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Audio-Lingua offers mp3 recordings in several languages, at several levels of study.  You can select by theme, length, voice (male/female)

Excellent native-speaker audio clips (from 15 - 120 seconds long) available in multiple languages and filtered by proficiency level.

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.

I am interested in using this in exchange with a Spanish-speaking country

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.

The website Facts about Germany invites you to get to know Germany. It offers profound basic knowledge and guidance - especially designed for readers abroad whose interest in the course of time in Germany extends beyond the casual flood of the daily news.

Reading about why we should integrate technology in the classroom and what the benefits to using technology in the classroom are.

A video which offers perspectives on using virtual worlds in the classroom as a learning experience. Targets differentiating in the classroom using technology.

This is a collaborative workspace for the development of instructional items for the use of MMORPGs, like World of Warcraft, GuildWars2 and others, in a school setting.  Examples of how to incorporate World of WarCraft in school.  Great resources which can be transferred into the WL classroom

The easy way to create and share extraordinary videos of your life. Our online video maker turns your photos, video clips and music into video in minutes. I can envision using Animoto in an Intermediate Spanish course and having students document - in audio and video - part of their day, be it what they ate for dinner in campus dining hall or a trip to a local museum, etc.

Specific and detailed examples on how to use Google Forms in the classroom. Definitely, a must check it out

This site has a slideshow about how to use Google Docs / Drive in the classroom.

Find educators interested in connecting their classes through Skype

Spanish technology terms for students; site includes quiz and worksheets. Possible use in technology literacy lesson.

A scoring rubric for items to be included in an e-portfolio.

I liked this rubric especially since I want to implement portfolios in my class.

This article details various ways to assess student speaking skills quickly in class; aligns with recent ACTFL conference presentations.

This site tells how to participate in the weekly online Twitter chat with #langchat, foreign language teachers sharing ideas about a pre-determined weekly topic. This is very useful for building your PLN, and will provide links and ideas for your classroom lessons and units.

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

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Easy way to make infographics for showing your data. Create the infographic and add photos, text, shapes, data and once you save it download your finished product or share it in social media.

You must create an account in order to use their free (but limited) themes.  Create your own infographics 

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.

Many of us have been talking about how it is hard to find time to take advantage of all the technologies that are out there. I thought this page offered an interesting perspective on how 21st technology can be incorporated into daily life.