iryna brown's List: Annotated Webliography

This is an excellent blog on incorporating Web 2.0 tools in the language classroom. The author says: "Over the past year, Google has stretched their search capabilities to include an abundance of open source web applications tailor-made for teachers. In fact, they've called this new suite of tools Google for Educators."

This blog provides information about online and traditional education trends

This is a good resourse for teaching culture and political sciences.

This page contains a growing collection of clip art (simple line-drawings) to be used by foreign language instructors, which is wonderful for those visual learners of foreign language.

This is an interactive website where people can ask questions about Less Commonly Taught Languages and receive answers from experts in those languages.

English news lessons: Free EFL/ESL lesson plans, handouts and podcast for teaching current events and current affairs lessons, and business English. It combines reading, writing, listening and speaking - excellent for DI/UDL teaching.This is an interesting novel approach to teaching a language through current events. It is sort of a crossover between English and Social Studies, which is great. We want to move toward interdisciplinary curriculum, as opposed to isolates and disjointed content areas.

This is a very popular destination for all things ESL (English as a Second Language).

Since 1994, the Linguistic Funland has offered extensive resources for teachers of English and ESL including links to job information, books, software, student activities, teaching materials and more.

This is a blog featuring a review of free technology tools for FL and ESL teachers, including methodologies, lesson plans and online resources. Very valuable.

This is a website for live television online in different languages. Excellent tool for visual and auditory FL learners.

Wonderful source for foreign language teachers! I am saving this one for my own use. The amount of technology resources for FL teachers out there is staggering!

This is a website of the External Spanish Radio. It is all in Spanish, and I think that I could use this website for my secondary students. It contains written and audio texts, which would accomodate two different learning styles at the same time (thinking DI teaching).

This blog is not without controversy. The author talks about some educational institutions baning the internet, which is rather outrageous! I couldn't believe that this was actually happening in this day and age! I strongly reccomend taking a look at this blog.

This website talks about innovative ways of using iPods for teaching languages. It also hosts a blog on the same topic. Excellent!

This is an excellent website that explains how podcasting technology can be used for teaching foreign languages.

This is a blog about using podcasting as a tool for teaching foreign languages

Ok, who wants to learn Russian? This is a podcast that consists of lessons in Russian, with authentic Russian pronunciation. If you ever tried to learn Latin, you have a glimps of what it would be to try and learn Russian - endless endings, lots of endings!

This podcast is in French. It would be an excellent tool for a French teacher who could have his/her students create and post their podcasts on this site (just a thought), in addition to listening to the French podcasts

This is an excellent sourse with a huge selection of podcasts about foreign language teaching, and the information about how to find such podcasts. Five stars!

A series of user-friendly techniques, suggestions, tips, and advice which is focused on teaching and learning to make technology useful in the classroom.
This is specifically related to Foreign Languages teaching, and it's awsome!