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Enjoy these nice examples to engage the attention of our students while working on the retention. To share with our colleagues

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

This is an audio book tool that would work well with the younger students or novice level learners.

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

This article explains why the United States should build a multilingual workforce and why language instruction should be a national priority.

This video introduces apps that help people communicate with others and learn language through pictures.

There are many benefits to language learning and this article shows some of the economic and networking opportunities for multilingual people.

This reading provides a simple how to for using infographics in the classroom environment as a teaching tool.

This site contains a collection of documents for foreign language advocacy with regional and state elected officials in New York.

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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?

Slideshare on using Edmodo in the classroom

A language teacher's example of how she uses a proficiency rubric to assess students' performance-based activities.

This is a great site for ESL, EFL, or phonics level teachers.  The site has lesson plans, printables, and game creators for students of any level.  I highly recommend the song archive for young learners.

Thanks, Ryan. I took a look at some of the games and found I can easily adapt them to French or Spanish! What a great resource.

FL Teachers' blog - ideas for teachers to implement in classroom about a variety of topics.

This tool allows you to build in questions and comments into a reading that the students can access outside of the classroom. The students can communicate within the readings to respond to questions to help check understanding and comprehension of assignments.

This sound like an interesting tool. Do you know if this works only with readings that are provided through this site or can teachers also integrate articles, or textbook excerpts?

A spreadsheet listing 1,195 (and growing!) songs in Spanish. Includes artist, title, grammar and vocabulary covered, culture, country of origin, and any other pertinent links to, for example, YouTube videos. Suggestions for songs not found here are welcome by site creator Sra. Birch.

I actually worked with this teacher during my interships in my undergraduate studies. She is very big into using music and videos in the classroom.

Nick, that is really cool! Yes, apparently she DOES get into teaching with music, with such a huge compilation of songs!

This site has thematic French vocabulary exercises that include authentic audio for topics such as the body, animals, the family, clothing, the train station, in the city, etc. It could be assigned for homework so that students can listen to the audio as many times as they like, or it could be projected on a screen for classroom use.

Shared by Cindy Kendall on Twitter. Lots of examples of formative assessments that you might be able to use/modify for 610 projects.

This is a great website. Web 2.0 tools divided into oral, listening, writing, vocab, language specific, IPad Apps, Android Apps, 21. C teaching and learning and more. What is great about this source that everything is neatly organized. Information includes cost of the tool, target audience, usefulness and ease of use rating.

I checked out the author's blog and found lots of interesting topics for discussion. Thanks Sabine!

Sabine, this is a great tool. I checked the apps for practicing listening skills and found a very interesting idea.I shared with my colleagues of Italian language.