Using the Web for Teaching French: Resources for Teachers
Calgary City Teachers' Convention Workshop
February 13, 2003
http://fis.ucalgary.ca/Brian/CCTC.html

Humanities
Language Research Centre
When we think of technology and language learning, we usually imagine a student sitting in front of a computer.  However, the computer, and especially Internet, are maybe even more important for the language teacher.  In this workshop, we'll look at some of the ways the Web can make our job easier and make us even more effective.  Most of the links on this page, and many more, are found on two websites: the ALLE links page (http://fis.ucalgary.ca/alle/fr.html) and REPSIT (http://fis.ucalgary.ca/repsit), which we recommend  browsing regularly. 


With an Internet connection we can:

  • Find out what's going on in French in our community


    •      Calgary:  http://www.francocalgary.ab.ca (périmé)    Edmonton:   http://www.communityzero.com/infoedmonton/
         Alliance française: http://www.afcalgary.ca
        Infos sur la francophonie en Alberta: http://franco.ca/atlas/francophonie/francais/impre.cfm?Id=1

  • Keep up to date professionally

    •      Listservs:   http://fis.ucalgary.ca/alle/allelistserv.html  |  http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/lists/quebec.html
         (lots more in ALLE: Référence>Contacts>Listes de discussion)
         Professional Associations: ISLC http://fis.ucalgary.ca/Islc |  CASLT  http://www.caslt.org | 
     
  • Do Online Professional Development

    •      ICT4LT Language Teacher Training: http://www.ict4lt.org/
         Apprendre Internet (Canada): http://www.cslaval.qc.ca/Prof-Inet/ai/ai.html
         À la découverte d'Internet (cours en ligne) http://www.univ-lemans.fr:80/enseignements/internet/01/index.html
         (more in ALLE Référence>Pédagogie>Formation)
     
  • Find ideas for class

    •      Plans de cours (Repsit list): http://fis.ucalgary.ca/repsit/pedagogie.htm#pcfrancais
         Robert Corbeil's site (immersion 3e, 4e années): http://fis.ucalgary.ca/Robert/k6.html
         Portes françaises (Québec): http://www.qesn.meq.gouv.qc.ca/fls/inet/tresors.htm
         Lise Sinclair & Aline Moes' suggestions: http://fis.ucalgary.ca/alle/Lise/convention/English/Activities.htm
     
  • Find activities students can do alone on the web

    •      Read a story (La petite poule rousse): http://www.momes.net/contes/poule/poule.html
         Send a card:  http://fr.greetings.yahoo.com/greet
         Learn how to evaluate a site (Le détective de l'Internet):  http://www.desire.org/detective/detective-fr.html
         Web lessons from California: http://www.clta.net/lessons/
         Interactive Exercises (list): http://3w.mundivia.es/jcnieto/dicc-gramar-ex.html
         Mystery (Chloé): http://www.ur.se/chloe/
     
  • Find authentic documents in French

    •      Animated Poems:  http://perso.cybercable.fr/poesie/enfants/anthol.htm
         Press: 192 pays - 1390 quotidiens: http://www.theworldpress.com/france/versfran.htm
         Music (Repsit list): http://fis.ucalgary.ca/repsit/musique.htm
         Tourism (Repsit list): http://fis.ucalgary.ca/repsit/tourisme.htm
         Civilisation (Repsit list): http://fis.ucalgary.ca/repsit/civilisation.htm
     
  • Prepare our own exercises on the web 

    •      Hot Potatoes (the best): http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/
         Quia (the easiest):  http://www.quia.com/
     
  • Use reference tools: dictionaries, conjugators...

    •      Repsit list of dictionaries: http://fis.ucalgary.ca/repsit/dictionnaires.htm
         Conjugator (Le devoir conjugal): http://www.pomme.ualberta.ca/devoir/
         Grammar (Repsit list): http://fis.ucalgary.ca/repsit/ressources.htm
     
  • Find language examples for our tests, explanations, etc. or for data-driven learning

    •      Collocations:  http://webcorp.org.uk/index.html (or just use Google...)
         List words in a text by frequency: http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r21270/textools/web_freqs.html
         Use a concordancer to study word use: http://132.208.224.131/Francord.htm (try pièce, audience 
         (Maupassant corpus) or Québec, France (Le Monde corpus) to study preposition use...)
     
  • Find anything you can imagine on Google using good search techniques...

    •      Conseils sur la recherche: Québec: http://www.ebsi.umontreal.ca/jetrouve/  | 
         France:  http://www.ac-rouen.fr/pedagogie/internet/moteurs/une.htm
         Google:  http://www.google.com/  Search for: "avant que"; "Frère Jacques"; images, pages just from Quebec, 
         just from France; technical terms in French...
     
  • Have as much fun as our students do

    •      Importance of having a second language (video):  http://fis.ucalgary.ca/alle/language.mpeg
         Keeping your cool:  http://fis.ucalgary.ca/alle/Hostie.mpe
         Being a French Canadian: http://fis.ucalgary.ca/alle/IamnotCanadian.mp3