Tech Tools for LOTE – Spring 2011 page 1 of 4 Tech Tools for LOTE Marty Daniel, Technology Specialist at Kolter [email protected]Claire Frazier, French Teacher at Kolter [email protected]Adriana Guzmán de Myers, Spanish Teacher at Kolter [email protected]In this session, we will focus on four tools for teaching languages other than English: 1.Wiki – http://wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers ; http://hisdlote.wikispaces.com/ ; http://martyd.wikispaces.com/ ; and http://kolterelementary.wikispaces.com2.Comic Creator - http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/ •Create, copy, and then paste your special Spanish characters from here - http://spanish.typeit.org/ •Create, copy, and then paste your special French characters from here - http://french.typeit.org/ 3.Smart Notebook – Check the serial number on your Smartboard to get the download code. Download the software from http://smarttech.com/ us/Support/Browse+Support/Downlo ad+Software4.Blabberize - http://blabberize.com5 Questions for Planning Successful Web-Based Activities http://blog.learningtoday.com/blog/ bid/25774/5-Questions-for -Planning-Succes sful- Web-Based-Activities1.W hat is the curriculum related purpose of the activity? The outcome or assessment should be aligned to your lesson objectives and standards.2.Does the In ternet enhance the activity? If the answer is no, find a more appropriate place to integrate the web. 3.How will students use the online resources? Once students locate information, they should be asked to apply, analyze, synthesize, evaluate, or create. The activity should require them to move to higher levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. 4.Do students have necessary information analysis/ information synthesis skills or am I including these in instruction? The project should not become simply an exercise in locating information. Students must have the necessary background knowledge and pre-requisite skills to complete higher level tasks or these must be included in instruction prior to the web-based learning activity.5.Do I have the necessary time and sup port for the activity? Double your original time estimate and always have access to technical support to resolve problems efficiently.
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Tech Tools for LOTEMarty Daniel, Technology Specialist at Kolter [email protected] Claire Frazier, French Teacher at Kolter [email protected] Adriana Guzmán de Myers, Spanish Teacher at Kolter [email protected]
In this session, we will focus on four tools for teaching languages other thanEnglish:
1. Wiki – http://wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers; http://hisdlote.wikispaces.com/;
http://martyd.wikispaces.com/; and http://kolterelementary.wikispaces.com
• Create, copy, and then paste your special Spanish characters from here -http://spanish.typeit.org/
• Create, copy, and then paste your special French characters from here -http://french.typeit.org/
3. Smart Notebook – Check the serial number on your Smartboard to get the download
code. Download the software fromhttp://smarttech.com/us/Support/Browse+Support/Download+Software
4. Blabberize - http://blabberize.com
5 Questions for Planning Successful Web-Based Activitieshttp://blog.learningtoday.com/blog/bid/25774/5-Questions-for-Planning-Successful-
Web-Based-Activities
1. What is the curriculum related purpose of the activity? The
outcome or assessment should be aligned to your lesson objectivesand standards.
2. Does the Internet enhance the activity? If the answer is no,find a more appropriate place to integrate the web.
3.
How w ill students use the online resources? Once studentslocate information, they should be asked to apply, analyze,
synthesize, evaluate, or create. The activity should require them tomove to higher levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.
4. Do students have necessary informationanalysis/ information synthesis skills or am I including these
in instruction? The project should not become simply an exercisein locating information. Students must have the necessary
background knowledge and pre-requisite skills to complete higherlevel tasks or these must be included in instruction prior to theweb-based learning activity.
5. Do I have the necessary time and support for the activity? Double your original time estimate and always have access to
technical support to resolve problems efficiently.
Whiteboards.aspx. It is a powerful tool. There is a simplelife cycle of the butterfly we use with K-1 students in Spanish and French available
at the Kolter Spanish and French wikis -http://kolterelementary.wikispaces.com/Myers or
http://kolterelementary.wikispaces.com/French.
There are many resources already created for LOTE teachers. A quick search canbe done at http://exchange.smarttech.com.
• Browse under Modern Foreign Languages • Put your language in the search box and leave the other options as they are
• Look at the Notebook files that are available.A quick search under Spanish using the method above returned 111 SmartNotebook lessons from beginning elementary Spanish to AP Spanish. French
returned 55 lessons, Chinese returned 4, and Japanese returned 13.
Promethian Flipcharts and Powerpoint lessons can be imported into Smart. Use theadvanced search feature in Promethian Planet
http://www.prometheanplanet.com/en/resources/ to find lessons for yourlanguage.
Another excellent way to teach with a Smartboard is to use an interactive website
such as Digital Dialects http://www.digitaldialects.com/. These are flash-basedwebsites that work nicely with an Interactive Whiteboard. The Tarheel readerhttp://tarheelreader.org/ has interactive ebooks in a number of languages.
Animation and Oral CommunicationBlabberize - http://blabberize.com
Here are some basic instructions for using Blabberize:
1. Find an image to use. One way todo this is to use Creative
Common’s licensed photos fromFlickr.
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/by-nc-2.0/ Images do best if
they are facing forward. Downloadthis image to your computer.
2.
Go to www.blabberize.com andclick on MAKE. Click on BROWSE tolocate the picture you saved in
your computer.3. Next, you can select just the part
of the photo you want to use. By dragging thepink handles.
4. Now you position the mouth by dragging thecircle over where you want it to be.
5. To resize or reshape the mouth click and dragthe blue and green dots.
6. When you are done click on the blue arrow andyou can record via the microphone on your
computer. You can also upload a pre-recorded30 second mp3 file if you like.
7. Follow the wizard to record your sound andwhen it is uploaded, preview it and save it. Tore-record, click on the white circle “Pick a
Sound”.8. To save it students will need to log into the class
account or they can create their own accounts if they are over 13.
9.
Now click on Share It. Put in the teacher’s class email address and youare done.
10. To see our Lego Darth Vader saying Bon Jour, visit Claire Frazier’s wiki athttp://kolterelementary.wikispaces.com/French