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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.

This is a site that allows you to create infographics.

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

This is a great article about the different uses and meanings of black in German. There are also reading questions at the end. 

make the most of the possibilities afforded to us by the effective use of the internet in order to raise achievement and participation, as well as to increase motivation and engagement.

Articles on Ed Tech

I really like the ideas on this site for teaching Spanish using media and current events.

Love this website for up-to-date activities for all levels of Spanish.  I use the musica activities regularly!

A great site for Spanish teachers with videos, music, comics and creative activities.

This was linked at the bottom of the Twitter Tools page - not specifically educational, but see if you find someone interesting to follow!

This is an interesting collection (from 2009-but still) of articles/ book chapters around social networking. The author reads the various projectors as communities of practice. Not all articles deal with language acquisition, but are still interesting. One of them delves into why and how students use Facebook. One of them looks at virtual learning communities in the US and Australia vs. Europe. Good spring board to look at some of our topics more.

I am fascinated by this notion of "lurking" to describe students/ people on-line who do not respond immediately but take time to read and reflect. Interesting research questions whether this impacts their learning positively and how to assess their learning. Maybe someone can find a better name, too?

This article gives a brief overview about why Google+ is useful to educators, and has some links to related articles at the bottom with more information on how educators can and should be using G+ in their classrooms.

using comics in the classroom

Using iPads with first graders - and she only had ONE iPad for part of the year!

Photobucket is the most important site on the Internet that hardly anybody understands. Unpretentiously, it has built an essential service that didn't need to shout out for attention, the way MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, or other related sites have. Yet it's built an audience of 38 million members, a figure now growing more than 80,000 per day.

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.

Voxopop- Online Spoken Discussion

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!

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