Arabic Holidays and Tagxedo

Describing an image using Voxopop or Vocaroo

Please visit our Voxopop Talkgroup at http://www.voxopop.com/group/a5ab31fc-b685-4c5e-90ec-0a16d3f0086c or go to www.vocaroo.com and do the following task:

Look at the image below and describe what you see in the target language. You may want to write down a few ideas. However, you should speak freely and not read your notes. Speak loud and clear. Listen to your recording before you submit or save it. Make sure to save it (when using Voxopop) or save and send it (when using Vocarroo) to me via e-mail to mesa@mcdaniel.edu

• Describe the various objects you see in the picture and where are they located?
• What kind of a person is that? 
• What is he doing?
• Where is he sitting/ sleeping/ ...?
• Is he poor or rich? Why? How do you know that?
• Give the image a title. Explain your title!

For example: “In the middle of the picture I see an old man in a bed. Above him there is an umbrella hanging down from the ceiling. Perhaps the roof is leaking …”

Culturally Appropriate and Inappropriate Behavior

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Please visit our Voxopop Talkgroup at http://www.voxopop.com/group/e821a108-2977-40b3-8828-974358123bc7 or go to www.vocaroo.com and do the following task:

Please think of situations or behaviors that are culturally appropriate and inappropriate (in the target culture). Describe briefly two of these situations (one appropriate and one inappropriate) in the target language using Voxopop or Vocaroo. You may want to write down a few ideas. However, you should speak freely and not read your notes. Speak loud and clear. Listen to your recording before you submit or save it. Make sure to save it (when Voxopop) or save and send it (when using Vocarroo) to me via e-mail to mesa@mcdaniel.edu

Digital Tools and Language Learning

• NOVA Startalk Technology Enhanced Language Instruction: http://novastartalk.nvcc.edu/ 

• Top 100 Tools for Learning in 2012 by Jane Hart: http://www.slideshare.net/janehart/toptools2012

• A Practical Guide to the 100 Tools for Learning in 2012: http://c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools/

•  101 Recommended Educational Web Tools: http://edudemic.com/2013/04/recommended-educational-web-tools/ 

• 35 Digital Tools That Work With Bloom's Taxonomy: http://edudemic.com/2012/11/35-digital-tools-that-work-with-blooms-taxonomy

Vocaroo

Please click on this link here

 

Record and upload audio >> 

and the listen to the task.

[Please use Vocaroo (http://www.vocaroo.com) and tell me in your own language what you have done yesterday evening. Please use at least 5 verbs in the past tense. Where and when did you go? With whom? What did you do (see, eat, drink, ...)?]

iPads and Audio-Visual Resources

For those of you who have iPads, please have a look at the following wonderful sites:

• http://livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit/26242 (iPads in education) or
• http://livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=36989 (iPod Touch and iPad Resources). 
• http://livebinders.com/play/play/26195 (iPads in Schools)

Please bring your iPads and iPod Touch with you tomorrow. I have a few great Arabic Apps to share with all of you. For your various projects this week, you will need to collect images, audio and video files. Here are a few places that will help:

I. Images

• Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
• The Realia Project: http://www.realiaproject.org/
• Visual Geography: http://www.visualgeography.com/
• Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/
  

II. Videos

• Youtube: http://www.youtube.com
• Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com
• Teachertube: http://www.teachertube.com
• Yamli: http://www.yamli.com/
• Fomny: http://www.watchfomny.com/tv-arabic.php (Arabic)
• Aswaat Arabiyya: http://www.laits.utexas.edu/aswaat/

III. Audio Files

• Altarab: http://www.altarab.com/
• VidtoMP3: http://www.vidtomp3.com (you can convert any Youtube video into MP3 audio files)
• Carla-Audio/Video Archives: http://www.carla.umn.edu/lctl/VAVA/audio/arabic/
• Listen Arabic: http://www.listenarabic.com

iPad Apps and Language Learning

• iPad Tutorial: http://vimeo.com/channels/cbdipads
• iPad, YouPad, WeAllPad Too: iPad 2 and Language Instruction: http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/german/technology/iPadYouPadWeAllPad-Esa2013.pdf
• 80 Apps to Learn a New Language: http://iphone.appstorm.net/roundups/lifestyle-roundups/80-apps-to-learn-a-new-language/
• Apple in education link: http://www.apple.com/education/apps/
• 40 Amazingly Educational iPad Apps for Kids: http://www.onlineclasses.org/2010/06/16/40-amazingly-educational-ipad-apps-for-kids

Video Downloadhelper

http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/german/startalk-arabic/DownloadHelper%20for%20Firefox.pdf

Templates for Jeopardy and Who Wants to be a Millionaire

PowerPoints Games:  http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/ppt-games/
Jeopardy Template: http://jeopardylabs.com/edit/

Fun ways to use the iPad

A daughter is visiting her father and is helping in the kitchen.
She asks: Tell me dad, how are you managing with the new I-Pad we gave you for your birthday? Did you use any new apps?

Father: What apps are you talking about?

This is in German but that's all you need to know.  

You'll get the rest:

http://www.snotr.com/video/8965/