For Teachers and Students
of German

An online supplement to the books
When in Germany and The German Way
by Hyde Flippo

Last updated: 22 Sept. 2004

   

For beginners or advanced learners of German!
The German Language Web site at About.com.
The author of The German Way is your guide.
Features and links to help you learn Deutsch.

Go to:

• Teaching tips for the teacher of German or social studies
  • AATG's "Using the Internet in Instruction"
• Cultural topics from the Contents page
• Famous Austrians, Germans and Swiss
• Foreign-language organizations online
• Genealogy links
• How to use this site
• Information, photos, etc. by country
• Austrian, German, and Swiss photos
• Books about Austria, Germany, and Switzerland
• Books about German cinema and Hollywood
  
• The GW&M Site Map can help you find specific topics or pages on our site.
• Web links for teachers (below)

1. Research a specific country, region, or city.
2. Learn more about a person in Germanic culture (Freud, Emmerich, Schwarzenegger, etc.)
3. Research a specific topic: travel by train, architecture, art, cinema, women's rights, etc.
4. Take a virtual trip via the Web and share the experience with others.
5. Describe in German (orally or in writing) a photo or photos located on our photo pages.
6. Let students devise their own projects, reflecting their individual interests — with your approval.
7. Reports from students on what they learned during a given length of time online (one week, a month, a semester).
8. An e-mail exchange with a school in Austria, Germany, or Switzerland. This can involve a single student or a whole class. (See the School and university Web sites page for possible links.) In my own case, it was just such an electronic exchange that led to an actual exchange between my high school students in Reno and a school in Berlin-Köpenick.
9. Give your students extra credit for taking the FILM-TRIVIA-QUIZ auf deutsch! (Verify their answers after they have followed the quiz instructions to obtain the answer key. — Or take the quiz yourself to get the answer key in advance!)
10. Online self-scoring quizzes at the German Language Web site at About.com can be used for extra credit for your students.

• From AATG: Using the Internet in Instruction: A Guide for German Teachers by Donna Van Handle and Roozbeh Tavakoli of Mount Holyoke College. "This comprehensive hands-on guide provides teachers tools to learn about the World Wide Web and how to use this new medium in German language instruction." Price: $12.00 (AATG members); $16.00 (non-members); includes S/H. (Prices subject to change.) Item #: 04-64650. Order from: AATG Materials Center, 112 Haddontowne Court # 104, Cherry Hill NJ 08034-3668. WWW: www.aatg.org

• School and university Web sites in German-speaking countries (and in North America).

• Andreas Lixl's German WWW Trails is just one great resource for teachers at this Austrian-American professor's site. He also has links for teaching resources and Internet curricula!

• Austria
• Germany
• Switzerland

• American influences describes how the U.S. has left its mark on the Germanic cultures -- for better or worse.
• The Autobahn, Driving, and Autobahnpolizei pages offer info on driving and traffic laws in the German-speaking countries.
• THE BERLIN WALL: The East Side Gallery page is about the Wall today -- not just this historic section.
• Our Christmas page discusses the Germanic elements of the holiday, and links to other Christmas sites.
• The Education page describes some of the differences in school systems.

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• BIOGRAPHY: See the pages for Marlene Dietrich, Roland Emmerich, Sigmund Freud, and others. Also see our Famous people page.

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  German Cinema:
  
• The Cinema page describes the impact of Austria and Germany on Hollywood and world cinema.
• Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio of Titanic fame has a German connection!
• The German-Tarzan Connecton is our latest interesting German-Hollywood Connection!
• The Music Connecton is a look at the many Austrian and German film composers who have worked in Hollywood — from Ernest Gold ("Exodus") to Hans Zimmer ("The Rock").
• The German-Hollywood Connection Web site offers much more detail and lists hundreds of Austrian, German, and Swiss movie people — from Fred Astaire to Arnold Schwarzenegger — who had or still have a Hollywood connection.
• The Film Trivia Quiz in English.
• Film Trivia Quiz auf deutsch
• Billy Wilder is Austria's most famous film director and a living legend!

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• The German language offers learning tips and interesting facts about what Mark Twain termed "The Awful German Language" (from A Tramp Abroad, 1880). Also links to the German Language Web site at About.com. The author of The German Way is your guide.
• Links for learning German
• The German Past still haunts the teutonic psyche today, and the word Angst didn't come from German for nothing.
• Radio and TV in the German-speaking countries (with links).
• Train travel in German Europe
• Women, Austria, and the Vienna Philharmonic - Women's Lib comes to Vienna! Or does it?
• Find more on the German Way Contents page or our Site Map.

Germanic Culture