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- 1. Using New Technologies to encourage Able, Gifted & Talented Pupil Autonomy
- 2. Fotobabble Upload a photo and add your audio commentary Here ’s an example (year 8 German) Ideal for topic work at any level
- 3. Go Animate / Domo Animate www.verulamvle.typepad.com/7french www.verulamvle.typepad.com/y8german http://domo.goanimate.com/movie/ 0yTbSeR6_qf4/1 Google: Go Animate Website: http://domo.goanimate.com/ What it does: Pupils can create animations and add speech bubbles; select from a range of characters, add props and backgrounds plus all sorts of effects to animate the character. Free sign up required. Ideas for use in the classroom Illustrate a lesson point Topic revision A joke/ story/ dialogue etc Examples
- 4. Domo Animate Or Dvolver • http://domo.goanimate.com/ • free sign up. Animation creator • http://www.dvolver.com/moviemaker • Dvolver is similar; less complex • Both allow you to input text but not speech • Pupils create short animations to teach/ show understanding of a topic • Ideal for dialogues and language topic work. They can email the link to you (or to a proxy set up by your netsupport ) • Domo Animate samples here • and here’s a Dvolver movie just for you
- 5. Voki – talking avatar creator • Click the Borat sample. Text to speech, lots of characters, voices and languages. Pupils write their own Voki to help them with their GCSE Speaking 1 voki per question but an extended answer
- 6. Toondoo Instead of a boring old writing task, the pupils could make a comic strip – Toondoo is one of the best with a large choice of objects props, characters and backgrounds. It also allows multiple pages so pupils can make real comic books. Common Topics: School Town Holidays Leisure TV, Internet, gaming and film
- 7. Star Wars text Crawl creator • http://www.starwars.com/play/online- activities/crawl-creator/ • input text & it turns into Star Wars titles + music Pure fun? Play and see how much they can remember; http://www.starwars.com/play/online-activities/crawl- creator/index.jsp?cs=33zbpsqmr4
- 8. Tagxedo / Wordle Google: Tagxedo or Wordle Website: http://www.wordle.net / Or http://www.tagxedo.com What it does: you paste text into a box and it turns into a ‘word cloud’ Tagxedo highlights the word when you hover the cursor over it Ideas for use in the classroom Pupils could: guess the topic Spot words in a category e.g. verbs Use selected words WORDLE TAGXEDO
- 10. Easy prompter http://www.easyprompter.com/ Paste text into the box and it turns into a broadcast-style autocue Obama’s 2nd inaugural speech starts like this: Each time we gather to inaugurate a President we bear witness to the enduring strength of our Constitution. We affirm the promise of our democracy. We recall that what binds this nation together is not the colors of our skin or the tenets of our faith or the origins of our names. What makes us exceptional -- what makes us American -- is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
- 11. Zap reader Here’s some text to try: “We hold these truths to be self- evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” www.zapreader.com Select ‘Reader’ Paste a bunch of text in to the box Hit ‘zap it’ The page will display one word at a time You can adjust the speed and the number of words displayed at any one time (up to 5) Good for reading practice (phonics) Information recall Translation / comprehension Predict next word Repeat/ recall last word
- 13. Text to speech IM Translator http://imtranslator.net/translate-and-speak/ A clever site. Surrounded by adverts. A bit fiddly to use but good once you get used to it. You can input text, translate text, get it to speak it back and adjust the playback speed.
- 14. Lingro • Import a foreign language webpage address • each word becomes clickable • You can click on the word for the meaning and store it in a word list • It will generate a set of flashcards of the words clicked
- 15. Flipcams etc i-pad and Smartphone cameras Pupils Film themselves & each other Create model Q & A’s for Speaking prep
- 16. Quizlet.com • Make your own flashcards • Or use existing sets – will generate games & tests from flashcards • Also classtools.net will generate vocab games
- 17. Prezi An alternative to Powerpoint. Here’s my Presentation on ‘AG&T - beyond GCSE’ imported from Powerpoint to Prezi http://prezi.com/qhl63qmrlb6n/motivating-able-linguists-at-gcse/ http://prezi.com/qhl63qmrlb6n/motivating-able-linguists-at- gcse/?kw=view-qhl63qmrlb6n&rc=ref-777613 If the link above doesn’t work, try this one:
- 18. Online voice recorders • Audioboo Easy Audio clip recorder- just click, record and send. Click the icon above to hear my sample. Get pupils to do a quick audio message and send it to your email address (your network techies can set one up a shadow (proxy) one for you) • VocarooEasy audio recorder There’s a more flexible one called Audiopal Soundcloudlets you store longer bits of audio Audacity and filelab (Windows only) are good free audio editors.
- 19. Gap fill generator http://random-idea-english.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/tools-gapfill-generator.html Google: random idea + English + Gapfill generator
- 20. Mylo Worth a look. Makes a change from BBC Bitesize, Kerboodle, Sam Learning etc etc Some free content. Some good self-access material
- 21. Learn French TV5 “7 jourssur la planète” http://www.tv5.org/TV5Site/7-jours/
- 22. Video scribe • Turns ordinary text into a visible hand writing the text • The PC version is expensive but the i-pad App is cheaper http://verulamvle.typepad.com/mflteachingpl us/2013/06/videoscribe.html
- 23. Zondle Use sites like this To create vocab games Also www.classtools.net Classtools also contains Fakebook and Twister
- 24. Fakebook Google:classtools.net Website: www.classtools.net What it does: You can make a fake Facebook page for a celebrity Ideas for use in the classroom? Homework: create a Fakebook page for Historical personalities Theorists, Writers or characters Places, regions
- 25. Discovery Education - Puzzlemaker A great resource for making various puzzles Useful for vocab& keyword reinforcement Lesson fillers Cover work Pairwork thinking skills ‘pub’ quiz
- 27. Graffiti creator http://www.graffiticreator.net/ use ‘wall texture’ backgrounds on the whiteboard or from google images
- 28. One motion drum machine http://www.onemotion.com/flash/drum- machine/