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This is a FREE language teaching MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) where language teachers can meet, learn, share, and explore. Great use of google groups for promoting dialogue.   Twitter on steroids.  

This has a lot of awesome tools like glogster and wordle. Some I already use and some will be awesome to look at.

This is a tweet from Educational Technologist Kathy Schrock that gives a link to her online presentation. The link expires after a set time, hence the link to the tweet that includes the link. This presentation guides users on how to use the iPad and iPad apps to create learning materials for your students.

Today's Front Pages is a dynamic feature of the Newseum website, providing pdf versions and links to prominent newspapers around the US and around the world. To access today's news in another country and in another language, view the collection via the "Map"view which allows you to choose the region of the world you want to explore. As an activity for world language students, have them research a current event that appears on the front pages of several international papers, in English and in the target language. Use this activity to not only learn about current news and culture, but to explore how a singular event is reported differently by different newspapers.

The site offers step-by step video courses and training exercises on different technology skills that will help you build a web site, start a blog, and more.  I would use this for the 605 and 610 course.  

A slew of resources to help learners of all ages learn how to read and report on charts and graphs.

This site provides comprehensive resources to learn how to read and write about graphs and charts. Especially useful for EDTC 615 students.

Actively Learn allows you to assign reading assignments and place assessments in the assignment also.

Communicate with students who are learning another language.

What a neat idea! I watched the video where the Japanese family showed their home. What a great glimpse into the life of another culture. I wonder if there's a site for French/Spanish videos...or perhaps I could host one! Thanks for sharing!!

Duolingo is a free language-learning website and crowd-sourced text translation platform. The service is designed so that, as users progress through the lessons, they simultaneously help to translate websites and other documents. It is a way that teachers can provide an additional language learning source to their students, and once each lesson is completed, students read authentic sources and complete activities on the Internet from authentic web-based sources.

This website contains ideas and resources not only for mind-mapping but also creating classroom activities and games.

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

There are no limits to what a great educator can achieve when they have the right tools. Graphite, a free service from Common Sense Media, helps teachers find, understand, and share the best digital learning products available.  Go here to find reviews about different online applications.

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)

A online, peer-reviewed journal on language teaching and learning vis-a-vis technology. Sponsored by the National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) at the University of Hawai'i and the Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR) at Michigan State University Edited by Dorothy Chun and Mark Warschauer

Free course that walks you through various methods of making inforgraphics for your classroom that can be embedded into a wiiki, blog, webpage, and more.  Also, a multitude of other free 'courses' to learn more technology.