Technologies in the MI Merit Curriculum for the Spanish Classroom

After reviewing the MI Merit Curriculum Online Experience Guidelines, I believe that there are several technologies that could help me teach.  Blogging is something that I would really like to try with my Spanish students.  When they write weekly journals, I am the only person that reads them.  Having them blog potentially opens their posts up to the world, and other Spanish speakers.  This would help me leverage the extensive and powerful collaboration that is possible with Web 2.0 technologies.  I am also very intrigued with WebQuests.  I plan to use this tool to have my students explore topics in much more depth than we can in the classroom.  I can guide them to great content and allow the web to facilitate, and then bring everything to a whole in the classroom.  I created a Telling Time in Spanish stand along instructional design resource which would be a nice addition to a WebQuest of the same topic.  Technologies that would be harder to use with my students include anything that includes asynchronous discussion (of which the guidelines list none).  This is because an important element of learning a foreign language is spontanaety. Although a discussion board in a CMS is simple and easy to use, it would not be worth the time for my students.