Post on 10-May-2015
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
Go Animate/Toon Doo
http://goanimate.com/movie/0FZ_aoErA988/1
Culture (not from the text
book)
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