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Using TED Talks videos to help teach: Collaboration Communication Critical Thinking Creativity As a Language Arts teacher, I get the honor of encouraging any content area as a topic since my focus is on communication of that topic. I say "honor" because it means I get to learn from them. However, with the Common Core standards, and the four Cs, which are peppered throughout them, stressing the importance of communication is no longer limited to English class. All classes must find a way to use these skills to communicate subject matter expertise. This year, I have decided that I don't call my class Language Arts. I instead refer to what happens in my room as The Art of Using Language. This unit, therefore, focuses on as many aspects of using language and communicating as I could think of: Creating a website Designing an infographic Recording a podcast Developing a Powerpoint or Prezi more......

Learning Language through Music.  Written in spanish.

A simple way to leave voice feedback in Google Docs.  Awesome tool for anyone who is in World Languages as well as for teachers who want to provide lots of feedback without typing.

this tool integrates with Clever, the tool that we already use to sync class rosters to Haiku... meaning implementation would be pretty painlesss "We currently support middle school students studying English. We cover all of the grammatical concepts from the Common Core State Standards for grades 1-8. We intend to expand our coverage to high school students, college students, ESL students, SAT / ACT students, and foreign language students."

I've found this to be a great daily exercise for examining the rhetorical strategies in political (and everyday) speech.