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Experimenting and learning with new technology tools reminds me of the process of learning a foreign language.
You are not capable of communicating when you first start out. After a while you are able to pick up a few words here and there. With more practice, you are suddenly able understand and repeat [...]

I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Joe Dale from Integrating ICT into the MFL Classroom blog last week.
Joe is a French teacher at the Middle School level on the Isle of Wight, England. He shares my passion of teaching foreign languages via technology and has done some amazing things in that area. He [...]

Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom:: Silvia Tolisano on iPods, digital video, Google Earth and moblogging
Silvia Tolisano on iPods, digital video, Google Earth and moblogging
(tags: langwitches foreign_language iPod teaching cell_phones)

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You are a modern Scheherazade. You must tell an “amazing” story that keeps your King interested in order to stay alive. You will have [...]

What a clever way to market a service among Bloggers!
The company Bandwagon is giving away free accounts for bloggers. Their service let’s Mac users back up their iTunes music files.
The idea of giving the account away (for one year). if bloggers post about their service and include their logo is clever to say [...]

I am sure many of you looked at the Introducing the Book video clip on YouTube. I also streamed it into Langwitches’ Blog under the post “Have patience with your colleagues” a few days ago.
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I wanted to use it further for professional development meetings and/or presentations. Well, the video is [...]

STOP cyberbullying: Cyberbullying - what it is, how it works and how to understand and deal with cyberbullies
(tags: internet cyberbullying internet_safety)

Yugma : FREE Web Conferencing, Online Meetings and Web Collaboration: home
A free and easy to use web conferencing service:
* Share your information, present your ideas
* Invite up to 10 people (or more if you need)
* Collaborate with your community
* [...]

My students (5th and 6th graders as well as the adult class) are learning to tell time Spanish.
As an exercise for them, I looked for images on Flickr.com under the Creative Commons license and included them into the classroom website (elementary school) and class blog (adults).
In addition, I was careful to choose clocks, that [...]

Miss Profe has asked me to share specific examples of videos that I have used with my elementary school Spanish students in the classroom. I thought that maybe more teachers might be interested in this list.
Videos that I downloaded:

Language awareness:

German Coastguard
Learn another Language

Culture

Digging a hole to China
Emilio’s Adventure to Costa Rica

Videos that I filmed and [...]

Taking a Big Step… Going back to Basics… That is computer basics… That is becoming a Newbie “again”.
This time I am a Newbie computer user. I bought my first Macbook a few days ago and feel like I am almost starting from scratch. The only familiar and “safe” place right now is Mozilla and surfing [...]