Tech Tools for WL Classrooms

Writing

• ifaketextmessages - students create
• Go Animate
• Storyboard That
• Piktochart
  • Canva (different ideas 4 school & infographic specific)
• Strip Generator
• Prezi
  • Adobe Spark - page or post - ideas/examples
  • Use Text2VoiceOver to record audio for videos from written text
• Project that uses PADLET and SEESAW
• Online Picture Book Creators

Reading

• ifaketextmessages - teachers create
• Lingro - translate webpages & Stackup - track reading time
• Newsela has news articles in Spanish at different grade levels
  • Newsela in the Spanish class
• Actively Learn
• Readlang
• Sequence events with Class Tool's sequencing Activity
• Newseum - search front pages around the world
• Newspaper Map
• News Map
• infographics in Spanish
• ActivelyLearn
  • Textivate (sample, another example) user guides
• News in Spanish for kids (by the Smithsonian)
• Google Drawing for Interpretation
• Using Prism to highlight text online
• Create Cloze Reading Activities with Google Sheets and Other Tools

Grammar

• Duolingo
• Conjuguemos.com
• verbix
• Spanish411.net
  • StudySpanish.com
• Learn Practical Spanish Online
• Top 10 youtube channels to learn Spanish
  • YouTube Channels
  • spanish es tu amigo
  • maestro Kaplan
    • Señor Jordan http://www.senorjordan.com/los-videos/
• How to Create a Vocabulary Sorting Game on Classtools

Class Activities/Games/Formative Assessment

• Nearpod
• PearDeck Vocabulary (more & more ideas for PearDeck)
• Mentimeter: Fun presentation tool
• Quizalize
• Socrative
• GimKit
• Kahoot
• TinyTap
  • Quizlet Live and using Quizlet as CI tool
  • Getting the most TL use in Quizlet Live
  • Quizlet Diagram
• Quizizz
• Quia
  • Review Game Zone (good for early finishers)
• Triventy (create an online quiz collaboratively)
• purpose games
• Collaborate With Students to Create Quiz Games
• Goosechase: a scavenger hunt for today’s world

Culture

• 360cities
  • Ethermap - collaborate maps (alternative to Google)
• Geography Quizzes with Lizard Point
• LatinoUSA
• REALIA
• Best Map Making Websites
• Minecraft for Second Language Teachers
• Radioooo - music from different decades by country!
• 3 Geography Games Based on Google Maps and Google Earth
• Where in the world
• GameOn World - A Great, Multiplayer Geography Game
• How to Create a Google Earth Tour
• Using VR to teach Social Justice
• An Overview of Google's Public Data Explorer
• 10 Ways to Use Google Earth in Your Classroom
• 5-Minute Film Festival: Teaching With 360-Degree Videos
• Tell Stories with Maps

Speaking

• Voice assistants in the WL classroom
• Five Tutorials on Creating Audio Recordings
• Adding Audio to Google Slides
• Flipgrid (Here's an example & another, another & How to Embed Flipgrid Topics Into Google Sites and tutorial videos)
• Recap
• Read Write Web App
• Go Animate (How to make a voice recording starts at step 14)
• Have students create a tourism type video
  • Voicethread (See example of Voicethread as portfolio here and other ideas here)
• PowToon
• WeVideo
• Vocaroo
• Voki
• WeSpeke
• Adobe Voice
• SoundTrap (asynchronous audio collaboration)
• Create Audio Slideshow Videos on Stupeflix
  • Animatron - online animation videos w/ voiceover
  • Adobe Spark - video - ideas/examples Adobe Spark Video Tutorial
  • My Simple Show - create a variety of audio "explainers"
• Six Audio Recording Tools That Work In Your Web Browser
• Lingt - create online speaking exercises
• Twisted Wave
• How to Add Spoken Audio to Google Slides

Listening

• Edpuzzle - Chrome Extension
• videos for Span 2 or higher
• Edpuzzle For MovieTalk
• CaptionPop - bilingual video translations on youtube
• LLN - bilingual video translation for Netflix (on Chrome)
• Vibby
• Vizia - Interactive Video Quizzes
  • How to Create Video Quizzes on Vizia
• How to Use VideoNot.es With Google Drive
• Flipgrid for Novice Listening
• Using multiple tools for listening assessments
• Tools to add questions and notes to videos
• TurboNote - Take & Share Notes While Watching Videos
  • Audio Lingua - mp3s in various languages
  • LyricsTraining.com (see also LyricsGaps.com)
• How to use Spotify to learn languages
  • Listening Podcast (News in Slow Spanish/ German, etc)
• Spanish Listening Activities based on grammar/vocab/culture
  • Amara (add caption/subtitles to videos, see example here)
  • This is Language - Spanish, French and German
  • BBC Languages - Has a Spanish 1 "telenovela" series that's pretty good
  • Crio Spanish Language Video Library - videos by topic
• Videos of Spanish Speakers discussing topics
• Radio en español
  • Radio Ambulante has 15-20 pieces in Spanish and many of them are transcribed in video in Spanish and English!
• Radio Garden Lets You Instantly Tune into Radio Stations Across the Entire Globe
• ClassHook is a free service that can help you find video clips to support your lessons. The clips that you'll find in ClassHook come from well-known television shows and movies
• SpanishListening.org
• YouTube Commercials in Spanish
  • LangMedia - Authentic convos by language and country
• Spanish Proficiency Exercises by Level
• Foreign Language Media Archive
• Two Good Tools for Building Online Discussions Around Videos
• 7 Tools for Creating Multimedia Quizzes Compared in One Chart
• Dragontape - Remix YouTube Clips
• Three Tools That Help Students Take Notes While Watching Videos
• Vynchronize - Watch Videos and Discuss Them in the Same Window
• Zaption / Zaption Presenter / Example in WL class / New Zaption Options (Zaption has closed)
• Rich Internet Applications (no longer available)
  • In particular, “conversations” and “audio dropbox”. The “conversations” tool lets you pre-record one side of a conversation and then have students record their responses. It can be set up for them to practice first or to automatically record (no changes/re-recording possible). Note that if you set up a version that allows practice, their “practice” is never recorded and submitted to you...they must select “real time” after doing their practice versions and re-record to submit to you.
  • Directions for "conversations" for distribution to students
  • directions for “conversations” for teachers to create the activities

Portfolios

• SeeSaw - What's in a Seesaw (and What's Not?)
  • Using Seesaw in a WL Class Part 1 and Part 2 (updated)
• Use SeeSaw to make Memes in L2
• Creating Elementary Portfolios with SeeSaw
• SeeSaw 101 - How to Get Started Making SeeSaw Digital Portfolios
• Voicethread
• 10 Good Tools for Creating Digital Portfolios - A PDF Handout