Language and Literacy Development with Simple Tech Tools that Motivate
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Kristi Reyes presented on simple tech tools that motivate language and literacy development. The presentation provided step-by-step instructions to download and use various free online tools for listening, spelling, pronunciation, vocabulary, and more. Some of the highlighted tools included Spelling City for spelling games, Visual Thesaurus, Quizlet for flashcards, Voki to create avatars that speak text, Dvolver for making animated movies, Padlet for multimedia bulletin boards, and Piclits to create compositions by dragging words onto images.
Language and Literacy Development with Simple Tech Tools that Motivate
- 1. READ San Diego Tutor Conference 2015 Language and Literacy Developmentwith Simple Tech Tools that Motivate See http://goo.gl/2wmhs3 for step-by-step instructions to download Presented by Kristi Reyes, kreyes@miracosta.edu Web site Uses Similar / Alternative Sites Spelling City www.spellingcity.com Enter a word list; site makes spelling exercises and games with audio. Listening,spelling,dictation,pronunciation,vocabulary Visual Thesaurus Spelling Bee Quizlet www.quizlet.com Create flashcards with images or text definitions, audio, games, quizzes. Listening,spelling,vocabulary learning. Flashcard Stash Memrise (with app) STUDY BLUE Study Stack Wrds Voki www.voki.com Make a customized avatar that speaks with text-to-speech (type in a limited number ofcharacters) or with your own voice (upload an audio file, record with a USB microphone,or record by phone), asynchronous "conversations"with commenting.Share by email/linking or embedding. Any language skill / practice / assessment -- listening, speaking, pronunciation, writing,vocabulary, grammar Students can introduce themselves to classmates,answer question prompts,use target vocabulary or grammar structures Avachara Tellagami (app) MakeBeliefsComix www.makebeliefscomix.com Make comic strips with 2 – 4 panels,a variety of characters, backgrounds,props,speech and thoughtbubbles;comics can be emailed or printed. Tutors: introduce a topic for a class reading,spark a discussion,or pose a question or a problem to solve. Students:write dialogs using targetgrammar structure or vocabulary words or idioms,show do’s and don’ts for a given scenario or problem,debate,respond to a reading or a class discussion topic,make news reports or give opinions on current events or political issues,make commercials or a movie review, tell jokes or stories or write the dialog for a shortstory or the ending of an open-ended story. BitStrips Comic Life StoryboardThat ToonDoo Dvolver www.dvolver.com/moviemaker/make.html Make animated cartoon films.One or two of 33 characters per scene; up to three scenes;up to six lines of text per scene,maximum 100 text characters per line of dialog;text in speech bubbles;choose background and sky, plot, title design,optional music.No registration necessary.Saving and sharing by email (URL link) or html code embedded on a Web page. DigitalFilms GoAnimate Moovly Plotagon (app) PowToon Xtranormal Zimmer Twins
- 2. Web site Uses Similar / Alternative Sites Padlet padlet.com Make a multimedia bulletin board.Contributors can posttext (max. 160 characters per post),images,video,audio/music,hyperlinks to Web sites. Tutors: posta question for students to respond to as pre-reading activity or for discussion or as post-reading reflection,provide class information/announcements, take suggestions or evaluate an activity, studentself-evaluation or peer review, use discussion board for a given topic or debate,documentlearning goals for the class. Students:postintroductions, shortbiographical or autobiographical sketches,about their jobs,holidayor familytraditions,educational or career goals,poetry, book or movie review, things to do and see where we live, recommend bestrestaurants, stores,coffee shops,places to study, write aboutthe place of their birth or where they live now, create timelines. Lino It (with app) Pinside Spaaze Stormboard Piclits www.piclits.com Choose from a variety of interesting and beautiful images and drag and drop provided words to create shortcompositions or type in their own words.PicLit is saved online once an accountis created, has its own URL, is saved in the site's online gallery,and can be shared via email or on a blog,Facebook, or other social networking site or Web site. Students:many types of writing tasks - one-sentence description or story aboutan image;a favorite proverb; personal motto or creed; shortstory; a goal,dream,plan for the future; summary/interpretation/paraphrase ofa class reading;one-sentence picture caption; write about a chosen picture using a certain number ofnouns, verbs, adjectives,and adverbs; put words in correct order to form sentences or paragraphs. Sites above + Big Huge Labs (see Motivator, Movie Poster,Magazine Cover, and Billboard) Bubblr Message Hop Phrase It Quozio Recite This Tackk