Processing Instruction and Technology
by Betsy Techman
Use Pictures
“Vision trumps all other senses” -John Medina, Brain Rules
Create meaningful visual input for your students !
GOOGLE (use the images icon)
BING
CREATIVE COMMONS
Help the Brain
Create Imageswww.toondoo.com
Create more imageswww.befunky.com
www.converttocartoon.com
Create more images•WORDLE (make word clouds)
•PICNIK (now linked to Google Picasa)
•Photofunia
•Picjocke
•Funphotobox
Slide ShowsAnimoto
Storieswww.storybird.com
Storieswww.codyscuentos.com
Listening Transcripts
PresentSimplebooklet
Create a SiteWix Wikispaces
GoogleGoogle DocsGoogle EarthGoogle Wheel
Reading Level Tools
for Educators
Definewordia visuwords
Video Clips
Sites for videos: http://youtube.com/ http://www.yatv.com/ www.teachertube.com
Conversion Sites:http://www.zamzar.com/url/http://vixy.net/http://keepvid.com (not MAC supported)
www.vodpod.com www.vodspot.com
Share Videos
CollaborateTALKSHOE
Language Learning Communities
www.busuu.comwww.espanglishchat
Why Podcasts?Comprehensible Input + 1Listen and check for understanding, pause and rewind to hear specific parts.
Create your own:Garageband (MAC) or AudacityWith Garageband, open a new “podcast”, record a sound, share to itunes, drag to your ipod to play or play in itunes. Enhanced podcasts include pictures
Record Audio
•Audacity
•Garage Band
•Vocaroo
Music
•www.zachary-jones.com (Span/Fr)
•www.señorwooly.com (Spanish)
http://www.lyricstraining.com/SING ALONG
Popular Music
• www.planetadeletras.com Get words to the songs you sing in class.www.pandora.comCreate your own radio station.
• www.batanga.com Listen to radio and watch music videos.
• www.ilike.com Video and audio clips/social network.
itunes• iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
How to subscribe from iTunes: Go to the Music Store-Search at the top of the screen Go to Podcasts-Search Directory at the bottom of the screen and pick your podcast
• Follow steps to subscribing. New episodes will automatically appear in the podcast section
• of your itunes.
• “Sing that itune” Cool widget that gives you the words to the song that is currently playing in your itunes.
• Authentic Materials on Itunes? On the iTunes Store screen go to the very bottom. Click on the bar and choose a country. Here you can listen to podcasts from other countries. (You will need a credit card registered in that country to purchase music but you can access the free podcasts.)
Educational Video Clips
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/spe/adv01.htmlUniversity of Texas at Austin
Educational Audio Series
Mo
Podstorieshttp://podcuentos.blogspot.com//(Spanish/French)
International Radiowww.radio-locator.com
NPR
Authentic Reading Onlinewww.thepaperboy.com
voanews.com/specialenglish
Who is TED?TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an annual conference which is filled with talks by
some of the world’s most fascinating people. Now, they have translated many of their videos in other
languages including Spanish.
To watch a video with subtitles, click on the subtitles drop-down menu underneath and simply select a language. You can also click on the Open Interactive Transcript
link to the right, click on any phrase to play the video from that point.
About TED: http://www.ted.com/index.php/pages/view/id/5
TED Translations: http://www.ted.com/index.php/OpenTranslationProjectTED Translations in Spanish: http://www.ted.com/index.php/translate/languages/spa
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Class Tools/Gameshttp://classtools.net
Games
•JeopardyLabs (build your own Jeopardy Game)
•Translationzilla
Gameshttp://www.superteachertools.com/
Organize with Graphicswww.eduplace.com
Teachers on the Web
•www.senorjordan.com
•www.señorwooly.com
•Señor Mara www.youtube.com/user/SrMara
Technospan
www.technospan.wikispaces.com/
“Prezi here”
(My collection of resources)