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School / Work Affiliation: Rush-Henrietta CSD/ STAR Discovery educator network member, NYSCATE member

Website: http://www.rhnet.org/webpages/lbilak

Favored IM Account: lindabilak@gmail.com

Twitter / Plurk / Other Account: twitter.com/lbilak

About Me: I am a Spanish teacher who can't imagine teaching without technology everyday! I wiki, blog, podcast, flickr, discovery stream. I try it all on and see what sticks/works best. I have been on the tech committee in my school longer than my students have been alive.

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teachers lounge vs tech office

Posted on January 19, 2008 at 12:23pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

my blog post is here.

I am cross-posting. Trying to decide to move my blogging to Classroom 2.0.

I have been on discoveryeducatornetwork.com for a while but they updated the site in August '07 and my earlier original blog posts did not manage to survive the transition.

Connecting the dots

Posted on January 10, 2008 at 7:35pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

I know many people have added a clustrmap to their blogs or webpage. I did shortly after reactivating my epals account to find classrooms around the world to begin correspondence in Spanish. I had no idea what effect it would have on my very hard to impress 8th graders. Since it is on my…

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At 5:16am on November 5, 2009, Dr. Rita Oates said…: Hola, Linda,
I wondered whether you had any advice to teachers who are using ePals to match up Spanish-learners with Spanish-speakers and how to make that pairing successful.

The winning team for the ISTE award on teacher/media specialist collaboration last year was a middle school Spanish teacher and a media specialist who used ePals to do projects. Their work was written up in a recent issue of Learning & Leading with Technology (www.iste.com). I'm not sure that you can read the article online if you aren't a member, but perhaps someone in your school is a member and could get you the article. The school was in Georgia.
Did you know that last summer ePals brought in 30,000 teachers who work in Latin America? That has made it a lot easier for teachers of Spanish language to find LOTS of classrooms of native speakers.
Saludos de Miami, Rita

At 5:59pm on January 24, 2009, Jack said…: Hola Linda. I was wondering if you have any students and colleagues who would be interested in participating in a nationwide SAT Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!

At 5:34am on October 31, 2008, Bablingua said…: Hola Linda ,

Lo primero, gracias por aceptarnos como colegas.

Segungo, contarte que ya tenemos la web de nuestro proyecto (de español) terminada y queríamos compartirla contigo.

El objetivo de Bablingua es ofrecer materiales audiovisuales de calidad grabados en países hispanos, que puedan ayudar a los profesores de lengua extranjera a enriquecer sus clases. En la web encontrarás vídeos cortos, vídeos largos, tarjetas de vocabulario y un blog gratuito con actividades, juegos y nuevas ideas para la clase de idiomas.

Por favor visítanos en www.bablingua.com y dinos tu opinión sobre ella, haznos comentarios y comparte con nosotros tus ideas sobre el tema para poder mejorar.

Gracias con antelación.

Álvaro y Laura

Bablingua

At 5:57am on April 2, 2008, Isabelle Jones said…: Hi Linda

Welcome to Classroom 2.0 ! I am a Spanish teacher too and you may interested to check out the links to resources I have on my blog, My Languages, Go to my blog and click on the corresponding delicious tag on the right e.g. Spanish (the list of tags is very long, you might fancy something else like ICT or software to check out some of those web 2.0 tool! )

I hope it is of use.

Isabelle
http://isabellejones.blogspot.com