Links

Language Links
[|Live Mocha Community Learning] - 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.
 * NOTES:** (Jeffrey Barnes) After signing up for a user account, I had several email by other Live Mocha users requesting friendship status. Not all of them seemed aligned to my language choice so some people must have a setting to indicate automatic friendship requests for new users. On a sad note, my MochaPoints are still only 108 and no friends! :-)
 * UPDATE:** Too much spam email from the Live Mocha site plus relatively simple language lessons may not be beneficial to the forum.

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Technology Links
[|Classroom Performance System (CPS)] - The vendor of classroom response pads, or "clickers", as demonstrated at our last LOTE forum courtesy of Jamestown.

Tetris Game Maker - A tool for you (or your students) to make educational games. This was created by the Languages Online Team from the Department of Education and Training for the State of Victoria, Australia.

EtherPad - An online, collaborative writing tool. After March 31, 2010, the address will change, but similar programs will undoubtedly pop up to replace it. For now, you may like to play around with the technology to see if it's something your students would find useful. At our January 2010 forum we worked on the EtherPad located at [].

New York State Education Department Links
OBE-FLS - The NYS Education Department Office of Bilingual Education and Foreign Language Studies

E-Blast - Publication from the NYS Education Department Office of Curriculum, Instruction, and Instructional Technology