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As a teacher you can apply for an educator's account in DIIGO. You can set up classes and DIIGO automatically creates private groups for each class. And ads are limited to education-related sponsors.

Access a goldmine of podcasts, videos, language courses and other free cultural and educational media

"Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. You can: * Download the files to your Mp3 player and listen on the go, * Listen to the Mp3 files on your computer, * View the text on a webpage and read along as you listen, * Print out the stories and poems to make your own book." An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along or as supplemental reading material for your classroom.

If you're looking for free audiobooks, this is a good site. You can subscribe to it via iTunes if you want, or simply donwload the podcasts (and print version in PDF) manually.

If you're thinking of running a class blog this year, have a look at 21Classes. Very useful for younger learners.

Good instructions on how to use VOICETHREAD, by a professor of Spanish.

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