COVID-19 WORLD LANGUAGE RESOURCES

Compiled by Katie Bordner contact@msbordner.com 

General (not World Language specific but useful to teaching online)

• ARTICLE - A Trauma-Informed Approach to Teaching Through Coronavirus
• SPREADSHEET of ed tech companies offering free services during school closures
• WEBINAR - Richard Byrne’s 3 things we can do to quickly transition to teaching online and How to create video lessons without making your own recordings
• Larry Ferlazzo’s best video tutorials on teaching remotely and his list of resources to support teachers at closed schools
• Infographic - DOs and DON’TS for online teachings
• Richard Byrne’s how to schedule & host Google Hangout Meets Events and Kara Jacob’s how to use Google Meet as a screen recording tool
• List of Education Companies offering free subscriptions due to school closings
• Google created a Teach From Home website that has tutorials and tips for using Google Tools during school closures
• Ditch That Textbook’s tips for using Google Meet for online learning. He also has many useful templates for students.
• ARTICLE - 7 ways an educator can help students cope in a pandemic
• ARTICLE - Successfully taking an offline class online
• ARTICLE - An Overview of Blended Language Learning
• ARTICLE - Krashen offers 7 tips for Remote Language Learning

Any Language

• Duolingo - perhaps the easiest e-learning option with many languages. Free, low, stress, easy for a teacher to track.
• Spreadsheet of Resources for WL teachers teaching during Covid-19
• WEBINAR - Pandemic Prepping in the Language Class
• WEBINAR - Remote Teaching with CI
• Search #COVID19WL on www.teacherspayteachers.com to find more than 90 FREE resources for language teachers!
• Comprehensible Classroom is offering 10 free days of FREE lesson plans in SPANISH, FRENCH & LATIN (heavy on reading).
• Leslie Grahn Making a Difference Remote Learning Themes Lesson Guides & Resources and Tips for WL Remote Learning
• DPS Department of WL resources for e-Learning
• Looking for native speaker recordings? Try Audio-Lingua, a searchable audio  database of native speaker recordings
• SPREADSHEET made by Rachel Lucas of Covid-19 Resources for World Language teachers
• Emily Erwin has a nice collection of posts about The Remote Proficiency-Based Classroom
• Señora Chase’s Interpretive Quick Quizzes for Distance Learning and Language Games for Distance Learning
• ACTFL is offering a free basic 1 year membership and created an Online Community dedicated to online teaching/learning resources and support. Contribute your own ideas and resources, and discuss challenges you may be facing and potential solutions. We ask that you please continue to abide by the Online Community Code of Conduct. Access the Community. It also has a series of videos related to online learning starting with How to Move Online in a Hurry”
• Webinars from NECTFL 
• Ohio’s Department of Education has a website of Resources to Create Distance Learning Lessons.
• Video - How to modify movietalk when teaching online. Diane has a great online language teaching with Zoom playlist of videos as well
• Use Cliptomatic to make captions on your iPhone videos
• List of technology ideas to use in a World Language classroom (credit unknown)
• Using Screencasts with Remote Learning by Arianne Dowd (using Loom)

• Cult of Pedagogy has a great podcast about making screencasts (using Explain Everything)

Spanish Specific

• Fluency Matters has 70+ pages of Novice & Intermediate level PRINTABLE worksheets (lots of interpretive practice). In addition they are making many e-books free of charge.
• Señor Wooly - Two free weeks of Senor Wooly PRO with training and e-learning lesson plans
• Spanish Mama - Simple Ideas and Help for Emergency Spanish Sub Lesson Plans (Includes ideas with and without tech)
• Variety of Activities to engage in Spanish during the Quarantine (credit unknown)
• Señora Skinner’s editable choice board
• Leslie Grahn’s Language Practice Choice Board
• Youtube Resources for elementary Spanish compiled by M Cristina Rodríguez-Villa
• Ryann Campbell’s lessons with Tina Hargaden’s created worksheets and Dreaming Spanish videos
• Ext@ is a school-appropriate telenovela in Spanish with lots of resources for comprehension.
• Carrie Toth’s E-Learning and Social Distancing Plans
• Spanish Plan’s summer acquisition ideas (great to share with a intrinsically motivated student)
• Srta. Spanish’s ideas to Practice Spanish at Home and Collection of Choice Boards
• Elementary Printable FREE packet 
• Elementary 10 days of digital Spanish lessons from Calico Spanish for elementary options
• Maris Hawkins has a week of online plans about Spain and the Dominican Republic
• Tiffany Dalton Lopez’s List of Additional Resources to Learn Spanish
• Input Activities for Stories Adapted to Online by Kara Jacobs
• Kara Jacobs’s ideas for songs in Spanish about #QuedateEnCasa
• Maris Hawkins’s Ideas for synchronous classes and teaching novels online specifically Bianca Nieves and Felipe Alou
• The Cultural’s Classroom’s list of best resources for distance learning
• Mis Clases Locas how to play virtual games
• Laura Sexton’s Choice Board
• Links to keep up with your Spanish over the summer by Mark Connolly

Blogs with listed resources

• My Curious Classes list of online resources for WL teacher by Gaming, Speaking, and Reading/Listening
• La Maestra Loca’s list of COVID-19 free resources
• Maris Hawkins list of online and printable activities for extended closings
• Jade’s (of lasecundaria.org) list of 10 free sites for digital distance learning for world language

Synchronous Lesson Ideas

• Game → quick grid bingo (example here)
• Foster Connection and interaction in webinars

Asynchronous Lesson Ideas