Using New Technologies to encourage Able, Gifted & Talented

Pupil Autonomy

Fotobabble

Upload a photo and add your audio commentaryHere ’s an example (year 8 German) Ideal for topic work at any level

Go Animate / Domo Animate

www.verulamvle.typepad.com/7french

www.verulamvle.typepad.com/y8german

http://domo.goanimate.com/movie/0yTbSeR6_qf4/1

Google: Go Animate

Website: http://domo.goanimate.com/What it does:Pupils can create animations and add speech bubbles; select from a range of characters, add props and backgrounds plus all sorts of effects to animate the character. Free sign up required.

Ideas for use in the classroomIllustrate a lesson pointTopic revisionA joke/ story/ dialogue etc

Examples

Domo Animate Or Dvolver

• http://domo.goanimate.com/• free sign up. Animation creator• http://www.dvolver.com/moviemaker• Dvolver is similar; less complex• Both allow you to input text but not speech • Pupils create short animations to teach/ show understanding

of a topic• Ideal for dialogues and language topic work. They can email

the link to you (or to a proxy set up by your netsupport ) • Domo Animate samples here• and here’s a Dvolver movie just for you

Voki – talking avatar creator• Click the Borat sample. Text to speech, lots of

characters, voices and languages.

Pupils write their own Voki to help them with their GCSE Speaking1 voki per question but an extended answer

ToondooInstead of a boring old writing task, the pupils could make a comic strip – Toondoo is one of the best with a large choice of objects props, characters and backgrounds. It also allows multiple pages so pupils can make real comic books.

Common Topics:SchoolTownHolidaysLeisureTV, Internet, gaming and film

Star Wars text Crawl creator

• http://www.starwars.com/play/online-activities/crawl-creator/

• input text & it turns into Star Wars titles + music

Pure fun? Play and see how much they can remember;

http://www.starwars.com/play/online-activities/crawl-creator/index.jsp?cs=33zbpsqmr4

Tagxedo / Wordle

Google: Tagxedo or Wordle

Website: http://www.wordle.net /Or http://www.tagxedo.com

What it does: you paste text into a box and it turns into a ‘word cloud’Tagxedo highlights the word when you hover the cursor over it

Ideas for use in the classroomPupils could: guess the topic Spot words in a category e.g. verbsUse selected words

WORDLE

TAGXEDO

Popplethttp://popplet.com/app/index.php#/460907

Easy diagram creator

You can include youtube videos

Easy prompterhttp://www.easyprompter.com/

Paste text into the box and it turns into a broadcast-style autocue

Obama’s 2nd inaugural speech starts like this:Each time we gather to inaugurate a President we bear witness to the enduring strength of our Constitution. We affirm the promise of our democracy. We recall that what binds this nation together is not the colors of our skin or the tenets of our faith or the origins of our names. What makes us exceptional -- what makes us American -- is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit

of happiness.”

Zap readerHere’s some text to try:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” www.zapreader.com

Select ‘Reader’Paste a bunch of text in to the boxHit ‘zap it’The page will display one word at a timeYou can adjust the speed and the number of words displayed at any one time (up to 5)

Good for reading practice (phonics)Information recallTranslation / comprehensionPredict next wordRepeat/ recall last word

Text to speech IM Translatorhttp://imtranslator.net/translate-and-speak/

A clever site. Surrounded by adverts. A bit fiddly to use but good once you get used to it. You can input text, translate text, get it to speak it back and adjust the playback speed.

Lingro

• Import a foreign language webpage address • each word becomes clickable• You can click on the word for the meaning and store it

in a word list • It will generate a set of flashcards of the words clicked

Flipcams etc

i-pad and Smartphone camerasPupils Film themselves & each otherCreate model Q & A’s for Speaking prep

Quizlet.com

• Make your own flashcards• Or use existing sets – will generate games &

tests from flashcards• Also classtools.net will generate vocab games

PreziAn alternative to Powerpoint.

Here’s my Presentation on ‘AG&T - beyond GCSE’ imported from Powerpoint to Prezi

http://prezi.com/qhl63qmrlb6n/motivating-able-linguists-at-gcse/

http://prezi.com/qhl63qmrlb6n/motivating-able-linguists-at-gcse/?kw=view-qhl63qmrlb6n&rc=ref-777613

If the link above doesn’t work, try this one:

Online voice recorders

• Audioboo Easy Audio clip recorder- just click, record and send.

Click the icon above to hear my sample. Get pupils to do a quick audio message and send it to your email address (your network techies can set one up a shadow (proxy) one for you)

• Vocaroo Easy audio recorder There’s a more flexible one called AudiopalSoundcloud lets you store longer bits of audio

Audacity and filelab (Windows only) are good free audio editors.

Gap fill generator

http://random-idea-english.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/tools-gapfill-generator.html

Google: random idea + English + Gapfill generator

MyloWorth a look. Makes a change from BBC Bitesize, Kerboodle, Sam Learning etc etc Some free content.Some good self-access material

Learn French TV5

“7 jours sur la planète”

http://www.tv5.org/TV5Site/7-jours/

Video scribe

• Turns ordinary text into a visible hand writing the text

• The PC version is expensive but the i-pad App is cheaper

http://verulamvle.typepad.com/mflteachingplus/2013/06/videoscribe.html

Zondle

Use sites like thisTo create vocab games

Also www.classtools.net

Classtools also contains Fakebook and Twister

FakebookGoogle:classtools.net

Website: www.classtools.net

What it does:You can make a fake Facebook page for a celebrity

Ideas for use in the classroom?Homework: create a Fakebook page for Historical personalitiesTheorists, Writers or charactersPlaces, regions

Discovery Education - Puzzlemaker

A great resource for making various puzzles Useful for vocab & keyword reinforcement

Lesson fillersCover workPairworkthinking skills‘pub’ quiz

funny.pho.tophotobox

fodeyimagechef

Caption generators

Graffiti creator

http://www.graffiticreator.net/

use ‘wall texture’ backgrounds on the whiteboard or from google images

One motion drum machinehttp://www.onemotion.com/flash/drum-machine/