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Would you like to learn more about how to utilize technology to enhance your instruction?

The links below are a collection of articles about blogging, digital storytelling, and podcasting.  All three of these technologies are easy to implement in your classroom, so give it a try!

Blogging
Blog Basics is an article that contains the educational benefits of blogs and how to use them in the classroom.
Content Delivery in the 'Blogosphere' contains suggestions for implementing blogs and the benefits of student blogging.

Moderating and Ethics for the Classroom Instructional Blog contains guidelines for implementing a classroom blog. 

Abdullah's Blogging is an article about an ELL who used blogging to improve his academic writing. 

Digital Storytelling

Making a Case for Digital Storytelling justifies the use of digital storytelling in the classroom by explaining the many benefits for students.

How to Use Digital Storytelling in Your Classroom contains suggestions about how to get started with digital storytelling.
Digital Storytelling Finds its Place in the Classroom chronicles one teacher's journey as he implemented digital storytelling with his fourth and fifth graders.  Although this article highlights how digital storytelling was used in an elementary classroom, I think the tips and suggestions would also be applicable to secondary teachers. 

Podcasting
Beyond Podcasting Basics contains recording tips and links to tutorials about how to create and publish podcasts using a Mac or Windows.

Learning English with iPods is a great article about how teachers of ELLs can use ipods to enhance academic language acquisition.

General
Google-Assisted Language Learning is an excellent article about all of the Google tools that are available to enhance language learning.  The article highlights the many pedagogical uses for Google such as using it as an informative, productive, collaborative, communicative, and aggregative tool. 

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