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Highly engaging websites that teacher in form of song and games. Interest especially for middle and high school students.

A spreadsheet listing 1,195 (and growing!) songs in Spanish. Includes artist, title, grammar and vocabulary covered, culture, country of origin, and any other pertinent links to, for example, YouTube videos. Suggestions for songs not found here are welcome by site creator Sra. Birch.

I actually worked with this teacher during my interships in my undergraduate studies. She is very big into using music and videos in the classroom.

Nick, that is really cool! Yes, apparently she DOES get into teaching with music, with such a huge compilation of songs!

This resource from el Centro Virtual Cervantes provides video interviews with individuals from a number of regions or cities in Latin America and Spain. Each interview is accompanied by a description of the linguistic characteristics of a particular way of speaking, a text transcript, and information on where the region is located geographically. I personally find this fascinating! I also think it could serve as a resource for students who might not be aware of how many variations there are when Spanish is spoken.

words of wisdom!

Cindy, can we keep this group going even after the class is over? The amount of resources shared is incredible. Maria

On this website, Wesley Fryer gives some great definitions of copyright rules, including a mnemonic device to use with students to help them remember the basic principles of sharing media ("Harry Potter Can Fly"). There are also other good links and a video all on the theme of fair use and copyright.

This is a good website for educators as it includes links to articles, videos, and websites related to copyright and fair use policies.

A teacher shows the video he embedded on this site to his students so they can begin to understand the process

Another approach - Podcast with slides about Creative Commons explaining many details and examples.

The videos Dr. Kendall provided are more engaging, but this podcast gives helpful details about each of the Creative Commons licensing options.

Copyright and creative commons - Lesson plans

I was looking at the same website!! I find this song also a good way to introduce copyrights to students in a fun way. http://mediaeducationlab.com/1-whats-copyright-music-video

Government website for internet safety for children

Here is a cute video about copyright

This is a Youtube channel that has a flipped grammar lessons. It is very useful for Arabic teachers using Al-Kitaab series. It allows them to use class time in activating knowledge more than explaining grammatical concept.

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This site mirrors the English version, but all the content is in French. The quizzes after each cartoon video clip are very useful for extending vocabulary beyond the basics.

LiveBinders is your 3-ring binder for the web, create an online binder for content curation. Livebinders were created so that anyone, including educators, could do with digital information what we typically do with the papers on our desk -- organize them into nice containers like three-ring binders on a shelf. With these online binders, you can also upload your documents and easily combine them with your links in a neat and organized way. Once you've created your binder by filling it with links, resources, photos or videos, you can share it via email, link it to anything, embed it in a blog or view it in presentation mode With LiveBinders ,you can organize a lesson there, collaborate with a colleague in writing that lesson on a binder, and share it across many spaces. You can even have students work collaboratively on binders. Creating a LiveBinder to support your lesson planning will save you time and become a living document that you can update anytime.

This is a great way to organize all of your resources online. It looks very interesting and you can get good resources from the featured binders that are on the site.

I love live binders. I created one for each of the classes I teach. It is easy to add information, the class notes and handouts, links for extra practice, etc. Students can easily get to it from anywhere.

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.

embed-ible resources for all sorts of visual learning.  One could use some of the data visualizations to show the importance of learning a second or third language.

I like how visual the site is. Other than infographics it incorporates videos and other interactives. I even saw Venn Diagrams. It has a lot to offer to use in the classroom for students and outside the classroom with other teachers or administrators.

Explain Everything is a screencasting app for the iPad. It costs $2.99 in the App Store and no account is needed to use it. This iPad app is designed for educational professionals and students alike, to create projects and record them as screencasts. It is a powerful tool and flexible app that is easy to use. Students use Explain Everything to make collaborative projects using multiple mediums. The recording feature allows foreign language students to create speaking samples with their projects, which can be used to measure progress with language proficiency in a digital portfolio. Teachers can use the recording feature to create a lecture capture. Projects can be designed directly in Explain Everything or files such as presentations, photos, notes, and videos can be imported into the app to create a project that can be annotated with pencil or text, narrated, recorded, and shared in a variety of ways, uploading to Photo Roll, You Tube, Email, Drop Box, and Evernote. Explain Everything can be used by both teachers and students as an interactive whiteboard tool for presentational purposes, when connected to an Apple TV or projector.