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Good article about some great tools

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.

Google doc of authentic resources for Spanish language teachers. Can be used for lesson planning needing some authentic links.

This is a wonderful site with many activities for French student to complete in honor of Earth Day. There are coloring pages, descriptions, and games for students to do either at home or in school.

Teacher resources website which provides lessons, activities and classroom artifacts to engage learners using web 2.0 tools and technology. Categories are easy to use and make finding appropriate material simple.

This is a really good site, and I have used it a few times. Have you tried Share my Lesson at http://www.sharemylesson.com/ ? Many of the lessons are correlated to the common core standards. I've found several good lessons here as well.

Samples of specific project rubrics in FL classes

A plethora of training videos on all sorts of web-based technology

This site is an excellent resource for lesson plans, PowerPoint presentations, class activities for communication in the target language. Teachers share several artifacts which can be used in the classroom to enhance student engagement both inside and outside the classroom. There is also a Forum where world language teachers blog about useful tips and issues in the world language classroom. Lots of current topics discussed such as using technology in the classroom.

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 tool helps to improve your students speaking by assigning speaking activities for homework. It is $ 20 a year for instructors and a minimum of $ 5 fee for a student to use it.

euronews is a world news site that supports 13 languages.  It provides a different view of news as compared to US news coverage.  

The Free Music Archive offers free downloads under Creative Commons and other licenses.   Can be used in your class, on class websites, or student projects.

Youtube videos of iTunes Top 100 songs in 20 genres (60+ country).  

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. 

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

Comprehensible Input Classroom - blog with links, ideas, activities, curriculum plans, etc. for teacher ideas. Can be used by teacher to add depth and interest to curriculum planning and lesson steps.

This particular portion of the site affirms how storytelling using online tools for slideshows supports common core.  There are other areas of the site that are very useful as well. 

Compiliation of cloze transcripts for foreign language commercials. Can be used for lesson plans to enhance listening skills

Performance Assessment rubric for students from Jefferson County Public Schools in KY. Can be used for student reference to guide their goals and understanding.

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