Web-based Resources for Spanish Teachers
Kahoot - Assessment games
- Assessment tool
- Mostly visual learners
- Benefits: immediate feedback; possibility of keeping records of individual performance
- Collaborative when playing in groups
- Challenges: students can't seem to get enough of it!
Quia Web - Online Flashcards, games and assessment
- Grammatical structures and vocabulary
- Mostly visual and auditory learners
- Benefits: variety of activities
- Challenges: "dated" design, words in isolation
- Standards targeted: Interpretive communication; language comparisons
Study Spanish - Grammar lessons and vocabulary
- Grammatical structures and vocabulary
- Mostly visual and auditory learners
- Benefits: plenty of self-graded activities and assessments
- Challenges: difficult to work with whole sentences; words in isolation
- Standards targeted: Interpretive communication
Quizlet - Online Flashcards, games and assessment
- Grammatical structures and vocabulary
- Mostly visual and auditory learners
- Benefits: targets all four basic skills
- Challenges: difficult to work with whole sentences; words in isolation
- Standards targeted: Interpretive communication; language comparisons
Socrative - Interactive Assessment Tool
- Assessment tool
- Mostly visual learners
- Benefits: immediate feedback
- Collaborative when playing in groups
Duolingo - Interactive Web-based Language Course
- Lineal progress
- Goals/skills: four basic skills
- Targets different learning styles: visual, auditory learners.
- Benefits: Differentiated instruction; easy to follow and monitor student’s progress
- Challenges: No interpersonal, collaborative, no interaction.
Triptico - Interactive Review Games
- Grammatical structures and vocabulary
- Mostly visual learners
- Benefits: Motivation and egagement
- Challenges: Collaborative but only when playing in groups
Glogster - Virtual Multimedia Poster
- Projects presentation
- Goals/skills: mostly visual and auditory
- Targets different learning styles: visual, auditory learners.
- Benefits: Great platform to display PBL activities
- Challenges: space can be limited
Aprenderespañol.org - Grammar Practice
- Grammatical structures
- Mostly visual and auditory learners
- Benefits: simple repetitive drills
- Challenges: poor design, too many adds and banners
- Standards targeted: Interpretive communication
Today's Meet - Private Chat Rooms
- Goals/skills: mostly visual
- Benefits: class discussions
- Challenges: depending on the activity, there can be some multitasking involved
- Standards targeted: interpersonal, interpretive and presentational communication; cultures; connections
