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This one-page document offers a good reminder that we (teachers and students) must cite images found on google images. I gives clear instructions for how to cite in APA.

a website that has free images for blogs and wikis.

Free images, flickr embed codes and referral links. Thanks to Theresa for sharing!

Thanks Theresa - posting for future reference!

This site is a good resource for citing images with varying amounts of information available and provides useful examples with a link to UMUC for APA style citation.

"images in Ookaboo are public domain or creative commons and can be used freely for blogs, web sites, schoolwork, publications, and other creative projects."

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Visuals for Foreign Language Instruction is a free gallery of images hosted by the University of Pittsburgh's Digital Research Library. The gallery contains nearly 500 drawings of people conversing, scenes in houses and buildings, and objects commonly found in houses. You'll also find drawings scenes in cities, in stores, and in nature. The visuals are all drawn cartoon style without any text or speech bubbles. Applications for Education If you're looking for some visual prompts to use in your language lessons, take a look at the gallery at Visuals for Foreign Language Instruction. You can search the gallery by keyword or simple browse through the collection. 

Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon: This site is a searchable site of images by language and some countries.

Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon

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This is one of my favorite sites to find out what's new in tech for our use.  The April 11th blog post discusses typing accents in other languages.  It also presents 2 virtual keyboards for WL students. Also presented are links to learning languages, activities, and image-based language lessons.  

Foldables templates

This site is for elementary students, but if they can do it, we certainly can!

This has some great free images. Could be used for description and webpages and flipcharts in the classroom.

Padlet is tool for asynchronous (or synchronous) posting of comments and images on a wall by multiple users.  This tool is much like a discussion board, but it's a bit more visually stimulating and motivating for students, as they get to choose where on the wall they will leave their note (kind of like a sticky note on a bulletin board). This also works great for department-wide discussions. Users do not need a login to post.

ThingLink is a web tool that allows groups to comment on with text, audio, video, and to share and/or embed them. This resource has multiple applications in the FL classroom, including visual literacy, information literacy, enhancing communication and collaborative skills. One example activity: upload a map and have students describe various locations on map orally, in video, or text, and then have them comment on/expand upon each others' posts.

One of the teachers in my division sent me this link. The site has reproducible graphic organzers in Spanish and ideas on how to use them. You will have to print the graphic organizers to use them, but they have some possibilities.

I shared this with my colleagues one of whom shared it further and a college professor of future language teachers loved it and was quite appreciative of it. So, thanks for sharing. We never know how far a great link or idea will travel.

Wow, thanks Sheila.

Are you inspired to create amazing interactive courses, but don't know how to code? Versal is a simple publishing platform with everything you need. Add text, videos, images, quizzes and interactive learning gadgets and bring your expertise to life.  I could see using this as a means for differentiating instruction within my class, as a means to support learning, and more. 

Teacher and author Larry Ferlazzo shares some great resources for creating visuals to accompany short texts.  This could be used by both teachers and students at all levels of instruction to address differentiated learning and to offer students options for demonstrating their learning.

Barbara - Thanks for sharing this blog article and the teaching tip. What a great idea for differentiation and integration of digital literacy. This provides students with the opportunity to demonstrate their digital literacy skills with respect to appropriate use of images, citation, etc.

This is a "trilingual index of expressions with equivalent meanings" in English, Spanish, and French/Québécois. The colorful idioms are often difficult to translate directly, so this resource is very useful and fun!

Great report on Technology Innovation in Education. Interesting reading and explanation of data and trends

This flowchart from the iPad4Schools folks shows the flow from teacher to student through applications and websites in a mobile social learning environment.  Even if mobile learning isn't a big part of your school or district's program, you'll appreciate the 21st century nature of this resource. 

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