Resources

** __Resources__ ** __**General Websites**__
 * [|Jim Becker's Website] (Hundreds and hundreds of links for teachers of world languages-Jim Becker's site)
 * [|Education Place]
 * [|Kathy Shrock's Website]
 * [|Mama Lisa's World]
 * [|CAL-Directory of Immersion Programs] (This directory includes elementary, middle, and high schools that teach all or part of their curriculum through a second language.)
 * [|Global Education Rubric] (Download the Global Competence Planning Rubric to learn how to help prepare students to be globally competent by the time they graduate high school)
 * [|Forvo] (Largest pronunciation guide in the world with 276 different languages represented; you can request a pronunciation or provide a pronunciation)
 * [|My Studio] (Make a quiz and embed it into a website or blog)
 * [|Inkpot] (International News sources; search by region and country or search news, zine, movie resource and book resource directories for direct hits to individual magazines and other online publications and resources)
 * [|Virtual Museums] (Virtual directory of on-line museums from around the world)
 * [|Oanda Currency Converter]
 * [|MLA Map of Languages] (Map showing the linguistic and cultural composition of the United States. The map uses data from the 2000 US Census to display the locations and numbers of speakers of thirty languages and three groups of less commonly spoken languages in the United States)
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 * [|Communicative Language Teaching] (Sample chapter)
 * [|Powerpoints]
 * [|World Languages Powerpoints]

__**Spanish Websites**__

 * __[|Zona Latina]__
 * __[|Centro Barahona]__(Useful site for materials related to books in Spanish for children and young adults; links to a number of sponsor-publishers as well as other sites)
 * [|Becker's Spanish sites]
 * [|Casa de Joanna] (T opics include art, French and Spanish, and teacher resources. The links are annotated and indexed as an activity, resource, teacher link, or tool)
 * [|Mexico Web] (Directory and search engine of web pages on Mexico)
 * [|Terra] (News in Spanish from 15 different countries)
 * [|Spanish Idioms]
 * [|Spanish Surnames] (Fifty common Spanish surnames)
 * [|Spanish Proficiency Ratings] (University of Texas)
 * [|Forvo] (L anguage tool to hear pronunciation of words by native speakers; other language available)
 * [|Christmas]

__**Technology**__
 * [|Educational Technology and Mobile Learning]

__**Elementary**__ [|Nandutí] (Comprehensive resource on foreign language teaching and learning in grades preK-8)

__**Resource Centers**__
 * [|CALPER] (Resource Center whose focus is to improve the environment of advanced-level foreign language teaching and learning, and assessment)

**__Books__**

 * Lambert, Linda. (1998). //[|Building leadership capacity in schools].// Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. ISBN 0-87120-307-3.[|http://www.ascd.org]
 * Lundberg, Gary, & Joy Lundberg. (2000). //I don't have to make everything all better: Six practical principles that empower others to solve their own problems while enriching your relationships.// NY: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-028643-8. [|http://www.penguinputnam.com]

__**Catalogs**__
 * __[|Applause Learning]__
 * [|Carlex]
 * [|Crizmac]
 * [|Culture For Kids]
 * __[|Sosnowski Books]__
 * [|Teacher's Discovery]

__**Classroom Items**__

 * [|Used Classroom Items]

__**Classroom Practices**__
 * [|Educational Press] (Create free educational worksheets such as flashcards, game boards, and quizzes to print directly from your browser; available in English, French, German and Spanish)
 * [|Puzzle Maker] (Discovery Education - Create and print customized word search, criss-cross, math puzzles, and more-using your own word lists)

__**Citation Maker**__ []
 * [|Bibliography Maker]
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