widgets&wizardry for mfl

MFL Widgets & Wizardry

30+ ideas for the language classroom

Siest du

eine Vase

oder zwei Gesichter?

der Mund die Nase das Kinn

Une jeune femme

ou

une vieille dame?

Tu vois

un lapin

ou

un canard?

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

Match the Harry Potter Names

FangSorting hatHogwartsSlytherinDiagon AlleyMuggleWoodDaily Prophet

CrocdurChoixpeauPoudlardSerpentardChemin de TraverseMolduDuboisLa Gazette du Sorcier

La Gazette du SorcierChemin de TraversePoudlardChoixpeauSerpentardDuboisMolduCrockdur

Countdown timerwww.online-stopwatch.com A nice collection of timers. Includes countdown bomb!

www.classtools.netHas tunes you can use to countdownAlso : name/word randomizers, hidden image

www.classtools.net

FakebookTwister

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

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

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

Easy diagram creator

You can include youtube videos

Goodie bag

Reward cards & Tesco medals2 toy mobilesFlipcamJuggling ballGreen & red Answer buttonsPost-itsSmartphone - Voice distorter (homerizer)

Celeb masks

Scrolling TextStar Wars -http://www.starwars.com/play/online-activities/crawl-creator/

here’s an example – can you spot 1 French & 1 German word?

PowerpointLets you turn TextIntoScrolling Credits

Or you can make

wordsflash

On

And

off

Easy prompterhttp://www.easyprompter.com/

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

Obama’s 2nd inaugural speech starts like this:Each time we gather to inaugurate a President we bear witness to the enduring strength of our Constitution. We affirm the promise of our democracy. We recall that what binds this nation together is not the colors of our skin or the tenets of our faith or the origins of our names. What makes us exceptional -- what makes us American -- is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit

of happiness.”

Zap readerHere’s some text to try:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” www.zapreader.com

Select ‘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

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

www.wordle.net

Bart’s Chalkboard

Next time, I must remember to get this

right……3 things I learnt this

lesson

Why not use Bart’s Blackboard on a worksheet or the IWB

Here’s a question I want to ask the

teacher/ the class

Here’s the background

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

Mr Picassohead

• www.picassohead.com • check out also: http://www.buildyourwildself.com/Also • anime character maker • sonic character creator • gamepuma character creator

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

Go out of Powerpoint

slideshow into edit mode &

move the rectangle around

Poodwaddle.com + world clock

World clock Contains (simulated) ‘live’ data

You can also carve a treeon Poodwaddle; google: ‘Poodwaddle + carving tree’

OFSTED – NUMERACY &SMSC

Graffiti creator

http://www.graffiticreator.net/

use ‘wall texture’ backgrounds on the whiteboard or from google images

Online voice recorders

• Audioboo Easy 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 AudiopalSoundcloud lets you store longer bits of audio

Fotobabble

Upload a photo and add your audio commentaryHere ’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

What Mike?What’s the best external mic to use

(if you don’t have one built in )? Modern laptop mics may be OK A decent external mic is the Logitech USB Desktop MicrophoneAbout £18

Audacity is still the best easy sound recorder and editor

One motion drum machine

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

Pond5 sound effects

Guess the animalform of transportMusical instrumentweather

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.

Sandfields Comp IWB resources

• ‘Bingo in’ mad• Click clock• Fridge magnet• Sketchpad for Pictionary

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

Triptico

• A great set of downloadable IWB tools – scoreboards, word random selectors and, best of all, word magnets

Classic games arcade + Mini putt

http://www.classicgamesarcade.com/game/21660/connect4.html

http://www.classicgamesarcade.com/game/21665/mini-putt.html

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

http://dice.miniwebapps.net/

Electronic Voting SystemsStudent response Systems

SocrativeInfuse LearningPoll anywhere

My Game grid backgrounds

There’s an online selection herehttp

://verulamvle.typepad.com/vets/2012/05/gamegrid-backgrounds.html

Or you could copy the next few slides

Gamegrids

Only the first slide – the staircase – works as a proper Powerpoint slide.

The rest need to be in edit mode i.e. you need to come out of presentation mode

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Task bar – ROLL THE DICE BUT YOU CAN ONLY MOVE IF YOU COMPLETE THE TASK1 = TL to Eng2= Eng to TL3= TL phrase into Eng4 = give 3 TL words connected by theme or structure=5= Eng phrase into TL6= do a task (e.g. sing days of the week)/rap the last ten TL words from your book

Or use the grid to practise & repeat 6 or twelve questions

Hang the teacher!

Professeur / Lehrer

Élèves/ Schüler

QR CODESCreates a link from print to a website/ email address or message

To make the barcode, you need a QR code generator – lots online e.g. zxing

To read the barcode, you need QR code reader or scanner app on your phone

Use in class:Put on classroom displays to link to more info onlinePut on pupils’ books to link to more info or even a personalized messageLanguage competition – Pupils read the code on the wall and find the hidden message/ word of the day etc

QR code – Try this

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

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

Text Srambler

Use a video clip

• discussion, starters, attention grabbersVocab practice, sequencing, what happens next…

descriptions, memory tests, freeze frame- jump/ stop/ shout when you see …. Word X

• Use Keepvid to copy Youtube videos• Use Tubechop to cut Youtube videos• Good Youtube clips to useMr Bean cartoons & clips (e.g. Mr Bean packs for a holiday)HB Männchen adverts e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh9dkHdQOAg

Text to speech IM Translatorhttp://imtranslator.net/translate-and-speak/

A clever site. Surrounded by adverts. A bit fiddly to use but good once you get used to it. You can input text, translate text, get it to speak it back and adjust the playback speed.

Lingro

• Import a foreign language webpage address • each word becomes clickable• You can click on the word for the meaning and store it

in a word list • It will generate a set of flashcards of the words clicked

And finally…

Some photo editors & caption creators

Image chefFodeyFunny pho.toPhotoboxGlass giant

etc

jon.meier@verulam.herts.sch.uk

funny.pho.tophotobox

fodeyimagechef

Caption generators

Keep calmomatic

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