This "Social Media Citation Guide" is from the Educational Technology and Mobile Learning Website and shows a easy display of how to site blog posts, YouTube videos, Twitter tweets, Facebook posts, and email in both MLA and APA styles. It's formatted as a neatly designed table which can be enlarged for viewing.
This review from the Educational Technology and Mobile Learning site offers readers several postings on proper citation use for papers and academic projects for both students and teachers.
The easy way to create and share extraordinary videos of your life. Our online video maker turns your photos, video clips and music into video in minutes.
I can envision using Animoto in an Intermediate Spanish course and having students document - in audio and video - part of their day, be it what they ate for dinner in campus dining hall or a trip to a local museum, etc.
Fabulous compilation of key suggestions for How-Tos on literacies, rubrics, PLNs, website creation, collaboration and tools for creating classroom products.
This article is a nice reminder that assessment has many facets, and is vital for measuring educational quality on lots of levels as well as student achievement.
This site is an excellent resource for lesson plans, PowerPoint presentations, class activities for communication in the target language. Teachers share several artifacts which can be used in the classroom to enhance student engagement both inside and outside the classroom. There is also a Forum where world language teachers blog about useful tips and issues in the world language classroom. Lots of current topics discussed such as using technology in the classroom.
Information Literacy is the ability to identify what information is needed, understand how the information is organized, identify the best sources of information for a given need, locate those sources, evaluate the sources critically, and share that information. It is the knowledge of commonly used research techniques.
This is a FREE language teaching MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) where language teachers can meet, learn, share, and explore. Great use of google groups for promoting dialogue. Twitter on steroids.
Free PDF download of excerpts from Collier's handbook.
Aside from simply creating notebooks and notes on ideas of interest, students (and instructors, too!) can use Evernote features to track to-dos, share folders, even build portfolios. Evernote provides useful tools for helping students stay organized in our fast-paced, digital device-driven world.
This tool helps to improve your students speaking by assigning speaking activities for homework. It is $ 20 a year for instructors and a minimum of $ 5 fee for a student to use it.