Monthly webinars on one web 2.0 tool each month. You may want to watch them live, or come back later for the archived recordings. QR codes was done, Flickr in Dec. Ideas for future topics are Audacity, Google Earth, Glogster, Animoto, Prezi, Webspiration, Voicethread, Xtranormal, Jing, and Evernote
A number of you wanted to know more about Google+ and how you might use this in the classroom. This one is not language specific, but it would give you a good start?
the course syllabus from PBS TeacherLine - for those of you interested in teaching online, I thought it might be interesting for you to see what they teach
I've used goo.gl which is Google's URL shortener. I like it because it also generates a QR code. The code can then be printed out and used for listening practice (the project that I used it with was a recorded dialogue uploaded to YouTube).
automated accounts that don’t have any visible purpose, someone who has nothing in common with you
looking at their follower/updates list; if they are following 10,000 people, have 20 followers, and only 1 update then I’d safely say it’s an automated account and can be ignored!
Pull classrooms, class periods, departments, etc. More centralized than a shared Google doc? I'm thinking yes and participants will be forced to be brief.
Karen, I use a shortener when I have a very long URL - even to include in an email, or to advertise something I want people to go to (a survey I did) and some shorteners will let you pick your own ending so it can be something recognizable rather than random letters. I think Twitter does this automatically for you now.
I found that it is so critical to learn the language through the discovery of culture. It is when you understand the culture you learn to view things in different perspective and open your mind to the language.
I love this website, love the way to learn the language through the culture and your interest. Thank you so much for introduced this to us.
Another great resource for learners of any level are Chinese blogs. They cover living, working and travelling in China, Chinese life and culture, and of course the Chinese language itself.
This video shows you how to change the URL of a YouTube video to skip ads, start and stop for just a section, remove the "recommended" videos at the end, and autoplay. Fabulous! Thanks, LARC!
I like this idea - I'd like to try this with my Level 1 students. We have a children's version of Don Quijote that might lend itself to this. Something else to plan!
Colleen has presented on the Mirroring Project in some of my classes. It seems to have impressive results for international students' pronunciation and presentation skills.
The goal here is for the international student to copy the TED speaker as much as possible. They should think about pronunciation, intonation, stress, and gesture.
speaker with strong non-native rhythm and intonation patterns.