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afarachnps

Vocaroo - 0 views

  • Record an audio welcome message and put it on your blog (or wiki or web page.) Elementary students can practice their oral reading skills. You could even post them on your blog for parents and grandparents to hear. Each day have one student record “what we did in school today” and post it on your blog. Students in a foreign language class could record words or phrases and then email them to their teacher. Left your students with a substitute? Record a message to encourage your students to be on their best behavior!
    • afarachnps
       
      I used Vocaroo this week-- a simple app and easy to use that can fulfill a variety of needs for the classroom. I thought I could share some here with you...I am drawn to the second point about practicing and recording reading out loud. This past year with my elementary students, I found a great need to improve their understanding of sounds in Spanish, as well as building their confidence as "speakers" of the language. This gives me an opportunity to work on this issue further this upcoming year.
Marlene Johnshoy

7 Creative Student Design Projects to Try with Canva - 8 views

  • Let’s face it: we’re humans equipped with mystifyingly powerful, sensory-driven brains. Why not inspire your class to explore how boundless its capacity to create really is?
    • effeinstein
       
      I like canva as a way for students to visually show what they have learned and they can add text to show their target language skills as well!
    • Marlene Johnshoy
       
      I have a colleague who brings Canva up all the time! He loves it!
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    I found that Canva is a great tool to create a infographic. It sometimes took hours to find the infographic I wanted online, but now I can create the one in a way I want. I just tried to make one in Japanese:) . I would like to see other ways to use this tool.
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    I really enjoyed using Canva in my project this week. It's really nice and easy to use (and I like the app for my phone). I can imagine using the poster project and the student profile project in my classroom.
Marlene Johnshoy

Identity in Online Communities: Social Networking Sites and Language Learning - 4 views

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    Abstract: Since their emergence in 2005, Web 2.0 technologies have been advanced as potentially transformative in the area of education in general and foreign language learning in particular. Web 2.0 technologies are presenting new opportunities for developing diverse online learning environments and enhancing interactivity, participation and feedback between students, their peer groups and teachers. This article examines one of the most significant Web 2.0 tools, Social Networking Sites (SNS), and focuses on Livemocha, an example of an online community specifically aimed at encouraging collaboration between foreign language learners. Results from the ethnographic approach adopted in the paper indicate that: (a) SNSs can be used by language learners to explore new relationships rather than merely maintain existing ones and that (b) longitudinal studies are required to achieve a better understanding of the complex processes of mediation involved in online community formation and maintenance
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    Funny! I also found this article last week and even attached it to last week's blog post in the ning. I've noticed this morning, that reading and commenting on it is also one of this week's assignments. I guess I chose well :)
Agustin Vizcaino

Media Use in the Classroom - 2 views

  • Joe Dale explores how languages teachers have embraced technology in the classroom
  • The use of social media has allowed colleagues to get to know each other as real people not just teachers and this has strengthened the sense of cohesion, solidarity and collective confidence.
  • gy suited to MFL? Well, one of the fundamentals of language learning is re
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  • communication and new technologies can certainly facilitate this essential aspect through, for example, videoconferencing and blogging. There are also lots of ways of recording and editing audio as a method of improving pronunciation, boosting learner confidence, extending speaking skills and deepening understanding. Filmmaking and animation also draw on a variety of useful skills and promote creativity, collaboration and personalised learning.
  • Technology is not going away and language teachers need to embrace its full potential to engage our 21st century learners.
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    The article describes how technology (I took it as one of the terms for media) is important in the foreign language classroom.
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    I am opening the article and is not showing the highlights. Hopefully it will when I share the article.
Agustin Vizcaino

LLT Vol8Num3: SUPPORTING SYNCHRONOUS DISTANCE LANGUAGE LEARNING WITH DESKTOP VIDEOCONFE... - 3 views

  • A preliminary evaluation with language teachers and computer specialists was carried out in 2001 to investigate the technological capabilities of four Internet-based desktop videoconferencing tools (CUseeMe, ICUII, Video VoxPhone Gold, and NetMeeting), and NetMeeting revealed itself as the most potentially appropriate tool for supporting oral and visual interaction in DLE (Wang, 2004).
  • He suggested firstly that "linguistic interaction is a collaborative activity," and then moved on to say that "linguistic communication involves the establishment of a triangular relationship between the sender, the receiver, and the context of situation."
  • Oral-visual interaction represents the highest level of CMC-based interaction at the present time.
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  • It offers an authentic learning environment, in which language learners can orally and visually interact with another human being in the target language much in the same ways as in face-to-face interaction. However, research on oral-visual interaction in CMC has only occupied a marginal status in CMC research.
  • Cognitively and linguistically, it is generally maintained that paralinguistic cues such as head nods and facial expressions reduce ambiguity in speech and improve understanding
  • Signs of comprehension, frustration, nervousness, and enjoyment were all evident in real time.
  • More importantly, there is a crucial pedagogical concern at the heart of this research, that is, for distance language professionals to be open to the use of whatever technology available to maximize the level and quality of oral-visual interaction, and in so doing, create a more effective and efficient learning environment for distance language learners. Although the technology is changing rapidly, the larger pedagogical issue contained in this research is unlimited and beyond obsolescence.
  • It is not an exaggeration to say that Internet-based real time technology is changing distance education quantitatively as well as qualitatively, and this research represents only the beginning of the important effort to make distance language learning a more effective endeavor.
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    This article talks about many aspects of communication especially the benefits of synchronous distance language learning
vaguevara

Teaching, Tech and Twitter: Ignite a Flipgrid Fire - 1 views

  • 5. GridPals! An incredible idea from Bonnie McClelland, GridPals connects classrooms across the globe creating virtual pen pals. You can take advantage of GridPals using Flipgrid One. However, if one of the GridPals teachers has Flipgrid classroom then you can become CoPilots on the same grid giving both teachers access to the educator dashboard.
    • vaguevara
       
      REally want to investigate this!!!
  • The beginning of the year, at parent conferences, a send-off to the next grade are all ways to get families involved in encouraging and supporting their kids.
    • vaguevara
       
      I will use this as a bridge to communication about what is happening in the classroom- Have students teach introductions to their parents, and film them doing it!!!
  • Claudio Zavala Jr. and Scott Titmas
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  • Flipgrid film festival 
    • vaguevara
       
      I would like to use this for trablenguas and shorter interpersonal activities-- Great to share out with class, and also for student-parent-teacher conferences
  • Flipgrid video and a QR code link to the video is stuck on the map? Geography, history and oral reports all rolled into one.
    • vaguevara
       
      Love this idea, for student work during field trips
  • 7. Computer science shareout
    • vaguevara
       
      I will also use this idea to garner self-evaluation of discreet tasks and longer project work.
  • ONE of the PVLEGS expectations to focus on at a time
    • vaguevara
       
      Yes-- try not to assess everything at once-- overwhelming for student and teacher:)
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  • The Global Read Aloud is a set 6 week period that spans from early October through mid-November and teachers all over the globe read one book and connect with other classrooms all over the world. 
    • vaguevara
       
      Wonder if there is a readaloud in Spanish... will investigate
  • 10 Ways to Enhance Math Lessons With Flipgrid by Sean Fahey.
    • vaguevara
       
      I'm sure a great deal of this is transferable to WLs.
  • background knowledge
    • vaguevara
       
      This could be a way to have students construct the anticipatory set!
  • 1. Virtual vocabulary word wall When working on a unit have your students record a video describing the meaning of important vocabulary words. They can hold up a card in their selfie video with the word written on it so the words are easily accessed by other students. 
    • vaguevara
       
      Love this! Great way to kick start the year!!!
  • The Educator's Guide to Flipgrid (2nd Edition).
    • vaguevara
       
      Will ad this to my list of ebooks
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    Overview of Flipgrid and all the ways it can be used in the classroom for interpretive, interpersonal and presentational modes.
mmegillespie

I've got that Flipgrid FEVER - En français, SVP! - 1 views

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    This blog gave a good overview of the new features on Flipgrid (which just got rolled out a week or two ago). Helpful stuff!
maygeorge

Statement on the Role of Technology in Language Learning | American Council on the Teac... - 3 views

    • maygeorge
       
      I agree we need more than one tool to learn any language.
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    A little off-topic for Week 5 but overall relevant to this course.
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    I hope we can learn how to introduce games online. For me this hard to do , but I think it be very effective for students to learn FL.
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    I like to use games in teaching but for me it is hard to design one in class and online.
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    "The use of technology is not a goal in and of itself; rather technology is one tool that supports language learners as they use the target language in culturally appropriate ways to accomplish authentic tasks." This quote stood out to me and it is so true. sometimes we feel pressured to use technology but we forgot the pedagogy purpose.
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    Thanks for sharing it. We are using technology for our language lessons. I agree what ACFLT says about having clear that tech is a tool not a goal since the most important aspect is the learning.
Marlene Johnshoy

Social Media Posts as Exemplars | Edutopia - 0 views

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    "Text messages and Instagram captions can be valuable samples for teaching tone, writing conventions, and levels of formality."
Anne Dixon

100 Ways You Should Be Using Facebook in Your Classroom - OnlineCollege.org - 11 views

  • Teachers can utilize Facebook for class projects, for enhancing communication, and for engaging students in a manner that might not be entirely possible in traditional classroom settings. Read on to learn how you can be using Facebook in your classroom, no matter if you are a professor, student, working online, or showing up in person for class.
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    This list is amazing. It has even a list of apps and pages that work very well with Facebook.
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    I love this list. So many activities we can do with our students to learn through FB.
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    This is a good list. So many creative ideas. May George #GroupC
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    this looks great. All it takes is a couple of good ideas for something to work well. Thank you
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    This is a great list! I never used facebook for teaching but I learned many facebook apps for instructional purpose! Thank you for posting!
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    Thanks for sharing. This is related to work we did this week.
pludek

Flipping my Spanish Classroom: Effective use of technology - 6 views

  • virtual field trips and online formative assessment.
  • YouTube annotations
    • pludek
       
      Never tried this - anyone know how?
    • Marlene Johnshoy
       
      Look at the "choose your own adventure" example for this week - those are YouTube annotations and there is a tutorial there on how to do it.
    • pludek
       
      The link didn't work - no longer available. I'll keep trying to find out more
    • pludek
       
      there are quite a few others after searching
  • have the wrong answer first, and keep the language on the right answer general.
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  • flubaroo, which is a Google script that can correct online quizzes for you
    • pludek
       
      Another thing I haven't tried - anyone?
  • Online formative assessment
  • o virtual field trips
  • make a sightseeing tour on Google Earth
    • pludek
       
      This could also be used for travel unit or for giving directions to one another. Another great tool is geosettr.com or https://geoguessr.com/ you are given a map / picture of a location and you have to guess where you are. With settr, you can create your own
danielhkarvonen

Guest Blog Post: Why Off2Class Loves Zoom For ESL Instruction - Zoom Blog - 4 views

  • Zoom performs incredibly well in low bandwidth environments.
    • elenistef7
       
      This is important for schools that don't have good internet connection.
    • danielhkarvonen
       
      And also for individual users who may be at home. My home connection is fairly slow, and Zoom worked great for me.
  • A great selection of annotation tools, so you can share your screen, and then write and draw on the screen like a real whiteboard.
  • Easy process to record classes.
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    These language instructors prefer Zoom over Skype and other video conferencing tools.
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    Wow, Off2Class and Zoom make a great combination! And what a powerful resource Off2Class is for ESL teachers--one-stop-shopping for lesson plans!
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    These language instructors prefer Zoom over Skype and other videoconferencing tools.
fhenshaw

Best Apps and Websites for the Flipped Classroom | Common Sense Education - 7 views

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    I'm a little embarrassed to confess I actually didn't know what Flipped Classroom was... If someone had the same problem here's a video that explains it nicely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCIxikOq73Q
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    Thank you for the video. I wasn't sure exactly what a flipped classroom looked and how it worked. Very helpful!
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    We have used VoiceThread, I hope we will use a few more in the coming weeks. I noticed each said Free and some had paid with an i in a gray circle(?)
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    I liked this list of applications (free and pay). Out of the thirty, I was only familiar with three: "VoiceThread", "Kahoot!", and "Screen-O- Matic".
kelseypelham

Best Practices for an Online Spanish Course - The FLTMAG - 5 views

  • nearly a third of American college courses are now taught online.
  • anguage instructors need to be convinced that online education presents a responsible learning environment for students,
  • lexibility. S
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  • Personalization.
  • Autonomy. 
  • tudents must assume greater responsibility and organization for their learning journey than in the face-to-face classroom.
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  • ongoing guidance and supervision from instructors, with regards to logistical and pedagogical issues.
  • increase student collaboration,
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  • teacher-centered
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  • ourse content and logistics
  • Online grammar and vocabulary activities. Students work on their own with input, explanations, and activities from an online textbook.  
  • istening activities. We created interactive “video lessons” using Adobe Captivate: 5 minutes interviews, accompanied by comprehension questions, vocabulary, grammar exercises, and short writing assignments. For these activities, we interviewed various professionals around Davis
  • Speaking asynchronous activities. In Canvas, students record a video message related to a specific communicative task. For example, they compare Davis to a city in the Hispanic world. Also, they have to comment on at least one video from a classmate
  • ynchronous speaking activities. They consist of a video chat with the instructor and 2-3 students, working on communicative activities related to the lesson. It is student-centered day and learners tend to receive more feedback than in the traditional face-to-face classroom
  • riting activities.
    • kelseypelham
       
      I love the way UC Davis has the week split up. I'm wondering if they run into students with conflicts with the synchronous schedule? How much coordination does it take? How many hours is the instructor putting in on Thursdays and Fridays meeting with students? I love the idea, just need to see how it works in practice.
  • Student preparation: Students need more preparation for the online learning experience. The creation of a mandatory workshop
  • mphasizing the pedagogical particularities of online learning, could help with student attrition, which is usually higher in online courses than in traditional courses.
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  • Transition from a focus on activities to a focus on projects: dynamic assessment, portfolios, self-evaluations, tandems, etc.
    • kelseypelham
       
      I agree that this would be great, but logistically can be hard especially at lower-levels where so much repetition and practice is needed, particularly with grammar structures.
    • kelseypelham
       
      It is true that more students do tend to "fall through the cracks" in online classes. A short workshop that preps them for success in online classes would be ideal. If not, we should address it in the courses themselves.
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    This describes a really good setup for an online language course!
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    Seems pretty formulaic - so a good place to start!
ksforza

The Evil Landlady Action Maze - 3 views

    • ksforza
       
      I love this idea - I am not sure how to create it; ask me next week! I could see this being used as a way to teach culture and language!
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    I was drawn to this because the title was intriguing:) The idea of the app is an interesting one, although my first reaction in the example one here is that there are potentially a lot of stereotypes being (re)produced. I would be curious what you do with it!
l0zeng01

How Tech Tools Can Engage Foreign Language Students - 3 views

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    This easy-to-read introduction to SAMR (standing for "Substitution," "Augmentation," "Modification" and "Redefinition"), a model for helping integrate "technology tools into foreign-language classrooms," is blogged by a Chinese content and technology specialist who, I trust, has a lot of experience of incorporating media into Chinese learning activities. Besides clearly explaining how the SAMR model works for a L2 class via really useful tech tools such as Google Docs and Flipgrid, this blog also reveals a fact that our students "are not all 'digital natives,'" and encourages us, 21st-century educators, to "meet our students halfway to use tech for learning." I found the first two SAMR stages, namely, "Substitution" and "Augmentation," are very helpful for evaluating the interpretive mode implemented with appropriate media.
nurlider

HyperPadlets & Padlet Timelines - Jake Miller - 1 views

  • Format Flexibility! There are 8 different Padlet formats: Wall, Canvas, Stream, Grid, Shelf, Backchannel, Map & Timeline. Screenshot from padlet.com
    • nurlider
       
      These templates can be templates for a variety of projects.
  • Remake – Want to reuse a Padlet in multiple classes or across multiple years?
    • nurlider
       
      I can also use copy of student entries as a platform for in-class activities.
  • Your students will not need an account to access your Padlets or post/comment on your Padlets.  They would, however, need an account in order to make their own.
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  • Content Flexibility! Once you select a format, your posts on the Padlet can be pretty much anything!
  • Customization – Padlet gives you lots of options in the settings area.  You can customize the appearance, change the URL to make it easier to access, turn comments on/off, turn reactions (stars, upvotes, likes, grades) on/off, require approval for posts, filter profanity. 
  • Real-time Collaboration – If you choose to allow collaboration, you and your collaborators (students! teachers! parents!) can collaborate in realtime. 
  • 2. Second, I didn’t know that Padlet had a Timeline option!After Matt’s tweet, I discovered that a Timeline option was added by Padlet in December 2019
    • nurlider
       
      I used the timeline option for one of Week 4 activities I designed. It was for a biography reading. It worked really well.
christasgould

NFLC Virtual Summit (2020): Practical Ways to Simplify, Systematize Flipped Teaching - ... - 1 views

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    There are a number of National Foreign Language Center videos on YouTube. The NFLC videos (most are closed captions) are helpful for any language teachers. It offers different activities and ideas to get the students involved online/hybrid etc.
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    I have been loving the NFLC videos this week! So many incredible sessions! They will be available on YouTube until August 31!
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    Cool resource. Thanks for sharing!
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    Wonderful resource for so many activities! Thank you!
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    Thanks for sharing this. Lots of good information and inspiration here.
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    Thanks for sharing! I love her comment "The digital native is a myth." This is exactly what my colleagues and I have been noticing as our school went 1:1. Students understand how to use tech for social media and gaming but not as a tool for school.
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    Looks like the perfect video to watch as a prelude to doing the hard work of shifting a course to online format. The essential reminder for me: "Pick a few tools and use them over and over again." Better for students, better for us....
Erika Sass

Welcome to the ESL Cyber Safety Exhibition - ESL Student Page - 2 views

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    This Web page introduces a blended learning approach to learning about Internet safety for English Language Learners in Grades 4 & 5. Initially, this project began with a simple teacher guided collaborative lesson that explored building a class iGoogle site that students accessed online.
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    This is a good project to maintain the safety and security of our online learners.
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