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Entries from September 2007

Origami in the Classroom

September 27th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Yesterday I was delighted to be invited into our Japanese language classroom. Ms. Junko prepared a lesson on the Japanese art of Origami. Origami is the art of paper folding. The sixth graders were working on their Japanese vocabulary as they made beautiful paper foldings. The brightly colored rabbits, mushrooms, [...]

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Tags: Fun · Japanese · Modern Languages · art

Chinese-Tools.com

September 18th, 2007 · 4 Comments

China is big. It’s big in culture. It’s big in population. It’s big in it’s growing economy.
Many of the products that we use each day are manufactured in China.
What better time to begin your study of Mandarin, the official language of China.
Chinese-Tools.com is just the place to begin. It has loads [...]

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Tags: Modern Languages · Technology Integration

Free Wiki Page for Teachers

September 14th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Wikispaces is offering a free Wiki page for all teachers.
What is a Wiki?
Think of a wiki as a webpage that you can make using a web browser such as Firefox. You don’t need to know any complicated HTML code. It’s as easy to make as a blog.
Teachers and students will find it easy, they will [...]

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Tags: Organize Yourself · communication

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching

September 11th, 2007 · No Comments

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
This is one of the best one-stop resources for teaching I’ve found. If your looking for quality resources on a variety of curricular topics this is a great place to begin.
MERLOT has resources from Art to World Languages.  This site really does offer something for every [...]

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Tags: Resource · research