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Create beautiful posters for a variety of reasons in the world language classroom. Showcase a country, sell a home, run for president, create a flyer for an event- etc! Lino is a sticky note canvas- embed videos, links, and allow students to collaborate, comment on the work of others, organize ideas, present information, etc. Use Voice Record Pro to capture simple audio in the classroom. Students can record interviews, conversations, radio shows, songs, poems, etc. Courtesy of MFLA, Gloria Dempsey and Crystal Dunkin shared that they connect with the Peace Corp. You can connect with a Peace Corps Volunteer in another country! How cool! You can also use Skype to connect with other world language classrooms in Washington County and beyond! Google Earth allows you to explore different communities across the world by zooming down to the street! Practice directions, compare and contrast cities, describe communities, landscapes, weather, etc! Students collaborate in teams to reinforce vocabulary skills! A much quieter and faster paced competition than Kahoot if you haven't used Quizlet Live you should! You can search sets of vocab or create your own! I love the gamification of learning! Polleverywhere.com has endless possibilities with real-time feedback. Students can respond to polls or answer questions using their iPads or cell phones. The questions can be multiple choice or open ended so that students could create language. Use Today's Meet to converse with students in real-time. Use Today's Meet to have students share information, ask on-going questions in class, have a question and answer session with a student leader, etc! Adobe Spark- Use this to create videos! You can add text and pictures. Create a restaurant scene, record and voice over introductions, teach students how to make something, create a recipe with steps, etc! Book creator allows students to create colorful stories in moments! Easy to use for writing! Ask and answer questions about other students' books! Reinforce vocabulary or introduce a grammar concept by making your own book for students! Skitch allows students to upload a photo and then annotate it! Explore colors, quantities, animals, emotions, location of objects, weather, landscape, personal characteristics, etc. Piktochart allows students to easily create infographics with a drag and drop format. Create cause and effect charts, explain life cycles, compare and contrast topics, present information, reinforce vocabulary and grammar! Put the TV studio in the hands of your students with TouchCast. You can combine video with your presentation to create newscasts, weather reports, and more! Have students subscribe to the podcasts or listen to specific parts of the episodes to practice interpreting the target language! Ask students questions, have them discuss the podcast, have students make their own podcast in response using Voice Record Pro! Even send voice messages to RA and have them possibly answered on the show! (Spanish) Storify allows you to create stories, follow interesting people and engage on stories! Create and respond! Launch a campaign! Use on Safari, not an app! Use Voki to create avatars in the target language! Increase student confidence and motivation to speak in the target language by using Voki to assess L2. You can even post the Vokis your students create and allow time for peer feedback. Sphere allows you to explore the world using photography that students can see full circle. Search for Spheres in different countries. Compare and contrast cities, look for specific information, the opportunities are endless! Gimkit is a POWERFUL learning tool for the classroom that allows you to scaffold your students' learning via gaming. Start out by having students match pictures to words, or words to definitions. Then move to having students type in the correct answer! From there you can even have students create their own questions and provide options for responses! I love this game and I love how it has enabled me to scaffold gaming in the classroom!
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