SiS Newsletter - March 2010 - Connecting foreing language
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Connecting foreign language students with the world
Connecting students and teachers from different countries can be much easier using new technologies. These are some of the possibilities available on internet to find native speakers:
- The ACTFL Online Community: among many other tools it has a networking hub that allows teachers to connect with each other.
- American Association of Teachers of Any Language: allows colleagues to connect through forums and conferences.
- The national K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center: a place to connect with other teachers.
- World Language Teachers Collaborative Sites: a social networking site for groups with common interests.
- Twitter: a quick way to connect with teachers across the globe.
- Pen Pals Without the Pen: a networking site aiming to connect students all around the world.
- Form a Sister-School Partnership: Once you have found the appropriate people you just have to contact them and one of the best ways to do it is Skype, which is cheap and simple. Another useful tool is Voxopop, which is essentially a message board with voices. Another choice to facilitate communication with students around the world is a wikispace.
Amigos del español
Sofia Vergara
Who was Griselda Blanco? For many years, this woman was only the ‘Black Widow’ or the ‘Cocaine Godmother’ two of the nicknames that the few people who knew her were using to identify her.
Sofía Coppola
A teenager and a rock star fall in love and get married in Director Sofia Coppola’s biographical drama, ‘Priscilla’. Literature has even found its way into her on-screen work.
Xolo Maridueña
The new DC action movie, 'Blue Beetle', is the first to feature a Latino superhero as the protagonist. The film tells the story of Jaime Reyes, a recent university graduate, who returns home to Ciudad Palmera when he comes into contact with a Beetle
