10 Great Tools for Language Teachers

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10 Key Technologies for Language Teachers

This is the handout for a presentation I gave in Luxembourg. It tells you

about 10 remarkable tools that we can use as language teachers for

basically teaching any language. Each tool provides a description, a link to

the tool and step by step videos that take you right through using the tool

and how it can be used in a language teaching context

1-Jing

What does it do?

Jing is an amazing tool. It is the simplest and most effective screen capture too on the market.

Use it for giving feedback to your students, getting students to do speaking activities, gettingthem to add commentary to videos, pictures etc. The 2 sets step by step video guides give

you many ideas for using this site. If there is one tool that I really recommend you

incorporate into your teaching then it is JING. Literally hundreds of teachers have contacted

me after using this site to say how good it is.

Where can I find it?http://www.techsmith.com/jing/

Step by step guide on how to use it

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2-MailVu

What does it do?

Great website that allows you to record a video email ( you need a webcam and microphoneon your computer) You can do amazing things with this tool like getting the students to do

speaking activities and then sending them to the teacher. At the end of the videos I explain

some of the ideas that I have tested. I really like to do the practice work in the class but allow

the students to make their recordings at home and then send to me and we have had a lot of

success using this tool.

Where can I find it?http://mailvu.com/


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3. Audioboo is a podcasting tool

What does it do?

Get your students podcasting with this simple tool . You can use it from the website or you

can download the apps and use it on your Smart phone. It is free for short recordings of up

to 3 minutes and they can be added to your blog too. This site has so many applications.

Get your students to tell stories, do interviews or create news sketches. If you are a teacher

you can give students listening material for before or after the class.

Where can I find it?

http://audioboo.fm/


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4.Make a movie

What does it do?
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This is a fun site for creating mini movies and really easy to use. The students can choose

the characters, the music and the context and then write in the dialogue. The resulting

dialogue is then played back like a movie. The movie can then be shared on the internet.

Students can send it as an email or embed it into their blog.


http://www.dvolver.com/moviemaker/make.html


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5-Bubblr/Bookr

What does it do?These are really popular tools with language teachers. They allow you to access the billions

of pictures on Flickr and then use them to create really professional presentations where you

can t add text. Bubblr produces a Comic Strip type presentation and Bookr produces a

Book type presentation Once the students have created their presentations they can email

them to their teacher or put them into their blog. Great if you want to get students writing

about places they would like to visit or have visited. Also great for getting students to write

about famous people or for creating stories. A site that can be used in many different ways.


http://www.pimpampum.net/bubblr/

http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/


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6-Word Sift

What does it do?You can paste text into this site and then press a button. It will produce a Word Cloud that

highlights all the main meaning words in the text. But that is not all, you can then look at

these words and focus on the meaning of them and see how they were used in the text. This is

a great tool and it is well worth watching the step by step guide to see what you can do withthe site.
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http://www.wordsift.com/


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7.Lyrics training site

What does it do?

A great website that allows you to learn the lyrics of songs interactivity. You can choose yoursong, choose your level and then interact with the site as you go through the words of the

song line by line. This tool is really popular with students. It is especially good for

encouraging students to be autonomous and getting them to work alone. Students who want

to learn songs in English or indeed in Spanish , French , Italian and other languages will love

this site.


http://www.lyricstraining.com/

Step by step guide on how to use it.

http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/lyrics/index.html

8. MyBrainShark

What does it do?

This has quickly become the most popular tool on my website. It allows you to upload

videos, Powerpoint, pictures and documents and then add voice to them. It then automatically

packs them together and produces a link where you can play back the document and the audio

recording together. Great if you want your students to practice doing a presentation and then

share it with the teacher. Great if you want your students to do speaking activities or great if

you want to create PowerPoint presentations and put them on-line so that students or a wider

audience can access them. This site is amazing and if you watch the 2 sets of step by step

videos that take you through the site, you will be really surprised what you can do with this

site.

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9 . Two great vocabulary sites

What do they do?These two free websites offer picture dictionaries with sound and the second site Learning

Chocoloate also includes activities. They are really comprehensive with great sound files

that are well recorded and allow students to study vocabulary and here the words. There is

content in many languages.

Where can I find them?

http://www.languageguide.org/

http://www.learningchocolate.com/

10 . iTunes

What do they do?

There is probably the most misunderstood piece of software on the market and few teachers

really understand the potential of it and why they need it. I like this tool because I use it

myself for my own studies but also because it is a great resource to direct teachers to.

You just need a PC or Mac and you need to download the iTunes software. Then you haveaccess to a vast array of podcasts for learning all sorts of languages. There is no much

material here. I use it for my French, Spanish and Chinese and there is loads of content in

English too. It is also really useful if you want to learn about technology, internet marketing,

playing the guitar. In fact just about anything and it is nearly all free. I like using iTunesYou

too, which has lectures from universities from around the world and lots more free content.

My step by step guides take you right through the tool.

Where can I find them?

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Russell Recommendation

If you dont know about iTunes then watch this video. It is an amazing tool and one that

is not really understood.

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Study with Russell Stannard on the MA in ELT ( with ICT/Multimedia specialisation)

at the University of Warwick

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/postgrad/ma/
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