The Global Classroom

For Spanish Classrooms that are taught through comprehensible input method of teaching.

I found this website extremely helpful! This is what I was looking for/thinking about when I signed up for this class. :) Thanks for sharing this link!

A lesson plan example from a Spanish teacher using Skype :)

Tons of Skype tips!

Personally I prefer Google Hangout, but it's the same concept. What a great way to get a good guest speaker from someone that may not be local and speak in person. Personally I like the idea for professional development. Can do it one-on-one with someone and get specific questions answered for your class as opposed to blanket topics/statements in large group professional development settings.

I use Skype along with my husband's 5th grade classroom. His students read aloud to my kinder students as part of our literacy block. We rotate through the kids until everyone has had a turn and then we get new books and start over. It's a win, win for everyone!

Skype shows us how we can utilize their tools in the classroom.

This has all you need to get started on Skype - whether it be for personal use or for using in the classroom.

Not a long article, but useful.

Useful and organized!

Using Google Apps in the Classroom - PowerPoint Style

This is a good overview article with hyperlinked videos, blogs, and interviews with Google representatives responding to criticism that Google 'mines' student data.

This website is useful as it has various teacher and student made examples

Tips on types of collaboration you can use with students. Classmates can use email which may be moderated by their teachers.

This includes some great tools you can use with Google docs. The heap note teacher could be beneficial to help keep organized in the classroom.

Great information with instructional videos built into the powerpoint presentation. 

Artists, works of art and dates

Great in the classroom for current events study