What makes learning personal and relevant? 21st Century Teaching and Learning Tools

Toni Theisen Loveland High School Loveland, CO 80525

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21st Century Teaching and Learning: Useful websites for teachers and students

You can download this document here and then it will be easier to click on the document: http://tonitheisen.wikispaces.com/ Using Web 2.0-Sites for teachers to learn more about tech 2.0 web and 21st century resources. ♦ Classroom web 2.0 http://www.classroom20.com/

The social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in education. ♦ 21St century Skills: http://umstrategicplan.wikispaces.com/Research ♦ The Connected Classroom: http://theconnectedclassroom.wikispaces.com/Classroom ♦ Globalization 101: http://www.globalization101.org/ provides students and teachers with

information about interdisciplinary learning opportunities on this complex phenomenon. Check out the resources that include lesson plans, issue briefs, expert interviews, and news analyses. Featured also are the World Bank and IMF issue brief in Chinese and the Culture Issue Brief in Spanish.

♦ ♦ Michigan State University Rich Internet Applications for Language Learning:. Wikispaces-a course management or collaborative tool. Wikispaces: www.wikispaces.com ♦ World Languages 21st Century: http://worldlanguages21stcentury.wikispaces.com/ ♦ LHS French classes: http://lhsfrenchclasses.wikispaces.com

This wikispace shows how to use a wiki as a course management system and collaborative workspace for a French class. (Toni Theisen’s wikispace)

♦ Resources for podcasting/podcasts ♦ Gcast: http://www.gcast.com/

This free site lets the user upload audio files or make a podcast using a cell phone and a toll free numbers. Podcasts can be stored on the site or a widget can be embedded.

♦ Vacaroo-voice recording service: http://vocaroo.com/ -one step recording podcast-can embed ♦ Podomatic: http://www.podomatic.com/index.html Blog sites, Videos sites, video converters ♦ Blogger: http://www.blogger.com/ This online blogging tool is an easy tool to use to start

blogging. ♦ TeacherTube: http://www.teachertube.com/ The goal of this site to provide an online community

for sharing instructional teacher videos. Upload student videos or watch student videos. There are also instructional videos to help teacher learn more about using technology. Go to World Languages Channel.

♦ Michigan State University Rich Internet Applications for Language Learning: http://clear.msu.edu/clear/store/products.php?product_category=online Innovative tools to enhance language learning. Create, embed, share. How about adding an audio dropbox. Mashup (put a bunch of things together) and have students watch a video, add some questions, students answer online and write a response-all on one site. Free, amazing tools designed for language teachers by language teachers.)

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Online Photo Galleries and resources for pictures ♦ Flickr: http://www.flickr.com This is a digital photo sharing website. It is also a great site to find

pictures of many places in the world. Fun tools ♦ Read the Words: http://www.readthewords.com/ Add text, choose a reader from among 15 in

French, Spanish and English. Avatar reader reads document. Download as MP3. Helps students with listening, reading and pronunciation. Amazing.

♦ Voki: http://www.voki.com/ Make your own talking avatar in many languages ♦ Comic strips and comic books: http://www.toondoo.com/

Check out an easy way for students to write or create. Look at the mini books on the Amendments, see how students synthesize science projects.

♦ Wordle: http://wordle.net/ Make a word cloud collage-great for students to study voc. ♦ Slide Show: http://www.slide.com/ Make your own slide show by uploading your pictures. ♦ Animoto: http://animoto.com/

Load up pictures and/or add music and then Animoto syncs music and images to make a video like a movie trailer. Get a school account for free.

♦ PhotoPeach: http://photopeach.com/ Create a lively and vivid way slideshow by moving your photos like a video with your choice of background music, captions on each photo.

♦ Yodio: http://www.yodio.com/ Use Yodio to add your stories to your photos or presentations by recording to your phone and then uploading pictures

♦ Voicethread: http://voicethread.com/ VoiceThread is an online media album that can hold any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video and then share them with anyone they wish.

♦ Slideshare: http://slideshare.net : Share our powerpoint presentations with the world and view what other are doing.

World Languages websites ♦ Learn French in Boston Podcasts: http://www.learnfrenchinboston.com

Podcasts including explanations of French poetry and practice sessions. ♦ Lit Gloss: http://wings.buffalo.edu/litgloss/list-of-texts.shtml

This site has a connection to original selections of literature in many different languages. Also included is the context of the piece and additional resources to better understand it.

♦ Extraits de la littérature française en texte avec audio: http://www.archivox.com/ ♦ BBC French: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/mafrance/

This sites has many French resources and activities that students can do on their own. ♦ BBC Spanish: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/

This sites has many Spanish resources and activities that students can do on their own. ♦ BBC German: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/german/

This sites has many German resources and activities that students can do on their own. ♦ BBC Italian: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/italian/

This sites has many Italian resources and activities that students can do on their own. ♦ Italian resources: http://butlerlibrary.wikispaces.com/Italian ♦ Italian activities: http://webgerman.com/languages/italian.htm ♦ Russian Resources and websites: http://flacademy.wikispaces.com/Russian ♦ Interactive games for kids in Russian: http://vkids.km.ru/ ♦ Read, Write, Think: http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/persuasion_map/

This site has an interactive map to help students to begin to write a persuasive essay. ♦ Chinese resources: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/chinese/real_chinese/

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♦ Biblioteca Virtual: http://www.bibliotecasvirtuales.com/ ♦ Chinese characters: http://www.usc.edu/dept/ealc/chinese/newweb/character_page.html

Animated Chinese characters. ♦ Lots of resources for lots of languages: http://webgerman.com/languages/ ♦ Learn 35 languages for free in ITunes: http://www.lifeclever.com/learn-35-languages-for-free-

in-itunes/ ♦ Oral stories and activities in Korean: http://story.lg.co.kr:3000/index.jsp http://vkids.km.ru/ Science websites for World Languages ♦ Globe Center: http://www.globe.gov/r?lang=en&nav=1

This site is a worldwide hands-on interactive science program in English with navigation available in Dutch, English, French, German, Russian, & Spanish.

♦ La Cité: http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/web_cite_fs.htm Lots of science activities in French. Digital Storytelling ♦ Center for Digital Storytelling: http://www.storycenter.org/index1.html

The Center for Digital Storytelling is an arts organization rooted in the art of personal storytelling. They assist people of all ages in using the tools of digital media to craft, record, share, and value the stories of individuals and communities. Project-based Learning

♦ Project-based learning: http://www.edutopia.org/projectbasedlearning In project-based learning, students work in teams to explore real-world problems and create presentations to share what they have learned. Sample projects and directions are included.

Teacher Resources

♦ ITunesU: www.apple.com/itunesu/ This site gives higher education institutions an ingenious way to get audio and video content out to the world. Want to hear conversations with contemporary artists, listen to a lecture from a professor from Stanford University, science and engineering courses from MIT, a movie clip on how to protect civil liberties from Penn State or see a music clip from the world on the Smithsonian Global Sound Project.

♦ Copyright-friendly: http://copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com/ This site has Copyright-Friendly Images and Sound for Use in Media Projects and Web Pages, Blogs, Wikis, etc.

♦ Royality-free music for projects: http://mrsmaineswiki.wikispaces.com/Free+music+for+projects

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How to make a wikispace 1. Go to: http://www.wikispaces.com/ Pick a username you will remember. I use my last name first initial:theisent. Set your password. Maybe something you already use. No one will see it.

2. At the top of the page click on: Make a new space 3. Here you will see this form. Think of a name such as :pappasgreek or kourisgrade3. Make it

something easy for you, students and parents. Click on : Protected. This means only invited members can edit the space. Click: Create. Now you have a wikispace. Let’s decorate.

Enter an e-mail address. Then go to your e-mail to confirm membership.

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4. Now click on :Manage Space (on the left side) Click on: Look and Feel. 5. Go to Themes and click on Bubble Theme

6. Click on: Look and Feel again, this time to change colors of your wikispace. Remember to SAVE.

7. Now to work. Click on: Edit this page. 8. Type something and hit SAVE: 9. To add word documents, PDF’s and MP3 podcasts or

images/pictures, click “Edit This Page” then click on the tree, then

upload. 10. To add a link do the same, but click on link icon: Copy URL and paste into “External Link space”. 11. To embed a video (from Youtube or teachertube, etc. copy the embedding code of the video and

then click on the TV: Then scroll down to “other HTML”. Paste in embedding code and save.

12. You can go to http://www.wikispaces.com/ and click on the tours, which will show you how to create new pages as wiki pages and use the navigation bar.

13. http://www.wikispaces.com/ is also a great place to search for other wikispaces in your content area.

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How to Make a Voki.

Now you and your students can be Avatars!!

1. Go to http://www.voki.com/ 2. Register: Use your school address or an address that is not personal. For example create a gmail

account. 3. Create a password that you do not use for any personal accounts. For example, I use:

frenchclasses. (now students can use this information to login and create a Voki under your name for privacy concerns. Also you can monitor the content that the students add and delete those that do not follow rules.

4. Check your email in order to confirm registration. 5. Login and: 6. Click on : “Create a new Voki”. 7. Click on: :Customize your character” and Play. 8. Click on “DONE” when you have your character. 9. Click on “Backgrounds”. You can even “Upload” your own. 10. Click on “DONE” when you have your character. 11. Click on “Give it a Voice”. Add your own voice via phone, microphone, text to speech or upload

a file. After deciding on what format, click on “record”. Click on “Save” when done. 12. Save it and give your Voki Avatar a title. Share it by embedding on a

blog or Wiki or provide a link. Bravo. You have succeeded!! Remember to let students have fun, too.

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Wordle-Make a Word Cloud http://www.wordle.net Go to: http://www.wordle.net Click on: “Create” to start you own Word Cloud

You can directly type in keywords into the text box in Wordle or create a file in a Word document. You then can copy and paste your keyword list into the text box when you have it complete and refer back to it, when you want to edit the list.

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In order to treat two words as one keyword in your word cloud, use the tilde character ~ between the words that go together. The tilde will be converted to a space when drawing the words. Once you have created a Word Cloud, play with the layout. color, etc. Once you have created a Word Cloud: SAVE LIKE THIS INTO THE GALLERY TITLE: Name it according to task. Sample below

Finally * Print – print to paper *Embed in blog, wiki, etc. *link, *take screenshot and save as image. One of my Wordles-Hotels en France-le vocabulaire tonitheisen09

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Toondoo-Making an online comic strip Writing, analysis, creativity, synthesis-all the buzz words for 21st century

Using ToonDoo, using are going to make a 3 panel cartoon Follow the directions. 1. Go to www.toondoo.com 2. Register (I suggest creating a username that students can remember. I use MmeT. I do not use this

user name for anything except these sites where students use my site to create activities. Yes, you can take them into the lab and they all can sign in as you and then you do not have to worry about their privacy. You can also moderate their work. I use my school e-mail address.)

3. Create a password: (I never use this password except for these sites so students can register as me). 4. Check your e-mail for confirmation. After confirmation….. 5. Go to: (Tools) 6. Click on: Toondoo maker 7. Click on: 3 frames. There are other choices and a way to make a virtual book. See Toodoo Help

directions. 8. Make your cartoon with characters, backgrounds and speaking bubbles 9. Look in the top left corner for ToonDoo menu. Scroll down to save.

10. Save and Publish with a title, English, (unclick:let others redo- this means nobody can change your cartoon.)

11. Voilà fini!!! Amusez-vous bien. Don’t forget to let your students have fun too. 12. Bon Courage. There are ways to create a cartoon book also. Just read and learn tonitheisen09

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How to make a PicLits http://www.piclits.com/

Example

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signup: Create a login using your school address password: Create a password that you do not use other places (I use: frenchclasses) This site allows multiple signin activity. 1. Click on a picture. 2. Click on Freestyle. 3. Students write poem, description, song, etc. (Whatever your assignment is) 4. Have students sign work-I use : French name, initial of last name and period number:

SophieW1 5. Click and save. Logout. You can now see all the student’s work by clicking on “MyPics”. This way you can monitor the activity and the products. You can link/embed them in blogs, websites, etc. tonitheisen09

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