MFL tools and tricks - update Dec14

MFL Widgets & Wizardry

30+ ideas for the language classroom

http://iconscrabble.com

By attending the course you will:

be given information about online tools to help language learning

be given some information about recent e-learning developments

have a chance to share and discuss strategies for using online tools to raise attainment in MFL

Have a break from the frenzy of school

Questions?

Topic area?

Quick flash?

Quick flash?

Questions?

Topic area?

Quick flash?

Don’t forget that you can also use scrolling effects to see how much pupils remember

Tu vois……Un vase

OuDeux têtes?

Le nezLa boucheLe menton

Une jeune femme

ou

une vieille dame?

Tu vois

un lapin

ou

un canard?

Build your wildselfhttp://www.buildyourwildself.com/

Also Sonic character creatorhttp://devbook.com/charactercreators/sonic/

Mr Picassohead

• www.picassohead.com

• anime character maker

• sonic character creator

• gamepuma character creator

Countdown timerwww.online-stopwatch.com

A nice collection of timers.

Includes countdown bomb!

www.classtools.net

Has tunes you can use to countdown

Also : name/word randomizers, hidden image

www.classtools.net

Fakebook

& Fake Tweet (‘Twister’)

Great for project work – a celebrity, a town, a character in a novel, play or film

Linguascope widgets

[Log in needed]

Countdown timers

Dice

www.barryfunenglish.com

Look under ‘tools’ for scoreboards. One of the few free resources available on this site

‘wheeldecide’

http://wheeldecide.com/

A wheel spinner which you can customize with any number of segments and contents

You could add words, pupil’s names, topic categories

Les vacancesMa chambreMa villeMa maisonMon copain /ma copineMes animauxMon film préféréMon écoleMes profsMa routine

Word /name/phrase picker

http://primaryschoolict.com/random-name-selector/

Google primary ict random name selector

Works best on Chrome

Sandfields Comp IWB resources

• ‘Bingo in’ mad

• Click clock

• Fridge magnet

• Sketchpad for Pictionary

http://www.npted.org/schools/sandfieldsComp/games/Pages/default.aspx

Talking points Google: ‘unusual pictures’; check before use!

Harry Styles

Russell Brand

Justin Bieber

Kate Middleton

Victoria Beckham Jennifer Lawrence

The victim has made no mistakes. The killer has made 3 grammar or spelling mistakes. Everyone else has made 1 or 2. Find the killer & the victim

J’ai mangé une tartineet j’ai buune tasse de café

J’ai regarde la télé et après j’avons lire une BD d’Astérix

J’ai faire mes devoirs et j’ai surfé sur le web

J’ai allée au cinémaavec mes amies

Je suis resté à la maisonet j’ai faire la cousine

J’ai travaille dansle magasinde mon père

Pistols at Dawn

2 pupils stand back to back, hands in shape of drawn guns. T asks a question which requires a short (1 or 2 words) answer. Pupils turn round quickly and face each other, say the answer followed by BANG. Correct answer + ‘Bang’ wins. You can do a class knockout if not too many.

akinator

http://fr.akinator.com/

TTS IM text translatorText to speech- Good for pupils’

learning for speaking and writing tests. Cluttered interface but OK once you’re used to it. You can slow down the speed of the spoken text.

Bonjour les professeursindomptables.

J’espère que vous trouverez certaines de ces idées utiles et que cette présentation n’est pas trop exigeante.Rappelez que l’essentiel, c’est l’équilibre entre la vie professionnelle et la vie privée.

Passez des vacances reposantes.

Paste in the following text:

Pause n’ play videos

Favourite at the momentGerman:Edeka – supergeilRowan Atkinson singt das Europalied

French:Evian roller babies

Mr Bean – Packing for Holidayhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r0dr_juOiI

Popplet

http://popplet.com/app/index.php#/460907

Easy diagram creator

You can include youtubevideos

Babysittenhttp://popplet.com/app/index.php#/1283283

blockbusters

• Use http://www.teachers-direct.co.uk/resources/quiz-busters

Easy prompter

http://www.easyprompter.com/

Paste text into the box and it turns into a broadcast-style autocue

Sample Text:So here I stand... one girl among many. I speak – not for myself, but for all girls and boys. I raise up my voice – not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights: Their right to live in peace. Their right to be treated with dignity. Their right to equality of opportunity. Their right to be educated.

Zap readerwww.zapreader.comSelect ‘Reader’

Paste a bunch of text in to the boxHit ‘zap it’The page will display one word at a timeYou can adjust the speed and the number of words displayed at any one time (up to 5)

Good for reading practice (phonics)Information recallTranslation / comprehensionPredict next wordRepeat/ recall last word

Sample Text:So here I stand... one girl among many. I speak – not for myself, but for all girls and boys. I raise up my voice –not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights: Their right to live in peace. Their right to be treated with dignity. Their right to equality of opportunity. Their right to be educated.

This is a wordle (wordle.net) how do we use it?

See also Tagxedo

www.wordle.net

Bart’s ChalkboardNext time, I

must remember to get this

right…… (x5 !)

3 things I learnt this lesson

You can use Bart’s chalkboard on a worksheet or the IWB

Here’s a question I want to ask the

teacher/ the class

Storybird & bookbox

• some lovely illustrated books in French Spanish German

• Good for a language club

Who needs expensive & fiddly e-voting systems?

Multiple choice / mini-plenary smiley kit

Download the ‘kit’ here: http://verulamvle.typepad.com/vets/2011/11/smileys-for-mini-plenaries.html

Cartoon creators

Go Animate - Make animations using a range of characters &

props. The pupils love it. Drag and drop to create scenes. Allows text, but not speech. See examples here and here

• Toondo - cartoon strip creator- Cartoon strip creator.

Drag and drop. A good way to reinforce a topic.

http://www.toondoo.com/ Example here

Top 10shttp://www.aneki.com/lists.html

Go out of Powerpoint slideshow into edit mode & move this rectangle around

Try BARB as well for TV ratings

Good for comparatives and superlatives

Online voice recorders

• AudiobooEasy Audio clip recorder- just click, record and send.

Click the icon above to hear my sample. Get pupils to do a quick audio message and send it to your email address (your network techies can set one up a shadow (proxy) one for you)

• Vocaroo Easy audio recorder

There’s a more flexible one called Audiopal

Soundcloud lets you store longer bits of audio

Thinglink

Make an image interactive

https://www.thinglink.com/scene/428890774537502720

Fotobabble

Upload a photo and add your audio commentary

Here ’s an example (year 8 German)

Ideal for topic work at any level

Voki – talking avatar creator

• Click the Borat sample. Text to speech, lots of characters, voices and languages.

Selected pupils come to the front and create a target language Voki message to the class

Pupil A inputs a description about another pupil. Class have to guess who it is. Winner takes over.

Selected pupils create a plenary Voki of the 5 most useful words from the lesson for the rest of the class to guess

Teacher creates a Voki containing a starter activity or a message which contains the lesson objective

Strip bingo

Strip bingoGive kids a strip of paper divided into 8 rows

(half of A4, vertical is OK). Teach about 20 vocab items . The pupils then choose 8 French words and copy each one into their 8 rows, one per row. Teacher then reads the English from the original list. If pupils has the word at top or bottom of their strip, they tear it off. Teacher keeps reading the list, in any order. The winner is the first pupil to ‘lose’ all their words.

One motion drum machine

Click on the image to see it in action –If you’re feeling brave, try the alphabet song

Gap fill generator

http://random-idea-english.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/tools-gapfill-generator.html

Google: random idea + English + Gapfill generator

Blabberize

• http://blabberize.com/view/id/794856

Upload any image, customize the mouth, record a message and watch the lip-sync in action.

Works best with cartoon faces but you can try celebs too.

Dice

I get up

I wash

I eat

I get dressed

I brush my teeth

I go to bed

In the garden

In the kitchen

In the garage

On the balcony

In my room

In the school

With my dog

With my cat

With my horse

With my two goldfish

With my mouse

With my tortoise

For dice rollers – see http://dice.miniwebapps.net/Also Linguascope widgets &IWB software e.g. Active Inspire

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More dicey ideas

Number each pupil in your class 1-12Go round again, so in a class of 24 you’ll have two pupils who are number 1 etcRoll 2 dieThe pupils with that number stand up and answer

Divide class into two teams - Ask a question then, if they answer correctly, roll one dice for number of points

‘cricket’: - roll a dice, then ask a question worth that number of points. So a six would be a really hard question, a one would be an easy one

Verb conjugation

quizlet

• Make you own sets of flashcards – audio enabled !

• Ma ville: http://quizlet.com/26983558/flashcards

TextivateApprox £35 a year

Copy and paste text

Choose sequencing or gap fill

Sample Text:So here I stand... one girl among many. I speak – not for myself, but for all girls and boys. I raise up my voice – not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights: Their right to live in peace. Their right to be treated with dignity. Their right to equality of opportunity. Their right to be educated.

Text mechanic + reverse text generator

• puts Use the words online different a a in which scrambler sentence order an text of

use an online text scrambler which puts the words of a sentence in a different order

• txet sdrawkcab ecudorp ekil sgniht rehto od uoy stel moc.esacelggot.www

www.togglecase.com lets you do other things like produce backwards text.

http://www.rjwoerheide.com/scrambletest.phpGoogle: rjwoerheide + text scrambler

Text Srambler

Lingro

• Go to Lingro

• Import a foreign language webpage address and see what happens

• each word becomes clickable

• You can click on the word for the meaning and store it in a word list

• It will also generate a set of flashcards of the words clicked

Suggestions:

Amazon.deAmazon.frTV: la grille des émissionsCinema + Rouen+ programme

Subway BelgiqueMcDonalds FranceSubway FrancePizzas `a emporter

Using Authentic materials

www.allocine.fr

funny.pho.tophotobox

fodeyimagechef

Caption generators –

Photofunia does it all

Also: Glass giant

Kahoot

Pupils use www.kahoot.it

Teacher uses getkahoot.com

https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/d57c4d55-10f7-47a4-ad62-78fbc5a5230b

Keep calmomatic

jon.meier@verulam.herts.sch.uk