French

//Post your favorite online French resources and samples of student work here.//

- Take any image, add a mouth to it, record something for it to say, and watch it become a moving conversationalist!


 * [|Gargoyle with a headache (French)]

- Upload photos, record a message, and share


 * [|Adolescents Americans vs. Adolescents][|Francais] - Example in French comparing teenage life in the U.S. and France
 * [|Francais 95's fotobabble] - Example in beginning French about a visit to an art museum

- Free, multimedia poster-maker. Set up student accounts for educational use.
 * [|Les freres lumieres (French)]

- Create animated videos from stock characters, images, music, and effects, or upload your own and lay them in tracks. Students have to type text into Word and then copy and paste it in order to get diacritical marks.
 * [|Episode 1 Scene 2: La tourmente]media type="custom" key="4641120"
 * [|Revolution Francaise]media type="custom" key="4641062"

- Quickly create slide shows with captions, text, photos, and quiz questions


 * [|La famille] - Slideshow that uses possessive adjectives, family vocab., and famous people to create a fictional family in French

- Students can select illustrations from real children's picture book illustrators, then use them to illustrate their own, original stories. Diacritical marks must be cut and pasted in (via Word, for example)


 * French Examples

- Search for images in the TL, then "annotate" them with audio, links, text, or videos

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- Speaking avatars
 * [|French Voki]
 * [|Voki poèmes]
 * [|French Newscaster Melissa Theuriau]

- Use this search tool to find people to follow on Twitter

People to follow:

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Wikispaces- Make your own wiki!


 * [|Curriki - BrowseSearch] - Wiki designed for resource sharing that contains entries from multiple subject areas (365 entries for FL)
 * Flushing French
 * Le français, le FLE, les TICE . . . - Comics in the target language
 * Madame Krause's Wiki - Cultural video
 * Madame Shackelford - Organize unit resources (L'Afrique Francophone)
 * MadameSpace
 * MIC USI français - Post assignment models
 * Mon Espace
 * [|Pormesfleurs Wiki] - Involve parents in reinforcing what their children are learning
 * [|Toulouse Study Abroad Program] - Manage study abroad programs