Sign up for lingq.com
September 19th, 2007 by SalvorStill struggling with my Spanish. Now I signed up for http://www.lingq.com which is a website for language learning. It looks easy.
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Google translator
September 2nd, 2007 by SalvorThere are many on-line translators. One is the google translation tool.
Google offer the option to drag a translation button into the browsers toolbar.
You can drag a button such as English to Spanish.
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Read comics in Spanish
July 21st, 2007 by SalvorI have now become interested in reading comics is Spanish, that was a way I used as teenager to learn English. My only English reading material besides schoolbooks for years was then MAD magazine. The equalent of Mad magazine in Spain is El Jueves
The royal family in Spain has gone to court for a comics cover in El Jueves http://www.eljueves.es/
Here are some links about comics in Spain
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6438253.html
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Pageflakes
July 6th, 2007 by SalvorI made a page in pageflakes where I hopefully will have all kinds of gadgets etc. that could be useful for language learning. Here is my pagefake.
It is easy to put the widgets up on your blogs. Here is an example of podcast:
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webcasting in language education
July 4th, 2007 by SalvorI am now testing broadcasting tools such as Operation11. I think these tools would be fine in language education. Here is the first show that I broadcasted, it is five minutes.
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Two weeks in Texas
April 23rd, 2007 by Salvor
In March 2007 I went to Austin Texas for two weeks. I attended conference in San Antonio for few days. About one third of the people in Austin are from Mexico and about two third of the people in San Antonio are from Mexico. Since I was staying in such a bilingual area I used the oppertunity to practice my Spanish and read about Mexican history. Part of learning new language is breathing the culture that cames with the language.
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Wikispaces for Spanish - Una Rosa
November 13th, 2006 by SalvorBeing very busy I have little time to practice my Spanish but I try to listen to Spanish music now and then. I look up the lyrics and try to sing along. I do believe we use another part of the brain for singing and rythm than usually for language patterns connections.
Now I am trying out Wikispaces.com as a place to learn Spanish. I can embed videos and I can paste in the lyrics and I could (or a group of students) translate the difficult words in the lyrics.
Wikispaces has a wonderful and easy way to embed videos and wikis really have potencial in language teaching and learning.
Here is my first wikilesson when I learn to understand Spanish by listening to music.
Una Rosa ES Una Rosa (by Mecano)
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Bought 5 cd with spanish lesson
August 23rd, 2006 by SalvorI was in Boston in August at the Wikipedia conference and I bought some Spanish lessons on CD. Sadly the box is still not opened. I am determined in my goal of learning Spanish and I am hoarding all kinds of learning stuff and designing learning paths. But something is missing. I am not walking along these paths. Maybe it is because I really do not need to learn Spanish and there is lot of pressure bending my limited time in other directions.
Right now I am very interested in wikis, especially wikibooks and wikipedia. I write in the Icelandic wikipedia. Maybe wikis could be used for language learning.
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Intercultural
April 3rd, 2006 by SalvorAnne Fox has started a new podcast about intercultural issues.
http://absolutely-intercultural.com
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online comics in language learning
January 29th, 2006 by Salvor
Right now I am very interested in how you can use online comics in language learning. I do not mean comics for the students to read, I know that is a proven technique in all language learning – I would like to take this further – I am thinking about comics were the students make a comic strip or graphical story or maybe only a one picture strip.
I mean an environment were the student is not only a reader, s/he is also a contributor. I was looking into information about a discontinued comic chat by Microsoft, there is still interest in the project
Some links:
http://www.mermeliz.com/index.htm
http://www.chat.org.uk/downloads/mschat.htm
http://research.microsoft.com/vwg/projectsheets/comicchat.htm
I will try to link this new interest tho bubble tooltips
http://web-graphics.com/mtarchive/001717.php
http://www.stripgenerator.com/http://pitchingwoo.net/mostlyrandom/cg/
http://www.thirdframestudios.com/adgame/stripgen/
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/sleep/starslp/missionz/comic.swf
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