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This looks like a fun way to keep in touch with sstudents, or have them subscribe to each other's work. You write a newsletter, then select "friends" to mail to, or send them a subscription link.

Nik's newsletter is a great resource for teachers to find good tools and tips for use.

"The site's newsletter templates are categorized for education, business, family, holidays, and by month. The templates must be downloaded and are compatible for all versions of Microsoft Word. These templates can also be utilized for a class newspaper, projects or even reports. " Looks like a useful tool for classroom projects, if you are still using MS Word.

Publishes weekly articles on practical approaches and lesson plans for teaching EFL online. Here at the ELT Newsletter teachers of English can * read weekly articles on topics of interest to ELT professionals - updated every Friday * gather teaching tips from the weekly articles * find links to other sites of interest to English teachers (and learners) Every week we publish a new article on ELT. We cover a wide variety of topics - young learners, adults, general English, business English, exam classes, modern concepts and ideas such as Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Multiple Intelligences, and more. If it's of interest to English teachers, it's of interest to us! --EHS

Penzu was a nice and easily managed blog space. Now they have created Penzu Classroom that lets a teacher manage assignments, make inline comments (highlight/pop-up) on writing, tag student work, and share entires with students online and with email; students can give feedback and discuss each others entries. This look to be highly functional and would be well worth a try, especially for a teacher just getting into elearning.

Most of these are ways to create posters or murals for a school project, but also includes Word Draw, a site to create flyers, newsletters, etc., and Picovico, where you can turn photographs from Facebook, Flickr, or a computer, into cool videos using captions, text slides, and their templates.

These are 4 websites/tools I hadn't heard of before, and any of them would be very useful for student projects. Mural.ly lets students collaborate on posters by emai invite. Wor Draw turns out professional-looking flyers, resumes, and newsletters-- good for a class newspaper. Tackk lets you add pictures, videos, and music from various social websites, and Picovico is perhaps the mos impressive because it creates videos from your photos and text. (Thanks to M. Sheehan.)

A monthly blog from EFL Classroom that gives you ideas, resources, and a place to set up your own online classroom. Links to video talks, new online resources, ongoing discussions and blogs, student-created content, ideas for current seasonal holidays, and their own Diigo Group, et al. EFL Classroom has developed well over the past year or so, and is well worth following.

"Create your topic-centric media by collecting gems among relevant streams. Publish it to your favorite social media or to your blog." Nice way for students to put their research on the Web into a creative newsletter. Intriguing. See Russell Stannard's training video: http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/scoopIt/index.html

Create a newsletter by inputting content, then share through Facebook, Twitter, RSS, or email. Content can be digital images, text, and even video from YouTube. You can allow comments. A good way to share writing products or project-based activities.

Paper.li is an e-newsletter that accumulates articles on given subjects automatically. Sandra Rogers shows how to use ti for her personal learning network (PLN) and her own professional development.

Mark Warschauer's blog has replaced the old emailed Papyrus Newsletter. He now has a team of contributors. Focus is on digital learning and literacy, with an emphasis on the digital divide, new tools, ruminations about the nature of life online.

"Create HTML5 animations, games, tools and more with this superb coding platform, which has a complete learning course to get you and your pupils going. You can also play creations from the community. " A newsletter gives tips and tricks.

The article has some great ideas for using corpora as a class activity to help students learn appropriate sentence patterns.

Rachel Stokes tells how she finds and uses YouTube video for listening-speaking classes. Great information.

"Why do many students have difficulty transitioning from ESL programs to the mainstream curriculum? One reason is that many of them don't understand what is expected in U.S. colleges and universities. To address this problem, I decided to create a video series that gives students the opportunity to practice with authentic examples of the courses they will soon enroll in. Also crucial would be devising accompanying materials that would help students learn from the examples provided. It's one thing to watch a YouTube lecture from Yale or MIT, but quite another to understand a class within the context of academic norms in the United States. " Excellent advice for getting EFL students ready to study online or in the U.S.

"Uruguay may only have 3.3 million inhabitants, but this South American country has distributed more than half a million free laptops to its students and teachers over the last five years. This achievement is one of the results of Plan Ceibal, a highly ambitious initiative inspired by Nicholas Negroponte's non-profit project, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)."

Continuing improvements in speech recognition technology may lead to some useful CALL applications to ESL/EFL: "By the use of automatic speech recognition (ASR), oral tasks can be practiced more easily because it is the computer itself which understands and gives feedback to the learner so that the learner feels much more involved, and in contrast to traditional methods, a learner can enjoy engaging in activities more."

Although the date has passed, the math resources are good any time. Also has opportunities to collaborate with other learners.

This brief article by Tom Robb outlines a great new Moodle application that is free if your school already uses Moodle, or accessible online where you can have your own page for quiz access. The add-on offers a short quiz of 10 randomized questions for almost 2,000 commonly read books used for extensive reading programs with the major graded reader series. See the http://MoodleReader.org site.