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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

Our Learn Italian language lessons and courses are completely FREE with audio flash cards, interactive review games, and tons of free Italian language lessons.

This is a nice website. When you click on "language" in the top left corner, one can access other languages. The phrases section is something that can be incorporated into many proficiency levels.

This very whimsical, yet well-organized and engaging website offers a variety of activities for learning Spanish. Zachary Jones uses songs, videos, graphics, and articles to make the learning process authentic and enjoyable. One also can follow Zachary Jones on Twitter to receive Vocabulary of the Day on @ZJonesSpanish

The purpose of this site is to share information about free resources that teachers can use in their classrooms. In 2008 Free Technology for Teachers was awarded the Edublogs Award for "Best Resource Sharing Blog." In 2009 Free Technology for Teachers was again awarded the Edublogs Award for "Best Resource Sharing Blog" and was awarded the Edublogs Award for "Best Individual Blog." In 2010 Free Technology for Teachers was awarded the Edublogs Awards for "Best Resource Sharing Blog," "Best Ed Tech Support," and "Best Individual Blog." In 2011 Free Technology for Teachers received the Edublogs Award for Best Ed Tech Blog. Free Technology for Teachers is read by an audience of more than 45,000 daily subscribers (current as of April 1, 2012).

This is one of my favorite sites to find out what's new in tech for our use.  The April 11th blog post discusses typing accents in other languages.  It also presents 2 virtual keyboards for WL students. Also presented are links to learning languages, activities, and image-based language lessons.  

The Defense Language Institute has many language learning products available for world language teachers to use.

teachers can load materials into iTunesU with simply an Apple ID. This blog post is a guide on how to do that. iTunesU could work as a content repository.

Good site with technology integration ideas. 

Worth a read...and useful to share with parents, administrators and students.

Great tool for introductory language learning Spanish, German, Freanch and more. Games, worksheets, songs, comic maker

This is a fun website! Someone should take the initiative and add Arabic to it.

Many free sites for portfolios. A wonderful way to measure student growth through oout the school year. It gives students a way to measure their own learning and identify weaknesses and strengths

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

This is an awesome resource that puts many of the technology pieces we are learning about in these courses all in one place. There are some other pieces that I have heard about and completely forgotten. These can be used in the classroom to aide tecahers and incorporate new technology in the lessons.

Blogger is a free site for blogging. It is incorporated with Google, so if the user has a Google account, he automatically  has a Blogger account. This site (as well as any simple blogging site) can be used for students to publish their writing and receive a world-wide audience. Additionally, students can keep a reflection journal of their own progress, feelings, and questions regarding their learning. Finally, instructors can use blogs to communicate important information to their students as well as share their voice in an easily-accessed, asynchronous means.

some good tools for organizing your action research.  Non of them, unfortunately, analysis the data for you. 

A must for the 605 class - get started on this now!

This is an awesome YouTube channel by Sylvia Duckworth. I would use her Chansons au Powerpoint to pre-teach vocabulary and then reinforce the learning with the music/PowerPoint combination.  Other videos offer a plethora of topics that can be used in your classroom.  Her use of GoAnimate inspires me to have my students create similar projects to tell stories.   Although in French, the ideas are easily used in Spanish and other WL classrooms.