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After reading many blog posts about the DOPA, I decided to follow Vicki Davis’ advise and use a template that another blog writer/ teacher has created and send it to my Senetors.
It took less than 5 minutes to tailor the template to my needs and find the appropriate mail form to send to the Senetor. [...]

I have been using del.icio.us for over a month now and I keep finding new exciting ways to use it.
For the ones that do’t know what del.icio.us is yet:
“A social bookmarks manager. Using bookmarklets, you can add bookmarks to your list and categorize them.”
Social bookmarks are:
Social bookmarking sites generally organize their content using tags. Social [...]

I invite you to check out Langwitches’ new Wiki.
Since I learn best when playing around with the tools I am diving right in. I hope I will learn along the way and kind readers will point me in the right direction. I am hoping to find other Wikis geared towards the foreign language teacher to [...]

I found this video clip through Beth’s Blog.
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What a wonderful idea for a “Cultural Customs Comparison” that was. I am thinking along the lines of having my students pick a particular custom or tradition in America and then research that same tradition in a Hispanic country of their choice (if [...]

Presenters: Janet Robles, Julington Creek Elementary and Donna Guzzo, Durbin Creek Elementary School

Presentation Description:
Games are a powerful tool to introduce vocabulary, practice key concepts or review at the end of a lesson. In this interactive workshop, attendees will participate in a variety of classroom tested games that will leave your students wanting more. [...]

You snooze, You loose
Presenter: Scottie Fredrickson from Concordia Programs
Presentation Description:
Welcome to the latest presentation of fun-filled activities dor the active language classroom. Scottuie will share ideas for creating a lively yet productive educational atmosphere. Don’t miss this opportunity to replenish your own bags of tricks with ideas for effective language learning. Designed for teachers of [...]

Weaving Webs- The simple Way!
Presenters: Molly Whitmere (Spanish), Tina Bassi (Spanish)and Sue Shelton (Latin).
Presentation Description:
The Florida Virtual School Foreign Language team will provide instruction and resources for teachers to create a class webpage. The presentation will include a demonstration on how to use free sites such as schoolnotes.com and scholastic.com for novice participants, as well [...]

I am blogging from the FLENEF (Foreign Language Educators of North East Florida) Summer Conference. This will be my first attempt on blogging during the conference. Already the first hurdle is overcome. My wireless internet connection is not working. So, plan two, a (very short) Ethernet cable is connected to the wall behind me, but [...]

I found a cool online (free) tool for your digital images: Flickr Toys
You don’t have to have a Flickr account to use these tools.
Quick and easy create a photo collage, photo mosaic, Movie Poster, make trading cards, badge maker, etc.
Within seconds I created and then saved the creation.
Tons of possibilities for your website and classroom…
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I came across the following post from WEBLOGG-ED
More molecules moving today…sat with a group of World Language teachers and talked and showed them what we could do with audio and podcasting and the like and there were suddenly lots of light bulbs going off. They’re already posting their own files for kids to listen to, [...]