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English news lessons: Free EFL/ESL lesson plans, handouts and podcast for teaching current events and current affairs lessons, and business English. It combines reading, writing, listening and speaking - excellent for DI/UDL teaching.This is an interesting novel approach to teaching a language through current events. It is sort of a crossover between English and Social Studies, which is great. We want to move toward interdisciplinary curriculum, as opposed to isolates and disjointed content areas.

A series of user-friendly techniques, suggestions, tips, and advice which is focused on teaching and learning to make technology useful in the classroom. This is specifically related to Foreign Languages teaching, and it's awsome!

This blog explains what a blog is, how to use it in teaching and how not to use it in teaching.

This educational podcast allows both educators and parents to find ideas for teaching and learning activities for children. It has a wide variety of podcast channels to support the teaching and learning process.

TeAchnology.com offers teachers FREE access to thousands of teacher resources, lesson plans, and rubrics.

Providing leadership and service to improve teaching \nand learning by advancing the effective use of technology in education!

International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), is a nonprofit membership organization which aims to provide leadership and service to improve teaching, learning, and school leadership by advancing the effective use of technology in PK-12 and teacher education.

Providing leadership and service to improve teaching and learning by advancing the effective use of technology in education!

Quest Atlantis (QA) is an international learning and teaching project that uses a 3D multi-user environment to immerse children, ages 9-15, in educational tasks. QA combines strategies used in the commercial gaming environment with lessons from educational research on learning and motivation. Participation in this game is designed to enhance the lives of children while helping them grow into knowledgeable, responsible, and empathetic adults.

Quest Atlantis (QA) is an international learning and teaching project that uses a 3D multi-user environment to immerse children, ages 9-15, in educational tasks. QA combines strategies used in the commercial gaming environment with lessons from educational research on learning and motivation. Participation in this game is designed to enhance the lives of children while helping them grow into knowledgeable, responsible, and empathetic adults.

This is a blog about using podcasting as a tool for teaching foreign languages

Since 1994, the Linguistic Funland has offered extensive resources for teachers of English and ESL including links to job information, books, software, student activities, teaching materials and more.

Excellent pointers for presenting and teaching

Middle schoolers share their perspective on teaching and learning.

The "Educational Technology: ICT in Education" website is for educators who use, teach, lead or manage educational technology, or information and communications technology (ICT). It publishes articles covering the whole range of managing ICT in educational context. Although the content of the website is mainly in the form of articles, there are also videos, podcasts, bookmarks and other pages.

The Education Podcast Network is a network that looks at all the ways that teachers can use podcast as a tool in education. It lists all the subject areas where educators can get podcasts for. This could really be good for new teachers who are trying to utilize podcasts in their teachings.

This is a free registration website where teachers can conduct live online classes, create and share tests, and upload and share content, and student can attend live online classes from experts around the world, attempt online tests, view educational content on topics of their choice, and search a techer for help.

"Our goal at TeacherTube.com is to provide an online community for sharing instructional teacher videos. Upload your lesson plan videos or watch student video lessons at our website. For additional information contact info@teachertube.com." If Youtube is blocked at a school, this might not be or you may be able to convince them to unblock it easier.

This is an excellent sourse with a huge selection of podcasts about foreign language teaching, and the information about how to find such podcasts. Five stars!

This is a website of the External Spanish Radio. It is all in Spanish, and I think that I could use this website for my secondary students. It contains written and audio texts, which would accomodate two different learning styles at the same time (thinking DI teaching).

This website talks about innovative ways of using iPods for teaching languages. It also hosts a blog on the same topic. Excellent!

This is an excellent website that explains how podcasting technology can be used for teaching foreign languages.