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The Skritter iOS App is here, and it's going to revolutionize how you learn Chinese. Try the app for free at http://www.skritter.com/appstore?s=yt or see http://www.skritter.com/ios for more info. Join the Skritter users who have already studied over 140 million items and make your Chinese awesome.

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Skritter is an app that receives solid reviews for its effectiveness in teaching the writing of Mandarin Chinese letters and characters.

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This is a well-reviewed app for teaching Latin. It contains a number of game style lessons that educators seem to rate highly.

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Duolingo is both a free app and free website that is a leader in popular digital platforms for teaching languages.

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http://duolingo.com -- With Duolingo you learn a language for free, and simultaneously translate the Web. Video by Pomp&Clout.

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Busuu is a popular resource for learning a new language, and it has one critical feature that sets it apart. You can practice with actual native speakers across the globe. However, because it almost operates in the same vein as social media, it may not be ideal for use with our students on their own. Still, the free version has a large number of flashcards available to practice with.

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busuu - The Best Way to Learn a Language

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busuu is the largest online platform for language learning in the world. With 60+ million members worlwide you're guaranteed to benefit from fellow learners and access our convenient and effective courses.

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FluentU is super pricey but it is worthy of mentioning when it comes to digital resources for teaching languages. It is a massive library of videos that students can isolate words from conversations to gain understanding of the language in an engaging way. While the cost for a full program may be prohibitive, it could be worth looking into one single subscription that could be shared as a resource.

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Gus On The Go is a series of apps that target younger students who are developing vocabulary. Stories is designed by the makers of this app and looks like an engaging way of having students observe how the vocabulary is used in conversation.

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Stories by Gus on the Go Trailer - Lion & Mouse - Spanish

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Tinycards is a similar flashcard app that is supported by the language education company, Duolingo. You can check out the video below to get some ideas of how it can be used.

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Duolingo Tinycards - Create and Study Flashcards

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How to use Duolingo's Tinycards. Create and study flashcards that you create and cards that are shared with you.

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Memrise is a digital flashcard app that allows you to take photos and videos to incorporate into vocabulary building. It uses mnemonic devices to help engage student learning and memorization.

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Distance Learning, Geography of Language Origins, and Culture Windows

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Distance Learning, Geography of Language Origins, and Culture Windows

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Platforms for Building, Presenting, and Sharing Projects

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Platforms for Building, Presenting, and Sharing Projects

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Scribble maps is a site that lets you draw, label, zoom, rearrange, etc... maps of every nook and cranny of the earth. You can change the view to be terrain only, include roads, and more, just like you would in any map app.

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CoSpaces could actually live anywhere on this menu as it is more a platform where students can create a 3-D world embedding any content they wish. One particularly powerful possibility is having students create a virtual museum, either collectively or individually. Students wishing to code may do so as it can use drag and drop for the non-coder, block based coding for the novice coder, and java for the advanced coder. As a cherry on top, students can explore their world, museum, etc... using a virtual reality headset.

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360Cities is a free catalogue of 360 Photos and Videos from around the world. THOUSANDS of pictures that students can immerse themselves in with or without VR headsets. Check out a few of the many ancient Roman sites, Latin students could explore. Best of all, this resource can be paired with CoSpaces as the images are free for the students to use.

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While Google Earth has been around for a while now, the recent updates are really eye popping. The possibilities with which you can use Google Tour Builder alone make it a very powerful tool in teaching social studies and geography.

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This is another platform that could have probably been placed anywhere on the tech menu. The best part of this tool is that the incoming 5th graders have had experience building sites so they will be able to jump right back in. Here is an example of a site created by a student last year. Here is another example of "sites" in action with a 5th grade reading group project.

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Track student understanding in real time, engaging students in a variety of fun ways

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Socrative is in the same family of quiz creators and interactive digital learning platforms that help track student understanding in real time. Watch a video demo below!

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Kahoot! Played Across the World - Share the Joy!

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Kahoot is a quiz making platform that has an interactive student/teacher interface. There are many ways to personalize it beyond its surface features.

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EDpuzzle is a program that lets you easily create lessons/mini-lessons and quizzes that incorporate video clips that you and/or students can annotate. It is a solid tool for student created lessons.

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This app is now on all library iPads so theoretically, a class could borrow them so they all had an iPad in front of them and their devices could be freed up (or put away) depending on need.

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Quizizz is similar to Kahoot but with the added bonus of being able to display the quiz questions directly on all student devices. It also has a large library of premade quizzes from teachers and students all around the world.

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Flipgrid is a resource for making Jeopardy-style games. It doesn't link you to student responses in the same way some of the other platforms like Kahoot or Quizlet do, but it is a good option to have on hand, particularly for students that want to use this as a componant to a presented lesson.

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This is "FlipQuiz tutorial" by Nikolaos Chatzopoulos on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.