tools
September 20, 2013
Using audio-lingua
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I’m betting you’ve probably already discovered this resource, but if you haven’t, you are going to love this. I don’t know who started Audio Lingua or why, but it’s basically a repository of people, well, talking. About, well, stuff. All kinds of stuff. It seems people record themselves talking about something and upload it. But […]
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August 20, 2013
At a recent conference I had the opportunity to connect with the couple at the head of Common Ground International, who have recently put out an app for iPad (and iPod Touch and iPhone) called High School Spanish (check out their website). It’s a useful, intuitive resource for students studying Spanish, and is especially tailored for […]
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August 15, 2013
I’m so glad I’ve finally gotten around to telling you about this app I absolutely love. Storykit is completely free and developed by the International Children’s Digital Library. It’s an app you can use to read some of the books available through the ICDL, but its much more attractive feature is as a story building app. […]
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August 9, 2013
Want a vast unabridged Spanish/English dictionary app? Or a Spanish-language thesaurus at your digital whim? Check out the complete dictionary and thesaurus apps from Word Magic. The developer is offering twenty promo codes for Musicuentos readers. Read my review and information on the giveaway below. The Word Magic dictionary is admittedly an expensive app at […]
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July 17, 2013
There’s one moment in a teaching class I took in college more than ten years ago that forever remains in my memory. Our professor, one of my favorites of all my education years, told a story of how he watched one of his students die of cancer. He ended the lecture that day with a […]
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July 13, 2013
The App Store is celebrating 5 years by giving away some great apps, including two that are of interest to world language teachers. Get Barefoot World Atlas free right now and explore the world in a multi-lingual app with great visual appeal. Day One, an award-winning journaling app, is also […]
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July 6, 2013
Here’s a fun video that features an animal (gato), narration in present, and talking about wants and feelings. I don’t know the source of the song, but the video was made by a Spanish student who heard it in his class. Proficiency goals as you show this video: Narration in present Talking about feelings Talking […]
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June 16, 2013
The Tech & Learning Adviser Blog did a blog post a long time ago called Top 10 Sites for Creating Digital Magazines & Newspapers. It’s the only post of its kind I’ve seen and I’ve tweeted it out several times at people looking for tools to make online magazines with their world language class. We’ve tried […]
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June 8, 2013
Screencast: Photopeach
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My favorite way to wrap up AP Spanish, after the exam, is to do a project we call “21 important things.” Students do a slideshow on Photopeach using, at least: 21 photos with text, illustrating things important to the student No simple sentences At least half the photos from creative commons, properly sourced Music in […]
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February 8, 2013
Tech tools gone wrong
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When I first became active on Twitter, I followed the general #edchat quite a bit and was stunned and fascinated by all the tech tools people were tweeting about. I read blog posts and reviews about the latest web 2.0 tool someone was using in X class and got excited. I tried many new tools […]
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February 1, 2013
If someone asked me what motivated my students the most -to continue learning on their own, to more vocabulary, to greater accuracy- my answer would certainly be music. Just this week one of my Spanish 3 students who is struggling the most with any level of verb accuracy identified forms of conseguir and what they […]
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April 21, 2011
Have you used PhotoPeach?
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I have to thank @vivianagabi for giving me the idea to use PhotoPeach to do a project called “25 things about me.” Her (Brazilian) students are at lower levels than mine, and take Spanish for less time per week, but it was a brilliant way for her students to connect with my students (by posting […]
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