Top 100 Language Blogs of 2009

The Top 100 Language Blogs 2009 is the largest language blog competition and is hosted annually by bab.la and Lexiophiles. It is aimed at finding the best blogs related to languages and awarding language-loving bloggers. This year there were 473 nominated blogs from 26 different countries in four categories.

The Gateway Drug to Textual Analysis

Using Wordles seems to be on many people's minds lately.
This post from ProfHacker offers a fresh and thoughtful perspective.

Live tracking of social media

Wow - live metrics on the use of social media -- just look at those numbers fly!

The five minute twitter verb crunch drill

Just saying the name makes you want to try it out. This is a pretty creative technology-based language exercise - a good example of where thinking differently about teaching tools can lead...

The end of the email era

An article in today's Wall Street Journal has just announced the end of the email era.
Actually, I think it's been on life support for some time already.
This leads me to ask, "Has 'the end of email' happened yet in your life, your classroom, your department, your campus or your college?"

Integrating Technology for Teaching and Learning

This is a truly international online course designed to help ESL instructors share ways of integrating technology into face-to-face and online classes.

The course uses Moodle as its CMS and Ning as its social space.

It starts on November 1, 2009, runs for 4 weeks... and it is free. It is sponsored by TESOL, our leading professional association for Teachers of English to Speakers of other Languages.

Even if your field is not ESL, you might wish to simply take a look and see how a course like this is organized, AND how it feels to be working together with teachers from around the world in a common space.

Creating a Socratic style classroom

Making a change in your comfort zone can be the true technology revolution in education...

See it in action at BYU - Idaho

How Change Changes You

Life before and after Twitter

The World's Largest English Department

A Ning group for English teachers reveals the potential of online social networking to break the culture of professional isolation.
...and check out the right sidebar - Web 2.0 Tools for Teacher PD

50 Terrific Twitter Tutorials for Teachers

Great for beginners; plenty of new ideas for experienced users

Using Wordle of the Day on a Smartboard

Nice warm up activity for a class using Wordle

Curriki

The Curriki blog discusses issues in the increasingly important free and open-source curriculum movement - Curriki is a wiki for curriculum -- think wikipedia for lesson plan resources.
I found this resource through Diigo.

The Best Sites from Diigo in Education

Diigo is a community of users that tags and shares resources of interest to various groups. It has a very active technology in education group.
http://groups.diigo.com/diigoineducation/bookmark
I find many very useful sites through this group. The people who post here are very committed to sharing the best of what's out there. One of the best things about Web 2.0 tools like Diigo is the worldwide sense of connectedness you begin to develop as you use it.

Wisdom on Demand

Here's a site that just might meet Marco's apeal for using technology creatively in a liberal arts education iWise - Wisdom on-Demand

Using Movies to Teach Grammar

Claudio Azevedo has a great blog where he uses movie segments to assess grammar goals.

Using Word Clouds in ESL

Here's a post from Nik Peachey about using Word Clouds in teaching ESL.