What are your favourite tools to teach or learn languages ? - 289 views

languages teaching tools

started by Isabelle Jones on 07 Jun 08

#1 Isabelle Jones on 07 Jun 08

Now that our group has more than 100 members, I thought it would be interesting to share our favourite tools to teach or learn languages.

Mine are (for whole class teaching):
* Powerpoint (with animations and sounds)
* Smartboard notebook 10 (especially the resources in the lesson toolkit)
* MyStudiyo
* Quia
* YouTube

Isabelle

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Now that our group has more than 100 members, I thought it would be interesting to share our favourite tools to teach or learn languages. <br /> <br /> Mine are (for whole class teaching): <br /> * Powerpoint (with animations and sounds) <br /> * Smartboard notebook 10 (especially the resources in the lesson toolkit) <br /> * MyStudiyo <br /> * Quia <br /> * YouTube <br /> <br /> Isabelle</div>

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#2 Alvaro Cano on 08 Jun 08

I use a tablet PC connected to a projector and I love it.
Quia
Sanaki 300 Lab
Blogs
My camcorder and anything related to video

Alvaro

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I use a tablet PC connected to a projector and I love it. <br /> Quia <br /> Sanaki 300 Lab <br /> Blogs <br /> My camcorder and anything related to video <br /> <br /> Alvaro</div>

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#3 Señora Knipp on 12 Jun 08

Favorite that I currently use are...
PowerPoint
a SchoolPad that allows me to control my computer from anywhere in the room
Synchroneyes, a program that allows me to monitor student activity in the lab
BBC Language Spanish webpage
spanish . language&culture (http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/SLC/index.php)
Ulead Video Studio
Audacity

I am currently learning to use (and falling in love with!)...
diigo
blogger
igoogle
google reader
teachertube.com

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Favorite that I currently use are... <br /> PowerPoint <br /> a SchoolPad that allows me to control my computer from anywhere in the room <br /> Synchroneyes, a program that allows me to monitor student activity in the lab <br /> BBC Language Spanish webpage <br /> spanish . language&culture (<a href="http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/SLC/index.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/SLC/index.php</a>) <br /> Ulead Video Studio <br /> Audacity <br /> <br /> I am currently learning to use (and falling in love with!)... <br /> diigo <br /> blogger <br /> igoogle <br /> google reader <br /> teachertube.com</div>

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#4 Isabelle Jones on 12 Jun 08

Thank you very much for your contribution!

Señora Knipp wrote:
> Favorite that I currently use are...
> PowerPoint
> a SchoolPad that allows me to control my computer from anywhere in the room
> Synchroneyes, a program that allows me to monitor student activity in the lab
> BBC Language Spanish webpage
> spanish . language&culture (http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/SLC/index.php)
> Ulead Video Studio
> Audacity
>
> I am currently learning to use (and falling in love with!)...
> diigo
> blogger
> igoogle
> google reader
> teachertube.com

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Thank you very much for your contribution! <br /> <br /> Señora Knipp wrote: <br /> > Favorite that I currently use are... <br /> > PowerPoint <br /> > a SchoolPad that allows me to control my computer from anywhere in the room <br /> > Synchroneyes, a program that allows me to monitor student activity in the lab <br /> > BBC Language Spanish webpage <br /> > spanish . language&culture (<a href="http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/SLC/index.php" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/SLC/index.php</a>) <br /> > Ulead Video Studio <br /> > Audacity <br /> > <br /> > I am currently learning to use (and falling in love with!)... <br /> > diigo <br /> > blogger <br /> > igoogle <br /> > google reader <br /> > teachertube.com</div>

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#5 Amanda Salt on 29 Jun 08

Non-ICT that I love using are
- magnetic letters on mini-whiteboards (I say in MT, pupils spell in TL)
- Play Doh

ICT
-School just set up a room of wireless laptops and an IWB board, so I can introduce with IWB then set pupils task online or on network
- Also just bought Quizdom voting system (a la 'Who wants to be a millionaire' handsets, but fancier) that I am looking forward to playing with!

Isabelle Jones wrote:
> Thank you very much for your contribution!
>
> Señora Knipp wrote:
> > Favorite that I currently use are...
> > PowerPoint
> > a SchoolPad that allows me to control my computer from anywhere in the room
> > Synchroneyes, a program that allows me to monitor student activity in the lab
> > BBC Language Spanish webpage
> > spanish . language&culture (http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/SLC/index.php)
> > Ulead Video Studio
> > Audacity
> >
> > I am currently learning to use (and falling in love with!)...
> > diigo
> > blogger
> > igoogle
> > google reader
> > teachertube.com

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Non-ICT that I love using are <br /> - magnetic letters on mini-whiteboards (I say in MT, pupils spell in TL) <br /> - Play Doh <br /> <br /> ICT <br /> -School just set up a room of wireless laptops and an IWB board, so I can introduce with IWB then set pupils task online or on network <br /> - Also just bought Quizdom voting system (a la 'Who wants to be a millionaire' handsets, but fancier) that I am looking forward to playing with! <br /> <br /> Isabelle Jones wrote: <br /> > Thank you very much for your contribution! <br /> > <br /> > Señora Knipp wrote: <br /> > > Favorite that I currently use are... <br /> > > PowerPoint <br /> > > a SchoolPad that allows me to control my computer from anywhere in the room <br /> > > Synchroneyes, a program that allows me to monitor student activity in the lab <br /> > > BBC Language Spanish webpage <br /> > > spanish . language&culture (<a href="http://www.colby.edu/%7Ebknelson/SLC/index.php" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/SLC/index.php</a>) <br /> > > Ulead Video Studio <br /> > > Audacity <br /> > > <br /> > > I am currently learning to use (and falling in love with!)... <br /> > > diigo <br /> > > blogger <br /> > > igoogle <br /> > > google reader <br /> > > teachertube.com</div>

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#6 Claude Almansi on 17 Jul 08

Several of you mentioned Powerpoint. I rather disliked it at first, whether the MS stuff or OpenOffice equivalent (I have a Mac and don't use MS programs on it). Too one-way for my way of teaching. So instead of making slides, I'd make html pages and would upload them in separate tabs of Firefox which I could play back and forth on as if they were piano keys.

The headmaster of a school were I was doing a workshop for the PTA exclaimed: "What! you are NOT using POWERPOINT???" when he saw me setting this up before the participants arrived. Oh well, afterwards he recognized it worked too ;-)

Yet now that platforms like slideshare.net and myPlick.com let you synchronize an audio file with a slide presentation, I'm having second thoughts about the latter: not for teaching in presence, but to prepare learning materials students can use when they want. It used to require expensive software like Adobe Breeze. Now you can do that for free.

And it would be great for exercising listening comprehension, for instance. You could have the more advanced students doing the "captioning" of an original audio document on slides they could work on together at Google Docs, and then sync them with the audio. Then less advanced students could use the captioned version at first, then listen just to the audio.

I.e. if the school filter doesn't block these Web apps - which unfortunately is all too often the case...

Otherwise, like Señora Knipp, I love Audacity - also because the "labels" of Audacity are great to transcribe a too fast or muddled audio recording, because you can tweak the audio to make it clearer AND write what it says in the same window.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Several of you mentioned Powerpoint. I rather disliked it at first, whether the MS stuff or OpenOffice equivalent (I have a Mac and don't use MS programs on it). Too one-way for my way of teaching. So instead of making slides, I'd make html pages and would upload them in separate tabs of Firefox which I could play back and forth on as if they were piano keys. <br /> <br /> The headmaster of a school were I was doing a workshop for the PTA exclaimed: "What! you are NOT using POWERPOINT???" when he saw me setting this up before the participants arrived. Oh well, afterwards he recognized it worked too ;-) <br /> <br /> Yet now that platforms like slideshare.net and myPlick.com let you synchronize an audio file with a slide presentation, I'm having second thoughts about the latter: not for teaching in presence, but to prepare learning materials students can use when they want. It used to require expensive software like Adobe Breeze. Now you can do that for free. <br /> <br /> And it would be great for exercising listening comprehension, for instance. You could have the more advanced students doing the "captioning" of an original audio document on slides they could work on together at Google Docs, and then sync them with the audio. Then less advanced students could use the captioned version at first, then listen just to the audio. <br /> <br /> I.e. if the school filter doesn't block these Web apps - which unfortunately is all too often the case... <br /> <br /> Otherwise, like Señora Knipp, I love Audacity - also because the "labels" of Audacity are great to transcribe a too fast or muddled audio recording, because you can tweak the audio to make it clearer AND write what it says in the same window.</div>

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#7 Stéphane Métral on 22 Feb 09

Bonjour,

I teach French to foreigners recently arrived in Geneva. We have 2 Mac in class in a computer room with a PC for each student

I use a blog to make my students write and to organize courses (private blog posts only visible by my class)
Online dictionary

I've taught them to use Audacity that we use to help them correct their pronunciation. We also use their cellphones to make little interviews.
I also use Audacity to record corrections for the texts they are writing.

I use flashcards software (in the computer or webbased like Quizlet http://quizlet.com/) too : I prepare the words in French (singular / plural and/or word / definition in French)
I copy paste it as many times I have have different languages in my class.
Then the students (using online dictionaries) replace the plural or the definition by the word in their native language.
YouTube, karaoke software, games., crosswords well anything as long as i too have fun!

Now I'm trying to imagine what I could do with Diigo and Twitter.
Stéphane

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Bonjour, <br /> <br /> I teach French to foreigners recently arrived in Geneva. We have 2 Mac in class in a computer room with a PC for each student <br /> <br /> I use a blog to make my students write and to organize courses (private blog posts only visible by my class) <br /> Online dictionary <br /> <br /> I've taught them to use Audacity that we use to help them correct their pronunciation. We also use their cellphones to make little interviews. <br /> I also use Audacity to record corrections for the texts they are writing. <br /> <br /> I use flashcards software (in the computer or webbased like Quizlet <a href="http://quizlet.com/%29" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://quizlet.com/)</a> too : I prepare the words in French (singular / plural and/or word / definition in French) <br /> I copy paste it as many times I have have different languages in my class. <br /> Then the students (using online dictionaries) replace the plural or the definition by the word in their native language. <br /> YouTube, karaoke software, games., crosswords well anything as long as i too have fun! <br /> <br /> Now I'm trying to imagine what I could do with Diigo and Twitter. <br /> Stéphane</div>

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