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Sign-up for the 30-day, but a year - free! Here's info I got in an email notification: We are glad to announce a free WizIQ individual membership for K-12 and College teachers. To be eligible for this offer, teachers need email addresses associated with their educational institutes (e.g., aprofessor@college.edu or ateacher@adistrict.k12.ma.us.) If you are a teacher from K12 or a College, apply and claim your free membership by following the steps below: Steps to get free WizIQ membership: 1.Sign up for a 30-day trial by clicking on the 'Apply now' button below 2. Verify your email address from your email inbox 3. You'll receive a confirmation email from us once your free membership is approved Apply now  WizIQ's free teacher accounts give educators at accredited institutions access to a range of teaching tools. To many educators, the virtual classroom for which WizIQ is best known only means live classes, which they might not need considering they see their students in person every day. But with the WizIQ Virtual Classroom teachers can also: Offer online courses for their school Run virtual office hours and homework help Run summer school online to address transportation and facilities issues Give AP students a jumpstart with virtual summer class sessions Let athletes or homebound students work with their classes, live, even if they can't be there Easily set up classes - without IT help Bring subject matter experts into their classrooms virtually Support group and project-based learning Engage hard-to-reach parents with: Virtual parents' nights Virtual conferences Adult education and community outreach Virtual math and literacy nights Broadcast live school committee meetings on the web Record lectures or flip their classrooms Conduct virtual field trips Run professional development when and where staff are available Share teaching resources among schools Teachers can take full advantage of every WizIQ feature, including screen-sharing, polling, video-confe

using comics in the classroom

Wiki with resources on using iPods in the class. Also include a sample proposal for funding a project in your school.

Description - from the website "VoiceThread can be used to teach Chinese in a high school setting. Students have to repeat the words and then make sentences with the new vocabulary. They record themselves and they have to be creative. I show the end project in the class and the students love it!"

Register and you can see the teachers and projects they are running or want to run - sort by language.  There is also a growing list of "resources" on just about anything. 

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

A great blog to follow if you would like to switch from textbook to project based / CBI style curriculum.

An account of how a elementary level language teacher uses Wikipedia in his courses. Describes his end-of-course creation project.

"Whether digital media sparks fear or intrigue, it is a fundamental part of students' lives and can enrich teaching and learning in and out of the classroom. This course will examine how the creation and consumption of digital media can enhance education by engaging and empowering teachers and students. Throughout this project-based course, you will learn how to use free web 2.0 tools to create, implement, and assess digital media."

From Transparent Language, offering projects to do in Russian

I love that you can use this with students! I had no clue. Thanks for sharing.

As I am still trying to understand the full benefits of using Diigo, I found this article of tremendous help. Thank you for sharing!

This seems really useful. I'm excited about Diigo for my own use, hadn't thought about using it with students yet.

"your students will be able to use and manipulate this app to create green screen magic!  i"

Good ideas - I could see Tip #2 as a great starter project in language for level 2 and above.  Alyssa and I do the weekly video updates, pretty much just like three points listed here - and we've also gotten good feedback on those.

I have selected a digital magazine issued by the Office of the Spanish Ministry of Education in the USA and Canada. This yearly magazine gathers lessons, units and projects around a different cultural topic carried out by Spanish teachers in immersion or foreign languages programs in America or other places outside of Spain. These issues don't have a strictly academic tone but they are actually more like real experiences carried out in real classrooms that can be borrowed or inspired by other educators. The magazine guidelines require a very specific format with objectives, level, materials, etc. to describe the experiences.