Macedonian,
Turkish, and Nordic languages (Scandinavian language
gateway).
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- NCBE Lesson Plans
- http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu/classroom/lessons.html
- This National Council of Bilingual Education site
provides links to web and gopher sites containing lesson
plansand classroom activity resources for a variety of
subjects for K-12 students.
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- PIZZAZ!
- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/pizzaz.html
- This site is dedicated to providing creative writing
activities and copyable (yes, copyable!) handouts for use
with ESL students of all levels and ages. The
activities/lessons include poetry, fiction, and
publishing. Permission is given to use these resources
for in-class, non-profit use only.
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- UNICEF Voices of Youth WEBSITE
CHILDREN AND WORK DISCUSSION FORUM
- http://www.unicef.org/voy/
- Students worldwide are participating in discussions
about Child Labour at the UNICEF Voices of Youth Website
in English, Spanish or French. Your students can get
involved in these discussions simply by visiting the
Children and Work discussion forum, reading what others
have written, and emailing their comments directly.
"Comments" forms are available onsite.
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