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A little background to the LiveMocha language learning social network.

All about mobile learning - online conference. Very reasonably priced for a full-day conference - $79

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. 

This looks like a fun app for online discussions - whiteboard, text board, and a board where you can put a webpage and mark it up.  The "audio line" were all busy when I tried it - that would be especially nice - but you could use this app alongside Skype or other voice chat.

and there's a link for "language exchange programs" near the bottom of this article

There are a number of FL webquests listed here by grade level. We should check out the tool for making webquests -

Some of the more popular web apps for education - which ones of these do you use?

blog by a German EFL teacher with tips for integrating technology into English language learning

some ideas about why teaching writing with short assignments (Twitter?) might be a good idea

Students create facebook pages for characters, historical figures, objects, etc and then interact with each other.

Yes - I thought this looked like an interesting project! Thanks for adding it!

"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.

There are only 3 lesson plans here for using Vokis - maybe we can add some more good ones?!

a language teacher talks about using Vokis with his class