An interesting paper about new media in the daily life of todays youth...

Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project (November 2008)     Click here.

YouTube in ESL

A webpage about YouTube in the ESL classroom and why and how you can use it. Click here.

"Neue Medien machen Schule"

The magazine Focus reports about the establishment of new media in german schools with the help of coaches who train the teachers. The article contains different sub-topics. Unfortunately, the artcile is in German, but nevertheless that should not be a reason for not reading it. Click here.

"Classblogs: A Better Way to Teach?"

"We look at one teacher who's using blogging as a creative way of showcasing pupils' work". Click here.

Learn English Blog

Very nice!!!! An interesting blog which teaches you English. It covers nearly all grammatical issues and you can use it as an addition to what you learn at school. Sometimes, the explanations at school go too fast... Check this.

A Vision of 21st Century Teachers and Students

I found these two videos on a blog created by a teacher from New Zealand [(http://shaunwoodictblog.blogspot.com/) I like the "day in a sentence"!!]. I searched for the videos on youtube and found them...They are interesting, inspiring and thought-provoking! If I were you, I would watch them... :-)

Bailey Road Team 17 - A Classblog in New Zealand

This is the blog of a class 6 in New Zealand (click here). If you want to have further information click on my "Five Plus" chapter.

Celebrating Blogging and Social Media in Education

If you want to vote for a class, you can do it here. there are different classblogs nominated for the "Best Class Edublog 2010", amongst others the class I wrote about in my "Five Plus" tasks (see above). If you are interested in different, obviously very good and successful blogs, click here.

Attention, Hold on Tight!!!!!!!!

When I was looking around on the internet, I got to the homepage of the "Bildungsserver Hessen" which provided a chapter called "Neue Medien im Englischunterricht". I clicked on the link and got to a wonderful, helpful and amazing page (Angloconcepts) full of useful stuff for school, especially as it is well-structured and based on what you have to do at school according to the curriculum. Just click here in order to get in insight. A lot of useful links as well for different topics and good explanations and helpful texts about new media and the English classroom. But before I can't stop writing and describing here, just have a look at it and make up your mind!! :-)

Cellphones in the Classroom - Distraction or Tool?

This is an article about cellphones and if it is useful to integrate them into the classroom. The article lists advantages and disadvantages.
If cellphones are used at school, I will have to learn a lot of new stuff as I am still a user of the old-fashinoed "Handy" and do not own an i-phone, blackberry ... The article is from November 2010.

Over 10 Million Students Now Use Google Apps for Education

The very short article is from October 2010 and talks about Google Apps and its entry into the education system.It becomes clear that Google and the internet and its possibilities will increasingly influence our learning worldwide.

CeBit 2010

If you search for CeBit 2010 - Zukunft der Schule with the help of YouTube, you will get some very interesting videos about the topic new media in the future. Experts are talking about new media, the educational system in Germany and the future way of teaching. The videos are not long. Language: German. They talk about problems, concepts and different other things. It is comparable to information we got from the texts we had to read. It simply makes it clear that the topic is important and determines discussions about school and our future learning more and more.
Here is one link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT4U6VXOTwU&feature=related 
And another one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Akdeek_cto&feature=related   (E-Learning)