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Helpful hints for effective TL vocabulary instruction - 10 Do's and Don'ts

This is an Animoto presentation that I found and tweaked to use with my classes this year. It gives some guidelines to my students about how to effectively participate on Edmodo.

article dealing with the state of the art German Museums online presence

A good article that tells about how schools are using social networking

I like this article's ideas for how to use certain social media tools in the classroom, such as gaggle.net for safe social networking, Twitter for end-of-unit review, etc.

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.

Excellent site for building reading comprehension - word chart, cause/effect, story

This is an online learning environment dedicated for educators and students to learn how to effectively use Google Apps in an educational context.

March 24, 2014 By: Carolyn Ives in Effective Teaching Strategies Many instructors will argue that student participation in class is important. But what's the difference between participation and engagement? What does good participation or engagement look like? How can you recognize it? And how can you tell if a student is not engaged?

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

This is a very interesting article on three strategies to create a meaningful learning environment for our students in class or online. Especially relevant is the suggestion on assessing often and early

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A cute, but effective, video presentation for novice French language learners explaining the difference between when to use "on" and "nous".