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Ideas about using QR codes in the classroom - how they might be incorporated into lessons and educational activities.

Ten Ideas for Educating Innovatively with Phone Casting - aka Podcasting made easy #tetc10 http://tinyurl.com/273wopm - Monte Tatom (drmmtatom) http://twitter.com/drmmtatom/status/11466690965536768

"Over the course of this event we will be looking at a small range of web based tools that will enable you to create motivating online language learning activities for your students. These can be used either in class or set as homework. You will have the chance to understand how these tools work, find out how to use them with students and be able to try your hand at creating and sharing activities with other teachers. By the end of the event you should have a small 'toolkit' of resources and ideas that will enable you to enhance your lessons though the effective and pedagogically sound use of technology."

Over the course of this event we will be looking at a small range of web based tools that will enable you to create motivating online language learning activities for your students. These can be used either in class or set as homework. You will have the chance to understand how these tools work, find out how to use them with students and be able to try your hand at creating and sharing activities with other teachers. By the end of the event you should have a small 'toolkit' of resources and ideas that will enable you to enhance your lessons though the effective and pedagogically sound use of technology.

Interface is dated, but looks like there are some good ideas here for tech. tools in L2 classes.

This is an interesting project - using authentic materials for language classrooms in ways in which the materials were never intended (e.g. recipe cards, postcards, maps, train schedules) - essentially focusing langauge activities and grammar on the task of describing or using the authentic materials. Sample lesson ideas are provided for each of the authentic materials highlighted.

Lots of links to ideas and resources to explore

Good tool to generate ideas.

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

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.

Make your youtube videos a quiz or create an interactive create your own adventure story. Start the story, students create the endings as videos and users can choose which ending they want, or have students first create the middles and then choose a middle different from their own to then create an ending. What are your ideas?