Presentation from Friday 12th September at University of Winchester on using new technologies in the MFL classroom

1. NEW TECHNOLOGIES
FOR LANGUAGE
LEARNING
Sadie McLachlan
Teacher of German &
Spanish
@missmclachlan

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5. Twitter
• If you don’t already tweet, after today you should be!
• Social Media – username, password, share messages
with your ‘followers’
• Limit of 140 characters
• Can share links, pictures, messages
• Follow the hashtag #mfltwitterati
• Professional use – a professional learning network (PLN),
great for CPD, advice, support, sharing resources, double
checking, asking for translations…

6. Twitter
• Classroom uses:
1. Starters! Brainstorm vocab
2. Complete this sentence
3. Debates – Group Talk via typing!
4. Share links to authentic materials
5. Plenaries – AfL…
6. Dept promotion
• Keep it brief! 10 – 15 mins max
• Use ‘their’ medium to engage them!

7. QR Codes
• Links without the typing!
• Require 3G or WiFi connection to access online material
• Bring your displays to life with video and audio material
• Share links to authentic material
• Create engaging ‘carousel’ activities
• Link to pupil work, revision notes, pictures / photos
• Treasure hunts!

9. • Find some gems - or create your own!
• Get pupils to subscribe to your very own ‘channel’ –
learning from home
• Experiment with some ‘flipped learning’ – take the
learning out of the classroom, bring the homework in
• Just for fun – AlexiBexi (pop songs auf Deutsch), Kevin
Karla y Labanda (pop songs en español) … can you find
your TL equivalent?

10. • Independent language learning website
• Works on scientific assumptions about our long term memory
– revisiting vocab after specific period of time
• Uses metaphor of a garden – lists of vocab are ‘plants’ you
must ‘water’ – it will remind you when to do so
• Tests generate points - can create your own leaderboards of
your classes – competitive!
• Can create your own vocab lists or use the ones uploaded by
other teachers for the exam boards

14. • Create free avatars
• Add your voice by recording via your
laptop – or use text to voice function
• Fun listening activities for pupils
• Get pupils to create their own vokis -
• Take the ‘fear’ out of speaking in front of class
• Add voki to your website using the embed code boards

15. • Share audio content free online
• Share via social media / blogs
• Fun listening activities for pupils – using QR codes?
• Get pupils to create their own boos
• Acts as a free ‘host’ to your audio content instead of clogging
up school VLE
• Free app available too
• Access material from other people

16. • Pupil (and teacher!) friendly voice
recording
• Create MP3 from website, no need for
dictaphone
• Can be saved, facebooked, tweeted,
emailed or turned in to QR code
• Great for speaking homeworks

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18. Kahoot!
• My fave of the moment!
• Create ‘real-time’ quizzes for the classroom for pupils to
access via their handheld devices
• Shows scores as they go – competitive!
• Bright, colourful, musical, engaging
• Content can be shared with colleagues – or even the world!
• How are your Spanish verbs…?

19. • Create tutorial videos using very cool
templates
• Excellent for flipped learning projects or just
creating independent revision / study material
• Takes some getting used to but produces
amazing results

21. Triptico Desktop Resources
• Create engaging activities for IWB
• Smart graphic design, user friendly and
looks professional
• Designed with language teachers in mind -
David welcomes feedback via Twitter
• Great resources including Spinner, Image
Spinner, Timers, Student Group Selectors
plus many more
• Free version and a paid for version with
more functionality
• Socrative

23. newsmap.jp
• Very cool news website showing headlines from
the day
• Can select country and see results in target
language
• Just for fun or excellent starter - how many can
you translate for gist?

24. Over to you!
• If you already have a twitter account, tweet
using the hashtag #winchMFL 3 things you
are going to try this half term in your
teaching!
• Mention @missmclachlan too if you like