Cool Tools for the Language Classroom

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Cool Tools for the Language Classroom

• Wayne Craven, IEL Coordinator

FLAG, March 12-14, 2010
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WORDLE

• Wordle
• Wordle generates word clouds from the text you
  enter.
• Wordle allows students to visualize, brainstorm,
  and create word clouds for mind mapping,
  collaborative projects, and summative checks.
• Wordle allows teachers to present the days
  concepts either as a warm up or closing strategy.

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Newspaper Clipping Generator

• Newspaper Clipper
• The Newspaper Clipping Generator is an online
  utility that lets you create fake headlines and
  newspaper stories.
• Students can report about any subject currently
  being studied or creatively report a possible
  alternate version of an historical event.

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BadgeMaker

• BadgeMaker
• Make your own ID card, press pass, name tag, or
  any other kind of identification. Print it out,
  laminate it, wear it with pride! Make any kind of
  identification easily in just a few seconds.
• Students use it to record information about a
  variety of personal topics and daily life

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Voki

• Voki
• Allows students and teachers write, read, speak
  and listen to a self inspired avatar with
  personalized embedded text.

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Text to Speech

• Text to Speech
• Text to Speech allows teachers to present
  vocabulary and short listening samples and
  students to enter simple bios or topic
  descriptions.

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• Phonetics
• This site contains animated libraries of the
  phonetic sounds of English, Spanish and German.
• Teachers can demonstrate the mechanics of sound
  creation and compare and contrast those of
  English and Spanish speakers.
• Students can practice English consonant and vowel
  formation with sample words.

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• Librivox
• Librivox provides free audiobooks from the public
  domain. The books are read by volunteers and
  educators are allowed free access to listen to
  the files, download them and burn to CDs or sync
  to MP3 players.

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• KickYouTube
• YouTube is a vast library of videos for all
  content areas. As a teacher, you can search
  YouTube to find multimedia clips that would be
  fabulous resources for your classroom. However,
  YouTube is most likely filtered or blocked in
  your school.
• KickYouTube offers an easy way to download (save)
  YouTube videos to your computer so that you can
  show them in your classroom - even if you arent
  connected to the Internet!
• This weeks tool offers an easy way to download
  (save) YouTube videos to your computer so that
  you can show them in your classroom - even if you
  arent connected to the Internet!

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netTVDV

• netTVDV
• NetTVDB is the Internet TV database that has the
  largest collection of Internet TV stations, live
  video and Live TV feeds in the world.
• Watch over 1000 TV stations broadcasting on the
  Internet for free.Watch Live broadcasts and pre
  recorded programs available from 108 countries.
• Albania (7)   TV Stations
• Germany (35)   TV Stations

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Glimpses, your studies from Abroad

• glimpses
• Sponsored by the National Geographic Society,
  this site offers authentic photos. blog
  commentaries and cultural insights of travelers
  in various parts of the world.

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Digital Dialects

• Digital Dialects
• Provides students with on-line learning
  activities in several languages.
• The focus is predominately on vocabulary
  building but is always expanding.

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• Imagination Cubed
• Imagination Cubed allows students to draw on
  their own whiteboard and describe their pictures.
• Students are then able to email or print and
  share their stories.

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wayne.craven_at_cobbk12.org

• Cobb County Foreign Language Tech Blog