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The debate about teaching languages online continues - with Rosetta Stone at the center of this article.  With a teacher, without a teacher, with RS or without, the key is still how it is taught and that can differ widely from class to class!

I totally agree with you. I think that RS is a good tool to use in place of a textbook, but it doesn't change the fact that you need more than a textbook to learn something with great quality. Conversation is key and having someone there to converse with is what helps and increases the learning. If you don't use it, you loose it fast.

"Over the past academic year, my students and I have been experimenting with the use of a number of web based applications (often known as Web 2.0 tools). My aim has been to enhance our schemes of work by providing our students with new and exciting learning opportunities. In my opinion, using technology effectively has clear benefits for both teaching and learning and can help to improve motivation by engaging pupils in activities which, perhaps, step out of their ordinary school experience and which show them that it is possible to teach and learn about a subject using tools similar to those they use daily outside school. In other words, we have tried to use the types of tools with which they are often already familiar. I have written about each of these individual tools in separate posts, but I thought it would be useful to list the ten most used internet applications on one post. as ever, I aim to provide, not only a list of the web applications we have used, but also examples of practice which you may wish to follow or, indeed, improve upon. Therefore, each of the entries below has links leading to lesson plans which have incorporated the tools as well as working examples of students' work where appropriate. Without further ado, and in alphabetical order, my ten tried and tested internet tools for teachers are:"

from a FL teacher in England - who tries and tests a number of tech tools. Here are his 10 favorite web 2.0 apps.

For those that are interested in knowing a step-by-step process in setting up a facebook account for your school district. article talks about all of the different things that one must think about when setting up a site.

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 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.

This article talks about many aspects of communication especially the benefits of synchronous distance language learning

ePals is the social network optimized for K-12 learning. Over half a million classrooms in 200 countries and territories have joined the ePals Global Community to connect, collaborate and exchange ideas. ePals now translates in 35 languages!

I found this while sorting through my old bookmarks to add them to diigo. anyone ever used this or heard of it?

I want to say that they have been around in a number of forms over many years - maybe even started at St Olaf College as Classroom to Classroom Connections back in the 90's?? But they've grown into a huge corporation now! These kinds of projects are the ones I like the best - when you get kids talking to each other!

Relevant to what we are doing in class and some of these ideas are great!

This has multiple ideas --many of which we have already seen!

It is a great summary for technology tools. Some of them we have already started in class, and some of them I will definitely explore in the future!

Another FB ideA, but this is not connected to the reAl fAcebook. I'm not sure clAssmAtes cAn interAct with these "fAke" profiles. Still, might be fun.

I can imagine using this after reading a book with a class - I could assign a character to each student and give them a situation to respond to. It might turn out something like this: https://thehairpin.com/texts-from-pride-and-prejudice-9508de842826

This article is about England but has some good tips for beginning to engage students using social media. It also shows that other countries struggle with promoting the importance of FL learning too.

This blog provides facts about the influence of new technology in society and it engages instructors to be updated and open to new ways of teaching. It also provides some examples on how we can engage our students to learn languages through the use of social media. Carlatech17

A helpful Article by HildA ThomAs, published on FluentU. ThomAs provides A comprehensive list of online tools thAt cAn be used in the lAnguAge clAssroom, some of which will be fAmiliAr to you from Koning's Article. She Also suggests resources for teAchers interested in flipping their clAssrooms.

Nice resources. I have not heard of actively Learning. But I have used screenomatic and Edpuzzle together. It worked well.

Lots of good ideas. I would like to look into actively Learning. Sounds like a great resource. Pear Deck is another one I would like to try. I agree that the virtual pen pals sounds like fun, as does having students text in Spanish and send you screenshots. They already have tons of personal experience with that already.

These are good tips to keep in mind as I plan my online classes for fall.

Thank you for sharing! This will come in handy as I'm prepping for hybrid teaching this fall.

I used Screencast-o-matic for sharing my presentation while creating a video and it was a great program. Kaltura is also a great way to create presentations.