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Upgrade to Flash Player 10 for improved playback performance. Upgrade Now or More Info. close 79,634 LikeAdd toShare Loading... Sign In or Sign Up now! Uploaded by PBS on Aug 16, 2011 For decades now, people have joined together online to communicate and collaborate around interesting imagery. In recent years, the pace and intensity of this activity has reached a fever pitch. With countless communities engaging in a constant exchange, building on each others' work, and producing a prodigious flow of material, we may be experiencing the early stages of a new type of artistic and cultural collaboration. In this episode of Off Book, we'll speak with a number of Internet experts and artists who'll give us an introductory look into this intriguing new world.

The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments.

Another Lauren Rosen Goodie!

FREE RESOURCES AND LESSON PLANS FOR TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY

Amazing information about the use of media.. and great sites to explores and get lost!!

Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom:Joe Dale offers practical tips and advice on using ICT to enhance the teaching of modern foreign languages

students and teachers engaged in inquiry-based classroom projects that explore other peoples and cultures.

Teaching with Technology. Great site. Ads can be annoying.

Open educational resources (OER) are "digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research."

Facebook vs. Google + -----interesting article comparing the two and it brings up some interesting topics

Web 2.0 technologies serve humanity.

Practice and learn a language with a partner in reciprocal conversations

This is a good read and reinforces why we are all taking a summer technology class.

quite a good read i agree.

here's a list of sites that I found many of you would like to explore

There's so much on this Blog site. I saw this post about Doodling and thought it's worth sharing. Not that the 80 hats around the world are not worth sharing! ;-) There's a vast variety of topics here

I've shared some of the apps from Niks blog already, there are some really great student and teacher tools for the language classroom and beyond. Short, easy to follow videos explaining each app are really useful. Watch out, though, found just a few links that are broken. Not all apps are free.

I like this listing of ice breakers.  Many would work in a language classroom with some tweaking, depending on the level.  I like 2, 7, and 9 for novice low-mid students.