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| Title | Blogs, Wikis, and Social Networks for Language Professionals |
| Body | Here are some blogs that are of general interest to language professionals: -CASLS is one of 15 Language Resource Centers. Many of the other LRC’s also have blogs; you can learn more about them at http://casls.uoregon.edu/intercom/site/view-article.php?ArticleID=10204 -Many of the other LRC’s also put out newsletters. Here are some that you can subscribe to: CALPER http://calper.la.psu.edu/newsletter_subscribe.php ; CARLA http://www.carla.umn.edu/about/whatsnew.html ; CERCLL http://cercll.arizona.edu/doku.php/newsletter ; CLEAR http://clear.msu.edu/clear/newsletter ; NCLRC http://www.nclrc.org/newsletter.html -Ben Slavic’s popular blog is dedicated to the TPRS teaching method. Read the latest posts at http://www.benslavic.com -Nik’s Quick Shout is a blog that often focuses on technology, especially Web 2.0, and language learning. It is available at http://quickshout.blogspot.com -The Language Lab Unleashed blog is dedicated to sharing information about technology and language teaching. Visit at http://www.languagelabunleashed.org -Another excellent blog dedicated to technology and the foreign language classroom is Joe Dale’s Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom blog: http://joedale.typepad.com Wikis: -Language Teachers Collaborate is a new wiki for collaborating and sharing your best ideas. Join at http://languageteacherscollaborate.pbworks.com/w/page/32526867/FrontPage -The Language Links 2006 wiki has language-specific resources for Arabic, ASL, Chinese, English-ESL, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish; as well as resources such as lesson planning templates, for methods instructors, and special needs. Available at http://languagelinks2006.wikispaces.com Social Networks: -In the last few weeks language teachers have begun using a #flteach hashtag on Twitter. This means that when they tweet anything having to do with foreign language teaching, they add #flteach so that other Twitter users can simply search for anything with that hashtag. You can see a widget on the FLTEACH website that shows the most recent tweets with #flteach at http://www.cortland.edu/flteach/flteach-twitter.html ; you can also see the top tweets at http://paper.li/tag/flteach -ACTFL has its own online community at http://community.actfl.org/ACTFL/ACTFL/Home -Livemocha is the world's largest online community for language learners, with free lessons and a global community to help you learn a new language. Explore it at http://www.livemocha.com Stay tuned next week when we introduce our new blog-based format and describe how you can use CASLS’ tools to stay informed without being overwhelmed with information. |
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