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I am enjoying my Kindle tremendously. I am also trying ot be aware how the Kindle is changing (or not) my use, reading, storing, buying habits and general attitude towards books.
My reading habit is not necessarily linear and sequential, at least not for non-fiction books.  I do not read one book straight through. I have [...]

Get them Talking! Connecting World Languages and Web 2.0
Presenters: Michelle Olah with Mary Risner
Description:Web 2.0 technologies, such as blogs, podcasts, digital storytelling and other collaborative tools, provide world language teachers with opportunities for students to create and collaborate in the target language. Come and find out how to use these technologies to get students talking [...]

These are my links for September 13th from 12:04 to 12:47:

Tonzr – Truly free MP3 ringtones for the masses – Tonzr is a new web site providing free access to MILLIONS (7,168,988 and counting) of MP3 ringtones, or “realtones”
My MusicRings -
Clipmarks :: Firefox Add-ons -
Clipmarks – What are you finding on the web? – On [...]

Now that the Comment Challenge is over (for some,) Michele Martin from the Bamboo Project Blog is posting every week a Mini Challenge for anyone to participate in. What a great way to challenge yourself to little mini projects that allow you to experiment with Web 2.0 tool. Who knows, you might stumble upon something [...]

So, I was able to stay on track daily with the Comment Challenge half way through the month of May. Then the final days of school, with millions of other typical "final days of school stuff" happened… and I dropped the ball. Since learning these days can take place asynchronous meaning anytime and anywhere, I [...]

Day 15: Give a Comment Award
At Scott McLeod’s suggestion , for today’s task, you’re going to give out a "Comment Award" to your favorite commenter (or commenters), recognizing them for their contributions to conversation in the blogosphere. You decide the parameters for your award–is it the quality of their comments? Or the questions they ask? [...]

Day 8: Comment on a blog outside of your niche
With limited time in a day and many things to do, we can get into the habit of commenting only on blogs that are related to our niche or specific interests. But this can create a sort of echo chamber effect where we don’t read and [...]

Since the Commenting Challenge started, I really have been working hard by commenting on blogs, especially the ones I am visiting for the first time. Since the Challenge started, Langwitches has also received more comments than ever before. I am tracking with Technorati any mention of comment08, as well as receiving Pingbacks on [...]

Two Flip Cameras by PureDigital arrived today at school, thanks to our wonderful Drama teacher, Mrs. B. I had to try it out, since I was interested in the quality and the level of intuitive use it had for in classroom and field trip application.
David Pogue from the New York Times reviewed this little [...]

I have added a new image to What Could it Mean? VoiceThread.
Please consider contributing with an image of a cultural tradition, practice or custom you observed while traveling or your country of residence. What might seem ordinary to you in your daily life, seems exotic to someone else.
Image 17- Florida, United States of America
Typical view [...]