FLES and Technology
- 2. Songify is a FREE app available on iTunes. Your students will feel like stars! Its uses are endless in language classes. Record each student speaking target vocabulary in a group setting (i.e., around a circle). Record individual students reciting poems, lines from books, target dialogue. Highly motivating for elementary level. Use as culminating "reward" for mastering vocabulary. Effective for sharing with parents via email.
- 3. • Present with a variety of media, including digital media or visual displays, short oral messages or reports about familiar topics • Written and spoken short notes and messages and brief reports about themselves, people and things in their environment • Research, organize and present a topic • Identify and appreciate differences in cultural perspectives within a defined range of topics • Explain a local or global practice, product or issue. COMMON CORE STANDARDS
- 4. • Recognize that cognates and previously learned structures enhance comprehension of spoken and written language. • Use content knowledge learned in other subject areas to comprehend spoken and written messages
- 5. What is CI? Language that can be understood by listeners despite them not understanding ALL the words and structures. Sub-conscious Language / Natural Language / understandable messages / GIVING of Language What can CI look like in the language classroom? STORIES CHARADES EITHER/OR QUESTIONS / PQA SKITS GAMES YES/NO QUESTIONS / PERSONALIZED PUPPETRY SONGS VISUAL CUES / GESTURES CI TO AVOID THIS
- 6. Google Voice gives you one phone number that is tied to you. You can choose to have that phone number ring any phone you’d like. Students will hear your voice when they call an assigned number. When it comes to students who are shy or very nervous about talking in front of the whole class, it helps them develop appropriate oral communicative skills. Most students have an easier time recording a quick message than trying to produce language in the classroom setting. All students (at least in the US) have access to phones. App available on iTunes (for iPhone or iPad) https://www.google.com/voice/fm/04042199332360470915/AHwOX_AVqRoLO7jDO8yp6KgPgNOLQ VVPBLr0dWmf03rAjJb8xesHa5ueb3C7V91HNO0swcP2voa07tsd3ih1IzXEJvHCWih3JmbAgzzpgG1 fkTsl85dXG8O1PC2NE-ijVZ7pQq_G5nALJUzwccW_JMCFSChlXpmPJg
- 8. Vokis are creative tools to motivate children into using the target language to practice listening, speaking and writing skills.Whole group or individual http://www.voki.com/pickup.php?scid=9980561&height=267&width=200 Animal example https://www.voki.com/classroom/preview.php?sId=9945654 Person example http://www.voki.com/php/viewmessage/?chsm=22425604d4c839f0b2da6f1f387a1303&mId=2147590 Jorge de Espana example
- 9. AS A TEACHER TOOL •Create videos to introduce or review vocabulary •Increase student interest and comprehensible input AS A STUDENT TOOL •Student can write short messages with photos to friends & family •Students can animate stories they have written
- 10. Can be used as a teacher or student tool to increase interest, comprehensible input, introducing or reviewing vocabulary, creating stories and writing short notes to friends
- 11. A tool used to collaborate with people from different countries or schools to assess reading, speaking, writing and listening skills. Language students can practice their computer skills and their language skills to talk about everyday activities. Students can practice speaking as many times as they like before sharing with teachers and classmates. For my students, the ability to do something over and over again and the ability to listen as many times as one wishes is priceless.
- 12. • Around The World With 80 schools http://aroundtheworldwith80schools.net/ • Connect with other classrooms • http://goeprimariatics.edublogs.org/2010/09/18/seguimos-aprendiendo- con/
- 13. Use with songs to practice vocabulary
- 15. • Collaborative Presentation Tool used for classroom introductions, to reinforce vocabulary learned, and to review listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. • Assign student a specific slide number
- 16. •Create your own game to assess your students in a fun, interactive way •Game can be created for specific categories as a review of several topics •Students can play individually, partners with a partners or in teams •Great tool for students to study at home
- 17. Recording Editing sounds *Change speed *Add music Enhance lessons
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