Let's Work Together!

As teachers and future teachers we know it's great to have resources to draw on for new ideas. One way to do this is by social networking. It's alot like asking the teacher down the hall what ideas they might have, or swapping activities with colleagues at a conference, but the scale is much greater.

One such site is Technology Integration for Secondary Teachers. This site has some cool ideas and links. One of the links is to a free word art site you can use to create trendy content-related graphics. Another is to NBC's On-Demand news archive - in L2 we could use that to pull up recent reports about countries where the target language is spoken. By discussing current events overseas we can engage in conversations utilizing all of ACTFL's 5C's as well as sparking meaningful interest for our students. We could even post links to videos on a Class Portal and open up a discussion board.

It's also just a nice idea to have a place to discuss what does and doesn't work with other professionals trying to bring their classrooms into the digital world.