Resources

This page contains files and urls which people have found useful.

This is the Te Whanake site which we used at the April workshops to explore the strands of Learning Languages.

Here is the link to the YouTube clip - Cisco; Welcome to the Human network

This is the article from the New Zealand Language Teacher about the benefits of a specialist classroom for language learning.

**Wikis:**
University of Waikato e-learning resources wiki (People interested in Glogster will find some examples of student work here.)

Jo's 2008 TILL (Technology in Learning Languages) contract wiki

Inka Helwig's NZALT conference (2008) presentation wiki

Sarah's ICT practice wiki.

Teachers' TV
Here is the homepage.

This is the link to the [|Wildern School "Group Talk]" video.

In the light of comments today about students talking about their learning, you might like to have a look at this video; The Pupils A-Z of... - Learning

Websites of interest:
Inka Helwig sent this really cool website to the GANZ listserve: It’s all free. There is a lot of practice, reviews, tests etc. The best feature is that you can do a recording and send it to another member for review. When you send your recording you will be asked to review a recording of somebody who is learning English. Same for written activities. Real collaboration. You are asked to put in your language and which language you want to learn – and there are dozens of them! You also need to put in the level that you want to work on.
 * www.livemocha.com** < __[]__ >

**Concentration games online (Play virtual memory with Japanese script)** __[|http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/~emiahn/concentration.htm]__ Beat the clock!!! How many hiragana/katakana/kanji cards can you match up in 40 seconds.....20 seconds? Try playing this game for five minutes a day and you’ll soon notice the difference. Give it a try and let me know what you think. Be warned – **it can be addictive!**

**Software (from Jo)**
I had a query from a teacher recently about Japanese script on Glogster (which wasn't working) and think I have a great solution.

I looked at all the Glogster samples I could find and as far as I could see, any Asian languages script that appeared was an image rather than text. That makes sense as it's impossible to be sure that what's written in script on one computer will be able to be read on another one. By happy coincidence, a colleague has introduced me to a brilliant little piece of software called Jing. It's free (although there's a commercial version with more bells and whistles) and very easy to download and install: http://www.jingproject.com/

It works a bit like a camera, allowing you to take a snapshot of anything on your screen and save it as an image file. So, your students can write some text, capture it with Jing, and post it on their Glogster. Super simple! I'm using it a lot to add images to our Moodle - it's a great tool for cropping a small section of a photo.