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 Focuses on creating a free and open source on-line platform that gathers Information and Communication Technology-based applications and pedagogies to practice oral skills on-line.

Open Educational Resources clear lists and explanation of resources (not just for African client).  See 'supporting distance learner' in right menu.  

Ideas for incorporating iPad or Facetime in the classroom.

Seems like a great website with suggesting for utilizing webtools. Since I really enjoy teaching the students songs in Spanish, it was fun to learn about Tubeoke, a website which supplies the lyrics for songs you find on YouTube.

How to use Voxopop

Seems like an interesting tool for getting students to practice oral skills outside of the classroom as well. I might like to use this idea at the beginning of the school year to have students introduce themselves to one another.

Great ideas for using Wallwisher with language students. To name just a few, you could use it for collaborative homework, vocab practice or daily sentences.

This is for the iTouch - but it also works on Android devices pretty much the same way

I like that audioboo is an app. I am pretty much connected to my iphone (it's an extension of my arm) and audioboo seemed to be the only one that was mentioned that had an iphone app.

This is "The Story of Exploroo" found on the actual Exploroo website. 

I really like this site. I also like the fact you can use it to get unbiased opinions about potential vacation spots. We love to travel and I can see myself using this in the future.

CLEAR opening page with many programs to try

How to use Voxopop with students

I liked the various ideas in the blog. Especially creating a portfolio that would let students monitor their progress.

More ideas on how to use Wallwisher. I highlighted some of my favorites.

There is quite a few posts about Wallwisher on youtube. I wanted to share this one because the author explains how to use the tool to entice students to create an extended text that they can share with other students for comments. Combining the post-its to paragraphs and an overall texts is also a great way to look at text strucure overall. He also introduces another tool Middlespot which looks even more suitable for story telling. Check it out!

Voxopop- Online Spoken Discussion

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