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This is the article that I cited in one of my postings.

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

an interesting view on changing education.

Good blogpost about Assessment Literacy. Talks about what it is and what it is not.

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.

A document from an Iowa World Language Conference Presentation. Details several helpful ideas on possible and effective formative assessments.

Interesting article. Some good ideas about creating assessments.

If you are using Google Reader, you should know that it will phase out July, 2013. This article offers 4 alternative. The most popular one is called Feedly.

Simple ways to integrate technology into a lesson. Using the web to connect students outside the classroom.

This article takes you through the process of creating a digital storytelling project. It also offers a sample lesson plan how to implement digital storytelling in your language class.

Here is a list of the top 17 free digital storytelling apps on Ipad. http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/07/top-20-free-digital-stotytelling-apps.html

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.

Small research study on using blogs in learning a second language. It has a couple of interesting results.

Interesting article. More proof about the need for competency in more than one language and culture.

Interesting article that touches on some of our discussions.

This article provides a definition of mind-mapping as well as some great examples of how to use mind-mapping tools in the foreign language classroom.

students work together to accomplish a task - and this is done in the target language.  Students can also change the language of the game they are playing, and log onto a server in a target-language country.  They then learn how to communicate with them.  You can ask students to write about their experiences and perhaps give a narrative about the quest they went on (in the TL, of course)

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.