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Discover a wealth of technology tools to enhance your foreign language teaching! This guide explores how to utilize Microsoft OneNote for organizing lesson plans, collaborating with students, and tracking progress. Learn about PowerPoint for delivering content and assessing speaking skills, and explore QUIA for engaging online activities and quizzes. Enhance audio learning with Audacity for creating vocabulary lists and podcasts, and find interactive exercises using Hot Potatoes. Access additional resources to elevate your language classroom's effectiveness!
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Technology IDEAS for the FL Classroom Sandra Seiler, Foreign Language Teacher sseiler@johncarroll.org The John Carroll School
One Note • One Note can be used to: • organize lesson plans • create resource files • collect images • store links • create audio and video files • Shared One Note notebooks can be used to: • make your plans available to your students • create group projects • check on students’ progress
Power Point • Power Point can be used to: • Deliver content • Practice vocabulary • Assess students speaking skills • Create review games
QUIA • Subscription-based website for educators to create and share customized online activities. • Ideas for using QUIA in the FL classroom include: • Warm-up activities • Homework assignments and practice activities • Review games • Graded quizzes • Download a free 30-day QUIA subscription at: http://www.quia.com/newtrial.html
Audacity • Free, open source recording and editing software. • Ideas for using Audacity in the FL classroom include: • Audio files of vocabulary lists • Listening comprehension activities • Podcasts • Speaking assessments • Download Audacity at: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Hot Potatoes • Freeware which can be used to create interactive exercises. • Ideas for using Hot Potatoes in the FL classroom include: • crossword puzzles • Download Hot Potatoes at: http://hotpot.uvic.ca/
Other Useful Links • BBC Languages Homepage http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/ • Teacher Tube: World Languages Homepage http://teachertube.com/videoList.php?pg=videonew&cid=24 • LearnSpanish.com http://www.learnspanish.com/ • Spanish Language & Culture http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/SLC/ • WorldandISchool http://www.worldandischool.com • WordReference Online Dictionaries www.wordreference.com