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Making technology work for you. Tips & time savers for the technophobic. Don’t be a slave to technology. Go animate!. Animating their work – bringing to life Creating cartoons & movie strips – paraphrasing and summarising, using familiar language in a new context
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Making technology work for you Tips & time savers for the technophobic..
Go animate! Animating their work – bringing to life Creating cartoons & movie strips – paraphrasing and summarising, using familiar language in a new context Creating avatars – confidence builder! Skype
Turn a text into…… www.toondoo.com • Bullet points • Conversation • Vocabulary list Do all of this conversely to turn them into a text Storyboard
Activities for classroom variety Promote spontaneous talk Giving pupils a pseudonym Giving opportunities to manipulate language for their own purposes Giving pupils opportunities to extend their own language use
Use ‘PVA’ –make it stick... • Pigloo • Bebe Lily –http://www.jukebo.com/bebe-lilly • Virelangues – letter string examples • http://lps13.free.fr/ - music and sound/letter work. • Audacity– record your own focused listening or get them to do it! • http://platea.pntic.mec.es/~cvera/hotpot/exos/index.htm - doing lots of practice
On the ball (tennis, foot or other...) • Using a range of real materials about current issues • Stimulate debate using simple frameworks • Extend vocabulary through wider reading • Word and sentence level work to help language skills • Good opportunity for ICU • http://www.lessignets.com/signetsdiane/calendrier/index.htm - ideas for every day
www.teteamodeler.com • Pupils can: • Question words • Find an example of... • Highlight tenses • Cognates • Key words to look up • Compose questions for a partner • Compose T/F phrases
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www.jedessine.com www.lirecreer.com
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Don’t re-invent the wheel • TES resources • Blogs • MFL resources • ALL • Linguanet • Teachers TV • Primary Languages Mailing lists and user groups bring you the information!