Ok, So I have already blogged about this tool (in the blog section of course) but I wanted to repost it here as well so you do NOT miss it. It is one of the greatest digital tools I have learned about...story creation with images! This is a TPRS teachers' dream! :) Check out my blog for more information, or just go to Storybird.com NOW!
EduCanon is a great tool if you use videos, commercials or any other visual resources in your classroom. Whether it is a long movie or a short clip, this tool allows you to take control of HOW your students watch the movie and ensure they get the information you want them to know. For example, if I am showing a Febreeze commercial about things that smell, I can make the clip pause in a certain spot and ask them a multiple choice question. They must answer this question before they move on to the rest of the video. This is a great activity or formative assessment.
I will add a tutorial on how to use EduCanon shortly!
https://www.educanon.com/
Textivate is great tool when you would like students to review a story. This is obviously very relevant for my students learning a foreign language as repetition is key. Whenever we read or create a story, it is important to follow up on it with more practice and more repetition of the vocabulary structures that I want them to learn. Textivate is an amazing tool. If you have a story, all you need to do is copy and paste it into your textivate account and it automatically creates online games for students. They can put story in order, fill in the blank, matching, etc. Its a wonderful tool for review and a great time filler if you have a few extra minutes at the end of your lesson. Or, it can also be used to review a story from the day before or as a formative assessment. All around, its a great tool!
Link to mindmap created on Popplet about the Diffusion of Innovation
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I found this great app that students can use in the foreign language classroom! With Tellagami they create an avatar and then record 30 second worth of audio to go along with their avatar. You can have them present on a variety of topics! Looks like a lot of fun, and seems like all students would be engaged and interested in this. I can't wait to try it!
This post was really meant for me as a reference to come back to in the future, but it may help any teacher who has an iPad! The school was gracious enough to give every teacher an iPad to use in the classroom, however I have not used it once in an educational way. I found this and am placing it here for future use as I am bound and determined to use my iPad in my classroom someday, somehow!
So, this tool doesn't exactly have students produce any language but I LOVE the idea! There is a tool where you can create a fake iMessage and display a conversation as the students would see on their phones. I thought this was a great way for students to receive language input as they are used to getting information in this format all day long! The teacher could then extend the activity with some sort of language output assignment. For example:
- continue the conversation with your table partner (written or spoken) OR -discuss the text on the board. What is it saying? Who are they? What is the context? This photo from another teacher's classroom gave me inspiration for an assignment that will produce language output! Actually, it gave me multiple ideas:
1. Students could create a class Instagram account and each week take a picture of something and describe using target language. (Web 2.0 tool---> Creating!) 2. Have students use phones to take pictures of their daily lives. Then create a voicethread presentation or another collaborative digital presentation discussing the pictures. (Another Web 2.0 tool!) 3. Have students create an Instagram board as a class. There are no words, just pictures. You can have students go around in groups, individually or as a class to discuss the images on the board in the target language ONLY. This can be easily modified to another content area, as teacher can place pictures they want on their and tailor a student discussion on the topic of your choice! One thing that language learners, especially novice learners, have a hard time doing is producing language that can keep a discussion flowing. They may understand the message but have a hard time summarizing it in their own words or asking questions about it. I found this chart that can help students produce language with a little bit of help! It can be easily modified to use at any level in any language.
For an assignment, to practice my own personal reflection, I recorded a video discussing my thoughts and observations of a new project that I implemented in my classroom.
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