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Matt has a lot of great tech ideas - and he's a Spanish teacher, so many are specific to language teaching and learning. If you don't know his blog, you may want to take a look around.

These are not language specific tips, but tips for assessment in online or blended courses, so there will be some good ideas that you can use.

A new Journal for K-12 online and blended learning

If you don't know this blog yet, you might want to watch it - he has a lot of interesting ideas.  Here is his list of places to look for global connections for your class.

From this blog post: "One Twitter topic that we've addressed often is how best to maintain an archive of Tweets, whether your own or those associated with a particular hashtag. In two different posts, Mark introduced readers to what is, arguably, the best free solution for this: Martin Hawksey's TAGS, "a free Google Sheet template which lets you setup and run automated collection of search results from Twitter." Well, now Hawksey has created a user-friendly site for this tool, complete with a help section and support forums. "

This recorded webinar covered some of the ground that our Web 2.0 class covered in 2014, but it had a much more thorough discussion of Google+ Hangout and Skype that we found. Highly recommended.

Cool app to create Bloom s Taxonomy based couse objectivs

Another app to try for adding voice to your class

Wonderful resource for teachers for how to speak up when they are facing biased language or stereotypes.

Online statistics Babson/Sloan v. IPEDs (nces.gov.us)

Online learning in Canada and USA

Issues to consider if expanding your business abroad. Importance of language and culture in business and entrepreneurship.

Languages and entrepreneurship. A guide for students. This is a collection of case studies showing the link between language, culture, and entrepreneurship.

OK, this isn't really about technology - (it could be extended to look at how you use technology) - but it's a very creative look at what the movie can tell us about teaching.

This video shows you how to change the URL of a YouTube video to skip ads, start and stop for just a section, remove the "recommended" videos at the end, and autoplay. Fabulous! Thanks, LARC!

From Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano (of LangWitches.org)