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How-Tos and Instructional Materials

Throughout my LIL website you will find many digital resources that I'm hoping will be useful to most teachers. 
The Skills page includes only those tools that can facilitate the learning and development of the four areas of language: listening, speaking, reading and writing.  
The References page has a variety of resources such as links to websites, articles, educators, blogs etc.
This How-To page contains a great selection of educational tools that I use constantly in my classroom.
Click on the icons below to go to the websites and keep exploring!

Foreign Language Teachers' Favorite Tools

The sites and apps below are widely used for learning and practicing languages.  There are many others, but these are the one I highly recommend.
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DUOLINGO is probably the most popular language learning program.  It's a full platform that includes a website, and app and and digital assessments.
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MEMRISE is visual site that features countless categories of “mems,” user-generated mnemonic flash cards that rely on graphics and humor to help vocabulary learning.
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FREE RICE is a website that allows players to donate to charities by playing multiple-choice quiz games. It includes foreign languages and other subjects.
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BUUSU offers new vocabulary and phrases supported by dialogues, writing exercises, audio recording options, and the chance to network with other language learners and native speakers.

All Around Great Teaching Tools

The Apps below are a "must" for any teacher, not just a foreign language teacher.
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QUIZLET is on online learning tool that helps students study and learn via flashcards and other games and tests.
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 KAHOOT is a collection of questions on specific topics. Created by teachers & students, questions are asked in real-time to all "players" creating a fun and game-like learning environment. 
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EXPLAIN EVERYTHING is a design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything.
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EDUCREATIONS is a simple interactive whiteboard and screencasting tool. You can annotate, animate, and narrate almost any type of content as you explain any concept.
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THINKLINK is a tool for image interaction that allows content sharing via online images.
ThingLink is intended to allow photos and other images to be made into web links
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WIZER.ME is a tool that allows teachers to create quick, easy and fun digital worksheets, to share them with teachers and track of student performance.

Presentation Tools

Besides the traditional Google Slides and Power Point, I love to use the two tools below because they make creative and fun presentations that are not loaded with text.
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PREZI is a presentation tool that instead of slides makes use of one large canvas that allows you to pan and zoom to various parts of the canvas and emphasize the ideas presented there.
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WEE VIDEO is an easy and fun collaborative video editing platform perfect for students and teachers.
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HAIKU DECK is a simple and fun App that creates stunning presentations because of its rich visuals and minimal text allowed on each slide. 
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SCREENCAST-O-MATIC is an easy screen capture tool that lets you record what ever is is happening on your computer screen.

Screencasts

Below are two examples of how we can use screencasting not only to teach our students but to help other teachers.
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LESSONS
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REFERENCES
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ASSESSMENT