In-class+activities+with+chat,+blogs,+and+wikis

**Blogs**
[|Case study: Using blogs in the Spanish classroom] Review the case study of using blogs in a Spanish FL classroom. Discuss the case study with your group using questions provided by the instructor.

[|Lesson plans: blogs] Enter the CALPER database and select just the blog activities from the drop-down menu on the "activity database" page. With your partner, take a look at some of the lesson plans listed there. Use this opportunity to think about how you could use blogs in your own classroom.

Example blog: Student-created content for high school English class While not a foreign language class blog, this blog is being used by an English teacher to motivate her students to write. The teacher reports that blogging is very motivating for her students because it gives them an audience for their writing and so they feel like they have a truly authentic purpose.

Example blog: Student-created place-based blog This blog is a nice example of a "place-based blog" in which students investigate a particular place (e.g., their own city or neighborhood) and put the results up on a blog. While this format has primarily been used to encourage students to explore and learn to appreciate the place in which they live, in the FL context this type of blog could be used to investigate and post content about a city from a target language country.

Compilation of Web 2.0 Tools Not only a blog, this French teacher's website is chock full of Web 2.0 tools. Take a look around the site, but be sure to check out her blog and the VoiceThread activity on the homepage.

**Wikis**
[|Case study: Using wikis in the French classroom] Review the case study of using wikis in a French FL classroom. Discuss the case study with your group using questions provided by the instructor.

[|Lesson plans: wikis] Enter the CALPER database and select just the wiki activities from the drop-down menu on the "activity database" page. With your partner, take a look at some of the lesson plans listed there. Use this opportunity to think about how you could use wikis in your own classroom.

Example wiki: Madame Bernstein's French Class Wiki A wiki with content for French I and French II.

**Synchronous chat**
[|Case study: Using chat for role play in the German classroom] Review the case study of using chat in a German FL classroom. Discuss the case study with your group using questions provided by the instructor.

[|Lesson plans: chat] Enter the CALPER database and select just the chat activities from the drop-down menu on the "activity database" page. With your partner, take a look at some of the lesson plans listed there. Use this opportunity to think about how you could use chat in your own classroom.