Engage in World Cultures 

• Teleporter

• App available: Google Play or iTunes
• Jameth Mikan- Activity Idea

Organizing Content/Social Bookmarking

• diigo

• Getting to know Diigo
• Use of highlighting and adding notes 
• Pinterest - French Vintage Ads, German Infographic
• Shelly Terrell-educational innovator & ESL
• Foreign Language (Toad Haven)
• Foreign Language Teaching (Carrie Gold)
• French Foreign Language Classroom (Rachel B.) 
• Web 2.0 Tools for Educators (Eric Sheninger)
• A Local's Paris - great example of what students could do to a shared board
• Flipboard 
• Download the app from iTunes or Google Play
• Follow & Add Content to play:  US in the Eyes of the World
• Word Cloud Generators
• wordle: tool for creating word clouds
• tagul: another word cloud creator
• tagxedo: generate a shape of your choice, download or embed code. Artistic word clouds.
• Japanese Colors Example 

Using Authentic Resources

Create Your Own Close Reading Task 

(Common question words/phrases for text dependent questions: How..., Why..., What can we infer & where is the evidence, What's the effect of..., comparison questions)

• Chinese: Tourism 
• French:Vintage Ads
• French: Driving Infographic 
• French: Nutrition Infographic   
• Italian: Vintage Ads
• German: Diet-Climate Change (Source page: Vegetarismus.ch)
• German: Travel Infographic 
• Japanese: Guide Map
• Spanish: Materials found and used by Kevin Gaugler

Lectura: ¿Cómo es el cuy?

Infográfico: Animales de Perú

Infográfico: El pequeño gigante

Sito Web: http://cuymagico.pe 

• Spanish: Ebola Infographic 
• Russian: Ebola Infographic 
• Dining Etiquette-in English looking at several different countries
• CSC Infographics Pinterest Board  

Technologies to Help with Close Reading Tasks 

• Annotation tools: diigo, hypothesis, ponder, marqueed, skitch , or bounce.

• Lingual.ly & Readlang create word lists which become flashcard practice for learning based on user selections in an online text. 

• Infographic creators: easlly, piktochart, or infogram.

Other Reference Materials

• Deana Zorko's Pinterest Board on Close Reading for World Languages 

• Checklist for Evaluating Question Quality 
• How to write text dependent questions 
• Reading Like a Sleuth Infographic-Close Reading Guide for Teachers
• Read Like a Detective Infographic-Close Reading Guide for Students 
• WI DPI Reading Texts Types  

Feed Readers/News Aggregators

• Paper.li
• WLTools Tech Scoop: http://paper.li/lrosen 
• TELT: Teacher Education for Languages with Technology: http://www.scoop.it/t/telt
• WorldLanguages Daily: http://paper.li/paulinobrener/worldlanguages
• MFL (Modern Foreign Language) Times: http://paper.li/MFLTimes 
• Flipboard: Download the app from iTunes or Google Play 
• Netvibes
• Language Center Library 
• Lauren's World Language Tools www.netvibes.com/wltools#Educational_Technology  
• Bloglines

Tags & Tagging: adding of keywords or commonly used terms to content. This process makes it easier to locate the content again in the future.

Some Useful Google Tools:

Find these and many more at More Google

• Drive 
• Sites
• Classroom 
• iGoogle
• Scholar
• Maps: Fabulous ideas for using this tool...
• Earth: Check out Lit. Trips