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This is a link to the web edition of the Spanish language newspaper "Hoy". It is useful because it allows students to read about local news in Spanish. It is also interesting to read an article on the same topic from an English language newspaper and a Spanish language newspaper and investigate the differences in opinion.

Wordle is a webiste that allows you to create "word clouds". You type in a number of words (could be key vocabulary terms) to create a "word cloud" that can be tweaked to give more prominence to words that you deem most important.

The World Factbook offers information on many aspects of countries including history, people, and economy. It is a good way to get factual information on countries and even offers a section to compare countries across categories.

ePals connects students from around the world. Students can interact with other students and collaborate on projects and assignments, or just simple communicate. It would be a great way to facilitate a class exchange between students in a Spanish speaking country and our students.

This is an organized website that gives ideas for how to teach a number of different aspects of the Spanish language.

This website includes a list of links to sites with classroom management strategies.

This is a link to a lot of popular stories in Spanish. They are written on a variety of levels.

Find a language exchange partner in Madrid, Barcelona and other Spanish cities.

Learn Spanish by speaking and writing with native speakers via email, text chat or voice chat.

A website full of information about Mexico. This could be useful for students looking to study more about Mexico.

A great webquest to learn about Argentina's culture and history.

A very potent, multi-media organizational tool for constructing arguments - based on Clarkson's box. Easy to use but somewhat abstract for younger users.

Museum Box is a way for students to create digital boxes of artifacts to create or support an argument.

Wallwisher re: CPS Technology.

Free online animation tool

A list of educator-oriented Web 2.0 tools

Online photo editing tool ("photo editing made fun").

My list of sources of copyright safe images and audio.

A free and easy tool for checking text against web pages

One of many plagiarism checkers, the one I showed in class...

"Open source educational software is rapidly gaining adoption in a wide array of teaching environments." List of open source apps by function and what apps they replace.

Some interesting applications here...

Good article