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I have selected a digital magazine issued by the Office of the Spanish Ministry of Education in the USA and Canada. This yearly magazine gathers lessons, units and projects around a different cultural topic carried out by Spanish teachers in immersion or foreign languages programs in America or other places outside of Spain. These issues don't have a strictly academic tone but they are actually more like real experiences carried out in real classrooms that can be borrowed or inspired by other educators. The magazine guidelines require a very specific format with objectives, level, materials, etc. to describe the experiences.

This is a posting from May, but worthwhile revisiting as I just got the news that NYC is going the blended way in the Fall ...

List of resources for developing an anti-racist pedagogy.

This is a podcast produced by Stacey Margarita Johnson that focuses on many different aspects of language teaching. Stacey is the Assistant Director for Educational Technology at the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University and teaches Spanish. Topics of previous We Teach Languages episodes include heritage language maintenance, language legitimacy, linguistic variation, translanguaging, and emotional labor.

Matt Miller has a wonderful website that has so many helpful items. I am sharing this because these items include a variety of useful activities, templates and ideas regarding online teaching.

This website was created by Kara Parker and Megan Smith, world language consultants, curriculum writers and bloggers. I was impressed by this blog's long list of topics and its topic choices, such as authentic resources, listening and reading resources, interpretive reading/listening activities, interpersonal speaking activities, distance learning, and technology. The posts that I read I found meaningful and well-written and their suggestions creative, practical and innovative.

Found the title intriguing so I explored the site. The topics of the podcast are varied and can be as short as 15 minutes or as long as an hour.

There are a number of tools here that you maybe don't use but that look very useful - Read Later, Awesome Screenshot, apps for iOS and Android, and you can Save to Delicious if you want to cross-post your Bookmarks.

I thought this episode of the 'Cult of Pedagogy' podcast provided a thorough, relatable and succinct description of differences you need to take into account when planning an online course. It was informative, but also comforting. It didn't just talk about all of the things that you MUST DO to be a good teacher online. It also discussed the social needs of teachers and students in this environment.

...project provides language educators with pedagogical strategies and practical suggestions for implementing social networking sites (SNSs) and social media for intercultural competence in beginner and intermediate FL courses.

Good technology integration isn't about using the fanciest tool, it's about being aware of the range of options and picking the right strategy-or strategies-for the lesson at hand.

"More and more teachers are taking to Twitter and Facebook to share ideas and strategies with peers throughout the country."