World Languages & the iPad
Resources for the Secondary World Language Teacher
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Classroom Management
ClassDojo offers a beautiful classroom management platform for teachers to easily encourage any behavior or skill in the classroom and keep parents in the loop.
Random Name Selector Lite is a Fun (and fair) way to select students for that special task or to answer that question.
The Nearpod platform enables teachers, schools and districts, to use their iPads to manage content on students' iPads, iPhones, iPods or Macs. It seamlessly combines interactive presentation, collaboration, and real-time assessment tools into one integrated solution.
Vocabulary
Duolingo
It gives users the opportunity to translate real-world texts in the language they are learning and at an appropriate level. The activities start out with simple words and phrases. As users become more proficient, Duolingo gives them more challenging phrases. To help them track their progress, Duolingo awards points and virtual badges.
Voice Recorders
Voice Recorder Pro
Voice Record Pro is a simple to use app. Recorded voices are in standard AAC/MP4/M4A format. They can be converted to MP3 (and then used as a podcast) and can be saved in a range of locations, depending on the apps on your device. I really like the fact that you can export to your camera roll – this means that you can import your sound file into iBooks/ePubs that you create using apps such as Book Creator.
Audioboo
Audioboo is free voice recording software. Recordings can be shared in a variety of ways.You can add titles, tagsand a photo to the recording before you upload it
BYOLL
Students use the app to listen to their teacher’s instructions and record their oral responses. The content server –included BYOLL package – can hold any language teaching materials.
Content Creation
Tellagami is a mobile app that lets you create and share a quick animated video called a Gami.
A Gami can be an exciting tweet or status update. It can be a fun way to tell a story. It can be a thank you message or a vacation postcard. It can be a birthday greeting, party invite or cool way to share photos. The possibilities are endless!
A Gami can be an exciting tweet or status update. It can be a fun way to tell a story. It can be a thank you message or a vacation postcard. It can be a birthday greeting, party invite or cool way to share photos. The possibilities are endless!
Use StoryKit to write some text, illustrate it by drawing on the screen, taking or inserting photos from the library (you can transfer photos to the library from an iCloud service such as Dropbox). You could also create your own illustrations on paper and photograph the image. You can record a narration and the layout elements of your story can be dragged, pinched and altered with ease. You can add a single voice recording to a page or do separate recordings for each sentence. You can also add the text in sections. Click here to see what a finished story looks like online .
Haiku Deck makes it a snap to create beautiful presentations that will wow your audience – whether you’re pitching an idea, teaching a lesson, telling a story, or igniting a movement.
Video Star. Select from hundreds of built-in effects. Then add Power Packs to crank up the awesome. Create reversed "backwards" clips, act along with "clones" of yourself, move in slow-mo & fast forward, and make awesome stop motion and green screen effects. Pause at any time to set up a new scene. No matter how many scenes you shoot, the music stays in perfect sync.
With Skitch you use shapes, arrows, sketches, stamps and text annotation to get your point across fast. Use it to: Mark up photos, screenshots, maps, and webpages then share them inside or outside the classroom; have races to write vocabulary and hold it up for all to see!
Flash Cards
StudyBlue
The StudyBlue app allows students to create flashcards, quiz themselves, track their progress, and set reminders. One of the best features is the ability to study offline.
Flashcards +
Flashcards+ is an online flashcard & notecard tool for high school and college students and those studying hard for the SAT, ACT, GRE and other standardized tests.
Quizlet
Quizlet allows users to make flashcards, test memory with Learn, race against the clock in a game of Match, share with classmates or students, listen to pronunciations in 18 languages & enhance studying with images and audio.
Assessment
Today's Meet
Today's Meet is an online collaboration tool that allows educators to create a “room” in which students can share ideas, answers and thoughts to lectures and lessons. Educators can view student responses in real time for evidence of learning.
Lino
Lino. A virtual cork board of sticky-notes so students can provide questions or comments on their learning. These can be used like exit tickets or during the course of a lesson.
Secondary Digital Learning Team
Rashel Larson
Tosh McGaughy
Michael Hanson