Tecnología
Are you 21st Century Ready? A 21st Century Ready student should be able to do the taks listed below. At the bottom of the page you will see several websites we'll be using in class this year. Try a few of the sites out on your own and think of creative ways to use them to show off what YOU can do with your Spanish.
1. Creativity and Innovation
Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.
Students:
a. apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.
b. create original works as a means of personal or group expression.
c. use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues.
d. identify trends and forecast possibilities.
2. Communication and Collaboration
Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support
individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.
Students:
a. interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media.
b. communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats.
c. develop cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with learners of other cultures.
d. contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems.
3. Research and Information Fluency
Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
Students:
a. plan strategies to guide inquiry.
b. locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media.
c. evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks.
d. process data and report results.
4. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making
Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions
using appropriate digital tools and resources.
Students:
a. identify and define authentic problems and significant questions for investigation.
b. plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project.
c. collect and analyze data to identify solutions and/or make informed decisions.
d. use multiple processes and diverse perspectives to explore alternative solutions.
5. Digital Citizenship
Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical
behavior.
Students:
a. advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology.
b. exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity.
c. demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning.
d. exhibit leadership for digital citizenship.
6. Technology Operations and Concepts
Students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems, and operations.
Students:
a. understand and use technology systems.
b. select and use applications effectively and productively.
c. troubleshoot systems and applications.
d. transfer current knowledge to learning of new technologies.
Online Resources
1. Vocaroo
Record voice messages,
oral activities, etc. Embed on site, blog or e-mail it.
Free.
2.Voxopop: http://www.voxopop.com/
Create online talkgroups to answer questions share ideas.
3.Voicethread: http://voicethread.com/
Group conversations around images, documents and videos.
Educational signup, too. Limited amount of free access.
Your ideas for these tools.
Your ideas for this tool.
4.Voki: http://www.voki.com
You can your students can be talking Avatars. Free. Other similar sites
are: Blabberize:
http://blabberize.com/ and Fotobabble:
5.Wordle: http://www.wordle.net/
Generate word clouds from text. For vocabulary, essays, songs,
readings, stories, essay starters, etc
.
Other word cloud sites include: Tagxedo:
and Word Mosaic:
http://www.imagechef.com/ic/word_mosaic/
6.Toondoo: http://www.toondoo.com/
Check out an easy way for students to write or create a cartoon
or cartoon book. See how students synthesize information to create something new. Another tool:
Make Believe Comix:
http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/
.
7.Piclits: www.piclits.com/ :
Users pick an image from selection and them write. Use Freestyle choice
in order to write in another language.
8.Padlet.com: (www.padlet.com )
is an online notice board maker. Discussing
a new idea? Taking notes? Giving feedback? Voicing opinion? Asking questions? Padlet is like a digital “sticky” note wall.
Video sites
Video sites:
for viewing and hosting
SchoolTube:
TeacherTube :
Vimeo:
BlipTV:
Create your own Animated Works
Animoto: (http://animoto.com/ )
Use pictures to create a story or share information.
Get Animoto Education Edition: unlimited videos for you and your students. Lots like
a music video. Think about “saving as” your PowerPoint to jpg and make an Animoto.
Slide.com: (http://www.slide.com/ )
Use pictures, add captions and music. Very easy
to use. In fact, this is the easiest.
One True Media: (http://www.onetruemedia.com/ )
helps you turn your photos and
video into slideshows and video montages for free. There is a 100 mg free upload per
month.
PhotoPeach: (http://photopeach.com/ )
Create a lively and vivid way slideshow by
moving your photos like a video with your choice of background music, captions on
each photo.
Devolver: (http://www.dfilm.com/live/home.html )
an easy moviemaker with
characters and scenes already available. Just add text.
Yodio: (http://www.yodio.com/ )
Use Yodio to add your stories to your photos or
presentations by recording to your phone and then uploading pictures.
Stupeflix: (http://www.stupeflix.com/ )
is a site that turns your pictures, videos, and
text into videos. I
Glogster: (http://www.glogster.com/ )
a crazy mashup of pictures, videos, links,
sound. Sound up for a free educational account.(
Polleverywhere
http://www.polleverywhere.com/ ) alive audience polling- uses
cell phone to survey
Writing books
Mixbook: (http://www.mixbook.com/ )-
Make an online book with photos for free.
Issuu:self-publish your own book. (http://issuu.com/ )
Storybird: (http://storybird.com/ ) Create your own stories or collaborate with others
using with a wonderful set of images from different artists. To includes accents-write
the story in Word and then copy and paste. Students can collaborate on a story also.
Can publish stories, but they are not yet allowing stories in other languages to be
public. But you can invite people to read your story.
Storybird Wiki
: (http://mfl-storybirds.wikispaces.com/ )
Slideshare: (http://www.slideshare.net/)
Upload and share your PowerPoint
presentations, Word documents and Adobe PDF Portfolios on SlideShare. Share
publicly or privately. Add audio to make a webinar. Also find many powerpoints
useful for class.