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Bryan R. Drost of the Ohio Foreign Language Association Technology Integration Committee recently posted the following on the FLTEACH listserv:

Over the course of the 2016-2017 school year, the OFLA tech team is in the process of updating our free resources that you can use to help support students with their language proficiency. As we are editing and adding new resources we are making sure that:

·     Culture is embedded throughout each task,
·     Each task can be used with or without technology,
·     Each technology tool is a free resource, available on multiple platforms,
·     Technology-based tasks are at higher levels of the SAMR model,
·     Each task conforms to the major levels of ACTFL proficiency guidelines,
·     Authentic resources are used throughout each activity in multiple languages,
·     Each technology tool helps teachers progress to higher levels of technology proficiency, as defined by OFLA Tech’s Integration Rubric.

We are proud to release today, an updated IPA that can be found at our new resource location OFLA Tech Resources, <https://goo.gl/0McGSs>. We encourage you to check this IPA out – it ties social media to personal descriptions and is anchored with an essential question in three languages! I want to especially thank Angela Gardner for her work with this task.

Our team is very excited for this project and hope that you will find it useful.
As always, if you have questions or need additional supports, please feel free to contact any of our teammates.

Drost, B. [FLTEACH] New OFLA Tech Resource and IPAs. FLTEACH listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 28 Sep 2016).