fsl | Beyond the Tools

29 Jan

ICT Tip: Smore allows students to create on-line posters

Link: www.smore.com Quick overview: English, Literacy, or FSL language students can use Smore to create on-line posters to announce a community event, advertise an mock product, create a class newsletter, and more! What I like best about Smore is that...
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23 Oct

ICT Tip: Google Chrome Language Immersion extension for FSL students

Link: Google Language Immersion Extension for Google Chrome. Quick overview: An amazing tool for FSL students (or students learning any other language) that are already somewhat fluent in English. The Google Chrome extension only translates certain key phrases on a...
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21 Nov

Mobile Monday: Using the iPad with ESL/FSL students and the ComicBook! app

Info: ComicBook! for the iPhone, iPod, iPad. Cost: 1.99$ Quick overview: Using the ComicBook app in a literacy (ESL) classroom to help students develop basic writing and communication competencies. How can the app be used in the classroom? Sharon Meehan teaches a literacy...
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6 May

Teacher Feature: Marie-Christine Kovacs (ETSB, New Horizons)

Starting this month, I am starting a “teacher feature” to spotlight individual FGA teachers who have created exemplary ICT materials that they’ve used successfully in their own classrooms. With the teacher’s permission, these ICT materials will be shared on the...
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3 Dec

ICT Tip: A well organized and comprehensive FSL website for on-line interactive exercises

Quick overview: The REPSIT site (http://www.ucalgary.ca/repsit) is a well organized FSL website containing a significant amount of on-line interactive FSL activities that have been carefully indexed and sorted by activity type and difficulty level. The on-line activities are intended to...
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16 Nov

ICT Tip: The CCDMD site provides FSL resources you can use without an Internet connection

Quick overview: Professionally developed FSL materials that you can download, print, and use without an internet connection in a traditional classroom. Materials on the site have been created for the Quebec classroom with funding from the Ministry of Education, Leisure,...
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31 Oct

ICT Tip: BonPatron identifies French spelling errors and common grammatical problems

Quick overview: The BonPatron website (http://www.bonpatron.com/en) is designed to assist FSL students write in French by identifying spelling errors and grammatical problems in their written French texts. What does it do? Using BonPatron, students type (or copy and paste) written...
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7 Oct

ICT Tip: Francais Interactif – Ready to use FSL materials in your classroom

Quick overview: A must visit for FSL teachers! The Francais Interactif (http://laits.utexas.edu/fi)site contains 13 highly polished modules (the city, my studies, my health, my house, etc) that relate to using French in your students’ every day life. The site contains...
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6 Aug

ICT Tip: Discover France – Spoken examples of typical French phrases for FSL students

Quick overview: A website that contains examples of actual spoken French phrases. What does it do? The Discover France site is great FSL site for students with an English mother tongue. On this site, there are TONS of French phrases...
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29 Jul

ICT Tip: Babbel – Vocabulary exercises for FSL classes

Quick overview: Babbel is a website (http://www.babbel.com) which contains spoken vocabulary exercises for a variety of everyday topics. What does it do? The Babbel site is designed for people learning a second language, such as French. The Babbel site is...
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