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ACTFL's Language Educator is looking for responses to some questions, including Tech use. Perhaps we have something to offer...?

It's great to have these webinars available. I struggle with patience to watch long webinar videos though. It is harder to pay attention to someone who can't see you...

This is the place that I would recommend language educators start with. It's sort of the mothership for language education.

This is a duplicate but I can't figure out how to delete it. I click "delete this post" and nothing happens.

From a post in the ACTFL distance learning SIG: "It is a free tool. Class Kick allows you to add interactive elements to synchronous lessons. You can monitor and see student activity in real time. You can also use it to communicate with individual students in real time." - Angela

If you're looking for a school or classroom for your students to partner with, there's no place like the World Wide Web. "People need to get out there and form an online presence," says high school French teacher Toni Theisen. There are online communities everywhere just waiting to be blasted with your callout for a sister classroom.

A little off-topic for Week 5 but overall relevant to this course.

"The use of technology is not a goal in and of itself; rather technology is one tool that supports language learners as they use the target language in culturally appropriate ways to accomplish authentic tasks." This quote stood out to me and it is so true. sometimes we feel pressured to use technology but we forgot the pedagogy purpose.

Thanks for sharing it. We are using technology for our language lessons. I agree what ACFLT says about having clear that tech is a tool not a goal since the most important aspect is the learning.

Helping students read successfully in their 2nd language.

I like this website, it's simple and it provides great ideas on helping students with reading!

I have been waiting to find more information on Scaffolding since I first heard this term at the ACTFL conference in 2018. My biggest criticism is that most of the German textbooks do NOT provide reading text with scaffolding. I rewrote many articles myself. I love the SSS.