Comments!

Thank you to everyone who attended our workshop on Saturday and also for your kind comments! We really appreciate hearing from you. If you have other sites or tips that you would like to share with us and the rest of our blog readers, please leave a comment here.

Thanks!
Valerie and Bonnie

Señor Wooly

http://www.senorwooly.com/
Fun music, videos, and games to liven up any Spanish classroom!

Discovery Education Puzzle-Maker

http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/

This site allows you to make crossword puzzles (and other games) especially tailored to the unit or chapter you are covering.

www.wordreference.com

www.wordreference.com is an online dictionary (NOT a translator) that is an excellent resource for teaching students how to look up foreign words in a dictionary. There are also forums at the bottom of each entry in which you can ask questions about idiomatic expressions and, within minutes, native speakers from all over the world will respond to your question.

Zamzar.com

www.zamzar.com
Do you want to show a Youtube video in class but Youtube is blocked in your school district? Thanks to a conference participate for sharing about zamzar.com, a low-cost website that allows you to download Youtube videos directly to your computer. It's not free, but a basic subscription is $7 a month.

Tex's French Grammar

This site, posted by the University of Texas at Austin, is a valuable source for grammar teaching points and practice.

http://www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/index.html

Wordle

http://www.wordle.net/

Colby.edu

Great site for in-depth, well-planned, Spanish grammar exercises.

http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/SLC/index.php