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In a fast changing world impacted by technological advances, language usage becomes "one of the factors being altered most drastically." And as language teachers, most of us feel language teaching has become inevitably bound to technology more and quickly. All this is talked about in "The Edtech Podcast" posted here. Listening through the lengthy audio discussion on how language learning is or can or should be equipped with technology one way or another, one can be happier to see "both sides of change: how we must adjust and what we can take advantage of."

Articles on Ed Tech

Digest of articles related to technology and education

I like this because it is concise. I've been getting it as an email, but now I can add it here.

There is a large collection of videos from CUE here!

There are a lot of FlipGrid focused videos!

I follow her because she gives practical ways to use common technology in class and conference settings.

I started using Storybird last year, and I love it. It is great to teach fantasy writing and to reinforce the elements of fiction. Using the sample stories for ESL students sounds like a great idea!

Seems like a great website with suggesting for utilizing webtools. Since I really enjoy teaching the students songs in Spanish, it was fun to learn about Tubeoke, a website which supplies the lyrics for songs you find on YouTube.

Voxopop- Online Spoken Discussion

This seems like a very useful digest of edtech resources that appears to be well-organized.

A lot of ideas for using tech in your teaching!

I saw this http://novemberlearning.com/blc-education-conference-2014/ and perceived it to be a PLN worth checking out!

could make taking a quiz memorable :)

Are you following any of these educators?

I was trying not to follow too many people so I can keep up with everything is being posted, but even for the few chosen ones time was not on my side. I was following Larry Ferlazzo and Silvia Tolisano, but now I am going to add more from the list you shared here. Thank you Alyssa!

Just stumbled across this site with ideas on how or what tasks with technology in lesson planning might look like based on general units. Worth looking into more.

6 principles for working with ed tech, examples and collections of tools

Expand the ways you use Google Classrooms, or personal Google accounts.

Useful tech tips for the classroom, easy to listen for tips during your commute or while relaxing inthe sun.

These are great. I learned about using streamyard.com to live stream any school event to a venue, such as YouTube. This could be useful even after Covid to allow parents to be a part of events that happen at school.

For all of you Padlet fans - here's a ton of ideas for putting it to more use!

More ways to use Padlet in class.