Foreign+Language+Instruction+and+Technology+Integration

podcasts in language: the rolling r's

podcasting for teachers to students

voicethreads

language-exchanges.org (skype penpal matching)

audioportfolios

using firstclass (record in class, dropbox to teacher) also use chat (to tell a story)

studyspanish.com

quia.com

rosetta stone as a text book?

rassias method

oral assessment

distributing materials that come with textbooks rip it, serve it, one school paid teachers to do it as a summer project

using ipods, other devices to share media

iriver, zoom h2, micromemo (i ipod), belkin for ipod

clicker for foreign language instruction, digalo plugins for french and spanish

sanako language labs (high learning curve, little support) how can we give language lab functionality through other tools

Check this out: http://web.mmlc.northwestern.edu/projects/DiLL.shtml - all IP Multicast based language lab system for MAC.

yakpak.com (bags) yackpack.com (synchronous but mostly asynchronous voice sharing)

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Podcasting- Syndicated in iTunes, but most just go to the website and listen. Record in Audacity, put it in MP3. Kids listen to dictation, transcribe, draw things. Starting to use listen/response exercises. Other methods of doing this kind of activity: Podsafeaudio.com, Voicethread.com, FirstClass also. Languageexchanges.org – skype/penpal matching. Find a partner to speak another language. Experience is that the response time is slow—not a popular activity abroad. Slow connection in some cases. Ethical Culture creates audio portfolios. You can, as the teacher, record something. Students record responses, it's all audio, it's all private, and it's all web-based. Moodle with a voice feature. FirstClass exercises- structured: Kids record/write in class. Drop box it in FirstClass. Sometimes put it on file server. We've had a couple of different grading rubrics—vocabulary vs. pronunciation. Introduction of the day. Use it at the end of the year for the national Spanish exam prep. It might be more unified if we did this in voicethread… Studyspanish.com – drill & skill, examples, explanations, practice, quiz at the end, virtual gradebook. Quia.com very popular with language teachers Rosetta stone? Native language speakers don't want to go I that direction- prefer in person connection. However, second-language speakers can see how this can work well. Rassias – by John Rassias- a style of learning- TPR, total physical response. Student drillers go into the MS. Rassias has trained kids and faculty. (Doesn't have much to do with technology.) Why assign oral homework assignments? Oral homework advantage- how does this kid perform when there is no social pressure. Teacher's prompting is important. Language labs are a nice break from the classroom, you can speak freely, it's not a bad exercise for the kid. Some teachers are very interested in getting the kid to hear themselves. Get over the weirdness of it. How do you serve up media? How do you organize it? File server, podcasting. Too bad iPod doesn't have a microphone built into it. Other devices- iRiver would be cool! iRiver- mp3 player, records. Zune H2. Griffin Micromemo. Teaching foreign languages with clicker. Foreign language with Clicker. French and Spanish plugins- Digalo, 3rd party plugin for them. It has a childish feel- good for V/VI? A s/w solution that provides everything we'd look for in a language lab? Sanako. Learning curve: after some tears, teachers can learn it. They have 1 or 2 people that support the NY area, and the support is almost non-existance. George Orio contracted a new language lab with them a couple of years ago. They started the project and never finished it! They're overwhelmed with the number of las they have to support. Virtual lab – Sanako- software lab all over the network. You'd have a pretty robost network to run it. You buy a certain number of logins. They run the hardware—thin client. It's still expensive. What about Skype, iChat?!?! These are free tools that do similar things. Sanako- teacher can listen in on a few conversation at a time (true in Skype, iChat!). Remote desktop- share my screen with the entire lab. Yackpack- talking groups. $35 per user per year. There is a yackpack plugin for Moodle- pay once and use it, and YOU OWN THE DATA!! Ooooh…. Rubric for oral language exams- scale of 1-4 – in the wiki? From packer. A possible project: Find a partner/group, here's a topic, get some interview material, turn it into a little audio show. Strict audio. The French kids com up with questions I English to ask peers, and vice versa… Does everybody have Skype accounts? Haven't started, talking with teachers about it… ePals for foreign language? No school in this little group is using it…