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When it comes to searching for educational apps to install on your iPad it feels like you get drowned in an avalanche of apps and resources from which you emerge empty-handed. Everyday new apps go viral and to keep up with the updates in this field is really a daunting challenge. Thankfully, there are many trusted educational resources ( this blog is one of them ) where educators and teachers can get to discover and learn about new useful apps to use in education.

I was looking at the applications familiar to me under Bloom's Taxonomy for iPads and for some reason it was surprising to find Skype as an evaluating tool! How could Skype be used for evaluating!?

This article explains why foreign languages are important for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education and industries. Language educators use innovative technologies and we should see our work as part of STEM.

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.

Student friendly rubrics to use in the classroom for all levels.

These rubrics are especially helpful! Thanks! I like the fact that you can edit the rubrics as necessary for what you are doing in your classroom. I used some of them for my students' final presentations in June. Great resource! Not to mention there are other wonderful resources on the site as well

If you are using Google Reader, you should know that it will phase out July, 2013. This article offers 4 alternative. The most popular one is called Feedly.

HistoryPin is a free Web 2.0 tool that allows users to "pin" photos, audio, or video to a particular world map location, much like the Google Earth program. The main idea is that, with enough participation, users will be able to get a sense of the history a location - both the visual and narrative aspects of it - as photos or videos from various time periods are pinned to that location. I can envision my students using it in partnership with another class of L1 students to share the concept of how people and places can change. For instance, both groups might focus on how a major city in their own country has changed, in order to demonstrate that to the other class via HistoryPin. Students would collect and upload photos or videos that show how the respective cities grew, how building or even fashion styles changed. They would use the HistoryPin audio option to describe the changes, my L2 students in Spanish, the L1 students in English. Once the L2 learners had "pinned" their photos on the map, L1 students could review and e-mail corrections so that L2 students could return to HistoryPin and edit their contribution. My students would do the same in return in English for the L1 students (assuming they are learning English, possibly). In this way, through collaboration, all students can gain a new perspective on how people and places look and change in another culture, while honing "technical" language skills.

This is an excellent resource for finding target language newspapers from around the world.  I would give my students a country and a topic and have them research that topic (ie, the environment).  Or, we could focus on a global topic and compare/contrast how it is being presented in different target-language speaking countries (ie.  North Korea crisis)

Create and share screen casts from power points, flip charts,smart boards for example. Add a short recap of your lessona nd upload to share with absent students or as a study guide.

UNESCO promotes linguistic diversity and multilingualism

Latest update 4th June 2013 - These are some of the best free internet resources for education. This page is constantly updated; every time the author comes across a new piece of software or an exciting website, the author lists it here in alphabetical order. If you are looking for a list of resources or a specific resource to help you with your language class, this is the list to check.

Thanks for sharing these. I had heard of several but many are new.

I follow @LanguageJobsUSA on Twitter. I think it's a good idea to know what jobs are out there for us language folks...plus, you never know, you might find a new job. :)

Is a website which allows you to create a internet scavenger hunt with the advantage of being about to guide the students from website to website. The teacher can annotade each website and students. A great tool especially for younger students. It is free to use. A tutorial is available

I just checked it out and see that it can be a great tool. I really like that you can annotate and direct students' attention on each step of the "web jog". I could see gathering specific sites for students to explore and then have them create something new (Glog, Voicethread, Powtoon) with what they learned. Thanks for the find!

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)

There is no denying the fact that the type of students we teach today are completely different from last century. Today, we need to look at some of the skills we, as teachers, need to equip ourselves with to better live up to the challenge. Among all the challenges we have in education, we need to catch students' focus and get them engaged in the learning process. Here is a list of some important digital skills that you, as a teacher, need to seriously consider if you want to pave the way for the 21st century teaching.

My favorite one is the use of infographics to visually stimulate students! I am aware of the importance of such a skill and it is the only skill that I haven't tried to acquire yet! I hope that those abe will get me there. Thanks for sharing.

Digital stories push students to become creators of content, rather than just consumers. Weaving together images, music, text, and voice, digital stories can be created in all content areas and at all grade levels while incorporating the 21st century skills of creating, communicating, and collaborating

Van Nood explains that after spending years with paper portfolios, he transitioned this concept into digital form, and have started to implement Evernote as the primarily system for creating portfolios in his classroom. He was using portfolios with limited success and spending a lot of time on them, until Evernote came into the picture. When he first started researching options, he was coming across a lot of companies that were really expensive, charging a lot for each student's use. He also knew that he needed an app for mobile devices that would make it easy to capture and document paperwork and he wasn't finding that in most of the tools I was evaluating. Evernote was free, had an app for virtually every device, and he could get started right away.