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PurposeGames.com is host to educational quiz and trivia games created by its members. In just a few minutes, you can create your very own game to share with your friends!.

Timed educational games - history, geography, languages etc. Currently over 17,000 different games available. Great for reviewing material using smartboard

Create and play educational quiz games, memorize maps to improve your knowledge in Geography, Science, History and other fields of interest. Free Login required to create

ARGuing is a Comenius project funded within the European Union Lifelong Learning programme for the promotion of language learning for secondary school students (ages 13 to16).\n\nThe project has created a special collaborative, multilingual game, called an Alternate Reality Game,

In most if not all 1:1 student laptop initiatives, "instant messaging" is a hot topic for both students and teachers. Typically and predictably, students want access to instant messaging, while many teachers and administrators see IM as a distraction comparable to video games. Both IM and video games are often regarded as "problems" for the classroom teaching and learning environment, rather than powerful tools that can be leveraged for transformative educational experiences.

This is one of my favorite sites to find out what's new in tech for our use.  The April 11th blog post discusses typing accents in other languages.  It also presents 2 virtual keyboards for WL students. Also presented are links to learning languages, activities, and image-based language lessons.  The Pictolang games could help students study languages on their own. The CAPL galleries could be helpful in locating images to use in developing your own language learning activities. You could also have students use CAPL to create language learning games to use to study

researchers long thought the window for learning a new language shrinks rapidly after age 7 and closes almost entirely after puberty. Yet interdisciplinary research conducted over the past five years at the University of Washington, Pennsylvania State University, and other colleges suggest that the time frame may be more flexible than first thought and that students who learn additional languages become more adaptable in other types of learning, too.

Several game makers and ready-made activities. Some are PC only but handy all the same. Mostly downloads so good for those with poor or unreliable connections in your classroom.

Asymptopia Crossword Builder is a JavaScript education application that runs in any modern internet browser but does not require an internet connection. The simple controls allow teachers or parents to create unlimited math crosswords, or supply their own word:hint pairs. Support has recently been added for French, Spanish, pt-Brasillian, Kiswahili, and special characters (accents, tildes etc), in general. Some suggested uses include: cities, countries, lattitudes and longitudes to teach geography and spherical trig, simultaneously; Periodic table word:hint pairs; Language[i]:Language[j] word:hint pairs, for foreign language learning exercise; Terminology practice with virtually any other subject.

Gaming in World Languages sponsored by the EU. Should be interesting.

The January issue of the ICTmagic Show online magazine is out, full of my favourite recent finds and how you can use them in your class. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/%2AICTmagic+Show

Learn Japanese in a new way! A fun Japanese reviewing tool for foreign learners and native speakers alike.

Hi I'm Miriam Ramos Warth. I have taught Spanish for many years. In all this years I've heard parents asking: How can my child practice more Spanish at home? How can I help? Etc... The Internet has many free Spanish resources for parents and teachers but to find the right activity, game or song it's sometimes a bit of a challenge and time consuming. I want to share some websites that I think are age appropriate and with good content to help children to practice Spanish at home.