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The mission of the International Children's Digital Library Foundation is to excite and inspire the world's children to become members of the global community - children who understand the value of tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages and ideas -- by making the best in children's literature available online.

"A fab platform for creating your own ebooks. You can even embed images and videos. There is also a huge range of published work from the community. Invite others to comment and even collaborate on your stories."

"A superb platform for creating online books. Add pictures from the bank of images or from your computer. Browse the extensive library of books created by the community."

"Writing is vital to most examples of learning. It is how civilisation conveys information from generation to generation, it is how parents often communicate their needs and fears for their children as notes to the teacher, and it is how little Johnny/Jane tells you about what their cat and/or dog did at the weekend. Some people love writing, while others struggle with it, but everyone has to write to some degree in their daily lives, and all of this stems from their experiences in the classroom."

A bit of idle browsing led to me discovering this little gem of a TES thread about spontaneous TALK in MFL classrooms. Worth a read and a reflection.

Live chat Software has helped retailers to organize their online customer service tasks in more professional and efficient way. Using this web-based chat application, the vendors can carry out their online customer service task in a sequence which could produce more productive results.

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A nice alternative to Voicethread and a great option for starting a discussion. Discussions can start with text and/or a link to a video or other media. Then students can add their oral responses.