Glastonbury Foreign Language

For Teachers

Professional Groups
Helpful Sites for Foreign Language Teachers
Penpals & Keypals
FLES (Foreign Language in the Elementary Schools)
Electronic Mailing Lists, Listservs, & Newsgroups
Glastonbury Foreign Language Teachers' Homepages
Individual Sites for Glastonbury Schools

Professional Groups
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language (ACTFL) is the only national organization dedicated to the improvement and expansion of the teaching and learning of all languages at all levels of instruction. Includes info on membership, awards, scholarships and grants, publications,workshops, proficiency testing, conventions, jobs & resources
Welcome Connecticut Council of Language Teachers (CTCOLT)
Massachusetts Foreign Language Association

Helpful sites for Foreign Language Teachers
WWW Foreign Language Resources seeks to include only the best of the foreign language web sites.
University of Toledo Foreign Languages Bookmarks links to resources for teachers of French, Spanish, Latin, Russian, German and Japanese
CARLA: Less Commonly Taught Languages: all of the world's languages except English, French, German, and Spanish. The project's goals are to help advance the teaching and learning of LCTLs
The Human-Languages Page: more than 1900 best language links the Web has to offer for online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software, language schools, or just a little information on a language you've heard about.
Blue Web'n Learning Sites Library: a searchable database of over 1000 outstanding Internet learning sites (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools) including web based tutorials, web based ativities, web basaed projects, unit and lesson plans & hotlists.
eGroups : worldlang: information from a discussion group designed to share ideas, relevant to the a specific world languge project. Contians a searchable archive with great links and lesson ideas.
Interclass Projects on the Internet: activities that use the Internet to link students and teachers in collaborative activites for learning and teaching
Internet Activities for the Foreign Language Classroom - Spanish, French, Italian, German, Chinese, Japanese, ESL/EFL, Tagalog, Latin. Includes info on writing activities for the web, reading strategies for web activities, internet options in the classroom (hardware, software, one computer, no internet connection), web lesson evaluation form & favorite teacher URLs.
Library of Congress Portals to the World - Links to electronic resources around the world. Organized by country.
BamJam Travel Pictures - An excellent collection of pictures from countries around the world, documenting a Dutch couple's travels within and outside of Europe.
Virtourist - A "virtual tourist" site where visitors can view pictures and informaiton about places around the world.
The English Language Learner Knowledge Base
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) - Many links to quality sites. Browse by subject area or click on Communities - World Languages for their foreign language portal.
LangSource - A database of language and culture resources from the University of Maryland's National Foreign Language Center.
REACH - Recursos para la Ensenanza y Aprendizaje de las Culturas Hispanas (from the NFLC). Includes educational modules in Spanish and English.
UMass FLRC Copyright References by Irene Starr: links are a selection for instructors from the many relating to copyright and intellectual property topics.
Chicago Public Library's Foreign Language Resource Page : a good list of sites in English helpful for foreign language learning acitivities including search engines, media, exercises/ grammar/ dictionaries, literature, art, science, culture, history, and geography.
Smithsonian Institution - Links to all of the Smithsonian museums, with a very well-developed section for teachers.
National Gallery of Art - Online tours of the Gallery's collection, available in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.
Global SchoolNet Resources - Weblinks evaluated by teachers for teachers. A wealth of useful resources.
World Atlas - Maps of every country in the world, along with basic information and links to good websites. Be sure to place your cursor over the map of the globe to activate the links and enter the site.
SCOLA - Access streaming video and audio in your target language. Click on "Educators" or "Insta-Class" for transcripts, lesson plans, worksheets, and quizzes based on video and audio. Login required to access video and audio files.
Electronic Texts in Western European Literature - A collection of links from the Association of College and Research Libraries.
LangMedia - Video examples of native speech (greetings, buying food, etc.) in various countries around the world.
4Teachers - This site has tools that make an easy task of creating rubrics, quizzes, webquests and many other classroom activities.
Tiny URL - This site creates a shorter version of a long web address.
Sites for Teachers - A hotlist of many websites for educators.
End of year lesson ideas - Avoid the slog by taking tips for fun lessons.
Nutrition Explorations - For including food in the classroom; there is also a nutrition guide in Spanish available to download.
Personal Educational Press - Create word puzzles, games, quizzes etc.
Casa Notes - Use these templates to create common notes to send home with students (field trip permission slips, progress notes, etc). Available in English and Spanish.
Stationery Creator - Use the templates to print out stationery appropriate to cultural learning.
Webquest Templates - Create or adapt a webquest.
Internet 4 Classrooms - Helping teachers use the internet effectively.
National Geographic Map Machine - Create maps of any region in the world: road maps, satellite maps, physical or political maps.
MarcoGram: Breaking the Language Barrier - Classroom activities.
Breakfast around the world
Teacher Planet: Mother Tongue - Resource list for the foreign language classroom.
Foreign Languages for the Middle School
Casa de Joanna - Resources for all language teachers.
Art Coloring Pages - Find famous works of art by nationality! From Enchanted Learning.

Penpals and Keypals
Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections (IECC): a free service to help teachers link with partners in other countries and cultures for e-mail classroom pen-pal and project exchanges.

For Students in FLES (Foreign Languages in Elementary Schools)
Spain's Children Site-games
Music/Games- in 5 languages
Spanish Alphabet, Numbers, Animals
Mexico-Kids' Cooking, Culture, etc
Tu Spain
Zoológico Guadalajara
México para niños
CyberSpain
Harry Potter en español
Barbie Latina
Disney.es
Ancient Mexico
Spanish excercise - question words
San Fermín
BBC Languages
Mexico City (Virtual)
Parque Chapultepec
Pinos Altos - Historic gold-mining town in New Mexico.
Teacher Planet
Musical Spanish
Kids R Crafty
Study Spanish
Conjuguemos.com
Los Cochinitos - Mexican food vendor.
Mango (MNG) - Spanish clothing line.
Capitán Moda
California Language Teachers Association
First School - Preschool activities and crafts
DLTK's Printable Crafts - Print out activities, coloring pages, projects, etc.
Kids R Crafty - More printable crafts and projects.
All About Coloring - Print out coloring pages.
Kidzone - Fun facts for kids.
Actividades Infantiles (Spanish)
Literacy Center - Activities in Spanish.

Electronic Mailing Lists, Listservs and Newgroups
FLTEACH@LISTSERV.A CSU.BUFFALO.EDU - Archives: Search the archives of the Foreign Language Teaching Forum discussion group for lesson ideas or information related to the teaching of foreign languages or learn how to join the FLTEACH discussion group
Ñandutí: Welcome to early foreign language learning a resource on foreign language learning in grades K-8 including Foreign Language Standards, Resources, Model Programs, Calendar of upcoming events in the Northeast region and Teacher Development. You may also search the Ñandu listserv archives for lesson ideas & learn how to join the Ñandu listserv discussion group.
eGroups : worldlang: information from a discussion group designed to share ideas, relevant to the a specific world languge project. Contians a searchable archive with great links and lesson ideas.