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Antonio Amores Ortiz

Five Best Language Learning Tools - 0 views

  • Anki, Japanese for "memorizing," is a flashcard program that's been around for years
  • Because it's a flashcard style program, its focus is on memorization. It'll display you a word, phrase, image, or even play a sound, and then leave it to you to make the connection, repeat it, interpret it, and commit it to memory. Anki is great for languages, but it's also useful for studying equations, diagrams, names and faces, and more—its strength is in the fact that you can load it up with custom card sets depending on what it is you want to memorize.
  • Anki is free
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  • Memrise is a language learning program that extends beyond vocabulary and language to things like history and science, but at its core it's a flashcard-style program that's augmented with memory tricks, images, and other useful tools to make learning a new language easier.
  • Duolingo takes a different approach to learning a new language than just memorizing words and phrases.
  • The Pimsleur Method is an audio-based method that focuses on participation in speaking and sound exercises than strict memorization and flashcards.
  • Livemocha is an extremely comprehensive language learning community and program, packed with native speakers
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    Five tools language learning
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    Five tools language learning
Antonio Amores Ortiz

A New Role for Avatars: Learning Languages - 0 views

  • A New Role for Avatars: Learning Languages
  • with  more sophisticated technology, another theory around language learning is being tested: the use of avatars to practice speaking.
  • Companies like Second Life and Middlebury Interactive Languages both offer digital avatar programs to give language learners a chance to practice their skills in virtual environments.
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  • Teachers and students can give their character a voice by using one of three methods: text to speech, recording by microphone, or uploading their own pre-recording audio file. Voki characters can speak in over 25 languages, and 150-plus voices, according to Eric Kiang, Voki’s Product and Marketing Manager.
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    Using Avatars to add voice and character to learning language
Antonio Amores Ortiz

Phonetics: The Sounds of English and Spanish - The University of Iowa - 0 views

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    Phonetic program to learn how to pronounce the different sounds in different language
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    Phonetic program to learn how to pronounce the different sounds in different language
Antonio Amores Ortiz

The Creative Language Class - 0 views

  • For the last year, I have been using my iPad to teach. I wanted to mirror the iPad to the projector wirelessly. I thought about Apple TV, but it would cost at least $150 after buying adapters. Then I found the “Reflector” application/program and it has changed my life. Visit Reflector to download the program and details.
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    Reflector program ipad computer smart board no cable
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    Reflector program ipad computer smart board no cable
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    Different activities in a world language class
Meghan Brooks

Technology that Uses Disney and Pixar to Educate Kids with Autism | News | Autism Speaks - 1 views

  • He explained, "What we do is break the movies into short segments of 40 or 50 seconds with some event or concept. In Toy Story, it could be as simple as Andy playing with his toys or as complex as Woody pushing Buzz out the window and what happens after that. Children understand almost intuitively what has happened."
  • Animated Language Learning, an Ireland-based company, is developing technology that uses Disney and Pixar movies to help educate children with autism and other language learning disorders.
  • Their goal is to improve the lives of people with autism and to help them communicate with the world around them.
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    Animated Language Learning, an Ireland-based company, is developing technology that uses Disney and Pixar movies to help educate children with autism and other language learning disorders
Antonio Amores Ortiz

Digital Storytelling in the Spanish Language Classroom - 0 views

  • Digital Storytelling in the Spanish Language Classroom
  • We started with the students writing an autobiographical essay describing themselves and where they are in their lives right now
  • Photo Story 3 makes movies by stringing together still photographs with music or narration.
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  • Having practiced with Photo Story 3 and having explored the technique of telling a story through still photos, students used Photo Story 3 to turn their digital audio presentations into digital video
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    Example and process to make a digital storytelling with Photo Story 3
Antonio Amores Ortiz

Learn Spanish with Notes in Spanish Podcasts! : Notes in Spanish - Learn Spanish with P... - 0 views

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    Web with audio to learn Spanish
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    Web with audio to learn Spanish
rmissel

ABCya.com | Kids Educational Computer Games & Activities - 0 views

  • Grade level lessons incorporate areas such as math and language arts while introducing basic computer skills. Many of the kindergarten and first grade activities are equipped with sound to enhance understanding. Fun children's Holiday activities are available in grade level sections!
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    Online Halloween educational games!
Antonio Amores Ortiz

Ideas for Using iPads for Digital Storytelling - 0 views

  • Ideas for Using iPads for Digital Storytelling
  • Use them for creative expression, communicating information, entertaining, expressing comprehension, tutoring purposes, and much more.
  • If you own an iPad, you have access to a host of apps and tools for creating digital stories
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  • Create a narrated slide-show story to demonstrate the understanding of new vocabulary. •  Use a video or screencast (a recording of interactions on a computer or iPad display) to explain a complex scientific concept. •  Create an audio or video interview of your grandparents for a family history project. •  Create a historical narrative of a pivotal event using images and audio. •  Create a first-person audio journal of a person who lived during a significant event in history. •  Explain a mathematical concept by creating a screencast tutorial. •  Use audio podcasting to practice reading and speaking in a foreign language. •  Demonstrate a portfolio of work with personal narrative describing each piece, its objectives, and development. •  Narrate a character story or a personal journal with a musical soundtrack.
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    Ideas IPads Storytelling and how to use in  class
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    Ideas IPads Storytelling and how to use in  class
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