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I subscribe to the RSS feed of the Flickr group Great Quotes about Learning and Change. The following image by Scott McLeod popped up in my reader a few days ago.

by Scott McLeod
As a former World Language teacher (Spanish & German) and being passionate about bringing global awareness to colleagues and students, I know HOW [...]

I have been blogging for over three years now. I use my blog to:

document my thoughts about educational technology and my journey as a connected teacher
share  educational resources, lesson plans, How-To guides, web 2.0 tools, experiences in the classroom
develop professional development workshops
sprinkle awareness about cultural, country and language specific differences among us

This blog is [...]

I fell in love with Mafalda when I was 15 and just started learning Spanish.
On Wikipedia you can read:
Mafalda is a comic strip written and drawn by the Argentine cartoonist Joaquín Salvador Lavado (pen name Quino). The strip features a girl named Mafalda (5 years old at the time of the comic’s creation) who is [...]

Muchas escuelas en Latino America están volviendo a trabajar y estudiar en las proximas semanas después de sus vacaciones de verano. Volviendo con mucha energía e entusiasmo de empezar un año escolar nuevo e integrar competencias del siglo 21 con tecnología.
Jose Rodriguez me invitó a una sesión de Puentes Al Mundo, que es un sitio [...]

It has been 2 years, since I was in the classroom teaching Spanish to elementary school students. I am often asked  if I miss it. I do miss having classes on my own, where I am the one who can decide on a project and see it through from beginning to end. Do I still [...]

According to the Cambridge dictionary there is a difference between metaphors and idoms.
definition of idiom:
“a group of words whose meaning considered as a unit is different from the meanings of each word considered separately.”
definition of metaphor:
“an expression that describes a person or object by referring to something that is considered to possess similar characteristics.”
Looks like [...]

I just learned about Heather Vlach’s blog called “Just Learned“. She left a comment on my blog inviting me to stop by hers sometime. Heather is a ESL teacher at ISB (International School of Bangkok) and a brand new blogger. As soon as the page opens, I have a good feeling about it. Lots of [...]

Last year, our third graders had a great time increasing their vocabulary while donating free rice through the UN World Food Program. I just learned that the site has added more subject areas to their questions:

Famous paintings
Chemistry symbols
English Grammar
English Vocabulary
Geography: World Capitals
Languages: German, Spanish, Italian, French
Math: Multiplication

Thank you to Joe Dale from Integrating ICT into the MFL Classroom for making me laugh today by posting the following video:

In January, I attended a session by Hall Davidson at FETC titled "Revenge of the Digital Immigrant ". After 3 months, I remember th examples of how Davidson demonstrated that the new generation learns with shorter and shorter clips/segments of information. In order to get their point across, commercials decades ago used to be several [...]