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An interesting quiz to share with students.

"With this interactive tool, teens can create printed social networking or magazine/newspaper profiles for themselves, peers or family members whom they have interviewed, or fictional characters from books they have read. Featuring components of popular online social networking applications, this tool engages teens and provides a means for adults to talk about safe, responsible online behavior, such as having an awareness of who could be seeing online profiles and limiting highly personal information."

An excellent source of German music clips and online interactive quizzes in English about Germany.

"A TextArc is a visual represention of a text-the entire text (twice!) on a single page. A funny combination of an index, concordance, and summary; it uses the viewer's eye to help uncover meaning."

an online concordancer developed by Yasumasa Someya that draws on a number of different text banks, but with links to analyses that relate largely to Business English

Object Pronouns: Video here In English: me, you, him, her, it, us, you, them 1- THINGS it: le, la them: les I am reading an email: I am reading it Je lis un email: je le lis (the pronoun before the verb) Je lis une carte: je la lis J'ai reçu une lettre: je l'ai reçue J'ai reçu les le

Have you ever wanted to learn French but didn't have the time or money to do so? Now you can take advantage of an opportunity to learn it from the comfort of your own home with dexway, the most innovative, interactive and affordable online language learning method on the market.

Developing Intermediate Vocabulary is an excellent book with generic topics that can fit into any classroom in any country in the world.

HUGE collection of German grammar PowerPoint presentations. An excellent resource!

MegaZine3 is an open source, Flash driven pageflip engine. A pageflip engine is a tool which recreates the look and feel of actual books or magazines on the screen.

Stories from an American Life

English Unlimited is a new series with thoughtful topics, layout and presentation. This is a book review of the Starter books

An amazing collection of German teaching and learning resources

"Introduction In recent years, the world has witnessed a growing wave of local initiatives in support of public schools. Teachers, cultural associations and civil society have been playing an active part in grassroots experiments aimed at helping schools in the creative elaboration of new educational methods, also exploiting information technologies. Here answers are coming from those directly faced with educational issues, in contrast with the more common top-down reforms, where experts' committees draw up didactic experimentation plans to be put forward to willing teachers. Experiments like that are often very effective but, unfortunately, they rarely get known beyond the immediate sphere of their promoters. Moreover, they tend to be short-lived because promoters don't have the strength to sustain them and a suitable supporting network is lacking. They are like drops in the ocean: they apparently cannot change the entire educational system. But the ocean of whole human community could be flooded by many such contained experiments that would transform it, if the most meaningful of them could be fostered, spread and developed. ..."

"Learn a Language - or Learn 8 of Them! Learn a language here with Visual Link® Languages. You can learn over 1,400 words for free here! There are interactive audio/visual flash cards to help you learn a foreign language. There's also an addictive Lingo Dingo game to help you on your online language learning journey. As seen above, you can learn any language of your choice. You can also learn important phrases like greetings, survival expressions and slang words in the language of your choice. If you want verbs, there are over 350 verbs to help you with your language study. To our knowledge, this is the most extensive, free website dedicated to online language learning. Be sure to use it and pass it on to others. "

A huge site with lots resources to teach English as a additional language. Find games, ideas, lesson plans, quizzes and a helpful online community of students and educators. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English+As+An+Additional+Language

An interesting site that connects language learners to native speakers using video conferencing. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Languages%2C+Culture+%26+International+Projects

A great site for teachers/learner of English as a second language to find resources. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English+As+An+Additional+Language

Documentary w/ subtitles. Could be used as input or as an example of a video project