Resource #12: Lingt-webtools for learning foreign languages
Site Name: Lingt
URL: http://lingtlanguage.com/
Owner: Lingt company. (A small team of language-loving technologists who are passionate about making teachers lives easier while providing tools to help them do their job better).
Type of Resource: Open Source. Foreign language education.
Description: Lingt is a new company that builds technology for foreign language learning. They want to build technology that helps people learn foreign languages in new and innovative ways. They believe that educational technology is most effective when it brings teachers and students together and focus on building intuitive, extremely simple interfaces that are functional and elegant. Here is what they say about their principles:
Uses: Create online assignments that make engaging and assessing spoken performance as natural as giving out a worksheet. Make oral exams that take a fraction of the time to administer and assess. Perfect for IB and AP preparation. Offer targeted feedback to individual responses to maximize student improvement. Incorporate video and images to create media and culture-rich exercises. Archive all your assignments and students' responses to reuse next time and track individual improvement.
Usefulness: This resource can be used by teachers wanting to set up a online teaching materials for foreign languages. I really look forward to discovering the applications of audio.
Quality: The quality of this website is excellent.
Authorship: Open source. different authors
Point of View or Bias: none, but different authors may be biased.
Referral to Other Sources: none
Verifiability: Tech for Teachers Technology Review: LINGT Editor National Capital Language Resource Center
With the accent on computer The Boston Phoenix
With few businesses hiring, students start their own The Christian Science Monitor
The Coolest College Startups (Reader Favorite) Inc. Magazine
Power Rankings: Great College Businesses Fox Business News
Currency: 2011.
Accessibility: WAVE (http://wave.webaim.org/) reports 3 accessibility errors.
URL: http://lingtlanguage.com/
Owner: Lingt company. (A small team of language-loving technologists who are passionate about making teachers lives easier while providing tools to help them do their job better).
Type of Resource: Open Source. Foreign language education.
Description: Lingt is a new company that builds technology for foreign language learning. They want to build technology that helps people learn foreign languages in new and innovative ways. They believe that educational technology is most effective when it brings teachers and students together and focus on building intuitive, extremely simple interfaces that are functional and elegant. Here is what they say about their principles:
- Innovative language learning technology can have the greatest effect in foreign language classrooms where learning is supervised and driven by teachers.
- Our technology should be applicable to any curriculum, textbook, or teaching methodology. It should be a useful complement to a teacher’s preferred teaching style.
- Technology is an enabling tool. Educational innovation itself only comes through developers, teachers, and students working together to identify new best practices and applications.
- Sound pedagogy should direct technology development. Developers should be familiar with accepted research in language acquisition and work to apply its principles to improve learning.
Uses: Create online assignments that make engaging and assessing spoken performance as natural as giving out a worksheet. Make oral exams that take a fraction of the time to administer and assess. Perfect for IB and AP preparation. Offer targeted feedback to individual responses to maximize student improvement. Incorporate video and images to create media and culture-rich exercises. Archive all your assignments and students' responses to reuse next time and track individual improvement.
Usefulness: This resource can be used by teachers wanting to set up a online teaching materials for foreign languages. I really look forward to discovering the applications of audio.
Quality: The quality of this website is excellent.
Authorship: Open source. different authors
Point of View or Bias: none, but different authors may be biased.
Referral to Other Sources: none
Verifiability: Tech for Teachers Technology Review: LINGT Editor National Capital Language Resource Center
With the accent on computer The Boston Phoenix
With few businesses hiring, students start their own The Christian Science Monitor
The Coolest College Startups (Reader Favorite) Inc. Magazine
Power Rankings: Great College Businesses Fox Business News
Currency: 2011.
Accessibility: WAVE (http://wave.webaim.org/) reports 3 accessibility errors.