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**COLLABORATION IN THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE OR LANGUAGE ARTS CLASSROOM**
__//**ARTICLES FROM USEFUL PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS / JOURNALS**//__ (Click on the pictures to access the sites)

Educational Technology and Society || Journal of Educational Technology & Society is a searchable site full of articles dealing with technology in the classroom. Just type in the topic you're searching for and a large selection of articles and studies appear. || || Teacher to Teacher Collaboration || The primary purpose of this Website is to identify and describe sites that support **//teacher-to-teacher collaboration,//** particularly teacher-to-teacher exchanges focused on professional development. || || only equipment needed are microphone/headsets. This is great for speaking, writing or reading exercises. || || media type="youtube" key="BkKVXRNqVj4" height="240" width="298" align="center" ||  || Literature Learning Ladders || Collaborative and Interactive Online Projects for the language arts classroom. It is part of eduscapes, a site promoting life-long learning. || || International Reading Association || Paying Attention to Technology: Writing Technology Autobiographies - this lesson asks students to look closely at their personal history with technology so that students can explore what their stories reveal about why we use the technologies we do and when we choose to use them. || || Educational Foundation || Digital Generation Theme: Collaborating and Sharing. The Digital Generation Project tells kids technology stories so that educators and parents can understand how kids learn, communicate, and socialize in very different ways than any previous generation. || || Language || An article by Harry Tuttle on Tech and Learning describing productive uses of technology in the foreign language classroom, including video-conferencing, on-line audio and flickr ||  || || ||
 * Dr. Stephen Krashen on Language Acquisition Theory || Second Language Acquisition and Second language Learning - this is an article by Stephen Krashen analyzing how language is acquired and learned - and how those two terms differ. || [[image:children_globe_00.jpg width="100" height="92" align="center" link="http://www.sdkrashen.com/SL_Acquisition_and_Learning/index.html"]] ||
 * Modern Language Journal || The December 2009 issue deals completely with how to encorporate technology in the language classroom. Many of the ideas are for collaboration. || [[image:mlj_blue_500.jpg width="150" height="83" align="center" link="http://mlj.miis.edu/"]] ||
 * The English Journal || The English Journal is the magazine of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). There is a fee to join, but many articles are available free through on-line data bases. || [[image:eglcover.jpg width="96" height="126" align="center" link="http://www.ncte.org/"]] ||
 * Language Learning and Technology || A refereed journal for second and foreign language educators - learning language and culture via public internet discussion forum. || [[image:banner.gif width="216" height="32" link="http://llt.msu.edu/default.html"]] ||
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 * Nik's Learning Technology Blog || Using Second Life to supply real communicative speaking practice. This site has a series of tutorial videos to walk a teacher through the steps. || [[image:Picture_1.png width="181" height="57" align="right" link="http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/2008/06/teaching-speaking-in-second-life.html"]] ||
 * www.lingtlanguage.com || Lingtlanguage is a website where teachers can post content and students can respond. It's free, easy to use and fun. The
 * Nik's Learning Technology Blog || Using Second Life to supply real communicative speaking practice. This site has a series of tutorial videos to walk a teacher through the steps. || [[image:Picture_1.png width="181" height="57" align="right" link="http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/2008/06/teaching-speaking-in-second-life.html"]] ||
 * www.lingtlanguage.com || Lingtlanguage is a website where teachers can post content and students can respond. It's free, easy to use and fun. The
 * www.drop.io || With Drop.io students can share... "what they want, how they want, with whom they want." It's a free site and students don't even need access to a computer. In order to leave a voice file, they just call the number and record it over the phone, like a voice mail message. Access can be limited so only students to whom you've allowed access can 'drop' content into the collaborative site.
 * www.edublogs.org || Another way for students to collaborate is through blogging. edublogs.org allows teachers to set up blogs and invite up to 100 students to be members of a given blog. It is a space where students can respond to the teacher, an assignment or each other. Teachers can set the level of access so only the members can post or even see the blog. Teachers can also require all posts be approved before they appear in order to add one more level of safety. || [[image:blog2.jpg width="194" height="137" align="right" link="http://edublogs.org/"]] ||
 * Google Docs || Google docs allows word documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forms and drawings to be accessed and edited by anyone in the google 'group' - that is anyone you allow access to your group. Students can, therefore, create a presentation on Google docs and access it anywhere. They can see it, edit or change it, even simultaneously. It's a really simple collaborative tool. || [[image:google_docs_logo.png width="110" height="107" align="center" link="http://docs.google.com"]] ||
 * www.livemocha.com || Livemocha a collaborative language site where students can sign up for language lessons or penpals. It is free and intended for educational use. But, since it cannot be moderated by individual teachers (only by the site moderators) it should be used with caution and teachers should definitely let parents know ahead of time and cover on-line safety issues with students before using. But, it is a fun and free way for students to practice writing for communication. || [[image:livemocha-s.png width="180" height="122" align="right" link="http://www.livemocha.com/"]] ||
 * www.sharedtalk.com || Sharedtalk is another collaborative site specializing in chat services for educational purposes. It is part of the Rosetta Stone company but this site is free and intended for people interested in learning a foreign language. It is moderated for appropriate use, but NOT by the teacher. As a result, parents should be notified before students sign up. But, once they've signed up, students can participate in live chat sessions. So, a student who's learning French could, at any time, find a French person to chat with! || [[image:sharedtalk21.jpg width="180" height="128" align="right" link="http://sharedtalk.com/"]] ||
 * edu.glogster.com || Glogster EDU is your original educational resource for innovative and interactive learning and Glogster EDU is FUN for teachers and learners alike! Students create on-line, virtual "posters" that can then be viewed and commented on or responded to by anyone who is registered as a classmate. Teachers control who is allowed in their 'class' so it is a safe environment. And the kids really seem to enjoy it. || [[image:glog.jpg width="185" height="143" align="right" link="http://edu.glogster.com/"]] ||
 * TikiWiki || Tiki is a powerful web-based application and the ideal tool for you to build and maintain your Website/Wiki/Groupware/CMS/Forum/Blog/Bug Tracker or **any other project** you can imagine running in your browser window. Tiki is free but does require the user to download the program and install it on the server. Not all schools will allow this. It can be monitored by an administrator (the teacher, for instance) so access by outsiders is limited. || [[image:tikiwiki.png width="160" height="120" align="right" link="http://info.tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php"]] ||
 * skype.com || Skype is a free service that allows the user to make video or voice calls to other skype users over their computers - anywhere in the world. It needs to be downloaded onto your computer and the user would need a microphone and computer video camera (if using the video option). This could be used in a language classroom to video-conference with classrooms in other countries or, in a language arts classroom, with other classes with whom you are working collaboratively or on some shared project. || [[image:skype.jpg width="150" height="116" align="right" link="http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/home"]] ||
 * My Language Exchange || Another on-line pen-pal site with protection with e-mail, IM chat, group discussion and bulletin boards || [[image:mylanguageexchange-com.jpg align="right" link="http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/SignUp.asp?showmenu=1"]] ||
 * Nicenet || This is a free service offering conferencing, on-line scheduling, document sharing, personal messaging and link sharing for the classroom. || [[image:nicenet_little_header.jpg width="171" height="71" align="right" link="http://www.nicenet.org/"]] ||
 * Audiobook Community || Sync: The Young Adult Listening site - Here is a cool website/community for teens to access free book downloads each week through the summer. Perfect for their iPods! And they can discuss what they're listening to or reading. It's like an on-line book club! || [[image:ABCLogo2010.jpg width="81" height="81" align="center" link="http://www.audiobookcommunity.com/group/sync"]] ||
 * || __//**LESSON PLANS FOR COLLABORATIVE TECHNOLOGY ACTIVITIES**//__ ||  ||
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 * Global Language Education || Learning a foreign language is no longer contingent on textbooks filled with stiff vocabulary exercises. Today, classes have context, from live connections with native speakers to project-based learning in which Skype, wikis, and a dozen other new technologies serve as powerful connecting tools. || [[image:edutopia.gif width="180" height="86" align="right" link="http://www.edutopia.org/global-language-education-schools-online"]] ||
 * Livening Up Foreign
 * THE Journal || A series of articles on using technology in the classroom: invigorating the middle school language classroom, linking reading and language development, using e-pals to reinforce second-language instruction. || [[image:thejournal.jpg align="right" link="http://thejournal.com/Forms/Search-Results.aspx?query=language&collection=THEJournal_Web"]] ||
 * Department of Education (ed.gov) || Teacher's Guide to International Collaboration on the Internet - Sponsored the the U.S. Department of Education with a lot helpful links and lesson ideas.
 * Computer Assisted Language Learning and Teaching || Lesson plan ideas for using computer assisted language (CAL) at many different levels of language instruction. There are ideas to use CAL with different instructional strategies (TPR, ALM, CLT, etc.) There are a lot of good links, as well. || [[image:computer.gif width="115" height="86" align="center" link="http://www2.nkfust.edu.tw/%7Eemchen/CALL/index.htm"]] ||