Summary: Jess McCulloch is an extremely enthusiastic Chinese language teacher who is turning to technology to help engage and excite her students about the language. In this episode Jess talks about some of the cool tools she is using in her classroom. If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here A small school in country Australia might seem an unusual place to find students learning to speak Chinese, but not for Jess McCulloch’s students. Jess is also looking to set up her website as a place for language teachers to be able to network and connect, so if you are a language teacher (or know one) take a look over at www.technolote.com. Some links from this episode… Technolote.com - Jess’s main websiteTechnoChinese - The class blogs for Jess’s classesSo Damn Hard! - Great article about learning ChineseChinesePod - Learn how to say all sorts of useful things!Skype - Free communication tool for connecting classroomsLangwitches - Silvia Tolisano’s site for language teachingVoicethread - Digital storytelling for Web 2.0Rudd at APEC - Kevin Rudd’s address to the Chinese delegates at APECComments welcome, in any language, in the comment box below.
