ACTFL 2011 Top Tech Tools

Top Tech Tools for TeachersBest of FFLA & SCOLT

ACTFL 2011- Denver, Colorado

Michelle OlahSeminole Co. Public Schools, Florida

World Languages Technology Consultantswww.wltechconsultants.com

Easily access websites from your smart phone!

QR Codes

http://qrcode.kaywa.com/

Using technology in the World Languages

classroom:• Enhances student creativity

• Allows students to communicate outside of the classroom

• Provides opportunities for student collaboration

• Requires students to think critically to evaluate resources

• Engages and motivates students

Don’t start from scratch…

Start with a “classic” that you

love…

Then “re-design” it into something exciting and

new!

Some of our “revamped” Classics

Top tool to wake up the class!

Also known as “Texting for good not evil”

1. If you can text, you can wiffiti!2. Send a text message to: 878843. At the beginning of your message

type @wif85540 and then your answer.

Biographies

Family Speaking Projects

Beginning German - http://ed.voicethread.com/?#u86836

Spanish Collaborative Family Project http://ed.voicethread.com/share/235029/

Intermediate Spanish – Grammar focus http://ed.voicethread.com/share/8974/

Web tool: Voicethread

Speaking/Vocabulary Practice

About Me Projects Or Describing self

Voki Speaking Avatar

Listening and Speaking practice:

Writing Projects

Web tool: Storybird

Storybirds are short, visualstories that you make withfamily and friends to share

and (soon) print.

http://mfl-storybirds.wikispaces.com/

Photo Stories: Mixbook

http://www.mixbook.com/photo-books/education/los-cahorritos-2831166

http://www.mixbook.com/photo-books/all/libro-digital-4528131 

http://www.mixbook.com/photo-books/education/mi-amigo-y-yo-4793813 

http://www.mixbook.com/photo-books/education/spanish-class-project-3976588

 http://www.mixbook.com/photo-books/education/pablo-neruda-898736

Wallwisher

http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/updatingwithtech

Examples of wallwishers…

Go Animate/Toon Doo

http://goanimate.com/movie/0FZ_aoErA988/1

Culture (not from the text

book)

Tag Galaxy

A little bit of Culture Every Day!

Travel Videos - Geobeats – 2 Minute Travel Videos (English)

Movie Theaters (vocabulary, money, time, dates)•Cinéma Gaumont Champs-Elysées Marignan-Paris

•Cinemark – México Newspaper headlines from around the World

YouTube, TeacherTube, SchoolTube

A PORTFOLIO TO SHOWCASE STUDENT WORK

Blog, wiki, ning, or website

We are already 10 years into the 21st Century

The “Future” is NOW

What can you do TODAY to help prepare your students for

TOMORROW?

One WOW and one WONDER…

Michelle OlahWorld Languages Technology

Consultantswww.wltechconsultants.com