Day 26: three sites

What are your three favorite go-to sites for help/tips/resources in your teaching?

 

     When you teach a language the best sites are often those in the target language. There are some excellent sites available for French teachers, but my number one site remains Youtube (and its French equivalent Dailymotion).  I select clips for my students, I can subtitle them, embed them in my website, share them via Google classroom, create videonot.es for them and they become a fantastic tool for learning. Many students already spend a lot of time watching Youtube videos and through selecting and sharing target language videos, they can discover new Youtubers and the target language.
     The second site that provides a substantial amount of resources for French learners is TV5.org. This is a website that supplement the TV channel TV5, sponsored by the most important francophone countries. It has a special section for learners of French with audiovisual resources that are accompanied by educational materials at different language level that can be used in any French classroom without spending too much time preparing. Short news items, music videos, general interest clips and language learning videos are there for any teacher to use free of charge.
     Finally there is wordreference.com. This is a dictionary, but the dictionary itself is not the most useful part of the site. I use it often for its forum, where anybody can ask a language related question and you can find answers and translations that are often not in the dictionary. It is a great example of web cooperation and a necessity because language is changing faster than the dictionary.
There are, of course many more useful websites out there, but these are the ones that I use almost on a daily basis.

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