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You may want to subscribe (top left) to this newsletter from LARC - lots of good tool descriptions!

Input data with a Gform, then take that data from a Google Sheet spreadsheet and merge it into a Google Docs template automatically.

the CASLS newsletter has an article about #langchat for those of you on Twitter looking to expand your PLN

From the LARC newsletter: G.L.O.S.S. provides over 7,000 lessons in 40 languages with skill integration (reading/listening) and an interface that supports easy navigation. Lessons are built around authentic materials such as articles, TV reports, and radio broadcasts, and are most appropriate for learners at a low-intermediate level (ILR 1) and above. G.L.O.S.S. is designed and maintained by the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, and is freely available to teachers and students alike.

If you don't get the Edutopia newsletters, or haven't taken a look around their site - please do so! They are not all about technology, but have lots of teaching and learning information in innovative ways - and also a section dedicated to technology use!

includes mp3, comprehension questions, vocab

Very interesting postings, many of them with appealing pictures or other visuals. The topics seem to span a broad area within the area of learning with technology. This is Garett, by the way.

Hi Garrett, I was following his blog, too: Niks' Learning Technology Blog (via Feedly). He reviews and demos a lot of great tools. One thing I had a problem with is that nothing seems to be dated. One of is blogs had a bunch of great tools on it and I found links that were useful. Then, other links in the same blog were broken or, even for me, seemed way out of date (hasn't everyone already heard of Firefox?).

One of my friends started up one of these Scoop.it "newsletters" and I get messages weekly from it - automated. I wonder if she even knows it's still running...?

This article talks about the ways in which a PLN helped educators eventually connect their classes via Skype. Students might not use Twitter, but Twitter connected educators.

A list of tech tools for language learning - listed in groups of skill focus

Think about ways that you could do these activities with tech - would the addition of the technology help or hurt?

"The most effective blended instruction isn't pretty-it's personal." There are 5 good tips for making your own instructional videos.

"The popular tool has features that teachers in any subject can use to help students connect with each other and share their learning."

"A few pointers on how to guide middle and high school students to determine whether a website offers accurate information."

"The morning message is a popular way to help elementary students transition into school-and it can be adapted for home learning."

"Minimizing screen time and maximizing student interactions are worthwhile, but there are still good uses of technology in the elementary grades. "