Motivate ALL your Language Learners!-Differentiation revisited,

Saturday 23rd November, Manchester Grammar School

Isabelle Jones, Head of Languages, Alderley Edge School for Girls

@icpjones http://twitter.com/icpjones A downloadable copy of the presentation slides for this training session will be available from:

My Languages Blog http://isabellejones.blogspot.com

Audio support:

Audacity free sound editing software http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/

Create your own speaking avatars with Voki http://www.voki.com/

Text-to-speech software http://text-to-speech.imtranslator.net /

Visual support:

Make your own words using pictures of lettershttp://metaatem.net/words/ABBA

Flickr (photo-sharing site) http://www.flickr.com /

Flickr group for language teachers http://www.flickr.com/groups/imagestoteachlanguages

My own authentic pictures (also available from TES profile at http://www.tes.co.uk/MyPublicProfile.aspx?uc=694292&event=21 )

http://www.flickr.com/photos/icpjones/sets/72157621889909661/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/icpjones/sets/72157612320791556/

TagGalaxy http://taggalaxy.de

Pinterest (sharing visuals and infographics) http://pinterest.com (icpjones)

PhotoPin (creative commons licensed pictures) http://photopin.com

Pics4Learning. com (pictures for educational use) http://www.pics4learning.com

Photo-vocab (Spanish) http://zachary-jones.com/photovocab

Word Clouds and Word Art http://www.wordle.net http://www.imagechef.com http://www.tagxedo.com

Graphic organisers, mind-mapping software and interactive visuals http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

http://www.mindomo.com

Templates to support differentiated thinking skills activities http://classtool.net

Desktop tools to support a range of differentiation strategies http://www.triptico.co.uk