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

Ideas for why you might want to use Twitter for class...

This is a site that allows you to create infographics.

Nice, quick overview of the difference between the two styles of online learning

compare formats for distance learning

re-posted here from Connected Principals.] Steven B. Johnson writes in Where Good Ideas Come From about the revolutionary power of social media such as Twitter to advance ideas and innovation in a myriad of fields, and it has been fascinating to see this concept in action in the swift spread over the past six months of the practice of flipping classrooms, which is also known as reverse instruction or learning, and is closely related to (or often synonymous with) teacher vodcasting.

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

Interesting blog about just how languages are learned.

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.

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!

Particularly appropriate for the CARLA Summer Institute on Social Networks!

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

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! 

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.

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.

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Getting ready to use Twitter - here's a checklist to see if you're ready for the big tweet time!

Explanations and tips for using Facebook as a teacher