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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.

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.

Interesting article on the use of infographic. The full report from the Pearson and the Babson Survey Research Group offers an interesting perspective on the use of social media in the classroom

I included this web-page because it mentions a Twitter group I like to check out called #langchat.  It also archives chat sessions.  Lots of practical-in-the-classroom idea sharing, especially regarding assessments.

Links to sources that allow you to create free infographics.

The FLTmag is a practice-oriented online publication dedicated to the field of foreign language technology. Its goal is to provide useful and practical information about technology integration in the classroom such as emerging technologies, interesting books, classroom projects, institutional initiatives, conferences and symposiums and language centers worldwide. Its hoping to become a public forum promoting engaged and productive discussions around burning issues in the field of language technology in the U.S. and beyond Currently there is very few things posted, but I see this as eventually becoming the 'go-to' site 

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. 

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)

The pros for including more visual texts and infographics in our teaching 

Build your English vocabulary while reading the news.  

This LiveBinder is dedicated to helping teachers find the right web tool for the task at hand. This LiveBinder by Tim Wilhemus has resources for items like video editing, audio editing, URL management, file management, online publishing, digital storytelling, curation tools, social networking, media sharing, drawing tools, blogging, iApps, time management, etc

This is the official site for Creative Commons, a non-profit organization that allows users to license their creative work (e.g., music, blogs, photographs, course materials, etc.) in online environments.

The content and data on your Ning social network are yours. Period. And Ning gives you a lot of ways to create content - starting with an enhanced Blog feature optimized for co-publishing so posts can come from you, your members, even invited experts.

This site allows students to create their own blogs. (Recommended mainly for high school and college students.)