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The Realia Project
http://realiaproject.org/
Rich electronic archive for language instruction anywhere: publishes faculty-reviewed media for the teaching and study of modern languages and cultures.

Moodle
http://moodle.org
A free open-source course-management system to help teachers create online communities

Create your own online vocabulary lists, flashcards, class websites + quizzes!
http://www.quia.com
Create activites (word lists, flashcards, matching games etc.), class websites, and amazing online quizzes (including multiple choice, pop-up, fill-in, short answer and essay questions with easy links to ANY online source), create class rosters and have easy access to tests, students' scores, time spent on tests etc. ; licence fee required for instructors (not for students)
Bard has licences for 10 instructors; for information contact kufner@bard.edu

Pics Tips and Treats
http://www.uiowa.edu/~pics/tips.html
Guidelines to work with video in language teaching

Software for Learning
http://www.cict.co.uk/software/
teaching.htm
Downloadable programs for use in the classroom or at home . Interesting: Markin a program which replaces the traditional teacher's red pen with a complete on-screen marking environment, is the latest in marking and annotation software for on-line and electronic teaching environments.

Create exercises, quizzes tests
http://eleaston.com/quizzes.html
Find many links to a great variety of online exercises and quiz-makers, FL self-test sites and more.

Multi,Dicto, Gloss Makers
http://lang.swarthmore.edu/makers/
index.htm
These pages are intended for use by educational institutions to use as a model. Teachers are encouraged to try out cloze, match and gloss makers, and then save copies locally. The multimaker, for example, allows you to enter as many multiple choice questions in an exercise as you like. Include your own title, instructions and individualized feedback for each answer.

Conexiones!
http://cw.prenhall.com/conexiones/
This website has been designed to practice, reinforce and further explore the vocabulary, structures and cultural themes of each chapter in the textbook 'Conexiones'.

Transparencies
http://college.hmco.com/languages/spanish/ resources/trans.htm
These transparenciescan be used in classes. Great for tutors. Examples: classrooms, telling times, family, stores etc.

Paradoja
http://polyglot.mit.edu/html/paradoja/ paradoja.htm
CD-ROM based on the documentary 'Miss Universo en el Perú,' uses the 1982 pageant in Perú to examine critically, among other things, sex role stereotypes in the media as well as the socio-economic divide between the largely Spanish-descended elite and the mostly Indian urban and rural poor. The video materials include televised reports of the beauty contest and interviews with the organizers, contestants, journalists and representatives of women's groups. Available through the Bard LC: http://inside.bard.edu/blrc





	INTERNATIONAL COMPRESSED FILM FESTIVAL SPAIN Any person can participate, no matter the nationality; register via the web for free and send in your 3.5MB film and win one of many awards between 15.000 and 20.000 Euros This will be a yearly event so check for dates and other information at: http://www.NotodoFilmFest.com/ More information at info@notodofilmfest.com or check out the notodo website
	Dictionaries and Thesauri Spanish WordReference.com http://wordreference.com/es/en/index.htm Spanish Diccionarios.com http://www.diccionarios.com/ Look it up on line: English-Spanish, Spanish-English, Spanish-French and French-Spanish - relatively fast, providing lots of examples, sentences and idiomatic phrases.
	CDs, Videos, and Books For a list of CDs, DVDs, videos, etc. available in the CFLC search our online database: http://inside.bard.edu/blrc/database/ Film Latin American Video Archives http://www.lavavideo.org/lava/ A great resource for Spanish films FACETS http://www.facets.org The single best source for international cinema on video and DVD. The FACETS catalog includes both feature films and documentary works. Kino International http://www.kino.com A small but important collection of international cinema, including seminal works of Weimar film. Excellent print reproductions; many restored versions. Kino titles are also available through most of general video distributors. Music Music in the Spanish-Speaking World http://globegate.utm.edu/spanish/spmusic.html Download Spanish Songs and Music http://www.indianchild.com/Music/ download_spanish_songs_music.htm These are sites & cultural music resources which offer free Spanish songs, new releases, free Spanish mp3, movie songs, cultural folk songs, tribal music, Spanish music downloads online, lyrics databases etc. Some of these listed music sites or companies may offer them free while some may charge a small fee to register to download their songs or mp3s.
	Language Learning Spanish Grammar Exercises by Barbara Kuczun Nelson from Colby College, Maine http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/exercises/index.html A GREAT site with countless grammar exercises alphabetically sorted (adjectives, past particple, relative pronouns, saber-conocer etc,), many of which include audio and video files for listeing and comprehension exercises. All exercises. Some exercises are completely worked out teaching and studying unit with images to describe, narratives to read or listen to, exercises that go along with the text etc.) Puntos de Partida- 6th Edition http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/spanish/ puntos/quizzes.mhtml Great site to practice activities and self quizzes from Puntos de Partida all the way through chapter 18 with a Practice Midterm and Practice Final! WORD CHAMP! LISTEN, WORK & STUDY VOCABULARY! http://www.wordchamp.com/lingua/ MainMenu.do This amazing multi-media program helps students of all ages learn foreign languages. WordChamp™, uses audio, flashcards, and website annotation to help students learn foreign language vocabulary more effectively than traditional methods. it includes translation, Audio translation, Dictation, Translating Aloud, Reading Practice, and Pronunciation Drills. Word Champ flashcards work in Arabic, English, German, Hebrew, Italian,Korean, French, Spanish and Japanese (no audio yet for Arabic, Hebrew, Italian, Korean as of 02/05) with more languages in the works. You must become a member to have access to some exercises and a premium member for audio access.Please contact Stephanie Kufner for a Bard premium membership. STUDY VOPCABULARY WITH YOUR OWN LISTS http://youknowthedrill.com Choose the language you are interested in, and the site begins asking you to translate words. If you get words wrong, it will repeat those words, in order to reinforce the correct translation. The site keeps track of which words you have mastered and which you are working on, so you can go away and come back and take up where you left off. If you don't like the huge standard database of foreign language vocabulary we offer, you can create your own lists of words to drill and practice. FREE - SIGN UP requested. Create exercises, quizzes tests http://eleaston.com/quizzes.html Find many links to a great variety of online exercises and quiz-makers, FL self-test sites and more. Self-Tests http://www.transparent.com/ tlquiz/index.htm Test your skills with self-tests drawn from award-winning language-learning software Learn Spanish with an on-line tutorial http://www.studyspanish.com/tutorial.htm Gramática http://www.lclark.edu/~benenati/gramatica.html
	Culture Spanish Culture www.spanishculture.about.com/ Explore the fascinating culture of Spain with links and features on art, history, cuisine, music, literature, and politics. Artes e Historia http://www.arts-history.mx/ A site hosting a wealth of information on the arts, historic information, as well as current cultural events in Mexico. gallery. Justo Lamas Group Musica, Aliento y Vida http://www.justolamas.com/index2.html
	Literature Children's Books http://www.icdlbooks.org/ This site is my favorite of the five, The International Children's Digital Library. It has online children’s books that are fully readable with pictures. All you need to do is to click on the button that says “Simple Search”, and then choose the language. Gabriel García Márquez: information on this famous Colombian author and his works can be found here. http://www.TheModernWord.com/gabo/ Literatura Argentina Contemporánea http://www.literatura.org/ This page offers links by author to biographies, list of works, some online works and a variety of other information about the author. ATHENA -e-texts http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/ athome.html Nearly 10, 000 links to books on philosophy, science, classics, literature, history, economics, etc. Multilingual. Several Search programs on author, title, language, words. ATHENA Literature Resources http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/ booksite.html Find literary resources online in and for a certain language. UPenn-Literature on line http://digital.library.upenn.edu/ books/ Search Books, Features, Archives online by author, title, subject, foreign Languages and more - amazing, free site! LiTGloss http://wings.buffalo.edu/litgloss/list-of-texts/shtml The LiTgloss project is a collection of texts written in languages other than English. The texts are of literary, cultural, or historical interest to speakers of English, and likely (we think) to be better appreciated if read in the original language. Semantic and syntactical help and supplementary materials which help the students see the text in its literary, artistic, historical, cultural context available. Spanish texts available by Borges, Cortazar and Neruda amongst others.
	Bibliography and Citation Bibliography Organizer http://www.noodletools.com/logout.php Citing Internet Sources in Papers http://www.uta.fi/FAST/PP3D/citing.html General Research and Documentation http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/resdoc/ MLA Bibliography http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/education/hcc/library/mla.html MLA Citation Examples http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/education/hcc/library/mlahcc.html MLA Style Electronic Formats http://www.westwords.com/guffey/mla.html
	Resources and Quizmakers The Realia Project http://realiaproject.org/ Rich electronic archive for language instruction anywhere: publishes faculty-reviewed media for the teaching and study of modern languages and cultures. Moodle http://moodle.org A free open-source course-management system to help teachers create online communities Create your own online vocabulary lists, flashcards, class websites + quizzes! http://www.quia.com Create activites (word lists, flashcards, matching games etc.), class websites, and amazing online quizzes (including multiple choice, pop-up, fill-in, short answer and essay questions with easy links to ANY online source), create class rosters and have easy access to tests, students' scores, time spent on tests etc. ; licence fee required for instructors (not for students) Bard has licences for 10 instructors; for information contact kufner@bard.edu Pics Tips and Treats http://www.uiowa.edu/~pics/tips.html Guidelines to work with video in language teaching Software for Learning http://www.cict.co.uk/software/ teaching.htm Downloadable programs for use in the classroom or at home . Interesting: Markin a program which replaces the traditional teacher's red pen with a complete on-screen marking environment, is the latest in marking and annotation software for on-line and electronic teaching environments. Create exercises, quizzes tests http://eleaston.com/quizzes.html Find many links to a great variety of online exercises and quiz-makers, FL self-test sites and more. Multi,Dicto, Gloss Makers http://lang.swarthmore.edu/makers/ index.htm These pages are intended for use by educational institutions to use as a model. Teachers are encouraged to try out cloze, match and gloss makers, and then save copies locally. The multimaker, for example, allows you to enter as many multiple choice questions in an exercise as you like. Include your own title, instructions and individualized feedback for each answer. Conexiones! http://cw.prenhall.com/conexiones/ This website has been designed to practice, reinforce and further explore the vocabulary, structures and cultural themes of each chapter in the textbook 'Conexiones'. Transparencies http://college.hmco.com/languages/spanish/ resources/trans.htm These transparenciescan be used in classes. Great for tutors. Examples: classrooms, telling times, family, stores etc. Paradoja http://polyglot.mit.edu/html/paradoja/ paradoja.htm CD-ROM based on the documentary 'Miss Universo en el Perú,' uses the 1982 pageant in Perú to examine critically, among other things, sex role stereotypes in the media as well as the socio-economic divide between the largely Spanish-descended elite and the mostly Indian urban and rural poor. The video materials include televised reports of the beauty contest and interviews with the organizers, contestants, journalists and representatives of women's groups. Available through the Bard LC: http://inside.bard.edu/blrc
	Placement Tests WEBCAPE: Online Adaptive Placement Test http://inside.bard.edu/blrc/proficiencytest/ index.html Bard College offers language placement exams developed by the Brigham Young University in German, French and Spanish. For access information through Bard go to above mentioned website Oxford University Online Spanish Placement Test http://www.lang.ox.ac.uk/ spanish_placement.html Answer 51 questions on line and see how you score: beginner, intermediate or advanced. Goethe Language Tests http://www.goethe-verlag.com/tests/ FREE tests in 25 languages and 600 language combinations. Multilingual vocabulary exercises / language tests in Arabic Bulgarian Chinese Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Norwegian Polish Portuguese Russian Serbian Spanish Swedish Turkish
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