Great Glittery Graphics for your Language Teacher Website!

Looking to spice up your teacher website or blog? Need something to catch your students' attention? I have found a few great sites for this that I have been using in daily learning announcements that I post for my online students.

One site that I have been using is Editing Myspace. You can pick the language that you want, and it has graphics in French, Spanish, English, Portuguese, and Ger man.  Zingerbug also has graphics in Spanish.  Zwani has graphics in ten different languages including French, Spanish, German, Chinese, and Italian. You can choose the language if you scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page. Just copy and paste the HTML code to your website, or blog!

Here are a few examples:

Spanish comments

Graphics for French

Comments by ZingerBug.com
 

EditingMySpace.com - Más Hola Comentarios

EditingMySpace.com - Plus Vendredi Commentaires

Top 3 Products and Freebie Linky Party

I'm joining up with Hopkins Hoppin' Happenings for the 

Top 3 Products and a Freebie Linky party! 

My top selling product is Texts & Tweets-Quick Formative Assessments. It is the first product that I ever posted on TpT :)  Students love texting and Twitter. Take advantage of this interest in order to get some formative feedback on their learning to guide your teaching. Only $1.75

My second top selling product is my SUPER Technology Template Bundle! This document contains student instruction sheets/templates for eleven popular websites used in education: Wordle, Glogster, Wallwisher,Stripgenerator, Bombay TV, Blabberize, Voicethread,Xtranormal, LiveBinders,Voki, and Bookemon. It also includes teaching ideas, checklists, and rubrics. It's an easy way to increase how often you use technology in your teaching. This product is only $7.99

 My third top selling product is 18 Formative Assessment Templates! This product includes a variety of classic formative assessments.  It is a great deal for only $4.99.

And the one you are all waiting for...my most downloaded FREEBIE, 10 Active Games! This product has been downloaded 14,286 times! Includes explanations for how to play the Plunger/Flyswatter Game, Concept Relays, Paper Basketball, Catch and Throw, Snowball Fight, Hot Potato, Tic-Tic-Boom, Spelling Race, the Circle Game, and Magnetic Darts. These games were some of my students' favorites!

Video Clips for French I: "Les Chiffres", "L'Alphabet", et "L'Heure"

I have been searching a lot recently for video clips for enhancing learning in the online French I course that  I am teaching. We are not allowed to use YouTube within the course for copyright reasons, so I have been using www.schooltube.com, and www.teachertube.com instead. They do not have as much variety as YouTube yet, but it seems like they are growing, and I have been happy so far with what I have found.

You could use these videos for a warm-up activity, for a pre-teaching activity, or post them on your school website, or class blog as a reference for your students. 

Here are some of the videos that I have used so far:

TOONDOO Comic for French Class

Looking for a fun reading, or writing activity for your World Language students? Try making a comic! I created the comic below yesterday for my online French I students to review how to say the date in French, and how to say when their birthday is.

You could also use a comic for a warm-up activity. Project the comic up on the screen when students come into class, and ask them to write down what they think it means. When class starts, you can have them share their guess with a partner, and then call on volunteers to share their answer with the class.

TOONDOO is really easy to use. You can do something really simple for beginner students, or something more complex for advanced students!

By ebucrek | View this Toon at ToonDoo | Create your own Toon

(*cadeau=gift, *Où has an accent, but could not be inserted into the comic)

To say the date in French use-->LE + number + month.

Example: Le 5 mars= March 5th

You can see that the word order for the date in French is different than in English.

TOONDOO TUTORIAL

"Blabberize" For French Class!

Have you ever used Blabberize? It is great for teacher and student use in the World Language classroom for speaking, and listening activities! I just made the "blabber" below tonight for my online French I students to review some expressions, and cultural information that they have been learning.  I included the directions below the "blabber' that I gave to students in their daily learning "announcement".

 

(image from http://coolspotters.com/artists/claude-monet)
 

TO DO: Please click the play button to listen. Follow along with the script below.  
"Bonjour. Je m'appelle Claude Monet. Je suis de Paris. Mon anniversaire est le 14 novembre. Je suis artiste. J'aime travailler. Au revoir."

  You have learned almost all of the expressions above. Do you remember what they all mean?
 
 To review:
  Je m'appelle...= My name is...
 
Je suis de + city= I am from...
 
Mon anniversaire est...= My birthday is...
   

"le + number + month" is used to give the date in French.
 
Je suis...=I am...
 
J'aime...=I like...

I have a FREE Blabberize Instruction Template that you can download from my Teachers Pay Teachers store if you want to try it out too!

Ultimate Middle Years Giveaway and Blog Hop Event!

GOING BACK FULLY STASHED! 

Innovative Connections and Lessons From The Middle are hosting a great Middle Years Giveaway and Blog Hop Event from August 25th-August 27th! 

Click on the linked image above to head on over to one of the hosting blogs for all of the information and to enter the giveaway!

• There are $300 worth of prizes (products and TPT shopping sprees) which will be broken into three awesome prize packages for three lucky winners! 
• Those who complete the blog hop challenge will get ALL of the donated freebies, as a reward! 
• I am donating a $10 shopping spree to my store Liz's Lessons.  I have middle school and high school French and Spanish products, and also formative assessments and technology products in English. Most of of my language products are for levels 1 & 2 so they are great for middle school!

I would like to introduce one of the amazing bloggers, Tracee Orman!  She has a great blog called Hunger Games Lessons! It is a blog to promote literacy through the teaching of The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. Grade level ranges from 5th grade and up. Click HERE to check out Tracee's Teachers pay Teachers Store!

TpT Back to School Sale!!!

It's BACK TO SCHOOL time! Stop by my TpT store to stock up on everything you need for your classes this year while EVERYTHING in my store is on SALE! I'm offering 20% OFF ALL of my products from August 11th-August 13th! TpT is offering an additional 10% off from August 12th-13th for a total of 30% off on those two days with the PROMO CODE: BTS12. 

Are you looking for some fun, new, and interesting back to school activities? Check out these online lessons!