TeacherBlogs

Blogs and Wikis Created by Teachers


 * ~ **General Foreign Language Teaching Blogs** ||
 * **Box of Tricks** José Picardo's blog on Education and ICT, with a main focus on ICT in teaching and learning foreign languages: [|http://www.boxoftricks.net]. ||
 * **Integrating ICT into the Modern Foreign Languages Classroom ** by Joe Dale of Nodehill Middle School, Isle of Wight at [|http://joedale.typepad.com]. This covers a variety of topics relating to the teaching of foreign languages, especially blogging, podcasting and using interactive whiteboards ||
 * **Merlot** A free and open resource designed primarily for teacher and students in higher education. Numerous links to online learning materials can be found here, along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments. Materials for Modern Foreign Languages can be found under Humanities / World Languages and Humanities / Languages and Literature: [|http://www.merlot.org] ||
 * **Joseph Rézeau** A Francophone EUROCALLer from the University of Rennes with lots of experience in CALL. Useful contacts and links. Nice site: http://pagesperso-orange.fr/joseph.rezeau/ ||
 * ~ Blogs on Education/Technology in Education ||
 * **Twitter for Teachers** a wiki for teachers to share ideas about teaching with Twitter http://twitterforteachers.wetpaint.com/?t=anon ||
 * **Edublogs** Tips, tricks, ideas and help with using web 2.0 technologies and edublogs. http://edublogs.org/ ||
 * **Digitally Speaking** This actually is a wiki but contains a good article about the hows and whys of blogging for student development. http://digitallyspeaking.pbwiki.com/Blogging ||
 * Ideas and Thoughts from an Ed Tech by Dean Shareski, not so much technical issues, more about how to use it effectively for learning http://ideasandthoughts.org/ ||
 * **Under the Umbrella Web Tools** nice new blog by Teacher Kelly with a friendly non-threatening tone. Good for newbies http://usingwebtools.blogspot.com/ ||
 * **Changing High Schools** A blog by the superintendent of the Iroquois Public School district, about changes in education. Most of it is technology oriented but not all http://changinghighschools.blogspot.com/ ||
 * **Nik's Learning Technology Blog ** tips, resources and teaching materials to help EFL and ESL teachers use ICT and new technology http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/ ||
 * **Nik's Quick Shout ** news, links and opinion about technology and education, esp. as it applies to English language learning and teaching. http://quickshout.blogspot.com/ ||


 * ~ English Language Teaching Blogs ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">**EduBlogger World** networking site for those with blogs about education. http://edubloggerworld.ning.com/ ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">**Insights into TEFL** a collection of contributions from TEFL professionals from around the world http://insights-into-tefl.blogspot.com/ ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">**Blog EFL** - Graham Stanley's blog focusing in Web 2.0 tools for English language learning http://blog-efl.blogspot.com/ ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">**Nik's Daily English Activities** by Nik Peachy. Written for English language students for autonomous learning but also a good place to get ideas for lessons. http://daily-english-activities.blogspot.com/ ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">**ESL Teaching Resources Blog** http://esl-teaching-resources.blogspot.com/ ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">**EFL Classrom 2.0- Teacher talk** blog associated with the EFL Classroom ning http://ddeubel.edublogs.org/ ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">**The Film Blog** no longer updated but has resources for teaching with film. http://jeffreyhill.typepad.com/filmblog/ ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">**Raydeal-engchat** states that it is a blog for those who love to chat in English but there are also very-well-considered pieces on teaching ESP http://www.raydeal-engchat.blogspot.com/ ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">**TEFLtastic with Alex Case** news, views and reviews by Alex Case, editor at TEFL.net http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/ ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">**ESL Daily** focuses mostly on new items related to ESL and EFL http://blog.esldaily.org/ ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">**English Spark** http://www.englishspark.com/ ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">**English Power** Mostly has suggestions for online resources to use for English language learning. http://englishpower.wordpress.com/ ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">**Teaching English with Movies** the title kind of explains it! http://moviesandchat1.blogspot.com/ ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">**Kenneth's ESL blog** Sponsored by About.com. Lots of links to online resources. http://esl.about.com/b/ ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">**EFL Geek 3.0** blog focuses on technology and teaching EFL in Korea http://eflgeek.com/ ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">**Teaching and Learning by Design** a heavily technical blog. Might need to scroll down past the Diigo updates to get to the blog entries. Good for software evals. http://deangroom.wordpress.com/ ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">**The English Blog** A blog mostly dedicated to the evolving nature of the English language, but with links to EMN English for learners of General and Business English (http://english.myhq.com/general/) ||
 * ~ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Spanish Language Teaching Blogs ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">**More Spanish** Blog by Spanish teacher Sherry Amorocho who is looking for opportunities for her students to connect with other Spanish speakers [] ||