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This site/blog has lots of ideas for differentiation.  

This blog is run by two Louisville KY teachers of Spanish and is full of great ideas: "tech, hands-on, culture, activities by the 3 modes" to name a few. Open for teachers to post as well.

Audio-Lingua offers mp3 recordings in several languages, at several levels of study.  You can select by theme, length, voice (male/female)

Excellent native-speaker audio clips (from 15 - 120 seconds long) available in multiple languages and filtered by proficiency level.

This interactive website is a great classroom tool for authentic, age appropriate readings. It is set up like an average news website, which offers students information on a broad range of topics. In addition, there is a teaching corner that offers free resources and topics for debate!

Create a free account on this French language website so you have access to all the great videos, articles and "dossiers".  For example, there's a one minute animated video that explains why we have the 1 hour time change this weekend.  Great for high school level French students.

A great collection of francophone stories from countries like Mali, Senegal, Maroc.  You can download the text and a teacher's guide.  It's also read aloud by a native speaker.  

This is a game for Spanish learners and native speakers. It tests your vocabulary and helps you learn new words. Students need a smart phone or an ipad or Facebook to play.

This is a platform that will help students to make connections to native speakers around the world. It has a lot of resources for teachers as well. You are able to control who is in your class.

Teachers and students can creatively teach and/or show what they've learned with this 'recordable, interactive whiteboard'.

This website is a clearinghouse for every type of French grammar activity online, with additional cultural and vocabulary components.

Through this website, teachers can have their students vote or submit short text answers or questions using computers or SMS messages from their cell phones without needing to purchase clickers.

Early language learning website offering fun activities to promote learning. Eight different languages on offer. Interactive activities and printable worksheets available.

Organize talkgroups for your students on a voice-based message board. Students can practice oral skills in asynchronous communication. Conversations can be private.

German Teachers - check this out! This site offers a variety of free apps for the beginning language learner. On these apps the learner can practice a variety of vocabulary i. e. classroom vocabulary, food, basic conversational phrases etc.

A great website for advanced learners. Travelling through Germany with an art-expert German learners go through adventures while finding the location of a stolen artifact while learning German. This site is for advanced level learners (A2 and above) - it is fun and interactive. The game may be played on the Web. Apps for smartphones may be downloaded for free.

There is no denying the fact that the type of students we teach today are completely different from last century. Today, we need to look at some of the skills we, as teachers, need to equip ourselves with to better live up to the challenge. Among all the challenges we have in education, we need to catch students' focus and get them engaged in the learning process. Here is a list of some important digital skills that you, as a teacher, need to seriously consider if you want to pave the way for the 21st century teaching.

My favorite one is the use of infographics to visually stimulate students! I am aware of the importance of such a skill and it is the only skill that I haven't tried to acquire yet! I hope that those abe will get me there. Thanks for sharing.

When it comes to searching for educational apps to install on your iPad it feels like you get drowned in an avalanche of apps and resources from which you emerge empty-handed. Everyday new apps go viral and to keep up with the updates in this field is really a daunting challenge. Thankfully, there are many trusted educational resources ( this blog is one of them ) where educators and teachers can get to discover and learn about new useful apps to use in education.

I was looking at the applications familiar to me under Bloom's Taxonomy for iPads and for some reason it was surprising to find Skype as an evaluating tool! How could Skype be used for evaluating!?

Digital stories push students to become creators of content, rather than just consumers. Weaving together images, music, text, and voice, digital stories can be created in all content areas and at all grade levels while incorporating the 21st century skills of creating, communicating, and collaborating

Van Nood explains that after spending years with paper portfolios, he transitioned this concept into digital form, and have started to implement Evernote as the primarily system for creating portfolios in his classroom. He was using portfolios with limited success and spending a lot of time on them, until Evernote came into the picture. When he first started researching options, he was coming across a lot of companies that were really expensive, charging a lot for each student's use. He also knew that he needed an app for mobile devices that would make it easy to capture and document paperwork and he wasn't finding that in most of the tools I was evaluating. Evernote was free, had an app for virtually every device, and he could get started right away.

Many free templates to create games, quizzes, activities and diagrams.

Especially interesting is the QR game that can be used in schools that allow mobile devices - check this out. Great active game for all subjects