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Shared in Alyssa's post for Week 7

Wetoku is a web service or Web 2.0 tool out of Korea that provides a simple platform for interviewing someone via the Internet. Collaborating globally is a must for our students and as result interviewing can be a challenge. Wetoku makes doing an interview as easy as filling out some basic information, creating an interview session and then sending the creative interview session's URL to the interviewee. Once the recording is done, the interviewer can embed the copy of the URL into a blog or website. You will need a web-cam for this tool.

This gets talked about all the time - here's another article that is supposed to help make things clearer...

Published in t.h.e. Journal. One state's decision on the Facebook teacher-student friend debate.

Are you a 'learner'? Are your colleagues 'learners'? Do you promote a 'learning culture'? Six suggestions to cultivating a learning environment to reflect upon.

A list of 26 free and easy tools that are good for education - from the edublogs people.

Facebook is blocked at my school, and an educator there (not me, thank heavens) just had their (sorry about this pronoun) FB page hacked w/a very graphic sex video seen by all the kids and parents who were person's friend, but nonetheless there are reasons to use it with students.

Glenn Cake's site filled with tools to check out from the LARC presentation Aug. 10

For those of you testing out WallWisher - these aren't language specific, but if you think about content through language, some fun ideas!

A grading help that creates Google forms for you.

This is a collection from Joe Dale.  He writes:  "Somewhere to store ideas on useful iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad apps for language learners and teachers."

First paragraph: As 21st-century teachers, we are expected to help students master the technological tools they will use in college and the workplace. But in many districts, the one-computer classroom is not extinct. So how can we do a lot with a little? How can we best use limited resources to support learning and familiarize students with technology?" Here are some tips!

This is a wiki with lessons and templates for using SmartBoards with elementary students - but it might give you some ideas for using one for language learning.

Is Facebook making students more narcissistic or are narcissistic students drawn to Facebook? Checking Facebook every 15 minutes during an hour of study? You'll get worse grades...

A number of you wanted to know more about Google+ and how you might use this in the classroom.  This one is not language specific, but it would give you a good start?

Well, I guess it's a step in the right direction...

Some more encouragement for using sites like LiveMocha and Busuu - "Be imaginative, confident and let the conversations flow!"

Did you know that they archive the summaries for #langchat (Twitter hashtag)?   Here they are in a wiki.  So if you miss the chat session, you can read it all here later...

A webinar you might be interested in if thinking about using iPads.