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This is a wonderful article from le monde about the consumption of chocolate in France. It can be used with students to discussion healthy eating habits, the holidays, or used to discuss the conversions.

This site tells how to participate in the weekly online Twitter chat with #langchat, foreign language teachers sharing ideas about a pre-determined weekly topic. This is very useful for building your PLN, and will provide links and ideas for your classroom lessons and units.

My Food Plate graphics, lesson plans, etc. from USDA in Spanish and English. Good for lessons on food, health and nutrition.

Food Lunchbox Project is a collaborative page used by schools and teachers to exchange photos of and comments about typical school lunches. Useful for units on food, health, culture.

Cute and creative voice recording program available on iTunes or online. Allows you to edit the sound of a 30 second voice recording by raising pitch of the voice, lowering it, changing accents, etc. Embeddable in your website, creates a URL and can be emailed to teachers, tweet, and more. Fun! Could be used for any voice recording needs, oral assessments, etc. Any age group, any lesson topic.

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)

extensive list of resources for web 2.0 tools available for teachers to use in the classroom

A must for the 605 class - get started on this now!

UNESCO promotes linguistic diversity and multilingualism

PLN 605 Spanish

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.

This post by Silvia Tolisano offers a series of activities and a checklist to assist you in re-designing your curricula to support student empowerment and 21st century literacies.

600 creative commons info

kathy schrock resources. 

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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.

600 - copyrights

Heide: Thanks for sharing this concise and informative resource. I've found most educators, myself included, struggle with knowing how to appropriately use copyrighted resources as well as those with Creative Commons licensing. This tool is a nice addition to any educator's digital literacy reference library!

Bobby: I was in the same boat as you. I certainly couldn't expect my students to 'do the right thing' if I had no clue what to do!

Linguafolio training modules - Walks through understanding and implementing Linguafolio

Thanks for sharing this, Stephanie. I worked with our State Department of Education in the development and training on eLinguafolio in North Carolina. Glad to see this shared here!