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Language Teaching Technology

Here there are some ways to use facebook. However, I do not agree with posting pictures on line.

Great for those that are using iPads in elementary.

I used Socrative last year with first grade. Easy to use, you can add pictures to the questions. And kids can solve them at their own piece. No more papers to review any more!! Google forms is also great!!

List of blogs for learning various languages

I'm impressed by the amount of information and the range of topics on vocabulary, grammar, culture, etc. and the quality of activities for Spanish.

Sure. It is a great resource Mark. I reviewed the one in Spanish and even though could be not useful for my students, I will keep it for when teaching Spanish to parents.

This is a quick tutorial for embedding audio into QR codes. it provides a couple examples of how this might be used in an educational setting.

Adrianne, I like your link a lot. QR is a great helper. I have used it last year and make easy to my students to get faster to pages I wanted them to go.

Bilingual Education 

Online source of FLE exercises

Ken Robinson on creativity

Language learning supreme guru. Also has a tweeter account: http://t.co/FOlLwQyeCO He's a serious and influential language researcher and theorist whom you may know.

Thanks for sharing this one, Mark. I am a big Krashen fan and am now following him on twitter because of your reminder.

I like Krashen, too. Thanks for sharing!

General popular blog about language learning

There was a hyperlink to an article about whether we should still teach cursive. Apparently high schools are not doing it any more. My son stopped cursive in about the 5th grade and didn't have to use it and now he is struggling at the university because he can't read when the professor uses cursive in anything, like comments on his papers. I have to print when I leave him a note. Wow, technology is wiping out one of the long-standing activities that took humans decades to develop.

I like the balanced way this piece presents some of the pros and cons of technology in education. Just this week I had a conversation with another educator who has encountered recent studies suggesting a link between handwriting (of any kind) and certain cognitive development. Some schools are now emphasizing handwriting instruction because it helps boost students' academic achievement.

My daughter is 8 years old and she started learning cursive this year. So it must be back! I'm not sure if will help boost her achievement or not, but I'm glad she is learning it. I think the article made a good point about how students today have a short attention span and easily get off track. If they are typing a paper on the computer, for example, they can open a browser and start surfing the web. They don't necessarily stay focused on the task at hand. It is even hard for me sometimes. If I don't ignore email (just put it off until later, I mean), I would never get anything done!

Learning materials, tutorials, assessment tools. social networking tools, anything digital that supports learning outcome

This is a collection of articles in Spanish organized by many different topics. These articles are at a level that's appropriate for intermediate level Spanish students, or possibly for reading Spanish as a research language courses.

The second tab is for teahers' use of Evernote. It appears it is a tool for assembling student media into a project.

Much as I like diigo, our school uses evernote. This should help me adapt as I try to integrate evernote more in the coming year.

Haven't used Evernote before looks interesting. I will have to check this out.

I tried to find a fun reading website and found this blog. It seems like this is one of the very popular websites in Japan for English learning where people can improve their reading skills with a lot of fun.

Interesting blog on Italian terminologies, like neologisms and loanwords.