Are your students collecting RSS feeds in Google Reader, bookmarking sites as a group in Delicious, blogging, interviewing content area experts they found through Google Scholar, and teaching the section of the course for which they are responsible? Wendy Drexler's students are doing all of this. This is a must listen for those of us who dream of the day when education is a more active, accountable process for students and teachers.
This is a part of the Gobierno Español Ministerio de educacion website. It has online books at different levels that can be listened to or read as well as accompanying activities.
Loads of FREE stuff here. I especially like the "Cultural Notes" section. There are both long and short versions/written in English next to Spanish Some have a native speaker reading the Spanish version. The "Pronunciation" section uses native speakers from throughout the Spanish-speaking countries. Found it from Discovery Education site.
"Our free Spanish audio and video brings you authentic, real Spanish conversations about real-life topics, making you totally confident with your Spanish. Listen here, or on your iPod or mp3 player as Spanish podcasts"