Digital Media
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EdPuzzle Tutorial
EdPuzzle is a free web service and cross platform app which allows language teachers to test students’ listening comprehension skills in and out of the classroom.
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Classroomscreen.com Tutorial
Classroomscreen is a free online resource that places a suite of interactive instructional tools on your desktop which can be utilised when using a projector or when teaching online. A guide is now available for MFL teachers.
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Whiteboard.fi – Tutorial
Whiteboard.fi is a free online tool which allows you to create a virtual classroom in seconds where students each have a digital whiteboard to write on. A tutorial is now available to download.
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QWiQR – Tutorial
QWIQR is a free web tool which allows language teachers to record personalised audio feedback. A tutorial is now available to download.
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Mystery Skype in the MFL Classroom: Tutorial
Mystery Skype is an educational game, invented by teachers, played by two classrooms on Skype.
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Triptico: create interactive activities
Triptico is a collection of interactive resources which enable imaginative educators to create engaging learning for their classroom or workplace. Creating, saving, adapting and sharing interactive learning content is easy with Triptico.
Access the site wherever you are and on any computer. Build your own library of interactive learning resources. Join groups and share activities with colleagues.
Click here.
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5 ways to use Thinglink in education
Interesting suggestions to make the most out of this wonderful resource, a free and user friendly digital tool that provides users with the ability to turn any image into an interactive graphic
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WEBSITE: Infographics meets 21st century key skills
Very clever pictorial chart linking key skills with corresponding emerging technologies. Produced by American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).
Perhaps you could print a copy for the staff room?
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My Talking Avatar (Tutorial): Oral Work
My Talking Avatar Free is a free iOS app which is wonderful for promoting speaking in the languages classroom as it lets you create an animated character and record your voice for up to 5 minutes as a video. You can also add your own background image or create one in an app like Pic Collage as an example of ‘appsmashing’.
Click here.
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iFun Face (Tutorial): Promoting Oral Production
iFunFace is a free iOS and Android app which is great for promoting speaking by allowing you to super impose an animated mouth and eyes over a still image of a face or faces and record a video of you and someone else having a conversation in the target language.
Click here.
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Vocal Recall – Tutorial
Vocal Recall is a free iOS and Android app which allows language teachers to record up to 5 minutes of personalised audio feedback for their students’ work and attach it to a QR code they can stick in their copy books. Vocal Recall can also be used by teachers to enhance paper worksheets and wall displays as well as promote speaking skills among students.
Click here.
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Book Creator – Tutorial
Book Creator is an iOS app and web tool which allows students to create multimedia slideshows to showcase their learning and promote speaking and writing skills in the languages classroom as well as create an e-portfolio to showcase their work over time.
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