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Technology Resources for the World Language Classroom

Technology Tools and Resources (from Ohio’s World Languages Model Curriculum)

Five Ways to Connect a Language Classroom:

• Bring a native speaker to you with Google Hangouts
• Use radio and podcasts in the target language - see www.listenlive.eu
• Google My Maps/Google Maps Street View - see public transit routes, read signs, check out neighborhoods
• Google Arts and Culture - browse works of art and virtually walk around galleries
• Twitter - follow speakers of the target language to learn colloquialisms, abbreviations, memes, and more

Burau, B. (2017). World (Language) Wide Web: Five Ways to Connect a Language Classroom. TechEdge 38 (3), p. 14-15.