The National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland held a free virtual conference on July 21-23 with a variety of sessions about 30 minutes in length. The sessions are available on YouTube until August 31, so I have been taking advantage of some amazing PD in my PJs over the past couple weeks. There are still many sessions I want to check out in the coming weeks, but I share my reflections here on a few that I especially enjoyed. (They happen to all be presentations by middle school teachers! Middle school teachers for the win! 😀) " Let's Talk Tech " by Melissa Sarracino and Hannah Gallagher Session summary: In this session, the presenters discuss innovative ways for using three different tech tools with their middle school students. They focus on unique ideas for using Padlet, Screencastify, and Flipgrid to engage students and build their language proficiency. Ideas I love: Create a Padlet board for students to share their recent highs, lows, and somet...