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from Bernadette Holmes speech at LW2013

from Bernadette Holmes' speech at LW13

from Bernadette Holmes' speech at LW13

from Bernadette Holmes' speech at LW13

from Bernadette Holmes' speech at LW2013

Visuals for Foreign Language Instruction is a free gallery of images hosted by the University of Pittsburgh's Digital Research Library. The gallery contains nearly 500 drawings of people conversing, scenes in houses and buildings, and objects commonly found in houses. You'll also find drawings scenes in cities, in stores, and in nature. The visuals are all drawn cartoon style without any text or speech bubbles. Applications for Education If you're looking for some visual prompts to use in your language lessons, take a look at the gallery at Visuals for Foreign Language Instruction. You can search the gallery by keyword or simple browse through the collection. 

Create short animated films with audio, text, backgrounds and a 3D avatar on an Apple device, then share the video online. Ideal for sharing ideas, tasks or homework. Download the app at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gami/id572737805?ls=1&mt=8 http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Video%2C+animation%2C+film+%26+Webcams

Various interesting articles related to SM and FLL. On the attractiveness of social media for language learning: a look at the state of the art  Facebook-ing and the Social Generation: A New Era of Language Learning  Language Learners' "Willingness to Communicate" through Livemocha.com Online gaming as sociable media

Folk music in many European languages http://folkdc.eu/ The Digital Children's Folksongs for Language and Cultural Learning (Folk DC) project is a European Union project designed to motivate young language learners to engage with language learning through using Folk songs, and activities around the songs. The songs are in 10 European languages (Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish). The project will be producing a complete package for schools (Autonomous Teacher Training Tool kit - ATTT) so that schools all over Europe can take part in the project. The project culminates in a simultaneous, live concert in 5 countries, streamed over the Internet to audiences all over Europe. School choirs will sing folk songs in non-native languages that will be streamed to the other concert venues and also made available to an Internet audience. Schools can take part in this project by: Using the resources produced by the project Suggesting your own language, culture and music activities, inspired by the project Watching the live concert (at the venue or online) - see how you can join Adding folk songs of your language - see the project Wiki You can ask more information about how you can take part here. The project will introduce an understanding of the number, richness and culture of other languages when children start to learn a foreign language and begin to understand the meaning of additional languages. It will engage children in fascinating and engaging activities that will resonate in to the future and answer the need for materials that can directly engage and motivate children to enjoy their learning.

A social network where posts are translated into 36 languages and reads them out at the click of a button. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

"Uploaded by payitfwdisl on Oct 17, 2010 Pay It Forward In Signs is a non-profit organization created to raise awareness and bridge the gap between the deaf and the hearing communities in Israel. Lean more at : http://www.payitfwdisl.org.il or in ower Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pay-it-forward-in-sign-language/110699218993662"

Working with vocabulary and songs at a B2 ESL classroom.

B2 ESL learners at a press conference with Irish author Jonathan Swift, who is answering questions about Gulliver's Travels.

The prepared text of the Commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs on June 12, 2005 at Stanford University.

A silent movie, the second silent movie to be awarded an Oscar in history. Have a look at the trailer below and try to write some words for it, as if you were subtitling it.

This is a great game app for learning Chinese Pinyin, simplified Chinese and Mandarin. Play the Scrabble-like game by arranging your tiles on the board to form Pinyin words. Choose a character and the correct meaning to gain extra points. Play against friends on the web. Download the app at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pinyinpal-only-free-mandarin/id573873383 http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Mandarin+%26+Chinese+culture