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 * 2. Excellent Free Tools** to help you in teaching**:**

Covert tools--- Covert from Characters to add pinyin and tone marks, Simplify to Tradition, Tradition to Simplify.

Practice characters writing from E-strokes. Also you could download YouTube clips for teaching purpose.

1). Characters to add pinyin and tone marks. For [|Annotation]    [|Pronunciation]    [|Chinese editor]    [|Pinyin editor]    [|Trad. » Simp.]    [|Simp. » Trad.]   Click following chinese-tools links, []

and hold your Mouse on “Tools”, you will see the second line, click [|Pronunciation]  for convert the Characters to pinyin. · Click either of these two [|Trad. » Simp.]     [|Simp. » Trad.] · ** [|Home]  ****  [|Learn Chinese]  ****  [|Chinese dictionary]  ****  [|Tools]  ****  [|Chinese name]  ****  [|Leisure]  ****  [|Forum]  ** · [|Annotation]    [|Pronunciation]    [|Chinese editor]    [|Pinyin editor]    [|Trad. » Simp.]    [|Simp. » Trad.] 2). Practice characters writing from E-strokes. []
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· ** Search by Chinese, Pinyin, or English **. · ** Search by handwriting recognition. ** Finding a Chinese character when you don't already know its pronunciation has traditionally been a daunting process even for native Chinese speakers. With our handwritten Chinese recognition all you need to do is to draw the character using your mouse in the proper stroke order. As you do that, the possible matches are shown on the right. When the desired character appears, simply click on it. Click on the icon above to start the handwriting recognizer.
 * == **Free Features** == ||
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· ** Word Decomposition ** into their component words and characters, a great way to remember new words and a unique feature of the Chinese language. [|View Sample]. · ** Words sharing the same head word or tail word ** lets you gain a better understanding of a word's meaning and proper usage. [|View Sample]. · ** Extensive Integrated Database ** of over 100,000 words is seamlessly integrated with our database of over 20,000 characters. Our [|character dictionary] provides details about individual characters, their etymology, stroke order, etc. ||


 * 3).** stroke order: find the word first and then click on the “Stroke Order” tab

A). [|www.eon.com.hk/] B). Write Stroke in animation : []

[|**http://usa.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php#**]
Flashcards can help you remember and learn new Chinese Characters. Every time you press 'Next', you get a new random character. The flashcards also show words using the shown character so you can get an impression of how the character is used.

Create your own flashcard set
You can create your own flashcards set based 4). You Tube Download: 5). Free Sites [] · [|YellowBridge Technical Requirements] · [|Terms of Service] · [|Privacy Policy]
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 * [|Rubric for the 3 P's: Products, Practices & Perspectives] (12K PDF)

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 * How to write a syllabus

1. Creating a Syllabus [] 2. General Guidelines for Writing a Syllabus: [] 3. Great template for writing a good syllabus: By Central Oregon Community College (Very easy to use and follow) []

Planning template by Dr. Haley.
 * How to write a teaching plan with e-resouces**


 * Consolidate syllabi and teaching plans with e-resources**

Dynamic, rich and accommodating for all styles of learning, using resources that best meets the needs of your group of learners.

Examples of good syllabi consolidated with e-resources. [] [] []

Example that can be enhanced: 1. Be specific with your links of resources, otherwise your students will be carried away or lost in the "surfing around". 2. Add a specific assignment to a spefic date, giving clear instructions what they are supposed to do.
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 * ** Consolidate your teaching plans and syllabi with e-resources. ** ||
 * MERLOT: ** Putting Educational Innovations Into Practice **
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 * ** Creating Your Own Wikispaces **
 * Introdcution tours to help you get started with your own Wiki: **
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 * 08 Startalk Chinese Wikispaces: **
 * http://startalkchinese.wikispaces.com/ ** ||

on how to incorporate into daily lessons: [|**http://lth3.k12.il.us/rhampton/mi/LessonPlanIdeas.htm**] Technology and MI Teaching [|**http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic68.htm**]
 * Multiple Intelligence and learning plans for different learning styles
 * Lesson starters to jump start your creative thinking

Tools shared:

1. [] 网 上 中 文 输 入 法

2. Skype [|www.skype.com]

3. [|http://ctyonline.org]

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5. [], a great site for learning Chinese.

6. [] Learn and paint in seconds, you can still impress your students even if you are not an artist! Plus your students will love to play with it, too.

7. Songs ****Video clips to show students:**

家有儿女 : []

FLASH 听儿歌 : [] -Family: [] -Wake up: [|起床啦]

8. Chinese Reader Tool: []

9. Chinese Flashcards: []

10. Tools for photos---**Resize your pictures!!!** [|www.slide.com]

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 * Sound/video editing:**

Creating a simple voice and music Podcast with Audacity [] 12. [|www.slide.com] Make a show and tell your stories. Simply throw in your pictures and see waht they can do for you! Your studnets will love them. 13. [] See how to create, edit, and add special effects to your home movies and then how to share them with friends and family. 14. Photo Story 3 [|Example] [|Where to download] [|PhotoStory4.wp3] Special tools for Chinese 15. [|http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools] provides a broad range of free tools available to use on your computer. Chinese translation, converters, dictionnaries, annotation, Calligraphy, encoding and many more. 16. [|www.mandarintools.com] These pages hope to provide tools to assist people in learning and using the beautiful Chinese language. From the novice Chinese language student to the advanced programmer, I hope there is something here for everyone. Rather than being a Chinese language course, it provides tools to people who are already studying and using Chinese. Why bother creating your own Character flash cards and reinvent the wheels?! Or find your students a Chinese name. 17. [|http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/annotation.html<span] style="COLOR: #da1021"> Create your own annotation: || 中国 zhōng guó China / Chinese || 文化 wén huà culture / civilization / cultural || 博大 bó dà enormous / broad / extensive || 精深 jīng shēn deep, profound, erudite || 18. [] The 200 most common Chinese surnames. Please see Wikipedia's [|page on Chinese Surnames] for more information. Click on any character to see how it is drawn. Click on the pinyin to hear how the name sounds 19. Create your own character sheet: [] After you enter the Chinese characters, remember to select"Simplified" or "traditional Chinese", it will bring up all the phrase withthe word, the character practice sheet etc. **Very powerful!**

20. What is culture: []


 * 21. Iceberg Metaphor of Culture**: []

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22. Onion metaphor of Culture

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How to teach cultures: What: Cutlural notes, .... How: .....

23. Create your own calligraphy: []

[] Cultural Interviews with Chinese-Speaking Professionals is a compilation of brief video clips in which Chinese-speaking professionals discuss cultural issues that are of interest to North Americans. The objective of the interviews is three-fold: First, provide practical cultural information about business topics. The opinions represent those of real people. At times they are even contradictory, but they are designed to be a catalyst for discussion, not a definitive answer about some stereotype. Second, the interviews provide vocabulary in areas within a professional setting. The interviews present diverse vocabulary within the context of each individual's comments. Third, these materials provide non-native speakers of Chinese with multiple examples of natural speech, illustrating the way that speakers really talk.
 * 24. Cultural Interviews**


 * 25. Music and songs **

1) **The Internet Chinese Music Archive** [] With hundreds of Chinese songs, classic and popular. [] |||| || ||
 * 2). [], with lyrics and mp3 downloadings.

3) **Modern Chinese songs** []

4) [|www.youtube.com]

5) [|www.teachertube.com]


 * 26. Food & China's Eight Cuisines **

1). **Food, the Heart of Chinese Culture**. [] Eight Cuisines present you the major eight variations of food in different regions. [] []
 * 2) Food, Costumes, and Etc**
 * 3) Peking duck, fried Chilli Pork Chops, deep Fried Pigeon**

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