| Admissions Board | Writing Project | Culture | Chat | In role-play scenario, students use persuasive language to sway the minds of a university admissions board.
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| Adopting customs | Writing | Culture | Blog | In this activity students blog about cross-cultural issues.
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| Advice, please! | Role play | Miscellaneous | Chat | In this role play activity, students practice giving advice to each other on a variety of issues.
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| Alma Matters | Writing/Discussion | People & Places | Wiki | Students create an actual wikipedia entry in the target language
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| Bunker Buddies | Role play | Current Topics | Chat | In this role-play scenario, students present a case for a spot in a neighbor's bomb shelter.
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| Calendar Wiki | Writing Project | Culture | Wiki | Students create a class wiki based on the theme of holidays in the target culture
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| Class Biographers | Writing/Discussion | People & Places | Blog | Students complete auto-biographical blog entries and then write biographies of their classmates
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| Class Book Club | Writing/Discussion | Language & Literature | Blog | Over a semester, students use blogs to discuss and reflect on stories, poems, or literature that the class is reading.
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| Course Goals | Writing | Miscellaneous | Blog | Students reflect on their learning style, goals, and achievements.
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| Doctor, Doctor | Role Play | Miscellaneous | AudioVoice | Students role play a doctor and patient consultation using audio files
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| Famous Personages | Writing | People & Places | Blog | Students research famous individuals online and write about them in their blogs.
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| FoodieWiki | Writing Project | Culture | Wiki | In this wiki project, students create an online guide to the cuisine and food culture of the target culture.
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| Good deal gone bad | Role play | Business | Chat | An activity to practice making complaints as an online buyer or seller of electronics
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| GrammarWiki | Project | Language & Literature | Wiki | a class Wiki that students create over the semester that documents lexico-grammatical points of study
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| Guess who I am? | Role play | People & Places | Chat | A Q&A task using IM to discover who the famous person is
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| Hyperstory 2.0 | Speaking/Discussion | Miscellaneous | AudioVoice | In this activity, students create an ongoing hyperstory on the class audio messageboard.
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| In the News | Project | Current Topics | AudioVoice | Students create a podcast about items currently in the news
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| jiji (^_^) 88 | Discussion | Current Topics | Chat | Students learn, discuss, and use emoticons and internet slang in the language of study.
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| Language and Society | Discussion | Language & Literature | Chat | Students use chat to discuss and debate issues regarding language and society.
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| Matchmakers | Discussion | People & Places | Chat | Students try to match their friends with famous individuals.
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| Movie Journal | Writing | Culture | Blog | Students keep a journal reviewing movies they have watched in the target language.
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| MuseWiki: A virtual museum | Project | Culture | Wiki | Students create a class wiki designed as a virtual museum of some aspect or historical period of the target culture
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| NewsWiki | Writing Project | Business | Wiki | Students create a wiki-based online newspaper
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| Notable Quotables | Writing/Discussion | Language & Literature | Blog | A blog activity where students reflect on famous or interesting quotes in the target language
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| Poetry Reading | Project | Language & Literature | AudioVoice | Students record a poem or poems on the class audio discussion board, and interpret each others' readings.
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| Reduce, Reuse, Recycle | Discussion | Current Topics | Chat | Chat discussion of environmental issues surrounding recycling and waste management
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| School News Podcast | Project | Current Topics | AudioVoice | Students create podcasts about their school or university
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| Sell me on it! | Role play | Business | Chat | Students use persuasive speech to sell each other everyday objects.
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| Speechwriters | Writing Project | Current Topics | Wiki | Students create a wiki to write a speech on a current issue
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| The Amazing Web Race | Discussion | Miscellaneous | Chat | Students use the web to find answers to trivia and make up questions of their own, and then use chat to quiz their …
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| The Mayor is dead! | Role Play | Miscellaneous | Chat | In this murder mystery, students play the roles of townspeople who must determine who among them murdered the Mayor.
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| The Sporting Life | Discussion | Culture | Chat | Students use chat to discuss sports in the culture of study
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| The Student Life | Discussion | Current Topics | Chat | Students research and discuss student life in the culture of study.
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| The United Nations | Discussion | Current Topics | Chat | Students use chat to discuss issues related to the U.N. after visiting its website
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| Think Energy | Discussion | Current Topics | Chat | Discussion/debate on energy production and consumption practices in the culture(s) of study
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| Why did he do that? | Discussion | Miscellaneous | Chat | Students learn of a mysterious event and speculate on the causes
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| Word of the Day | Project | Language & Literature | AudioVoice | Students create an audio dictionary of vocabulary items
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