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Allows teachers to create interactive drag-and-drop activities to post on their own websites. (Think refrigerator magnet poetry, but applied to language learning.) Developed by a teacher for her own use and shared with others.

Clickers have been quietly marching over the horizon of attention for several years. Only early adopters, however, and schools with enough money and vision to try them have come to understand that, far from being simply the latest new gadget, they offer students a pedagogically powerful blend of intimacy and anonymity that can move them from passive to active learning with the click of a button (and a battery of well-crafted questions).

Universal Design for Instruction (UDI), the foundation for grant activities, is an approach to college instruction that anticipates diversity of learners and provides a framework for college faculty to incorporate inclusive strategies in their teaching. The FacultyWare site was designed to provide you with a broad range of information and tools to enhance the design and delivery of instruction for diverse college students.

"ANTWERP CALL 2010: Motivation and beyond 18-20 August 2010 The editor, associate editors and editorial board of the CALL Journal extend a cordial invitation to attend Antwerp CALL 2010, the XIVth International CALL Research Conference. Keynote speakers Antonie Alm (University of Otago, New Zealand), Maarten Vansteenkiste (Ghent University, Belgium) and Ema Ushioda (Warwick University, United Kingdom) will provide an overview of literature on motivation, an introduction to Self-Determination Theory and a presentation of the L2 SELF model. You are hereby invited to present your current CALL activities, highlighting aspects such as: * the impact of ICT on motivation; * designing for motivation; * the role of ICT in the analysis of motivation; * the relationship between motivation and proficiency level; * learning styles; * anxiety; * technophobia/technophilia; * self-models; * teacher motivation."

"GLOSS online language lessons are developed for independent learners to provide them with the learning/teaching tools for improving their foreign language skills. Reading and listening lessons are based on authentic materials (articles, TV reports, radio broadcasts, etc.) and consist of 4 to 6 activities. The motivating tasks are accompanied with in-depth feedback that provide learners with thorough explanations and tutoring just like an attentive and experienced teacher would do. With more than 5,600 instructional hours of materials, GLOSS is a valuable resource in maintaining and improving language ability of the learners."

Articles and practice activities from the BBC for learning French.

Spanish learning games!

"Xerte Online Toolkits is an award winning suite of browser-based tools that allow anyone with a web browser to create interactive learning materials quickly and easily. "

Sign up with what languages you want to teach / learn, connect with language exchange partners.

A hand-written instruction guide developed by a Spanish teacher at the secondary level for her students.