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Language teaching in Second Life - 2 views

www.omniglot.com/...secondlife.php Education technology language carlatech17 socialnetworking virtualworld
shared by murasimo on 24 Jul 17 - Cached
  • murasimo on 24 Jul 17
     
    Exploring 3D virtual worlds like Second Life to provide simulation of real life environments and allow students to discover more creative and more realistic ways to improve their language skills.
  • lars3969 on 25 Jul 17
     
    I've also seen proposals to do professional development with teachers through Second Life. They could actually practice responding to different scenarios in this virtual world. It seems like it would be a ton of work!
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Free Technology for Teachers: Students Can Now Guide Themselves In Google Expeditions - 1 views

www.freetech4teachers.com/...n-now-guide-themselves-in.html online technology teaching #carlatech17 language Education
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  • speabodymn on 24 Jul 17
     
    Useful updates on technology, often offering helpful hints about programs that I'm already using.
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Creative Language Class | Ideas, solutions, and inspiration for world language teachers - 2 views

www.creativelanguageclass.com carlatech18share
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  • speabodymn on 24 Jul 17
     
    Helpful source for creative ideas to enliven the classroom.
  • atsukofrederick on 21 Jul 18
     
    The blog consists of three parts: Blog, Teaching Toolbox, and Workshops. We can read about issues, tips, comments that are pertinent to language instruction. Teachertoolbox provides new resources and activity ideas. We can find where and what kind of PDs are available in Workshops. The world language consultants, Kara Parker and Megan Smith are the authors of this bog. They understand the challenges language teachers are facing and believe it is very important to provide and share resources and support each other to stay being an effective language teacher.
  • norikofujiokaito on 21 Jul 18
     
    I love this! We can learn while enjoying reading. Thank you very much for finding and sharing it with us.
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Fakebook - 5 views

www.classtools.net/home-page learning_activity
shared by Robert Steen on 24 Jul 17 - No Cached
  • "Fakebook" allows teachers and students to create imaginary profile pages for study purposes.
  • Use "Fakebook" to chart the plot of a book, the development of a character, a series of historical events, the debates and relationships between people, and so on!
  • Robert Steen on 24 Jul 17
     
    Another FB idea, but this is not connected to the real facebook. I'm not sure classmates can interact with these "fake" profiles. Still, might be fun.
  • lars3969 on 25 Jul 17
     
    I can imagine using this after reading a book with a class - I could assign a character to each student and give them a situation to respond to. It might turn out something like this: https://thehairpin.com/texts-from-pride-and-prejudice-9508de842826
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Digital Highlighting Activity - Creative Language Class - 6 views

www.creativelanguageclass.com/digital-highlighting-activity Carlatech17 class activity Group C technology
shared by pludek on 24 Jul 17 - No Cached
  • Posted by Kara Parker on April 17, 2017 in 3 Activities, Interpretive Reading, Reading, Techy Stuff, What's New
  • Highlighting is one of my top go-to interpretive reading activities. Today I will review an app for Apple devices and Chrome. Let’s see how highlighting can go digital! I blogged about this “Highlight Away” activity before… It was Idea #71 in 2012! If you haven’t read it, take a minute to see where this idea started. Why I love highlighting… It gives a focus while reading It takes away the frustration of “not knowing every word” (adjust the task, not the text) It preps them to summarize It preps them to discuss the reading No comprehension questions needed (low teacher prep) It lets them figure out the meaning and learn new words in context It shows comprehension without translating Here are a few examples of highlighting activities we’ve done in lessons:
    • maygeorge
      maygeorge on 26 Jul 17
       
      I think this article is very helpful.
    • pludek
      pludek on 26 Jul 17
       
      This is a great idea - they could also highlight in an app like Notability if you use that
  • s in the Street Art unit. They were reading opinions about graffiti before they gave their opinion. It was awesome seeing how this activity gave them so many solid reasons that support their opinions.
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  •  template for you to adapt and use if you are doing the activity with highlighters and printed articles. Copy and paste the image to your preferred program (Word, PowerPoint, Pages, Keynote, etc). Add text boxes over the image to create your categories.
  • maygeorge on 26 Jul 17
     
    How to highlight
  • pludek on 26 Jul 17
     
    How to highlight
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Creating more interpretive listening exercises - Maris Hawkins - 6 views

marishawkins.wordpress.com/...terpretive-listening-exercises carlatech17 group A creating listening exercises
shared by Anne Dixon on 24 Jul 17 - No Cached
  •  I think it is important to give students specific tasks while they are working on a listening activity.  
  •  I know that my kids love watching movies, and this is a topic that they can relate to.
    • Anne Dixon
      Anne Dixon on 24 Jul 17
       
      I like how the links are included here so a teacher would find this activity "ready to use". 
  • vivianfranco on 30 Jul 17
     
    I agree with the idea about assigning specific tasks for listening activities. There is nothing more confusing than not knowing what to do when listening to an audio in another language. What do you think would be best, to watch the entire movie in the classroom, watch some parts of it or watch all of it each o the students in their houses?
  • pludek on 30 Jul 17
     
    I have struggled pedagogically about showing moves in class. I think that I need to thoughtfully incorporate them because the students enjoy them. I wonder if showing the whole movie, but in parts, depending on the movie, might be the way to go - I always feel that there is so much pressure to get through 'X' amount of curriculum. This has given me food for thought about how I could use them.
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Social Media Posts as Exemplars | Edutopia - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/...a-posts-exemplars-marissa-king week2 socialmedia Edutopia writing
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  • Marlene Johnshoy on 24 Jul 17
     
    "Text messages and Instagram captions can be valuable samples for teaching tone, writing conventions, and levels of formality."
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50 Ways To Use Music & Song - EFL 2.0 Teacher Talk - 3 views

ddeubel.edublogs.org/...50-ways-to-use-music-song
shared by Marlene Johnshoy on 25 Jul 17 - No Cached
  • Research suggests that students perform tasks where concentration is required, better with music playing in the background.
    • lars3969
      lars3969 on 25 Jul 17
       
      I'm guessing that it should be instrumental. Classical or jazz?
    • Marlene Johnshoy
      Marlene Johnshoy on 26 Jul 17
       
      They say that classical works best for this - right brain, left brain thing.
    • lars3969
      lars3969 on 25 Jul 17
       
      This sounds awesome!
    • lars3969
      lars3969 on 25 Jul 17
       
      Jazz chants, jazz chants. I feel like these get mentioned all the time, yet I know no teacher who has ever used them...
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  • Students make a doodle video.  It’s easy to do and read about it here.  Students each make a picture for one line of a song. Put them together and then make a movie.
  • Carolyn Graham’s “Jazz Chants” are perfect for any class, young or old. The repetition, rhythm and simplicity of them make any lesson very effective.
    • lars3969
      lars3969 on 25 Jul 17
       
      Brilliant!
  • “Second language singers”
    • lars3969
      lars3969 on 25 Jul 17
       
      I like how simple this is.
  • Some in the song, some not. Students copy, listen, circle the vocabulary they hear.
  • lars3969 on 25 Jul 17
     
    This blog has good resources - some related to tech and some not. I like that the author links to a lot of activity and lesson plans - it's good to have models.
  • Marlene Johnshoy on 26 Jul 17
     
    This blog has good resources - some related to tech and some not. I like that the author links to a lot of activity and lesson plans - it's good to have models.
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Flipping my Spanish Classroom: Effective use of technology - 6 views

spanishflippedclass.blogspot.com/...fective-use-of-technology.html Effective technology
shared by pludek on 25 Jul 17 - No Cached
  • virtual field trips and online formative assessment.
  • YouTube annotations
    • pludek
      pludek on 25 Jul 17
       
      Never tried this - anyone know how?
    • Marlene Johnshoy
      Marlene Johnshoy on 26 Jul 17
       
      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
      pludek on 26 Jul 17
       
      The link didn't work - no longer available. I'll keep trying to find out more
    • pludek
      pludek on 26 Jul 17
       
      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
      pludek on 25 Jul 17
       
      Another thing I haven't tried - anyone?
  • Online formative assessment
  • o virtual field trips
  • make a sightseeing tour on Google Earth
    • pludek
      pludek on 25 Jul 17
       
      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
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PBL in the TL: Seesaw Insight: Casting Call Selfies - 1 views

www.pblinthetl.com/...ight-casting-call-selfies.html
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    • mmegillespie
      mmegillespie on 27 Jul 17
       
      A nice idea on how to use this or VoiceThread or Flipgrid.
  • mmegillespie on 27 Jul 17
     
    Here is one activity that a teacher used with Seesaw.
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Teaching Spanish...: Flipgrid for Interpersonal Speaking... and for reaching outside of... - 6 views

reflecciones-kj.blogspot.com/...nterpersonal-speaking-and.html carlatech17 b blog flipgrid
shared by heidikreutzer on 27 Jul 17 - No Cached
  • there are so many possibilities with this, especially because it is asynchronous communication.
  • heidikreutzer on 27 Jul 17
     
    How Flipgrid can be used in the classroom for Interpersonal speaking.
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Mirroring Project - 2 views

diigo.com/09z4wp carlatech carlatech17 groupb group b pronunciation intonation stress presentation video
shared by lars3969 on 27 Jul 17 - No Cached
  • Mirroring Project:
    • lars3969
      lars3969 on 27 Jul 17
       
      Colleen has presented on the Mirroring Project in some of my classes. It seems to have impressive results for international students' pronunciation and presentation skills.
  • Step 1: Identify major pronunciation challenge
    • lars3969
      lars3969 on 27 Jul 17
       
      This is the "before" video for an international graduate teaching assistant.
  • Step 2: Choose appropriate model
    • lars3969
      lars3969 on 27 Jul 17
       
      Typically, students choose a TED speaker whose style they want to emulate.
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  • Step 4: Mirror the original recording.
    • lars3969
      lars3969 on 27 Jul 17
       
      The goal here is for the international student to copy the TED speaker as much as possible. They should think about pronunciation, intonation, stress, and gesture.
  • speaker with strong non-native rhythm and intonation patterns.
    • lars3969
      lars3969 on 27 Jul 17
       
      I don't know how to un-highlight. Oh well!
  • speaker with strong non-native rhythm and intonation patterns.
  • speaker with strong non-native rhythm and intonation patterns.
  • speaker with strong non-native rhythm and intonation patterns.
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Infografías en castellano - Infografías interesantes en español (Alfredo Vela) - 6 views

infografiasencastellano.com
shared by Anne Dixon on 27 Jul 17 - No Cached
    • Anne Dixon
      Anne Dixon on 27 Jul 17
       
      I love using infographics, especially with beginning levels of language learners. There are so many visual aids to help increase comprehension that most students feel a sense of accomplishment when reading the infographics.  This site has a ton of them in  Spanish.  #carltech17GroupA
    • heidikreutzer
      heidikreutzer on 29 Jul 17
       
      Thanks for sharing, Anne. I have not used Infographics in class, and I think my students would enjoy working with them.
    • pludek
      pludek on 30 Jul 17
       
      I agree - infographs are a great resource. I've considered having students even create some to share on a given topic - a work in progress!
  • vivianfranco on 30 Jul 17
     
    Hi Anne! I also like to use infographics with my students even for me. I learn much better when I see images and graphics. I guess I am a visual learner and I always present content through images and charts of information.
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Music Unit - Creative Language Class - 2 views

www.creativelanguageclass.com/music-unit rubrics culture music compelling comprehensible
shared by rfrisch125 on 27 Jul 17 - No Cached
  • So many opinions were out there on social media. I decided to focus this unit even more on this popular music event.
  • So many opinions were out there on social media. I decided to focus this unit even more on this popular music event.
    • rfrisch125
      rfrisch125 on 27 Jul 17
       
      There are always good themes but we need to figure out how to make them focused, comprehensible and doable. That is the key.
  • Lots of comprehensible input there! They learned about new genres. Some said they added music that we learned about in class to their playlists. Love that!
    • rfrisch125
      rfrisch125 on 27 Jul 17
       
      Comprehensible and compelling input. Plus, added Spanish music to their audio files. The best language learners are the ones who listen to music and watch videos.
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  • The main culture goals:
    • rfrisch125
      rfrisch125 on 27 Jul 17
       
      Seeing how she described the cultural aspects of the unit really brought into focus what she was trying to accomplish. From here she will be able to set up tasks and activities that meet these goals.
  • Now the major communication goals:
    • rfrisch125
      rfrisch125 on 27 Jul 17
       
      I like how these three areas help define what the students will be able to do.
  • For example, for the last presentational goal where they tell what happened, they only used a few verbs (won, nominated, said) as memorized chunks. Intermediate students were able to give more details and it sounded like a true narration of events with transitions.
    • rfrisch125
      rfrisch125 on 27 Jul 17
       
      I love this! each level can accomplish the goal by sheltering or minimizing the vocab.
  • And the remaining 3 C’s:
    • rfrisch125
      rfrisch125 on 27 Jul 17
       
      Wow this lady really knows what she is doing!! I haven't seen a rubric like this before. I like it.
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Types of Texts : Foreign Language Teaching Methods - 6 views

coerll.utexas.edu/...texts.php Education CARLA resources
shared by Robert Steen on 27 Jul 17 - No Cached
  • A "text" isn't limited to something written down. A text can be a film, an artifact, anything in a language and culture that conveys meaning.
  • Created texts have long dominated the materials used in language classrooms. But increasingly, educators are coming to understand the need to bring more authentic texts into the learning environment.
  • Robert Steen on 27 Jul 17
     
    Good discussion of "authenticity" -- what makes a text authentic or not?
  • anonymous on 31 Jul 17
     
    "Authentic" appears to mean: naturally produced by authentic source for communication in a native setting. What concerns me is that the call for "authentic" dates back to perhaps 20 years ago? We are still claiming it is important, yet we scaffold authentic text often to the point that they loose their intrinsic challenge.
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