mobile technology can help teachers to find new ways to improve students’ language/content learning.
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Listen to Spanish and learn Spanish with podcasts in Spanish: real conversations in spa... - 2 views
Here's what makes students 200 percent more likely to pass - eCampus News - 0 views
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WhatsApp in the classroom to foster listening and speaking | TeachingEnglish | British... - 7 views
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Ask school to supply a phone and apps installed to overcome giving your personal phone number to students.
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Some of my students use LINE (similar to WhatsApp) to talk with their conversation partners in Japan to practice Japanese and learn about Japanese culture. Mobile phones play a great role in foreign language courses now.
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WhatsApp in your classroom with the purpose of improving students’ oral skills.
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Mobile Phone Operator they contacted offered them a cheaper phone rate than the one they had. We could say they killed two birds with one stone.
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allow their use with a clear pedagogical use and under the supervision of a teacher
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assessed
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WhatsApp recordings of presentations should be just another tool
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on-line pronouncing dictionaries
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will help students who feel anxious in public to relax and it will also create an atmosphere of concentration which is key to effective listening
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The use of Whatsapp in the language classroom to promote conversation in the target language
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Computer Assisted Language Learning Social Networks: What Are They Talking about? - 9 views
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Furthermore, it has been shown that students prefer to contact their peer students rather than their tutor when they are struggling with coursework, facing difficulties in assessing facilities and understanding lectures
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Validates the "three, then me" concept that asks students to ask three other students for help before asking the teacher. Students are perhaps more available asynchronously than the teacher as well, when students need help
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Validates the "three, then me" concept that asks students to ask three other students for help before asking the teacher. Students are perhaps more available asynchronously than the teacher as well, when students need help
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Researchers also noted that people who interact more in an online course tend to achieve higher marks on exams, as opposed to lurking which is not as successful [12]
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Students who are required to collaboratively work online need to dedicate time to get to know each other and therefore are able to accomplish effective communication in an online environment [29]
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This outcome tells us that the students seem to be more excited, talkative and social with one another, as well as chat/contribute more at the start of the course, but their overall participation rates were on a decrease during the duration of the course.
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Furthermore, it has been shown that students prefer to contact their peer students rather than their tutor when they are struggling with coursework, facing difficulties in assessing facilities and understanding lectures
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I offer a course in my school called Computer Mediated Language Learning. But this article gives a new perspective of what computer assisted can be.
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Nice data to back up our use of all of these great online resources-- Thanks for sharing!
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Active participation in discussions is a key to success. If you use a flipped classroom, providing useful vocabulary and sentence structures they might want to use to talk about a particular topic also helps the students participate more in discussions.
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Template for Novice High Interpretive Listening - Maris Hawkins - 3 views
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Also, you can discuss why certain companies make different products for different countries. I saw one commercial for a lemonade made by 7-Up. It is always fascinating the different flavors that each company makes worldwide.
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This seems a great means to motivate critical thinking and intercultural understanding through an interpretive task. Why are some "flavors" popular in certain regions of the Spanish-speaking world? How do they compare to the flavors popular in my community? What does this tell me about the cultural differences and similarities between the regions? Finally, using commercials as interpretive activities may provide useful starting points into further research and critical thinking-- e.g., in what other ways do stores advertise differently for the audiences we study?
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Technology and the future of language teaching - Kessler - 2018 - Foreign Language Anna... - 4 views
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This article addresses the extent to which technology‐mediated social interactions dominate our daily lives, how we can leverage those interactions to the benefit of our learners, and how we can engage them in learning experiences in ways that will encourage them to practice language extensively.
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In addition to challenging existing dichotomies (face‐to‐face vs. online courses; synchronous vs. asynchronous uses), it is also important to understand the extent to which research can inform our use of technology.
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Using YouTube in the ESL Classroom - 2 views
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You're Already Harnessing the Science of Learning (You Just Don't Know It) | EdSurge News - 2 views
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6 Media Tools for Powerful Language Teaching | General Educator Blog - 11 views
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65 percent of your students are visual learners, according to research
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If you’re using new technology, give it a trial run. It’s hard to imagine anything less engaging for students than sitting around waiting while you try to load that video over a poor internet connection or figure out all the glitches with that awesome online game.Do your trial and error ahead of time, before you’re demonstrating media to the class.
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While I agree with this, at some point you need a test group. I always try things out first with a section that I know can take a couple of glitches in stride.
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I wish we had enough time to trial everything in advance! Plus, the issue is something might work when you trial it but not at the right time...
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And one of the best ways to access them is with an innovative tool called FluentU.
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they’ll get in-context definitions, visual learning aids and pronunciations for any word
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need images, graphs, videos and charts to learn
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using handheld “clickers.”
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Mini Whiteboards:
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Media makes content more visual.
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good old whiteboards!
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Instructional and Authentic Resources | Ohio Department of Education - 8 views
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Guest Post: Tracking Novels Reading During FVR - Grant Boulanger - 3 views
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I asked students if they notice any difference when they read now
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display in the room their big accomplishment.
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too share about my book.
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others who have shared that this year they have read more books in Spanish than in English – Awesome!
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They like to be able to choose what they read.
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FVR with novels in Spanish 1
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This is an annotation of a reading activity/ practice, from a guest blogger, Mónica Romero, to Grant Boulanger's Exploring the convergence of Language Acquisition and Arts. Like his CI suggestions and Freebies
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Ooh, the internet tells me it's Free Voluntary Reading. This is an interesting article. I'm not sure it would be directly applicable to any of the classes I teach right now, but it's good food for thought.
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Facilitating a Class Twitter Chat | Edutopia - 3 views
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Communicate the public nature of Twitter to parents. Consider an opt-out alternative for students or parents who are uncomfortable with participating in the classroom chat.
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assist students in moving back and forth between their own words and technical or course-specific terms. And help highlight particular content with the use of sentence starters.
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Do you feel the chat’s objective was reached? What was the most useful part of the chat? How might we improve the chat?
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Thanks for sharing, Carmen-- I am also considering students who do not have Twitter, or parent concerns, and I wonder if small group work might be a solution- Using the twitter account of one student, another student or group of students help to compose responses, stay hidden from their online contributions.
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Hi Veronica--you could also consider making a class handle. I did that with an Adv. class once, and simply gave all the students the info to log in. They could all post from that handle, and sign tweets with their initials.
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This is a helpful article. I like how it gives us step-by-step of how to host a twitter chat.
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Especially middle/high school parents/students may feel more comfortable using a platform provided by the district. I am also planning to use the discussion board in the district's platform. I can definitely use the tips in this article.
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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.
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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.
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ONE of the PVLEGS expectations to focus on at a time
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Flipgrid film festival
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Flipgrid video and a QR code link to the video is stuck on the map? Geography, history and oral reports all rolled into one.
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7. Computer science shareout
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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.
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10 Ways to Enhance Math Lessons With Flipgrid by Sean Fahey.
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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.
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The Educator's Guide to Flipgrid (2nd Edition).
10 Ways to Use Technology to Build Vocabulary | Reading Rockets - 0 views
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Flipping my Spanish Classroom: Beginning of the Year Assessments with Google Forms - 9 views
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I loved that the Google Form gathered all of the responses together so I could look at student answers all together to see if their answers were a pattern of things that none of them learned, or if it was just a few students that needed review.
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I like this idea for pre-assessments and I wonder how it would work for the actual assessments too. Has anyone tried google forms for testing?
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I have used it for formative tests that go in the "participation" category. I like being able to look at the results immediately so I can give the class immediate feedback.
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I am armed with some knowledge of the classes overall abilities as well as some individual struggles so I can help specific students one-on-one. I have adjusted some of my review activities to better focus on what students need to work on.
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I've done intakes at the beginning of the year at the adv. level to see why they chose the elective and what they hope to learn, but this seems like a great way to assess 'summer attrition' at the lower levels. On it!
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Agreed. Last year, I asked students to use post it notes on a drawn scale that I put on the wall, to represent how much Spanish they felt they knew. A Google quiz would be a great way of doing a follow-up to this activity. Moreover, I could think of a concluding self-assessment: now that you have a better sense of how much Spanish you know, what goals can you think of for this year? I wonder if I can also use Google for a goals activity, too?
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@effeinstein Yes, all of my vocabulary quizzes are on Google Forms and I use GF extensively for gathering reflections pre-post units, post field trips, in general, anytime I need to gather data from students about what we are working on-- Sometimes I collect their emails, other times anonymous, if I feel that I might gather more frank feedback that way-- The spreadsheet of data is nice to look over when considering how well something went, or to make tweaks for the next iteration of work. I can also pull quotes for presentations to faculty and families, or in writing narrative reports-- Also makes grading quick and easy-- Sometimes I print out the quizzes for quick one on one feedback for students--
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10 minus 1 awesome ways to App Smash Adobe Spark and Flipgrid - The Tech Rabbi - 1 views
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Why Diigo Rocks for Educators! | TeachHUB - 7 views
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Once the group is created, you can create student accounts. No email addresses needed. You create the username and password.
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There are groups for all these where members can share their saves to not only their inventory but to the group as well. Diigo will email you once a week with all the new content. Pretty neat, huh?
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There are loads of other features as well, like highlighting on a webpage, adding sticky notes to pages, saving pages to read later without actually adding them to your collection and so much more.
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When you save to Diigo your saves go anywhere because they are saved to the cloud. Sounds mystical doesn't it?
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One of the most powerful features is the tagging. Basically, if I save Google.com and don't tag it, I will have to remember the name of the site or something in the address
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So if students are working on a group project they can share their saves together, automatically. Or as a class, if you are working on something everyone can contribute information they find.
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I love that you can use this with students! I had no clue. Thanks for sharing.
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As I am still trying to understand the full benefits of using Diigo, I found this article of tremendous help. Thank you for sharing!
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This seems really useful. I'm excited about Diigo for my own use, hadn't thought about using it with students yet.
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