somerset mfl conference 2012

ENGAGING YOUR PUPILS & YOU! WEB2 FOR MFLSomerset MFL conferenceNovember 2012

START WITH THE NEED

Tempting to”play”with new find! Think SKILLS – memorising,

creativity, pronunciation, mapping L,R,Sp, W Motivating!

ENGAGING IN WRITINGStorybird – www.storybird.comhttp://mflstorybirds.wikispaces.com/French+StorybirdsStoryjumper.com – create own pictures & textStripgenerator or makebeliefscomixLittle Bird Tales – www.littlebirdtales.com add photos and audio!

WRITING OR FEEDBACK

Wallwisher – www.wallwisher.comCreate walls for sticky note contributionswww.linoit.com – add photos & links Fotobabble –fotobabble.com Blogging – www.posterous.com Easy – email to post

ENGAGING WITH TEXT

Cueprompter – paste in text & create a teleprompter for reading at speed

www.cueprompter.com

Textivate.com – instant text gameswww.textivate.com

MINDMAPPING

Mindomo – mindomo.com Spicynodes.org Popplet.com

MINDOMO.COM

WORDCLOUDS

Wordle.com , tagxedo, imagechef.com , wordsift (thesaurus)

BEHAVIOUR AND MOTIVATION

Classdojo.com Use for a variety of purposes – specific

types of learning – good answers, homework, target language production

Poor behaviour monitoring Next step – use it from your mobile in class

CLASSDOJO CLASS PAGE

SPEAKING AND LISTENING

Mybrainshark.com – make audio to accompany any presentation, document or photo set.

Voicethread.com – add multimedia comments to a photo set. (Joe Dale’s handout)

Vocaroo.com – record on line and send the link to s.o. – instant feedback

Voki.com – create a talking avatar.

PLAYING & MAKING GAMES

Zondle www.zondle.com Very motivating! Email classlists to site for

uploading Look for topics by keyword; make your own for

pupils Quizlet www.quizlet.com you and pupils can make

revision games. One Yr11 pupil made vocab games for all of the GCSE book.

Studystack.com – pupils can make flashcards/pairs

YOUR OWN CPD Twitter – amazing! Use hashtags #ukedchat #mfltwitterati #langchat

#mflsomerset #ililc3 Follow good people @joedale @spanishsam

@crepeaunutella @thwartedmum @icpjones @valleseco @blagona @tes @taskmagic @amandasalt @petitchatnoir27 @langwitch @trekkiep @spsmith45 @msmfl @bootleian @Germanprof @mariefrance

Read blogs – find regional/national figures Start a googlereader web aggregator for YOU! Slideshare.net – look up speakers or keywords Teachertrainingvideos.com superb explanations!

CURATION – FIND EVERYTHING YOU COULD EVER WANT! Livebinders – an online filing system for sites –

http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=108629 http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=365641 Pinterest – not just for redecoration, recipes or

vintage collections! Type in French grammar, language, special needs

My blog – froggyval.blogspot.com Twitter - @froggyval - happy to share This ppt is on www.slideshare.net and the Somerset Learning Platform