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The winning blogs for 2010 about languages and technology

More classes move to online environments; students need to evaluate learning styles.

Glenn Cake's site filled with tools to check out from the LARC presentation Aug. 10

Wetoku + 9 more!

"Over the past academic year, my students and I have been experimenting with the use of a number of web based applications (often known as Web 2.0 tools). My aim has been to enhance our schemes of work by providing our students with new and exciting learning opportunities. In my opinion, using technology effectively has clear benefits for both teaching and learning and can help to improve motivation by engaging pupils in activities which, perhaps, step out of their ordinary school experience and which show them that it is possible to teach and learn about a subject using tools similar to those they use daily outside school. In other words, we have tried to use the types of tools with which they are often already familiar. I have written about each of these individual tools in separate posts, but I thought it would be useful to list the ten most used internet applications on one post. As ever, I aim to provide, not only a list of the web applications we have used, but also examples of practice which you may wish to follow or, indeed, improve upon. Therefore, each of the entries below has links leading to lesson plans which have incorporated the tools as well as working examples of students' work where appropriate. Without further ado, and in alphabetical order, my ten tried and tested internet tools for teachers are:"

from a FL teacher in England - who tries and tests a number of tech tools. Here are his 10 favorite web 2.0 apps.

More Ideas.....

OK, this isn't really about technology - (it could be extended to look at how you use technology) - but it's a very creative look at what the movie can tell us about teaching.

If you don't know this blog yet, you might want to watch it - he has a lot of interesting ideas.  Here is his list of places to look for global connections for your class.

These are good tips - there is more of a focus on what students can do for themselves with the tools they know, rather than what we need to teach them to do.

Here are some specifics for creating accessible online course content.

How to collect a number of URLs and get them to your students easily. Most of these would work for F2F and online.

Article/ blog about App Smashing!!! aka interfacing Flipgrid with other apps

Love this. I'm super interested in App Smashing. Thanks for sharing.

Great share, thanks!

Updated ways to using FlipGrid

"These projects are, in many ways, summative assessments. We aren't checking for fact recall from the latest activity. These cumulative activities pull from lessons learned throughout the whole semester - or year."