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/

Interpretation

Please look at the image and describe what you see. 

• Describe the various objects you see in the picture.
• 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!

Yesterday Evening

Please use Vocaroo (www.vocaroo.com) and tell me 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, ...)?

Voice Recorder >>

Foreign Language Organizations in USA

Local:

• GWATFL (Greater Washington Association of Teachers of Foreign Languages)
• MFLA (Maryland Foreign Language Association)
• VLAFA (Virginia Foreign Language Association)

Regional

• NECTFL (Northeast Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages)

National

• ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages)