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"Speaking and writing in the target language are two fundamental goals of the World Languages Department. To that end, our 5th grade Spanish students maintain a class blog (hosted by MICDS and powered by WordPress MU) where they can showcase their language skills. For their first exercise, each student posted a letter that included an audio recording created using Audacity. These posts will, over time, become a portfolio of the students' progression in Spanish."

The Internet, with its audio and video features, offers particular benefits for English-language learner teachers and students, says Larry Ferlazzo.

The ThingLink Interactive Image Contest invites students to connect audio, video, images, and text in one cohesive presentation. Students will dig deeper into content through research to present knowledge and ideas as they learn, practice and demonstrate digital literacy skills in image creation, selection, content curation, creativity, tagging and sharing.

Voice-driven communication device which can be private or public on a website for all. Ability to send and share information, instructions privately to one or many is key. Imagine multilingual instructions, different instructions for different students, parent communication and more!