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get students to write a newspaper article!

An excellent collection of different Web 2.0 tools that are useful for classrooms.

A great collection of web 2.0 tools useful for education

A fantastic, motivating vocab learning tool!

From the website: "More than 20.000 grammar and vocabulary exercises A more than 800-hour interactive online German course Our exercises are structured according to the European Framework of Reference for Languages"

A wide variety of German quizzes with online correction

A collection of various German websites

A link sent to me by the wonderful Jaclyn C. "The above activity (webpage) is in English, but I think it could be useful to label in German. Ich habe Fluegel und Pfoten. Mein Fluegel sind schwarz und orange. Ich habe Horner. Ich bin schoen aber gefahrlich. Ich habe kein…… Viel Spass Jaclyn"

Videora Converter is a free video converter that converts video files, YouTube videos, movies and DVD's so you can play them on your video playing device. It is available for Windows and Mac.

I have just uploaded a couple of videos onto youtube going through some German grammar. At the moment I have done accusative and dative pronouns and adjective endings following indefinite articles.

Created by a teacher, the toolbar can make crosswords, bingo cards, jumbles, word search puzzles, flashcards, cloze tests, pair-matching puzzles and much more.

eLanguages is a global online community of teachers sharing ideas and working together with their students on curriculum-relevant projects.

To make a movie

This blog from Edutopia highlights Kathy Shirley and her work with iPods in an ESL classroom. At a session I attended, she shared the amazing growth her students underwent when they could hear themselves and could redo their oral practice assignments over and over until they were satisfied with the results. Her teachers have since gone on to expand their use of iPods in the classroom. The iPods offers unlimited possibilities for all second language teachers. And one of the best parts, as Kathy said, is that minimal tech. expertise is required on the part of teachers.

The Government of Quebec has created a series of French exercises at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels. There is an entry test and then students access exercises at an appropriate level. The sample I tried included an audio track and questions.

Hollur is a new social networking site that focuses on you using your own voice

Here is a great way to learn English Verbs on your iPod. Apps are also now available.

Would you believe this is a beef jerky advertisement? Lots of potential for school!

LangChat Resources includes a variety of pages promoting materials and ideas for language educators. This is an offspring of the weekly twitter chat stream for the group.