Pause n’ play videos
Favourite at the moment
German:
Edeka – supergeil
Rowan Atkinson singt das Europalied
French:
Evian roller babies
Mr Bean – Packing for Holiday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r0dr_juOiI
Google: Star wars text crawl
creator
You can input some text and this site
converts it to a STAR WARSstyle
opening titles sequence
Easy prompter
http://www.easyprompter.com/
Paste text into the box and it turns into a
broadcast-style autocue
Sample Text:
So here I stand... one girl
among many. I speak – not
for myself, but for all girls
and boys. I raise up my
voice – not so that I can
shout, but so that those
without a voice can be
heard. Those who have
fought for their rights:
Their right to live in peace.
Their right to be treated
with dignity. Their right to
equality of opportunity.
Their right to be educated.
Zap reader
Sample Text:
So here I stand... one girl among
many. I speak – not for myself, but for
all girls and boys. I raise up my voice –
not so that I can shout, but so that
those without a voice can be heard.
Those who have fought for their rights:
Their right to live in peace. Their right
to be treated with dignity. Their right to
equality of opportunity. Their right to
be educated.
www.zapreader.com
Select ‘Reader’
Paste a bunch of text in to the box
Hit ‘zap it’
The page will display one word at a time
You can adjust the speed and the number of words
displayed at any one time (up to 5)
Good for reading practice (phonics)
Information recall
Translation / comprehension
Predict next word
Repeat/ recall last word
Bart’s Chalkboard
Why not use Bart’s Blackboard on a worksheet or the IWB
3 things I learnt this
lesson
Next time, I must
remember to get this
right……
Here’s a question I want
to ask the teacher/ the
class
Storybird & bookbox
• some lovely illustrated books in French
Spanish German
• Good for a language club
Who needs expensive & fiddly e-voting
systems?
Multiple choice / mini-plenary smiley kit
Download the ‘kit’ here:
http://verulamvle.typepad.com/vets/2011/11/smileys-for-miniplenaries.html
Cartoon creators
Go Animate - Make animations using a range of characters &
props. The pupils love it. Drag and drop to create scenes.
Allows text, but not speech. See examples here and here
• Toondo - cartoon strip creator- Cartoon strip creator.
Drag and drop. A good way to reinforce a topic.
http://www.toondoo.com/ Example here
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 Audiopal
Soundcloud lets you store longer bits of audio
Fotobabble
Upload a photo and add your audio commentary
Here ’s an example (year 8 German)
Ideal for topic work at any level
Voki – talking avatar creator
• Click the Borat sample. Text to speech, lots of
characters, voices and languages.
Selected pupils come to the front and create a
target language Voki message to the class
Pupil A inputs a description about another pupil.
Class have to guess who it is. Winner takes over.
Selected pupils create a plenary Voki of the 5
most useful words from the lesson for the rest of
the class to guess
Teacher creates a Voki containing a starter
activity or a message which contains the lesson
objective
One motion drum machine
Click on the
image to see it
in action –
If you’re
feeling brave,
try the
alphabet song
Gap fill generator
Google: random idea + English + Gapfill generator
http://random-idea-english.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/tools-gapfill-generator.html
Dice
For dice rollers – see
http://dice.miniwebapps.net/
Also Linguascope widgets &
IWB software e.g. Active Inspire
1
I get up
In the garden
With my dog
2
I wash
In the kitchen
With my cat
3
I eat
In the garage
With my horse
4
I get dressed
On the balcony
With my two goldfish
5
I brush my teeth
In my room
With my mouse
6
I go to bed
In the school
With my tortoise
More dice ideas
Number each pupil in your class 1-12
Go round again, so in a class of 24 you’ll have two pupils who are number 1 etc
Roll 2 die
The pupils with that number stand up and answer
Divide class into two teams - Ask a question then, if they answer correctly, roll one
dice for number of points
‘cricket’: - roll a dice, then ask a question worth that number of points. So a six
would be a really hard question, a one would be an easy one
Verb conjugation
quizlet
• Make you own sets of flashcards – audio
enabled !
• Ma ville: http://quizlet.com/26983558/flashcards
Textivate
£35
Copy and paste text
Choose sequencing or gap fill
Sample Text:
So here I stand... one girl among many. I speak – not for
myself, but for all girls and boys. I raise up my voice – not
so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can
be heard. Those who have fought for their rights: Their
right to live in peace. Their right to be treated with
dignity. Their right to equality of opportunity. Their right
to be educated.
Text Srambler
http://www.rjwoerheide.com/scrambletest.php
Google: rjwoerheide + text scrambler
• puts Use the words online different a a in
which scrambler sentence order an text of
use an online text scrambler which puts the
words of a sentence in a different order
• txet sdrawkcab ecudorp ekil sgniht rehto od
uoy stel moc.esacelggot.www
www.togglecase.com lets you do other things
like produce backwards text.
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