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Abstract from publisher - The difficulty for teachers is in understanding how to integrate, use and maintain course blogs so that they are a strong and positive educational force in the classroom. At the core of using blogs is the development of blog management strategies. Based on the authors' use of blogs in undergraduate courses, the current paper outlines an approach to blog management.

Tudini's new book takes a Conversation Analysis approach, which is new to online Second Language Acquisition. It provides observable, previously undocumented insights into how native speakers and learners pursue the learning of foreign language and culture during online text chat.

I'm a linguist by training, so anything linguistics that talks about language use, language evolution, anything language-nerdy is going to be super interesting to me. :) This might be interesting to my linguistics students! 

Since I'm on a sort of personal quest to better my Portuguese, I like this page. I can't really concentrate on my Portuguese right now, but I hope to visit it regularly later

Particularly appropriate for the CARLA Summer Institute on Social Networks!

I thought this was an interesting way to look at what students can research/read on their own and what class time should be used for - something to keep in mind as we're planning class!

I like this blog because it has practical ideas and valuable insights. There is surely much more discussion in the EFL world, it is worth check it out.

This is a site that allows you to create infographics.

I'm probably not the first to come across this, but thought it looked good.

This is a great article about the different uses and meanings of black in German. There are also reading questions at the end. 

make the most of the possibilities afforded to us by the effective use of the internet in order to raise achievement and participation, as well as to increase motivation and engagement.

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I really like the ideas on this site for teaching Spanish using media and current events.

Love this website for up-to-date activities for all levels of Spanish.  I use the musica activities regularly!

A great site for Spanish teachers with videos, music, comics and creative activities.

This was linked at the bottom of the Twitter Tools page - not specifically educational, but see if you find someone interesting to follow!

This is an interesting collection (from 2009-but still) of articles/ book chapters around social networking. The author reads the various projectors as communities of practice. Not all articles deal with language acquisition, but are still interesting. One of them delves into why and how students use Facebook. One of them looks at virtual learning communities in the US and Australia vs. Europe. Good spring board to look at some of our topics more.

I am fascinated by this notion of "lurking" to describe students/ people on-line who do not respond immediately but take time to read and reflect. Interesting research questions whether this impacts their learning positively and how to assess their learning. Maybe someone can find a better name, too?

This article gives a brief overview about why Google+ is useful to educators, and has some links to related articles at the bottom with more information on how educators can and should be using G+ in their classrooms.