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This is the Web site to the global project that I researched this week.

German TV program and online childrens cartoon series with activities

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.  

Small research study on using blogs in learning a second language. It has a couple of interesting results.

Transform any YouTube video into a lesson worth sharing. Search YouTube below to select a video, add your own supplementary materials and share your lesson with your students.

Students use their cell phones to call and leave messages in the target language at any time. Assign a question or set of questions for them to call in and answer.

What phone number do you use to link it to? I don't want my cell phone ringing at all times of the day....

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Quick webpage creation - note all pages are public so students need to be aware of what info is being published.

Video that could be used with teachers to trigger discussion about technology

Cindy, can I share it with the class that I will be teaching? I would give credit to your class. Maria

Maria, Of course, all our resources are to share! Creating a network to share is the idea!

Great site for language aquisition info

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

Some members of the class were asking about Google Forms. I thought the video and tutorials on the site might give some ideas about how to use Google Forms with students.

Find educators interested in connecting their classes through Skype

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.

This is an Animoto presentation that I found and tweaked to use with my classes this year. It gives some guidelines to my students about how to effectively participate on Edmodo.

This is the article that I cited in one of my postings.

A blog & resource page devoted to UDL. It has a wealth of useful tech sites that educators can use with their students.

Spanish exercises and grammar activities