The first resource is very dense!

http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/teachtip.htm

http://www.teachers.tv/video/3240

Key Thinking Skills from Classroom Instruction That Works (2001) by Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock

• Maintaining focus and attention
  
• having the ability to locate and prioritize recources
• making distinctions in relevance, similarity, order, and difference
• being able and willing to ask for help
• reading and summarizing context
• being able to speak, draw, or build non-linguistic representations
• setting goals and using feedback
• having self-awareness of personal health and nutrition
• generating and testing hypotheses
• developing working memory capacity
• being able to organize or map out ideas and info
• showing persistence and follow-through in the face of adversity
  

www.priviet.com

www.mp3slovo.com

www.ayguo.com

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One more great resource!

Conference at AT&T Center

Dear colleagues,

As a language pedagogy major, I benefited from listening to language professionals tremendously on the first day of Flagship, DLI and UT foreign language professionals.
Tomorrow, on Jan 30 Dr.Horwitz will give a talk on the issues of anxiety and motivation.
Go to the TLC website, and find out more.
I' ll see you at 7.30 on Saturday!

Some New Findings!

http://www.zvuki.ru/ - Listen to music legally
http://www.nclrc.org/cultureclub/collection.html - Culture Club from Georgetown University, look for Russian Section and many more!
http://www.ruslan.co.uk/ - Russian from England!

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