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Abstract: Since their emergence in 2005, Web 2.0 technologies have been advanced as potentially transformative in the area of education in general and foreign language learning in particular. Web 2.0 technologies are presenting new opportunities for developing diverse online learning environments and enhancing interactivity, participation and feedback between students, their peer groups and teachers. This article examines one of the most significant Web 2.0 tools, Social Networking Sites (SNS), and focuses on Livemocha, an example of an online community specifically aimed at encouraging collaboration between foreign language learners. Results from the ethnographic approach adopted in the paper indicate that: (a) SNSs can be used by language learners to explore new relationships rather than merely maintain existing ones and that (b) longitudinal studies are required to achieve a better understanding of the complex processes of mediation involved in online community formation and maintenance

Funny! I also found this article last week and even attached it to last week's blog post in the ning. I've noticed this morning, that reading and commenting on it is also one of this week's assignments. I guess I chose well :)

Interesting note on cultural differences in the apps used.

Now looking for a similar list for Android - how many of these apps are cross-platform?? 

I liked the idea about adding "conversation" to the book they were reading - through Twitter.

Free registration - access recordings for up to a year if you cannot live stream. 4T = Teachers Teaching Teachers about Technology

Here is information about the education side of Diigo - special accounts - and benefits - for teachers!

Interesting blog about just how languages are learned.

voicethread for foreign language

this is a pretty cool demo of how a fifth grade teacher uses her iPhone.

How would you want your work with computers or other digital media to be evaluated as part of your job performance? Does your school currently take this into account?

More tutorial for using Audacity

More about online places to learn a language like LiveMocha.

I thought this was really interesting - especially the "penetration" of the internet by language - and how some languages have exploded on the internet in the past 10 years!

I'm always frustrated with sites that say they have free images and then link to a bunch more sites that say and do the same thing. Here are 7 sites to find photos and images that are copyright-free or friendly, in addition to Flickr. Do you remember how to search using Creative Commons??

The winning blogs for 2010 about languages and technology

From History and Anthropology, Volume 21, Issu 2 June 2010, pages 139-157 by Katerina Seraïdari

An example of an academic text

Monthly webinars on one web 2.0 tool each month. You may want to watch them live, or come back later for the archived recordings. QR codes was done, Flickr in Dec. Ideas for future topics are Audacity, Google Earth, Glogster, Animoto, Prezi, Webspiration, Voicethread, Xtranormal, Jing, and Evernote