Languages

=Language Resources=

AIS Languages Page includes units of work and resources by independent schools in NSW [|MyLanguage] provides access to search engines, web directories and news in over sixty languages.

Reference Articles
The School of One article from the New York Times July 21st, 2009

ICT Tasks
Course Program (made in Glogster) Blank task design proforma

Station 1 - Sync-in
Task 1: Writing the script of a two-minute video Task 2: Writing a narrative Task 3: Write a dialogue individually or collaboratively on the theme 'an accident' Other sync-in pages from todays course [] and []

Station 2 - Glogster
Click here to watch a video tutorial on how to use Glogster if you need to. Task 1: Design a magazine cover for Hobbies or Interests of your choice. Some classroom examples: Culture Italians Connect, grammar The passé-composé in French, topics such as describing people and common phrases (German)

Station 3 - Audacity
Task 1: Record narration for the frames of the comic of your choice (use Smartboard or ActivInspire screen capture to grab your frames) or narrate a voice over for the entire comic. Find the Audacity icon on your computer desktop. Task 2: Find a movie trailer in your target language/ news headline/ book review (something to talk about). Create a sound recording of yourself reviewing this item. Export as .mp3 with a title or name for your file. Place it on the M drive.

Station 4 - Photostory and Prezi
Task 1: Create a Photostory or Prezi (requires sign-up to a free account) on the theme //10 things about me//. Here is an example. Task 2: Welcome to my town Resources: Search [|Flickr Creative Commons Attribution Licensed images] for copyright friendly pictures. Tutorial Guide: Prezi Tutorial and Photostory Tutorial

Video Making - Windows Movie Maker
Task 1: Create a storyboard (maximum 3 frames) showing the story you will film using the blank storyboard template Scenario: 1. You arrive at a restaurant or friend's home 2. you are offered a selection of foods you don't like 3. You find something you like and talk about that. Film your story using a DV (Digital Video Camera), Still Camera (with video function), Flip Video or iphone (with video function) and edit with Windows Movie Maker. Tutorial Guide: Windows Movie Maker Resources: [|Any Video Convertor] (freeware) will convert video form one format to another.

Extension Activities
Task 1 - Create a tutorial about one the technologies you have used today in your target language using Jing. This program is free to download from the web and is also installed on your training laptop. Tutorial Guide: Jing (see link on the Jing site)

Online Tools for Communicating in class
Sync-in makes collaborative writing online easy, no sign-up required and everypage you create is given a unique URL. Click here to see our sample activity page Prezi a zooming presentation maker. A nice alternative to PowerPoint. PhotostoryBring your digital photos to life with Photo Story 3 for Windows. Download the free Audacity software to record voice and other sound easily on your mac or PC. Be sure to also download the additional LAME Encoder file as well if you wish to save your sounds in .mp3 format. Click here for a tutorial guide. [|Glogster] Create your own interactive poster with audio, images, text and video Tinychat is a simple, free to use video/audio/desktop chat system. It is entirely web based, requires no downloads or plugins (aside from Flash) and works on all browsers and operating systems. Hare up to twelve broadcasts simultaneously! With text, video, and audio chat, you and your friends can connect and talk from anywhere in the world

Reflection & Evaluation
These reflections have been made as quizzes in Quia. [|Photostory] [|Sync.in] [|Prezi] [|Glogster] [|Audacity] [|Tinychat] Moviemaker

Tinychat chat room for sharing our reflections

Image and Video Resources - All Languages
[|Flickr Creative Commons Attribution Licensed images] high quality copyright friendly images of all kinds. [|Flickr CC Images] an alternative [|Teachertube videos] teacher and student made videos. Similar to Youtube but less likely to be blocked by schools. Andrew Jeppesen's Wiki Languages resources

Handy Software
Use the free Audacity Program to record voice and other sound easily on your mac or PC. Be sure to also download the additional LAME Encoder file as well if you wish to save your sounds in .mp3 format.

Google Earth is a free software program that allows you to explore the earth in 3D. Zoom in to significant geographical locations, explore significant sites such as museums Art Galleries and more. You can also add media layers and your own placemarks for classroom study. Click herefor links to extra information, links to download the ABC News layer and other interesting layers form the Google Earth Gallery.

Tips and Tricks with Microsoft Word
[|Embed a sound file for immediate feedback] see this tutorial video on embedding a sound file in Word (Office 2003 version for PC). The process is almost identical to do this same thing in Word 2007 version for PC. The only difference being you must click the Insert tab on the Ribbon > Object > Object > Wave File

Other Great Online Activities
[|Wordle] makes word clouds in English and a range of other languages. The words are displayed bigger or smaller in the finished Wordle based on their frequency in the text you type. There are lots of useful ideas on how to use Wordle on the web including 45 interesting things to do with Wordle. [|ABCya! word clouds] is an alternative site that makes similar word clouds.

Issuu is an online publishing site. Here you will find books, journals, magazines and more published by publishing house and private individuals or you can make and upload your own. Here is an example of a Chinese bilingual book and a Picture book in Manadrin

Voicethread is an online presentation site that can use either still images or video to create a display. Students can then record their voices to annotate the slides.

Rhinospikeis an online language learning community tool that lets users around the globe connect and exchange foreign language audio files. Get any foreign language text read aloud for you by a native speaker!

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