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A Teacher’s Life: Friday 5: Flashcards
(tags: foreign_language instructional)

Google Reader
(tags: aggregator web2.0 google RSS)

Bloginfluence – Rate your influence in the blogosphere – SEO tool
(tags: blog tools web)

So far it was pretty easy to install WordPress Plugins

Search online for WordPress Plugins, ex. WordPress Plugins Database
Download the zip file
Unzip the file onto your hard drive
Upload the file into your wp-content/plugins folder on your hosting server
Open up WordPress and click on the Plugins. It should automatically have your new plugin listed
Choose to activate that [...]

EdCompBlog: Turn on, tune in… send email!
I had an idea about cameraphones and live blogging
(tags: cell_phones blogging)

NoteMesh – collaborate to graduate
What is NoteMesh?
NoteMesh is a free service that allows college students in the same classes to share notes with each other. It works by creating a wiki for individual classes that [...]

Not only can you record podcasts using your cell phones voice recording capabilities or a call in line, but you can now use your cell phone to listen to any podcast.
I found out about a free service called FonPods
Put away your iPod and MP3 player, F?npods transforms your cellphone into a mobile entertainment and [...]

Well, it is official. My school has made reservation for me and a colleague to fly to China in December. I believe I mentioned before in a post, that our school is wanting to take a more global approach to education. Mainly due to the President’s National Security Language Initiative and its call for study [...]

I am teaching a Web 2.0 class to parents at my school right now. We are working our way in a a weekly class through Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Podcasts and Social Bookmarking. Through one of my feeds Stephens’s Untold Stories, I this great post on the “Back in Skinny Jeans again” blog. The title is [...]

Soundseeing Tour:
Recoleta Cemetary.This might be interesting to some of the Spanish teachers, since you will here Tour Guide explain a little about Evita and what happened to her body after she died and until she was laid to rest in Recoleta.
Projects in the Classroom

5th Graders are learning about months of the year in Spanish. [...]

I urge everyone to take a good look at this conference and present a session if possible. Otherwise this will be a great opportunity to experience first hand the power of online learning and be part of (hopefully) a trend of online conferences with no travel expenses.
Click on the image below to start familiarizing yourself [...]

A blog that I started to read regularly and am enjoying tremendously is Teaching Hacks. Quentin D’Souza is currently working on helping educators find each other easier through social bookmarking and tagging. I have been hooked on del.icio.us for a while now and am using it more and more to search and store pertinent information [...]

As technology tools and applications are changing at such rapid speed, so is the role of the educator trying to integrate these technologies in their teachings of the curriculum. It is almost impossible to keep up with the newest trends in integrating these tools while staying abreast your specific curriculum/subject area at the same time. [...]